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Vintage, thrifted & unique finds with a soft spot for things with a little history.🤎
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Coming soon to a Belleville location ✨
Come for the vintage.

10/19/2026

The days are getting shorter, the evenings are getting darker, and suddenly I want every room to feel just a little bit cozier. 🍂✨

This is exactly why I have such a soft spot for vintage lighting.

There’s something about the warm glow from this vintage Gone With the Wind style lamp that completely changes the mood of a room. The creamy milk glass, soft florals and that gorgeous ruffled globe are beautiful during the day ~ but turn it on as the evening settles in and this is when she really shines. 🤍

It’s warm. It’s nostalgic. It’s slightly grandma’s-parlour-in-the-best-possible-way. And on a chilly fall evening, I am absolutely here for it.

Vintage Gone With the Wind–style lamp • $125

Available from Ivy Lane Vintage, Thrift & Unique Finds 🍁

Cozy season has officially entered the chat. 🕯️🍂

10/17/2026

A little seasonal change is coming to Ivy Lane… 🎄✨

I’m loving how the shelves are looking right now, but their days are numbered! Beginning November 1st, I’ll be giving the Ivy Lane shelves a festive overhaul and bringing in a collection of vintage Christmas treasures and holiday finds for the season.

So, if you’ve had your eye on anything you see here, now is a great time to pop in for a closer look before the shelves start changing. And while you’re there, be sure to wander through all the other wonderful booths and displays at The Tinkered Decor and More Store in Belleville - there is always something new (or wonderfully old!) to discover.

Then come November… it’s officially time to deck the shelves. 🎅🏼🎄

Ivy Lane Vintage, Thrift & Unique Finds
Old things. New homes. And very soon… a little Christmas magic. ✨

10/16/2026

Today I brought home an entire linen cupboard from an estate sale.

The house was incredible - part family home, part veterinary clinic, built for the same family over 60 years ago. The veterinarian has since passed away, and his wife now well into her late 90’s has recently moved into a smaller much more manageable space.

We pulled an overwhelming amount from one closet. Hand-embroidered towels, old sheets and blankets, handmade pieces… decades of things that had been washed, folded and carefully tucked away. I still have two enormous bags to go through.

I know I resell vintage, and yes, it’s a business. But the flip has never really been the part that gets me. It’s the part where I fall in love with the history. The story.

There’s something really special about touching things from the past that resonates with me so deeply. Someone chose these things. Used them. Maybe made some of them. They were part of an ordinary life long before they ever ended up in my hands.

Before I left, I asked the family’s son-in-law to please tell her that her things were going to people who would genuinely value and appreciate them.

He said, “You have no idea how much that will mean to her.”

That one sentence will stay with me because that’s why I love vintage. I don’t just want old things. I want their stories to keep going.💕

10/10/2026

Well, look who has taken up residence in Belleville. 🦉 🦉

These two wise little gentlemen are currently holding court on the Ivy Lane shelves at The Tinkered Decor and More Store, looking suitably important and waiting for someone who appreciates a little vintage style and charm with their bookshelf. 🤎

They’re wonderfully chippy, perfectly imperfect, and honestly… I feel like they know things.

If you’re out and about in Belleville this Thanksgiving weekend, pop in for a wander. You never know what might be waiting on the Ivy Lane shelves.

And yes, these two are available. 🦉✨

10/04/2026

Well… Ivy Lane has an actual address now. 🥹🙏

What started as me bringing home things I absolutely did not need from thrift stores, auctions and yard sales has somehow turned into this - my own little corner of a real brick-and-mortar shop.

You can now find Ivy Lane Vintage Thrift & Unique Finds at The Tinkered Decor and More Store in Belleville!

I spent some time today setting up my shelves with an assortment of curated vintage, thrifted and wonderfully unique finds, and seeing everything sitting there against that gorgeous old brick wall made it all feel a little bit surreal.

The shelves will be changing regularly as things sell and new treasures are found - because we all know I have absolutely no intention of stopping the hunt!😂

If you’re in Belleville, pop in, have a wander and check out the Ivy Lane shelves. And if something follows you home, even better.💛

Ivy Lane has officially left my house.
Well… some of it has. Let’s not get carried away after all…🫣

10/03/2026

If this coat could talk, I don’t think she’d tell us everything.💄

I imagine her arriving beneath a theatre marquee, her black as night velvet catching the flash of photographers’ cameras as she steps from the back of a car. A Hollywood starlet underneath perhaps? Red lipstick. Ch*****ne waiting inside. Someone calling her name from behind the velvet rope.

Because you certainly don’t wear sleeves like these to quietly slip in the side door.

I found this incredible old opera coat tucked into an auction lot, with no label and no history to tell me where she’s been. When I shared her on Threads, people overwhelmingly saw the 1920s in her. I suspect she may be a little later…perhaps the 1930s…but without an expert examining her, her age remains another one of her secrets. And honestly? I think she suits having secrets.

The extravagant ruched velvet. The dramatic sleeves. The sweep of that long black skirt. She’s impossibly theatrical and completely impractical in the very best way.

I don’t know whether she ever actually saw a red carpet, but in my version of her story, she absolutely did!

And no, she’s not for sale.

Some things you thrift to resell. Some things you thrift and realize they deserve so much more than being forgotten in a dark bedroom closet. I feel like this beautiful old gal deserves another turn in the spotlight! ✨

09/22/2026

🚨🚨🚨 SHE’S OUT. 🚨🚨🚨

Liberation Day: September 22, 2026.

The $2 dresser is FREE.
My marriage survived.
The CR-V appears structurally sound.

We did it. 🫡

Onto my next thrifting debacle… 🤣

09/20/2026

Auction blunder of the day…🤦‍♀️

She slid into the CRV pretty easily, but that is apparently where her story ends as she has decided it’s where she lives now. We have tried every angle we can to extract her - even screaming “PIVOT” as we tried to navigate en exit strategy (laugh or cry amiright??)

It unfortunately seems like an amputation is the only answer. But, we are not pulling out the saw yet…so if anyone has any advice???

09/19/2026

The Tale of the Potato Can 🥔🤎

Meet what I now consider to be the official mascot piece of Ivy Lane.

Thrifted off Marketplace, this may be one of those purchases that makes anyone following along question whether I actually know what I’m doing.

The truth is, I’m not really sure yet.

The potato can has made me question some of my life choices.

Acquiring her wasn’t exactly difficult. I found her on Marketplace and reached out to a kindly gentleman farmer who lived locally and made the transaction very straightforward. And if you use Marketplace regularly, you’ll understand what a rare and beautiful thing that is.

Cash only. Pick up here. At this time.

I knew if I wanted the potato can to come home, I needed to fall in line.

So there was some coordinating. A driver had to be recruited who could meet the seller’s very specific pickup requirements. E-transfers were sent to said driver (my amazing son-in-law - shout out Josh!!).

Plans were made. And then I waited, hoping it would all come together.

I cannot explain my attachment to this thing.

I saw her. I loved her. I had never even heard of a potato can before, but none of that mattered because I thought she was one of the most beautiful things I had ever seen.

Keep in mind, my own home is much more vintage/boho than farmhouse.

Also irrelevant, apparently.

When she finally arrived, she was much bigger than I expected. And what I had assumed in the photos was dirt that could be cleaned off turned out to be years of wear and patina.

Which, naturally, only made me love her more.

I photographed her. I researched her. I fully intended to resell her.

And then I found her a spot in my kitchen.

That was the end of that.

This is perhaps Exhibit A in the growing body of evidence suggesting I may not be cut out for the vintage resale business.

I shared her on Threads and asked if anyone had ever heard of a potato can. A few people knew what a potato cannon was. Nobody knew what a potato can was. 😂

I’ve decided she’s essentially the 50’s version of the more modern potato-and-onion storage box. I’ve never seen another one like her, and I may never see another one again.

So, for now at least, she lives with me.

And I suppose the moral of the story, for all my fellow thrifters, is that beauty really is wherever you happen to find it.

Sometimes you’ll go looking for something to sell and come home with something you never even knew existed. Sometimes the things that capture your heart will make absolutely no sense to anyone else. And every once in a while, you’ll find something you simply can’t bring yourself to part with. And I think that’s OK.

Maybe the best part of thrifting isn’t always finding something valuable. Maybe sometimes it’s finding something that, for reasons you can’t quite explain, feels valuable to you.

For me, apparently, that thing is a giant rusty old potato can. 🥔🤎

But seriously… isn’t she beautiful?

P.S. Don’t even get me started on the very old wooden box sitting beside her. Another Marketplace find that surprised me when I brought it home and discovered he was actually lined with old Toronto newspapers dated April 21, 1898.

Another perfectly reasonable purchase made for resale.Another item that appears to have taken up permanent residency in my house.🤷‍♀️

I’m beginning to see a flaw in my business model. 😂🤎

09/18/2026

A little sneak peek from an estate auction that recently closed… 👀

Of all the pieces I was hoping to bring home, I think this one might be my favourite. 🤎

This is a Miranda footed glass bowl by Iittala, the iconic Finnish design house. The Miranda collection was designed by Finnish designer Heikki Orvola in 1971, with its nature-inspired pressed-glass pattern specifically created to catch and reflect the light.

More than 50 years later, Iittala has even brought the Miranda collection back into production - which I think says something about a really beautiful design.

And soon, this lovely vintage one will be making her way to Ivy Lane.

Assuming, of course, that I can convince myself to let her go. 😂

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