Oregon Farm Table and Vintage Furniture Rentals!

I hope everyone had a great 4th! We spent ours packing and prepping for Oregon, brought up a big vintage bingo ball spinner to add to the collection as well as an amazing antique table that has two leaves and stretches out to be almost 9ft long!

Check out pictures from our inventory on our Facebook page, and if you like what you see and want to follow us for more updates feel free to "like" us!

Frugal Friday: The Best Things In Life Are Free

I hope this doesn't feel patronizing, but I've got the most Frugal Friday of all: The Great Outdoors! Hopefully you're enjoying the little heat wave we've had this week and get a chance to actually go outside and enjoy it. I've watched it through the shop windows with envy each day and can't wait to actually go outside and feel the sun on my Vitamin D

deficient skin!

If you need to work a little shopping into your weekend, at least do it frugally: Addison Endpapers in Oakland is having a studio sale, the Alameda Antique Fair is this Sunday and Borders' across the nation are closing and having sales at a store near you!

Tips from Lonny on getting good ETSY

Remember Domino magazine? I do, painfully, and like it was just yesterday. Since they became defunct some of the amazing creative wonders created Lonny, an online magazine and also the Lonny Blog. The other day they had some great tips on finding vintage treasures on ETSY. Here's their post:

"The vintage-Etsy search we began for our March/April story “Time-Tested Style” yielded such incredible finds that we found ourselves still scouring the site even after the issue had launched! Here is another round of our favorites, which offers a completely different look.

1. Search term: “Jasperware” | 2. Search term: “Hollywood Regency” | 3. Search term: “Chintz” | 4. Search term: “Leopard Print” | 5. Search term: “Matchbook” | 6. Search term: “Mid-Century” | 7. Search term: “Trophy” | 8. Search term: “Dorothy Draper” | 9. Search term: “Blendo” | "

A & B Do Wedding!

Sorry folks but I we'll be having to skip Frugal Friday this week because A and I are going to be happily busy (very busy!) this weekend while we help S & D with their big day! It's been a long time coming and we're so excited to see how all of the hard work, brainstorming, vintage touches and inspiration all come together. Also, of course to see the happy couple enter into marital bliss! We'll post pics soon!

Frugal Friday: Addison Studio Sale!

Oh how I love Addison Endpapers! Never heard of it? You may have even walked past it before and not known it. They're located on Telegraph just off of Alcatraz. Upon closer inspection of their adorable shop you will notice the vintage wall paper on the walls and the stylish font on their sign, not to mention all of their treasures inside. I don't think I or A have ever left the shop without at least one bag full of goodies!

They scout locally as well as in France and have SO much to choose from! Tomorrow and Sunday they're having a sale and will be featuring:

"Everything from vintage art materials to antiques. Stacks of paper ephemera, theatrical catalogs, movie and theatre photos, etc.. all c.1920's to 50's, early European engravings, victorian photos and albums, antique children's books,1940's travel maps, crumbly cigar boxes filled with miscellany, vintage dolls andd toys, old games and novelties, antique Christmas ornaments & garland, collection of German papier-mache turkeys, 3 old German storefronts, boxes of old lace and linens, victorian beaded appliques, metallic trims an ribbons, old flags, victorian household misc., neat old pencils and antique office supplies, victorian to 1930's men's and women's clothing, old picnic baskets, vintage mannequin, old military, French-Canadian sailor hats, boyscout hats, victorian to 1930's shoes, old millinery flowers etc.., pair matching victorian cake stands, fine & costume jewelry, tons of antique buttons of all kinds, large collection of very old beads and stones used for the theatre, fantastic theatrical costumes, antique jewelry findings, victorian buckles, old sewing, victorian fluting machine, many vintage silver charms, large glass dome, pair antique "Dakota" candy jars, c.1900 folk-art drying rack, blue & white folk-art shelf, coin silver spoons, green + white shopkeepers twine, and much, much more."

As you can see you will have your pick of all things amazing at their sale. The sale runs from 10-4 on Saturday and Sunday and their address is 6397 Telegraph Ave. Get there early because people line up and Enjoy!

The B is Back!

B (me) is back from France, as of late last night, after two inspiring, get-to-know-yourself kinds of months, and is ready to get cracking! I brought home two small suitcases (that would shock and horrify you if you actually picked them up) and everything made it safely home...except for a really cute vintage lion statue...but A's going to fix that!

Today I have lots of little errands to do and craft supplies to pick up. I need a little sleep and then I 'm ready to start creating on U.S. soil again!