Buying (and keeping?) Vintage

So on the off chance I popped in to a charity shop the other day and saw the most incredible vintage wooden perpetual wall calendar!

Look!

I love love love this calendar!

It has lived a working life. I adore it. Herein lies my dilemma. I had bought this to sell on in my Etsy shop but the more research I have done on it and in the process of cleaning it I have totally fallen in love. What do I do? Do I list it and sell it and hope that one day in the future I will come across another like it? Or do I keep it even though it doesn't completely suit my current decoration theme? But with a few small tweaks I could make it work out. My heart is telling me to keep it, my head is saying sell it! There are not many of these around and the others I have seen I have never even battered an eyelid at. But this one has captured my heart and is pulling hard at my heart strings. But my head is telling me: sell it! The cold business voice is shouting "you bought this to sell to make money to help to buy your new car!" My heart is squelling 'Keeeep it, Clara it's pretty.'
Sigh.
I am so conflicted. I am writing this before I have even taken any photos of it. (The above image was added afterwards.) The battle of head and heart when you buy vintage pieces is always this hard especially when like me you buy pieces that you could see yourself owning. I think I will list it in my Etsy shop and if it hasn't sold buy the time the first advert has expired then I will keep it as we were destined to be together. Right?

Take care
Love Clara x

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Updates, March 2014

Sorry for the length of time since the last entry, I have been a busy bee, going between work, antique fairs and a meet up with Etsy and Pinterest in London!

Yep I met up with PinterestUK!  I was so excited!!! I was part of a very small group invited to join a couple of Etsy admins and the Marketing manager of Pinterest in the UK to see a presentation and ask questions, we got so many questions answered on how to benefit our businesses via Pinterest. I was so glad I made the effort to get up super early and squeeze myself on to a train and several underground trains in rush hour.
Other shops that were at the meeting were:
colorbloom
bylykiard
evajeanie
andsmile
and last but not least VintageCuriosityShop

I also recently spent the day at a large antiques centre where I found some fantastic pieces for my garden when they are planted up I will show some pictures to you.

My shop has also been busy which is lovely as it is coming up to my 2nd Etsy birthday and my 100th sale. I think it has been due to Mother's Day this weekend and all those lovely people have been buying for their dear old mum's.

My favourite image from my Pinterest this week.