Two years ago, on a day both much akin to, and also very different from, today, I took my life - and career - in an exciting new direction and opened an Etsy store dedicated to selling vintage and antique treasures of the sort that have brought me joy ever since I was a young child.
This wasn't a decision that I rushed into, nor that I came to lightly. I poured countless hours of thought, discussion, and research into the topic before Chronically Vintage on Etsy came into being.
No matter how long I live, I will never forget the rush of emotions and thoughts that were swirling through my mind and heart alike when the big day came! It was a magical experience and I was touched to my core to receive some of my very first sales (as well as plenty of others since then) from my very dear blog readers here.
In the twenty-four months that have passed since that day in 2014, my shop has grown and flourished in ways I could hardly have conceived of back then. I've gone from less than a hundred listings initially to having as many as 1,100 items in the shop at once (a record that was hit last November and which I hope to surpass later on this year).
I've been honoured to receive a good percentage of my business from repeat customers around the world, supplied items to dozens of brides for their special days, sold vintage goods to numerous Hollywood production and theater companies in both the US and UK (including having some of my vintage gloves worn on the TV series The Astronaut's Wives Club), and grown both as a person and a business woman with each every piece that has sold from my shop.
With all my heart, I want to thank you, my readers and customers, for your fantastic support and business over the past two years. It has been an incredible experience selling to many of you and I look forward to continuing to do so as Chronically Vintage head's into its next year of life.
Whether you're a returning or first time customer, to celebrate this joyful occasion, I invite you to pop on over to my shop, where you will currently find every single item on sale for 32% off (I was planning to offer 30% off, but it struck me that since this is my shop's second birthday, "32" would make more sense :)).
This flash sale is on from today, May 6th, until Wednesday May 11th. All prices have already been marked down and no coupon codes are needed. Simply add any item(s) you wish to your cart and watch the savings pile up!
A lot has changed in my world and in some respects, with my shop as well, since this same date two years ago, but what remains the same is my commitment to providing top-notch customer service, wonderful vintage treasures, and a fantastic buying experience for each and every person who visits my shop.
These points will never waver and you can bet that as Chronically Vintage on Etsy heads into its next year of life, things will only get better and more exciting there!
Congratulations! I didn't know you have an Etsy store...*waves goodbye to all my money* ;)
ReplyDeleteThank you sweetly, dear Lisa. I'm delighted that this post could introduce you two. I add lots new items on a super regular basis, so your money may be in permanent danger. :D
DeleteTons of hugs & happy Friday wishes coming your way,
♥ Jessica
Happy two year anniversary to your Etsy shop! That is amazing how your shop has grown and so fun to hear too about how you've sold items that have been featured in Hollywood productions and theater companies! Thank you for having such a great sale! Here's to another wonderful year (and many more) for your Etsy shop! :)
ReplyDeleteYou're such a lovely, kindhearted person, honey. Thank you so much! I feel so fortunate about how much shop has blossomed and grown, and the many amazing opportunities and doors it has opened up for me. I get genuinely excited thinking about what this next year and beyond holds in store (literally! :)) for me and my Etsy shop.
DeleteHuge hugs & wishes for a fantastic Friday!
♥ Jessica
Congratulations on two wonderful years! A very big happy birthday to you and your store xx
ReplyDeleteThank you so much, dear Cate. I swear, I'm as excited today as though it were my own birthday. :)
DeleteOodles of hugs & happy weekend wishes,
♥ Jessica
champagne! bravooo! konfetti!! hurrraaaa!!!!! fireworks!!!!
ReplyDeleteyou can be very proud of you and your marvelous shop! i knew from the beginning that it would bloom - because you have an excellent eye for beautiful vintage stuff - as we can all see in your outfit posts.
wishing you all the best for the next years with the etsy shop!!
congratulations and hugs!!!! xxxxxx
That is a compliment of the highest magnitude, dearest Beate. Really and truly, thank you from the bottom of my heart. You have been so immensely supportive and encouraging every step of the way and I will always appreciate that (and your beautiful friendship).
DeleteTons of hugs & joyful weekend wishes,
♥ Jessica
Congratulations Jessica, long may you sell!
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Thank you ever so much, lovely Melanie. I second your cheer and hope that I have many more exciting Etsy anniversaries to come (honest to goodness, I'm as cheerful right now as if it was my own birthday).
DeleteHuge hugs & happy weekend wishes,
♥ Jessica
Congratulations on 2 years! I definitely took this opportunity to peruse your shop again and promptly ordered that lovely embroidered 50's blouse, I hope it fits me! :)
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for your fantastic order! That blouse is such a classic charmer. I really hope that it fits you and that you're able to get many years of happy wear out of it. I wholeheartedly appreciate your order and the support that you've shown my Etsy shop since it's first day of life. Things like that genuinely mean the world to me.
DeleteGiant hugs & wishes for a stellar weekend!
♥ Jessica
Happy Anniversary!
ReplyDeleteThank you very much, my awesome fellow Etsian.
DeleteWishing you a sunny, fantastic weekend!
♥ Jessica
Many Congratulations on your achievment. I love the earings I purchased and your trully excellent service made their arrival vey special indeed. You deserve all your success Jessica! With Best wishes from the UK, Elizabeth xx
ReplyDeleteThat is sweet as the day is long, dear Elizabeth, thank you so much. It would be impossible to ask for a lovelier customer than you and I'm still beaming with joy that those stunning mid-century Schiaparelli earrings went to live with you.
DeleteThank you again & have a splendid weekend,
xoxo ♥ Jessica
I am so happy to find that you have an Etsy shop. Your taste is exquisite. I have to admit that I have a bit of an Etsy addiction. You will no doubt be hearing from me and my paypal account very soon. Congrats on the anniversary.
ReplyDeleteThank you very much for your deeply lovely compliment, Connie, it sincerely means a lot to me.
DeleteIt would be a joy and an honour alike to welcome you as a customer anytime.
Big hugs & joyful weekend wishes,
♥ Jessica
Happy anniversary to your wonderful store! :)
ReplyDeleteThank you so much, my sweet friend. Not only for your lovely congratulations, but for your awesome patronage of my shop, too. I appreciate it immensely!
DeleteBig hugs & happy mid-May wishes,
♥ Jessica
Hear ye! Hear ye!
ReplyDeleteThis is that comment where I leave nothing genius, but simply come to give you a huge hug! ..since one can't hug an online shop. :)
Happiest of ETSY-birthdays - may there be many more to come, and may this shop bring you joy, success and better financial state of your wallet. :)
M.
Hugs and well wishes are always hugely welcome and appreciated, dearest Marija, thank you with all my heart. I echo your wish and hope that I'm able to keep both my shop and blog going strong for a long time more to come.
DeleteGiant hugs heading straight back at you!
♥ Jessica
Congratulations for these 2 years of hard work and commitment to a beautiful Etsy Shop!
ReplyDeleteFor those who never bought anything from your shop I recommend them to do so. Jessica have good prices, the customer service she offers is incredible and she puts a lot of effort in sending all her items to her customers in an efficient and timely manner. I do not want forget to mention the extremely careful and romantic package of the items she sell. Jessica´s shop is a place to go!
Please Jessica, if you find crocheted gloves on the smal size (for my tiny hands) do let me know :-)
Enjoy this wonderful weekend,
Eva (from Luxembourg/Germany)
P.D.: The weather is wonderful! sun is shinning and the fields are full of flowers, it seems spring came at the right time :-)
Sweet Eva, you have thoroughly honoured me with your tremendously kind words and endorsement of my Etsy shop. From the bottom of my heart, thank you so much.
DeleteIt is a joy to have you as a customer and to know that some items that were sourced here in BC are now a lovely part of your wardrobe all the way over in Europe. It's just amazing the journeys that vintage pieces so often take.
As always, darling gal, you will be the first person I contact if/when I come across more extra small sized crocheted gloves. When the shop first opened, I was still finding a fair number of pairs of gloves around these parts, but am hitting on less and less with each passing month. You just never know where the next pair may be waiting though and what size it may be, and again, if they're small and crochet, you will be hearing from me at the speed of light! :)
Really and truly, thank you again. Your words were like the cherry on top of the beautiful cake that was this special Etsy shop anniversary weekend.
Huge hugs,
♥ Jessica
Congratulations on your second Etsy anniversary! These milestones are worth celebrating. I have certainly blessed by your wonderful shop service. You do a stellar job.
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That is wonderfully kind and thoughtful of you to say, Sarah dear, thank you very, very much. I adore having you as a customer and really want to thank you for the support you've shown my Etsy shop. It means so much to me (as does your blog support, too). You're such a terrific customer and online friend alike.
DeleteOodles of hugs & happy Monday wishes,
♥ Jessica
Congratulations on two years on Etsy!
ReplyDeleteThank you very much, lovely lady. It almost makes my head spin to think that two years have passed there already - but not as much as it does when I reflect back on seven years of vintage blogging. Time sure flies, but I figure that if much of it is spent doing what one loves, then that's a small trade off indeed. :)
DeleteHave a fantastic week!
xoxo ♥ Jessica
congrats! I do love that you offer such great sales and discount codes and am appreciative that you have supported my little shop! I check on your shop weekly looking for anything brass from the 1940 one of these days I hope to finally pick something up for you!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much, my dear friend. You have showered my shop with support and love from day one and I really can't begin to thank you enough for that. You will definitely be the first person I contact if I come across a 30s or 40s brass piece of jewelry that I think you may like.
DeleteThank you again & have a stellar week!
♥ Jessica
Congratulations, Jessica, and wishing you all the best for the future, so that you may celebrate lots more birthdays. Many hugs, Ann xxx
ReplyDeleteThank you so very much, lovely Ann. I second your wish and really hope I can keep running both my Etsy shop and blog for many more years to come. Each bring so many rewarding joys into my life (as do awesome online friends like you).
DeleteOodles of hugs,
♥ Jessica
Oh my, your shop is lovely. That's so cool that some of your gloves wound up on The Astronaut Wives Club. I haven't seen the show yet, but I listened to the audio book and I can just imagine items from your shop in that world.
ReplyDeleteThe Charlie McCarthy button kills me. I've always enjoyed listening to old time radio and Edgar Bergen is one of my favorites.
Congrats on your shop's anniversary! I hope things go well in the up-coming year. :-)
What a wonderfully nice comment, sweet Anna. Thank you very much! Isn't that button a blast? I picked it up a while back from a private buying appointment with a lady in her early 80s who had owned it for decades. It's great to meet another Charlie McCarthy fan. I think he's an underappreciated character these days.
DeleteIt was soooo cool! Sometimes when movie/theater company costume or stage departments purchase from an online seller, they don't (or contractually can't) tell you where your product may land, but sometimes they do and the lovely folks from The Astronaut Wives were excited as all get out to share that the gloves from my shop would be on their show. I still get a tingle of excitement each time I think about them appearing there (the show is fab, I should add, and well worth checking out, especially if you liked the book).
Many thanks again, my dear friend. I hope that all is well on your end and that you're having a terrific May!
Many hugs,
♥ Jessica
I'm here to celebrate this happy anniversary, dear Jessica is really nice to read that your working adventure, whose main ingredient is your passion! Your success is well-deserved!
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Serena
That's such a deeply lovely compliment and congratulatory wishes, Serena dear, thank you with all my heart!
DeleteTons of hugs & happy May wishes coming right back at you!
♥ Jessica
Dear Jessica, congrats on two years of your shop !
ReplyDeleteThank you sweetly, my lovely friend. Thank you for your support and encouraging words about it from its earliest days, as well as for the love that you shower upon my blog. You're an awesome, kindhearted person and I'm so grateful that we're friends.
DeleteHuge hugs & joyful May wishes,
♥ Jessica
Ahr, dammit Jess. Now I did it again! And I really have to save. But normally I have a hard time resisting your listings, so I simply cannot resist 32%. And I wondered, why 32? I love your funny logic. I'm like that too. If I have bought a way too expensive gift for someone then I buy an extra one, and tell them they get the extra one because their gift was too expensive, haha. And your shop has supplied to tv series! Amazing, I hope you ended in the rolling ending lines (what are these called?).
ReplyDeleteMy greenhouse has just arrived a few hours ago, yeeaaaahhhh!!! A huge truck with foldable sides and roof and built-in crane came and placed the huge boxes in my front garden. Next week it will be built. I cannot cannot cannot wait any longer. :D Have a lovely day, dear. :)
Ooohh, it would have been amazing if mine or my shop's name appeared in the credits of this TV series. Alas, I'm virtually certain that they didn't. I'm sure I was just one of many sources that the costumer(s) for it turned to find wardrobe items for this series. Shame the credits don't extend to cover those like me though. That really would be amazing! Who knows, maybe I'll get my name in the credits on a show or movie one day. I kinda, sorta think I need to add that to my bucket list now. :)
DeleteThank you very much for your terrific double item purchase, sweet Sanne. You picked two beautiful items and I hope that you love each of them to the moon and back.
It occurred to me after the fact, you know, that 32 was also a very fitting number for this year because in just two month's time, that's how old I'll be turning. What a delightful coincidence! :)
Thank you again for your great order, as well as for your downright awesome support of my Etsy shop from the very beginning. I appreciate that more than I could ever adequately convey.
Huge hugs & happy wishes for many sunny days this season,
♥ Jessica
Congratulations on your shop birthday. Keep up the great work!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much, sweet Kate! It's still a bit hard to believe that more than two whole years have passed. What an exciting time and incredible learning experience they've been. I'm genuinely excited for this next year and beyond with my shop, and really want to thank you for the support you've shown it since day one. You're an awesome friend and customer!
DeleteHuge hugs,
♥ Jessica
Congratulations on all your dedication, hard work, and excellent customer service in the last two years! Well done!
ReplyDeleteThat is a wonderfully lovely compliment and congratulatory wish, my sweet friend, thank you so much! And, with all my heart, many thanks, too, for your stellar business and support of my shop over the past two years. It's an honour having you as a repeat customer.
DeleteHuge hugs & happy last leg of May wishes,
♥ Jessica