Desert Vagabond.

So, I got a lovely little email today from Alejandra of Imaginale. She informed us that she featured a vintage (& very awesome) ethnic fringe mini cape that she purchased from Butter Toast in her most recent fashion shoot entitled Desert Vagabond. I really love her Native American concept, the whole shoot is incredible! I highly suggest checking out the entire session here. Below are a few images and a video I snagged from her site!

Desert Vagabond from Ale Amador on Vimeo.
 [Source: Imaginale]

To see people wearing/styling/loving/featuring the vintage items they purchase from us makes me truly happy. It excites me that people enjoy what we've poured our souls into. We love vintage, but more so, we love our shoppers who allow us to live our dream. <33

xo, Traci.

Happy May Day!

Oh happy day!! We've been waiting over a month to reveal images from our Spring Editorial that we shot in February with the lovely Angela Simpson of Angelina Rose Photography. We were able to snag the fashion spread in the May issue of Java Magazine, hence the delay on sharing the photos. We want to thank everyone involved with this shoot, we are so pleased with the outcome. 

 

 

Credits:

Photographer: Angela Simpson (Angelina Rose Photography),
http://angelinarosephotography.com/
Wardrobe and Accessories: Butter Toast Boutique

Styling: Traci Nelson and Jasmine Jarrett
Hair: Darci Lewis, assistant: Daniela Lafarga
Makeup: Melissa Musseau
Models: Justine Nations, Austin Owens, Matthew Gilbert, Stephenie
Sapp, Raechel Xericos, Brad Pfahler

xo. Traci

New Loves v.11

Hello! It's Tuesday, and I'm back with my New Loves series. Alas, it is another artist edition, but a new form of media has struck my fancy lately... photography. Especially vintage looking, feminine, whimsical sorts of photography. If you haven't stumbled upon Lola's Room via Etsy or some other forum, you must, must, must(!) look and adore her pretty pictures. I feel like I'm probably the last person to come across her lovely images, but hopefully it will be new to someone out there. 

These images are just a few of my favorites. Lola's Room is jammed packed with precious, pretty, 'spend your day daydreaming about' photos. click-here-for-more!

xo. Traci

[All images were sourced from Lola'sRoom.]

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)

good day, wednesday.

Today was a nice little change from my weekly routine. Typically, I'm always at Butter Toast open to close on Wednesdays, but not today...My lovely business partner, Jasmine, let me take it easy while she manned the shop all morning.
And I definitely did take it easy. Woke up around 8am with my babe. Made us a yummy breakfast. Watched a few episodes of Weeds. The went back to sleep for 3 hours. It was such a lovely little break.

I'm looking forward to Craft Night hosted by Merry May Handmade tomorrow night. I'm finally going to put the finishing touches on the little gnome I've been working on. Here's a little looksy of what I've finished so far <3

The porcelain fawn modeling my gnome-in-progress is one of my favorite buys ever, also from the lovely Ashley at Merry May Handmade.
All I have to do now is add a beard and some button eyes, stuff him, then sew him all up! Please come join us for Craft Night every 2nd Thursday of the month. Located at Butter Toast Boutique, 5pm-8pm.


Tonight, we are rounding up our photoshoot crew to for yet another vintage shoot for our online store.
Maybe I'll snap a few behind the scenes shots and share them you all soon!!

Ta ta,
xo, traci

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



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