Creative inspiration can come from unexpected places. 2nd Street Emporium has vintage sewing patterns, notions, and fabrics for traditional crafting, as well as other unusual items that can be used for truly unique craft projects. Here are a few items that may inspire you, and for those of us who are in a bit of a creative slump, a few ideas of what you can create with them.

THIS BLOG has great instructions on how to turn vintage buttons into embellishments for bobby pins!

This great vintage fabric could be used to cover a throw pillow for your favorite arm chair.
You could also display your favorite fabric as a piece of art. Example found HERE.

The vintage greeting cards above or the vintage post cards below would look fabulous used in THIS project for little homemade envelopes.

Vintage Hankies can be used to make an adorable banner.  Tutorial found HERE