Sweaters, recycled.

I came across a great post on Apartment Therapy a couple days ago about recycled sweaters (found here). I really loved some of the ideas and it prompted me to look into more lovely recycled d.i.y ideas. Here are a couple of my favorite:

(from Apartment Therapy)

Bright and frilly accent pillows (I'm majorly swooning over these!!)

Faux Taxidermy= Fully Awesome.


From sweater..to winter handbag, brilliant!


Um, this is the cutest little pine forest I ever did see! (Instructions here.)


Table top tree, precious.


Felted Poinsettia Brooch....Tutorial: here.


The possibilities for re-purposing sweaters are endless...go ahead and google it. There are so many crafty people doing awesome recycled things! It really makes me wish I had more sweaters to get rid of :)

I hope everyone is having a fantastic Wednesday. Tomorrow I will be posting a sneak peek of lots of new vintage goodies headed to our online shop.
Ta ta 'til then!!
xo. Traci

Big News: Billie Goat Vintage is now Butter Toast Boutique

Hello Saturday!
I've been absent for a week and a half....I'm so not very good at this blogging thing. I had a difficult week, so I wasn't much into sharing all that much, but I'm back to my normal self, and yet again, will try to jump back on the blogging band wagon. Now that we are approaching September, I'm finally starting to get excited about life again. The Phoenix heat can really take a toll on one's motivation. As soon as it cools off a bit more, I know I'll be such a happy lady. I have a really good feeling about this autumn....

One BIG change I've been working on this week is the tranisition of our online store (Billie Goat Vintage) into the new name of Butter Toast Boutique....We've been using two different names since we decided to name our physical store something different from the online shop when we opened Butter Toast in Novemeber 2008 (at that time BGV was on ebay, now etsy, soon to be extinct). It didn't make much sense...and it made it quite hard to recognize that we were basically the same store, just two different forums, and two different names... How silly of us.
Anywho, I've been transferring listings from the Billie Goat Vintage etsy shop to the new Butter Toast Boutique etsy shop....It's been a long process that is still only about half way done...eyyyy. Hopefully by the end of next week, I'll have everything transferred. Lets cross our fingers.

Although it's a bit late in the summer, we decided to shoot most of the vintage swimsuits in the shop to list on etsy...sometimes you just can't tell how wonderful a swimsuit is unless you see it on a person.
These are a few of my faves that I already had a chance to list.... there are many more to come plus so many more great vintage pieces. Check out Butter Toast Boutique on etsy! (Still under construction, obviously)

GAMA Fashion Show Photofest.

I know we've been making you wait for these images...But here they are for your enjoyment! Check us out on Facebook to see more comprehensive photos of the show and the behind the scenes shots.

Photographer: Bradley Thornber, aka "Fotobrad"











































Photographer: Angela Simpson, Angela Rose Photography



Don't forget to become a fan on Facebook to get all the juicy behind the scenes images from Angela Simpson and other great local photographers!

Local Boutiques Fashion Show @ The Grand Avenue Festival

Hi lovlies. We just wanted to remind our fans of our upcoming fashion show this  Saturday @ Bragg's Pie Factory for the Grand Avenue Festival. We are really excited to be a part of this event celebrating recycling and adaptive-reuse. This is the first annual festival of hopefully many more to come, and we are grateful to part of the community behind it. We want to send out a special thanks to everyone who helped make this festival and our fashion show happen- we could not belong to a better community of hard working creative folks. And... a special thanks to our dear friends Amber and Diana of PainfullyHip.com who shall be models in our show, coming all the way up from Tuscon to support us! Thanks ladies <3

Please visit http://grandavenuefestivalaz.com/ for more information on the 1st Annual Grand Avenue Festival.

Butter Toast Boutique's Favorite Vintage Star: Goldie Hawn

Late 60's. Goldie Hawn. Bikini. Peace. Love. Revolution.

We are drawing inspiration from these vintage Goldie Hawn photos for a look we are creating for our next fashion show. The theme is war & peace on earth. We're thinking a large painted earth on our model's back along with other peace & recycling icons painted elsewhere. Plus the perfect mod bikini designed by us! Oh how excited we are...











Grand Ave. Festival Fashion Shows taking place September 26th! Don't miss out Phoenix!!

Ciao for now,

Hidden Treasures

I had the most amazing vintage find the other day. Clearly, I stopped in my tracks when I saw the adorable floral pattern- that right there was enough to persuade me to purchase- but the inside held a far greater treasure! A matching thermos! So, what I thought was merely a classic vintage handbag, turned out to be the CUTEST lunch box of all time. It is by far my favorite vintage find lately. It will be for sale at Butter Toast Boutique in a couple days.

Butter Toast Boutique's Favorite Vintage Star: Twiggy.

Twiggy-- a pioneer, fashion icon, and our current vintage star obsession. Her images are incredibly captivating, that's why we love her.