Welcome to Vintage Love. I'm Trine and I'm the founder of Vintage Love.
My passion for jewellery originated in Mariager, a little market town in Denmark, where I'd spend time after school helping my mum in her antiques and jewellery shop, as well as joining my parents on the many antique exhibitions they hosted nationally in the 1970s and 80s. This sparked my love for vintage jewellery and sharing that passion with customers.
Vintage Love is inspired by my Danish culture and my mum Birgit, who I sadly lost in December 2021. Customers would regularly come to her shop, even if it was just for a chat, and there was nothing she loved more. After she retired she still carried on doing markets around Denmark until her late 70s, but at this stage it was mainly just to maintain the customer connection and chat to people.
The last thing I promised her was that I would keep 'Trading and Talking' on her behalf for many years to come and I'm hopefully making her proud doing just that.
Although I spent some time working in a variety of shops when younger my career path took off in an entirely different direction. It was only after I became very ill, following a successful career of 25 years in the 'corporate world', that I realised it was time for a complete change and my life opened up to different opportunities.
I knew I wanted to get back to my roots of being customer facing and I also really wanted to do something creative, and the answer came by coincidence in 2018 when I inherited an old pearl brooch that had been in my family for many years. I decided to restore the brooch and created a necklace using it as a centrepiece.
After receiving many compliments and requests to do similar bespoke creations for others, Vintage Love by Trine was born and 4 months later I attended my first artisan craft market.
I now source jewellery as well as broken accessories, often destined for landfills, from charities and house clearances and then restore or re-purpose into my own designs. All jewellery that I acquire, from whichever source, is either lovingly restored back to it's original glory, incorporated into a new design or broken down to individual components, cleaned up and then I let the imagination free with completely unique designs.
I am also very fortunate to receive a number of donations from customers who entrust me with some of their own heirlooms and I can’t think of anything more exciting than a unique piece of jewellery that has an entire lifetime of history to tell.
My love for the unusual and quirky combined with my passion for repurposing and upcycling, has lead to thousands of unique items that make use of existing materials.
As the business has grown I have also felt there was a need to introduce new items into the mix but my passion will always be in the upcycled items as well as the vintage and antique pieces.
I spent a number of years growing the business working with many artisan market organisers in the North West as well as working on nationwide County Shows and Vintage events.
However, in 2023 I made the decision to take the big leap and move into premises in Ormskirk in Lancashire, which has been a really exciting journey but also incredibly hard work. Running a retail shop is definitely not without it's challenges in the current climate and I am so grateful to all the loyal customers who has made it the success that it is.
I now not only have a location where I can be creative, it has also allowed me to do far more bespoke orders for customers as well as taking in repairs which has become a large proportion of the work we now do.
For a while the events side took a backseat whilst I found my feet in the new shop but I'm very fortunate to now have 2 wonderful ladies working with me in the shop which has allowed me to go back to my roots on the stall again.
I am however back in a slightly different guise as I now work at nationwide festivals during the summer months, mainly focusing on Campervan festivals, as well and some vintage and family music event and I'm lucky to now do this with my partner and our 2 dogs.
Have a look at the Event's page to see where we are working this year.
Thank you for reading this far.
Trine x