Vintage & Repurposed Home Decor & Furniture
When you own your own store, you have to shop a lot. A. LOT. I mean a lot, a lot! I mean, you might miss something out there and you have to keep the store full, right? Of course! I've done a lot of shopping in the last few weeks. A. LOT. It's such drudgery. A real pain. Scouring estate sales, thrift shops, garage sales, … [Read more...]
Let's see if I can get back into the swing of keeping up with blog, shall we? I can hardly keep up with the laundry and ironing, but blogging is important, no? First of all, I want to say a HUGE "thank you" to those of you who have visited the shop and shown so much excitement and enthusiasm. You make my heart sing with hope that this just … [Read more...]
I know it's been weeks since I posted on this here blog...I been bizzay! What with organizing the new store, driving a broken-arm Mr. Wonderful to work, cooking (he usually does the cooking), cutting his meat (yeah, thought we were at least 20 years away from that happening), preparing for 2 shows and doing one (so far),and a short vacation to … [Read more...]
Remember a few weeks ago I told you that there was something exciting coming and that the blog would suffer for it? Well, I guess it's time to reveal what I was talking about. Drum roll, please.... Okay, I know that pile o' crap doesn't look like earth-shattering news...but, trust me, in my world it's the equivalent of white smoke coming … [Read more...]
Remember this shot? C'mon, it was just two days ago! It was the desk I picked up that was refinished, but they had sanded the wood against the grain. I know what you're thinking...the same thing I was thinking...who does that? I mean, I thought sanding with the grain was a no-brainer. Like petting a cat from head to … [Read more...]
Hi, I'm Jean. I live in historic Butte, Montana in a Craftsman home built in 1920. This blog is all about my adventures (and sometimes misadventures) in updating and decorating my house with antiques and vintage goods I find at garage sales, thrift stores, estate sales or wherever cool things from the past are waiting to be discovered.
