Artgoodies

Well, we’re all packed up and ready to roll out tomorrow for The Vintage Marketplace this weekend in Springfield, OH within the Springfield Antique Show! Just a couple things to get together like directions and snacks! Even we can hardly believe how much stuff we fit in this truck!!!

Loadin up the truck, long way to go in this pic! The garage behind me still looks totally full.

Voila! DONE! You can barely close the door but we got it all in minus a chair! I give us 5 stars for being the packing geniuses that we are.

Here are a few newly available artgoodies designs!  My classic red bike is available for a limited time in this great turquoisey aqua blue! Plus my swan towel is back this summer in 100% certified organic cotton AND artgoodies first and only 2 color ice cream tea towel is back by popular demand! It’s inspired by my summertime favorite, Boonie Doon’s mint green ice cream! All 3 are available here now!

It’s almost here! The Vintage Marketplace inside the Springfield Antique show is comin up quick! This May 18-20th in Springfield, OH. Myself and Lisa B will have a fantastic booth filled to the brim with vintage wonders and vintage inspired handmade goods! Below are the beginnings of what’s headed to the show. This unorganized mess is a little embarrassing but I can’t wait to merchandise it all into a beautiful vintage shop! I sure hope we can fit all this in the truck!!! This is just my half, aahhahaa! Lots of great larger pieces and tons of smaller vintage goodies for you! Shop the early bird time on Friday and get first dibs on all the treasures! Stay tuned for more pics as we load up the truck and migrate to Ohio!

Color of the month comin at ya early this month! I love all this aqua blue business! My collection seems to be expanding beyond the little corner shelves in my kitchen nook. As usual, some items in my vignette and table setting are for sale here and the others will squeeze back into my little shelves.

So many favorite pieces this month! The blue melmac is fantastic, the aqua plastic doily placemat, the glassware, the fired on aqua milk glass mugs, the newly acquired aqua dust pan, the aqua owl with home saying, the birdie planter, and finally the leaf vase. Do you know if the leaf vase is McCoy? I can't find it in my books, but it seems like an earlier one perhaps.

This melmac with tree design is amazing. I just love how it goes with the vintage tablecloth! More vintage napkins, and some Mackinac Bridge glasses make this a lovely table setting indeed!

The Pantone color of the year happens to be Tangerine. Use it as an accent or use it in full force to really add some punch to your decor!

Simple this month, pretty much full of vintage glassware. There are some darling orange juice glasses, cute kitcheny ones, a peanut butter glass, unusual rumba glass, and some orangey squirrel salt and p's. All grounded by a vintage tea towel.

This flower power vintage tablecloth really adds some punch! Paired with some burlap melmac mugs, mod melmac plates, oj carafe, vintage napkins, and some hard to see and hard to find glasses featuring palm trees and native characters.

To my surprise I happened upon this beautiful nest in my rose bush the other week. I suppose mama bird thought that even though it was quite low to the ground it was hidden and protected by thorns. I’ve been carefully watching and anticipating the arrival of some new bird friends. I was able to carefully snap a couple of pics while mama cardinal was away.

I walked down the driveway to get the mail and a bird fluttered quickly out of my rose bush. Odd I thought, and after a little peek I found this inside all the branches!

I was hoping to get a peek at them hatching but mama cardinal has been doing some serious nesting the last couple days. Here's why! Look at these freshy fresh bird friends!

This past weekend I spent immersed in gorgeous blooms! Floral design has always been an avid interest of mine. In fact, most of you don’t know that this was my career plan after college. I worked at several floral places during college and a couple after. I’ve helped dear friends style their weddings and design bouquets and such over the years, so when the opportunity arose to do my largest event yet I jumped at the chance! So here’s the story of 30 centerpieces, 5 bouquets, 7 boutonnieres, 2 wrist corsages, a cake topper, and a bunch of pretty little vases for things like cocktail hour and the gift table. You can imagine that quite a bit of planning goes into something like this! And of course, having a trusty assistant helps too! I had forgotten how much I love working with flowers! I hope I get to do it again soon!

7 am the day before the wedding, the car is getting loaded with oodles of flowers at the wholesaler.

Back home and thirsty flowers are quickly unpacked from boxes and into buckets.

Further processing gets you dethorned roses and stems stripped of leaves. Now let the real work begin! Well, almost, there was a 2 hour delay as we waited for the delivery of the cream ranunculus, which was of course in everything!

Centerpieces are starting to pile up on one of the work tables. I think I had about 11 to go at this point.

Whew! 30 centerpieces done and all loaded up for delivery Friday night. 4 elevator trips later, and they were all in place! Back home and onto the bouquets!

Oh and don't forget the pretty little vases for the gift and reception table!

9 pm. Bridesmaids bouquets are done and will wait until morning to get their stems wrapped in ribbon. Some more work and calling it quits at 10. Good nights sleep needed here!

One of the guys boutonnieres. The groom has double spray roses and an extra little gift attached from the bride.

5 am Saturday, morning of the wedding, up and at em! Wrist corsages-check, cake topper-check, bouquets wrapped-check! By 7am I was ready for breakfast and to get myself ready for delivery and the wedding of course!

The gorgeous happy couple! Congrats to Alison and Rob 4-14-12!

Wow, time is flying!  Coming soon May 18-20th you can find me at The Vintage Marketplace! It’s part of the Springfield Antique Show Extravaganza! Make your travel plans now! I’m super excited to be  joining forces with my vintage comrade over at Lisa’s RetroStyle! We’re sure to have something for everyone! From cottage chic to mid century modern sleek we’ll have fab furniture, linens, oodles of vintage housewares, and some fantastic handmade goodies!  I’ll be posting a few sneaks as we get closer so stay tuned! Below is a quick pic, just a  little snippet of larger items that help hold all the smaller vintage magic, and they’ll be for sale of course!  I can’t wait to take all of our goodies and make it into a dreamy vintage store just for you!

I’ve been craving sunshine and warmth and this insta-summer weather invasion has been a little bit alternate universe feeling, but amazing! I’m so happy to see things growing and flowering! So here it is, color of the month, in honor of sunshine!

These yellow vintage canisters are fantastic! Made by Lustroware! Love the tulip swanky swig, and daffodil tea towel! Yellow melmac is a must. Check out the cups with the white outside and yellow inside! An unusual melmac find! The striped cups at the top are by Holt Howard 1966. Vintage bunny candle is so cute and a little odd, and his friend kitty used to hold perfume.

This vintage tablecloth is vibrant, fun, and very different! I've paired it with this fantastic yellow rose pattern melmac set by Texas Ware which is available in my vintage shop!

I love making a nice breakfast on Sunday! Lately I’ve been making blueberry pancakes, but today I opted for some gluten free trail mix scones, and some fresh squeezed organic orange and grapefruit juice via my vintage Juice-O-Mat. I added dried cranberries, blueberries, cherries, coconut flakes, and steel cut oats to the scones. Too yummy not to take a pic!