Many of
you have followed me over the years. First as customers in my antique store,
Inktiques, and then onto my blogs and into my now six online stores full of vintage treasures. What started out as my own collecting
hobby, grew into a full on store for many years and now continues as a small
empire online via my desk. My busy world of professional writing and my busy
hobby of a love for antiques and vintage have always crossed over. So much so
that my store Inktiques was dedicated to antiques in the ink world! Even though
the store is now closed as I moved cities and lifestyles, I am always avidly
collecting, writing daily and as thrifty as ever.
Watch for Michelle Greysen's upcoming book
The growth of one
online store after another started of course with my love of vintage and
collector books and all things collectible in the ink world, Inktiques.
Living in wide open spaces brought about my second love of collecting retro
vintage from the prairies and my second store evolved, Canadian Prairie
Antiques. I have always had a love of vintage clothing and when I opened my
own cottage in a small town I also opened another online store of beautiful
dress up clothing naming it for my prairie LandLocked Cottage. Naturally as a crafter and quilter myself I couldn’t not collect all things vintage in the
crafting sewing world to share with you all and that is how my fourth store came
about, Writers Craft
Too. And just recently I added Dear Nellie Stationery as my own personal collection of vintage autograph books and stationery has branched out beyond a collection to a full inventory of vintage cards and ephemera from the past. But of course those quirky funky retro thrifty finds that spill over the shelves of these five stores are now featured in their own shop name, of course, Thrifty Diversions.
Now it
is time to rein it under one (web) roof and give the shops a friendly front door
to pass through on your way into discovering all that I find and share when I
step away from writing and head out for some Thrifty Diversions! I look
forward to sharing my great finds, my knowledge as an avid collector and dealer
and my adventures at estate clearing. The most exciting news is of course it was
only a matter of time before my writing and my picking crashed together into a
future book on the thrifting lifestyle now in the
works.
Welcome through my front
door here at Thrifty Diversions and onto discovering my mall of e-shops, my
blogs, my vintage treasure hunting and my joy of writing about it
all!
Happy
hunting,
Michelle
on the how-to's of a thrifting lifestyle!
www.ThriftyDiversions.com
