How To Style Scarves

I've finally started listing some items in my vintage shop Tender Buttons! I wanted to do a post with suggestions on how to style scarves. I have some of my mom's old ones, like the first one pictured below, and while I always thought they were beautiful I had no real idea what to do with them until recently. Now that I'm selling scarves, I thought others might need some help figuring out what to do with them too! I'm pretty lazy when it comes to my hair so when I feel like dressing it up one of the things I'll do is throw a scarf in it. My go-to is simply to put it up in a messy bun and tie a scarf around the base as pictured below - depending on the scarf and my mood I may simply knot it or make a bow.

Another option is to decorate your handbag or purse, and then if you you are chilly or need to put your hair up later you have the goods right there!

(Some of the items pictured may be available in the Tender Buttons shop if you're interested)

There are so many different options though - here are some great pictorial how-to's from two lovely ladies:

This link from A Beautiful Mess includes a cute and somewhat hilarious vintage chart with all sorts of scarf styling suggestions. They have another great styling post here showing multiple different styles.

Beca of Tumbleweeds did two posts on how she used to style her hair with a scarf when she was a pastry chef, though the styles are cute for anytime wear! Find those here and here.

Hope this was helpful! Do you have another scarf-styling tip? Share it in the comments below!

Found

Some of my latest thrifting finds:

I think I'll give this to my grandma for Mother's Day :)

Maybe for my little cousin for next Halloween. It's so cute!

Will be available soon in the Tender Buttons shop and/or at the Nifty for Fifty sale.

Check out photos of some of my vintage finds on the Tender Buttons Facebook page.

Tiny old treasures

Here are a couple of the things I'd been meaning to share! I stopped by a thrift store in my area a week or two ago when I was out running errands. I was looking for things that I might use in a table display at a market or craft fair but of course wandered around and took a peek at everything. I saw a single Matryoshka doll (which made me think of Beca :) ). Upon opening it I found, rather than more dolls, that it was hiding a mini (empty) booze bottle, which made me laugh. Someone was being sneaky. Anyhow, I ended up picking up to little things for about $3 total.




I totally fell in love with the little crystal ashtray. Partly because it makes me nostalgic for my grandparents' house, and partly because it's so cute! It's like a child's ashtray! Which is maybe a bad way to describe it, haha. Anyhow, right now it's holding business cards in front of my little jewelry display in my office. The little footed rose dish thing presumably once had a lid and was for pills or something. But it's so sweet! I'm thinking of making it into the base for a pincushion I'm thinking of making for my mom. If not it will probably join the numerous little dishes on my desk that hold miscellaneous beads. The thrift store I went into felt a little ghetto and grubby, but I enjoyed myself! :) I really look forward to having a bit more cash so I can go thrifting more often. I have many dreams of what I might find, haha. Have you found any treasures lately?

PS: The black and white photo in the background of the first photo is a street photography snapshot of my great grandparents. Can you see how tall my grandma was compared to my little grandpa? It makes me smile.