Reprint: My Vintage Paper Collection

I was looking at posts from my old blog, Feed the Birdies (sometimes I really miss that one), and noticed that this post had 758 views!  Holy cow...there are a lot of you that love old paper as much as I do.  When we moved to the apartment, I figured out how to keep a very large portion of the pretty papers that you see in this old post.  So I still have almost all of them!  Without further introduction, here they are.  Enjoy the eye candy, fellow ephemera lovers!

I've been collecting vintage papers and cards and ephemera since William and I started going to estate sales about 8 years ago.   Cards...invitations...old checkbooks (before they had account numbers on them...what?), receipts, plane tickets, game pieces, playing cards, recipe cards, magazines...whew...should I keep going?  Children's books, postage stamps, old photographs and albums, cookbooks, decorating books....you get the idea.  If it's made of paper, I scout it.  If it stinks, I leave it (most of the time).  If it's stained, I usually toss it (I've pitched lots of envelopes too...who wants to lick an old envelope?  haha...) 

So...here you go!  These pictures only give you a GLIMPSE of what I have.  I'll let the pictures do the talking...