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Instagram Sale: Chinoiserie Chic "Chstuff"

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 06 Aug 2015 23:13:00 +0000

At The Vintage Laundry we're kind of geekin' out over a new venture! We've curated a small collection of themed vintage goodies that will be available every Friday for purchase over at our Instagram @TVLStudios feed. Beginning at 10:00 AM this Friday, August 7th we'll launch the first of many weekly sales! This week's theme is Chinoiserie Chic "Chstuff"

So, if you love us more than your luggage and you want to scoop up some stunning vintage pieces, here's what you'll need to do:

1. Have or create an account on Instagram. 2. Follow both of The Vintage Laundry's Instagram feeds here & here. 3. Pre-register for our upcoming sale here. We would like to encourage our fans to make sure and register so that you don't miss the details of the sale, contest giveaways and sneak peek pics of the vintage goodies that will appear in each sale! 4. And finally, keep an eye on the feed and comment with "Sold" and your email in the comment section of the post on anything you'd like to purchase. After that, we send an email with an invoice and then you checkout. . . easy peasy, lemon squeezy!

Here's a sneak peek of a few items in this Friday's
Chinoiserie Chic Chstuff Instagram sale. . .

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De-Stash Bash This Weekend

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 23 Apr 2015 11:39:00 +0000

Hi all! I wanted to put a fun event on your radar. Jennifer Perkins is hosting a De-Stash Bash at the TOMS Shoes on S. Congress April 26th from 11-5pm. Her recommendation is to think of it like a group arts and crafts garage sale.

According to Jennifer this event will be like Michaels, Hobby Lobby, Etsy and a flea market all rolled into one without the long lines, politics, postage fees and dust. Plus there will be a band and free drinks.

Some of Austin’s craftiest people are coming together to set up shop and help others start their own crafty adventures. Don’t come looking for finished items, this is all about the supplies. The artists involved are clearing out their craft closets for a major de-stash! Here are a few things you might find: Vintage beads, sewing trim, collage ephemera, yarn, raft books and magazines, fabric (new and vintage), buttons, scrapbook supplies, and jewelry findings.

Vendors include….

Jennifer Perkins formally The Naughty Secretary Club, Anne Marie Beard of AnneMarie: Style for the Individual, Leslie Bonnell of Stitch Lab, Chia of Chia Hats, Sierra Baily of Manic Trout, Lisa Chouinard - Feto Soap, Becka Spellman - Baby Bolt

Come See Us at Fredericksburg Trade Days

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 00:51:00 +0000

Come See Us at Fredericksburg Trade Days!!

Come see me this Friday, Feb. 20th - Sunday, Feb. 22nd at Fredericksburg Trade Days at Sunday Farms in Fredericksburg, Texas. This show is famous for its antiques, collectibles, tools, crafts, shabby chic, primitives, vintage furniture, candles, clothing and jewelry. You can shop with over 350 vendors in 6 barns. Picturesque Sunday Farms is surrounded by local wineries, Lavender trails, the Pedernales River, delicious country peaches, Luckenbach, Enchanted Rock, and hundreds of bed and breakfasts. Fredericksburg Trade Days also hosts a Biergarten that offers over 50 varieties of beer and live music.

I'll be in our new spot at the back on row F in space F13.

Date:

February 20th, 21st & 22nd, 2015

Hours:

9 a.m. - 6 p.m. Friday

9 a.m. - 6 p.m. Friday Saturday

9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Sunday

Want It Wednesday: Out of the Blue

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 00:47:00 +0000

Italian Lamp • 19th Century Textile • Hollywood Glam Armchair

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Thingy Thursday: Artist and Collector, Greg Irvine

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 09 Jan 2015 00:59:00 +0000

Image Eve Wilson Photography

I can’t think of a better Thingy Thursday post to begin 2015 than the amazingly creative and collected space of artist Greg Irvine. I was wowed by this collaboration between filmmaker Paris Thomson of SIRAP, and Editor Lucy Feagins of The Design Files. Together they made a short video documenting Greg’s remarkable home, his collections and his paintings.

Greg's collection of tortoise shell objects is stunning!

He has a large collection of vintage fabrics which he uses in his painting.
TITLE: View to the Garden with Blue • MEDIUM: oil on canvas • DIMENSIONS: 4ft x 5ft

Greg believes in surrounding himself with a lot of beautiful things. . . a practice I'm more than a little familiar with, but I think you call mine hoarding!

His sketch books are jaw-droppingly stunning! He has hundreds of them full of sketches/paintings like the ones above.

TITLE: Clarice Cliff & Flowering Gum • Limited Edition Print 1/100 • DIMENSIONS: 91cms x 84cms

Australian Homes · Greg Irvine from The Design Files on Vimeo.

Images are courtesy of Greg Irvine and Eve Wilson Photography and the film is by Paris Thomson / SIRAP and Produced by The Design Files with music by Digging Holes

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The New And Improved Bookbook

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 04 Sep 2014 15:48:00 +0000

As some of you know, prior to my life in the antiques business, I was an illustrator and graphic designer in the advertising and publishing world. And although this post has more to do with modernity than antiquity, the dormant "art director" part of me can't help sharing this clever video that was produced for IKEA by the talented agency BBH Asia Pacific.

So, you know how they say imitation is the greatest form of flattery? Well, Ikea's new ad promoting its most recent catalogue "bookbook" is a different kind of video for IKEA; it’s sort of a satire/homage to Apple with just a hint of mockery… And the result is hysterical.

Watch as “Chief Design Guru” Jorgen Eghammer introduces the brand’s latest hi-tech innovation with lines like, "… with an endless battery, page flicking technology, and thousands of pre-installed products, the paper catalogue is set to revolutionize the way people use technology in their homes." And listen for other quotes by Eghammer like, "The 2015 Ikea catalogue comes fully charged and the battery is eternal," and "If you want to share a particularly inspiring item, you literally share it!"

Picture Perfect

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 04:37:00 +0000

I'm considering kissing both of the inventors of Instagram square on the lips! I love this app! Lately, many of my mornings (and evenings and afternoons and all the spaces in between) are spent scrolling through the pictures and videos of my fellow vintage dealers, friends and family that I follow. One might think that this app is solely image-based, but, in fact, it has an auditory element, as well… the whooshing noise that my work deadlines make as they go by, for example!

If you are unfamiliar with Instagram, it's an online mobile photo-sharing, video-sharing and social networking service that enables its users to take pictures and videos, apply digital filters to them, and share them on a variety of social networking services, such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Flickr. In short, Instagram has increased my engagement with like-minded entrepreneurs immensely. I can search by keywords (via hashtags) or search users with the name of a person or business. It's addictive!

Here are some of the recent photos I've posted on my Instagram… check them out and see what my business and I have been up to… and if you are inclined, follow us, too!

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noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 22:58:00 +0000

FROCKTAILS

SHOP OUR FLASH SALE TONIGHT ON INSTAGRAM

Make sure to shop our FROCKTAIL sale on our Instagram, Wednesday,

July 9, 2014 at 7 PM Central Standard Time. Up for grabs will be gobs of

vintage frocks and vintage barware…because vintage cocktails were

meant to be consumed in swanky vintage barware and glammy vintage

dresses!

All you will need to purchase is to be the first to comment with your

Paypal email and your zip code and the item is yours! You will then be

invoiced and given 24 hours to pay. After payment has been received,

we will drop it in the mail to you… simple as that!

We will be posting about 20 photos from 7 PM - 10:00 PM tonight.

See you there!

City Wide Sale This Weekend!

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 25 Jan 2014 02:03:00 +0000

When it comes to French Monograms and English
silver, say yes. Always say yes!

It's time for City-Wide Garage Sale! And January's show is huge. My vintage goodies will be there along with 131 other exhibitors. The show dates and times are tomorrow, Saturday, January 25, 10 am - 5 pm and Sunday, the 26th, 11 am - 5 pm at the Palmer Events Center, 900 Barton Springs Rd here in Austin. Admission is $6 for adults and free for ages 12 and under. Early Shopper Passes can be purchased for $10 Saturday morning, giving you early access to the show between 8:30a-10am.

The Vintage Laundry will be in the third row in a corner spot in spaces 313 and 320. Come shop our lovely monogrammed napkins or pick up some silver, a damask tablecloth, or vintage china for that dinner party you've been planning!

Bet you didn't know that Austin's recent snow and ice clouds had silver linings . . . .

lots and lots of silver linings!

We can actually promise you a rose garden . . .
sure, our roses are on vintage china, but still!

The Vintage Laundry will be in the third row in a corner spot in spaces 313 and 320

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Tuesday Ta Da!

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 05:07:00 +0000

I am not, intrinsically, one of those people put in this world to meet deadlines. Despite this handicap, I persist in trying. I missed the reveal for the DIY upcycled champagne lamps on Makers Monday. So, I thought I could try and save face and sneak by with a Tuesday Ta Da post to show you how they turned out, but unfortunately I committed to a four day show out of town last week and simply didn't finish what I started. This serves as a brilliant illustration of how I've made a much closer acquaintance with over-committing than I am entirely happy with …

So, basically, what I'm saying is … I got nothin.

Perhaps I can get my "To Do List" done by next Monday!

Photo courtesy A Pair of Pears

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Come See Me in Fredericksburg!

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 13:46:00 +0000

Come see me this Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Fredericksburg Trade Days at Sunday Farms in Fredericksburg, Texas. This show is famous for its antiques, collectibles, tools, crafts, shabby chic, primitives, vintage furniture, candles, clothing and jewelry. You can shop with over 350 vendors in 6 barns. Picturesque Sunday Farms is surrounded by local wineries, Lavender trails, the Pedernales River, delicious country peaches, Luckenbach, Enchanted Rock, and hundreds of bed and breakfasts. Fredericksburg Trade Days also hosts a Biergarten that offers over 50 varieties of beer and live music.

I'll be in Barn 3 in spaces 11 and 12.

Date:

January 17th, 18th & 19th, 2014

Hours:

9 a.m. - 6 p.m. Friday & Saturday

9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Sunday

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Makers Monday: DIY Champagne Lamps

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 05:20:00 +0000

See you next Monday with the "How To" steps to make it happen!!

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Merry Christmas And Happy 2014

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 25 Dec 2013 16:42:00 +0000

Merry Christmas and Happy 2014 from all of us at THEVINTAGELAUNDRY.COM

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Heavy Sigh, Face-palm With an Eye Roll Dismount

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 14:43:00 +0000

It has been proven to me again, and again that life is a great unfolding ... that opportunities, wisdom, and understanding will be revealed to me as I go along. I wait, as patiently as an instant-gratification junky can wait, for cues from the universe as to what I should fix my gaze and energies upon next. But here's the thing … and I hate "The Thing" …especially "my" thing. Because my thing is … STARTING. I'm a marvelous starter, a comer-upper of great ideas, an enthusiastic believer that if you work and live and love hard enough that everything is possible. I've started hundreds of things, DIY projects, blog posts, paintings, book writings, entrepreneurial ventures, relationships, conversations, thoughts, sentences … the list is endless and more than a little embarrassing. But here's my "Un-Thing" … FINISHING. I'm like the opposite, evil twin of a premature ejaculation … the iceman never cometh, if you know what I'm sayin'.

And, naturally, the only logical next step in my ever-so-cluttered mind is to start a new project … (insert face-palm.) The new project is a book (insert combination heavy sigh, face-palm with an eye roll dismount.) The chapters are good-natured pokes at all that is me, but are also turning out to be a kind of love letters to myself and to others that share "The Thing." Writing about this has offered me a revelation that although I want to escape, running and screaming from this utterly frustrating habit I have of putting off till tomorrow what I could do the day after tomorrow - I've just decided to embrace it. Because, as they say, you are defined not so much by your imperfect moments, but by your reactions to them.

So, only time will tell if I can see this "reaction" through to the end … wish me luck, think "finishing thoughts" and if necessary shame me into completing and publishing it.

Below is a snippet from one of the thirty-five chapters in the book. I hope you enjoy and have a marvelous Thursday!

Chapter 1

Read Label Before Use

You know how packaged products are required to have a label listing ingredients and such? Well, I think some people should come with them, as well … and I'm sorry to say, that I'm one of them! Before you even think of speaking to me or engaging me in any manner, you should probably read my label. It has recommendations for your use and safety (see label below.)

Nutritional Facts:

Calories: None of your business

Sodium: Queen of the Swelling & Bloating Float in the High Blood Pressure & Congestive Heart Failure Thanksgiving Day Parade

Carbohydrates: Girl please!

Sugar: Can I get a witness?!

LeAnn Stephenson is fun for the whole family. Made from 100% morose introspection and existential crisis, she was founded in Alamogordo, New Mexico in 1965. She played in the White Sands Basin Range where, twenty years earlier, the Trinity nuclear (atomic) bomb was tested (which explains a lot.) She contains more than 75% of the world's eyebrow hair (see nuclear bomb) and in a blind taste test, 2 out of 5 children tested chose LeAnn Stephenson as their mother.

Warning:

LeAnn Stephenson's singing voice has been described as "very disturbing."

So, as you can see, I may appear to be perfectly harmless, but I can assure you that I am anything but.

For starters ...

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Catnip Roasting on an Open Fire

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 02:19:00 +0000

We have a crazy cat. She's called Eva June. She's a beautiful Maine Coon with striking yellow-green eyes . . . . she's also the spawn of Satan . . . wicked, evil, mean, and totally unsocial. She won't let anyone touch her, except me and on occasion my daughter, who's her Mom (but not her real Mom). Most of the time I want to dragon-kick her across the room for using the furniture as her own personal scratching post or string her up by her elbows for hacking up little kitty cigars that I will, without fail, step in with bare feet. But, for some reason, when she does want to cuddle, I'm her girl. Which makes me fairly sure that if we were trapped in the house in a blizzard and everyone died . . . . She'd totally eat me last.

I tell you that to tell you this, Christmas decorating at our house is like hugging our crazy cat, "Evil June:" a little dangerous, a little warm, and a lot of awesome. Tradition follows that we crank up the psychotically-challenged Christmas carols in her honor. To start, we play the old standard, "Do You Hear What I Hear?" to soothe Eva's schizophrenia. We celebrate her multiple personalities with, "We Three Kings of Disorient Are" and poke fun at her paranoia with, "Santa Claws Is Coming To Get You." As a tribute to her dementia we play, "I 'Think' I'll Be Home For Christmas" followed closely by her personality disorder's favorite, "You Better Watch Out, I'm Gonna Cry, I'm Gonna Pee, Maybe I'll Tell You Why." And finally we all join in with a rousing-ly manic rendition of, "Deck the Halls and Walls and House and Lawn and Streets and Office and the Stores and the Cars and the Buses and Trucks and Trees and Fire Hydrants and . . ."

Hope your Christmas decorating is bright, beautiful, and full of crazy kitty power. Here are few photos of our efforts.

We hung our Christmas wreath on our newly painted door! We added a bit of vintage silver and a wide red satin ribbon to our boxwood wreath to give it a little patina.

My girl baby was home from university and got to hang all of her childhood ornaments and reminisce . . . she loves to decorate the Christmas tree …

… and my baby boy just loves the Christmas tree!


Baby It Was Cold Outside! We had temperatures in the teens during our decorating extravaganza, so, the Hubbs built a roaring fire, chilled a bottle of champagne and threw down a sheepskin rug to keep our tootsies warm! And it just wouldn't feel right without our vintage ornaments. I'm kind of partial to our Shiny Brite collections! I love to contain them in apothecary jars on the mantel, in silver Revere bowls on side tables and in niches! And this is what happens when I clean vintage brass and gold flatware all afternoon . . .

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Simply Brilliant: Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 22:36:00 +0000

My girl baby is in the middle of her sophomore year at university. My boy baby is in the middle of the exciting ordeal of applying to universities he would like to attend next Fall after he graduates from high school this June. He would like to be a filmmaker and is concentrating his search on universities that have exemplary Radio-Television-Film colleges. Austin's very own University of Texas is well-known for its program and boasts some very successful alumni. Topping my son's list of favorite directors and screenwriters is fellow Texan and UT alumnus, Wes Anderson.

Which brings me to today's Simply Brilliant talent. Anderson's next film will be entitled The Grand Budapest Hotel and will star his regular collaborators Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, and Jason Schwartzman, along with many others cited below. It recounts the adventures of Gustave H., a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an enormous family fortune - all against the back-drop of a suddenly and dramatically changing Continent.

Other Anderson films that might be of interest are Bottle Rocket (1996), Rushmore (1998), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), The Darjeeling Limited (2007), a stop-motion animation adaptation of the Roald Dahl book, Fantastic Mr. Fox, released in 2009, and perhaps his best received film to date, Moonrise Kingdom, which opened the Cannes Film Festival 2012.

The Grand Budapest Hotel is to be released March 7, 2014 in the U.S. with cinematography by Robert Yeoman and screenwriting/direction by Wes Anderson. I can't wait for its release and would like to suggest you not miss it either!

Video and photos courtesty: IMBb and cine.gr

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Two Words, One Finger

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 19:34:00 +0000

The life that I think I lead and the actual life that I have are two distinctly different states of being. Each comes with its own appalling revelations and pace. That is to say, that the past week or so has left me a little ruffled, unsure of myself, and questioning every move. I appall this state of being and I have something to say to these feelings … and I'm sorry to say it involves two words and one finger.

Hence, the touch-y, feel-y quote above. Just needed to remind myself to live an authentic life and relish the messy unplanned parts, as well as the perfectly planned ones.

Happy Thursday to you!

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I Be A Grinch

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 18:55:00 +0000

Thanksgiving has come and gone. Black Friday is underway. Merry old soul or not, the Christmas season is officially upon us. And, this Monday will mark what is called "Cyber Monday," which to me, sounds a lot like the business-end of a pervy 1-900-number conversation, only online.

This year, my sugar plum imagine-ings have been slow in coming - my festive spirit missed it's flight and is on stand-by, and I'm thinkin' this lack of merriment basically makes me a heathen! And as it turns out, my children and the Hubbs agree with the "you-be-a-grinch" diagnosis. So, I've put together a Christmas playlist on The Vintage Laundry Spotify and I wanna share.

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Girl Please! Pink and Gold

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 16:16:00 +0000

PINK VINTAGE PLATE | GOLD FLATWARE | PINK GLASS STEMS | DAMASK NAPKINS

We at the Vintage Laundry are kind of partial to pink, and when we pair it with gold and make it all vintage, well, all we can say is GIRL PLEASE!!

In our opinion, this lovely combo can make anything more elegant, without a smidgen of pretentiousness. We've taken some gold-plated flatware and gold-rimmed vintage plates, paired them with some pink glass stems, finished it off with vintage Damask napkins and Presto! ...your table is a showstopper!!

So, forget silver and gold this year and check out The Vintage Laundry for an arsenal of pink and gold vintage entertaining essentials to make your holiday table unforgettable this year!

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Don't Get Your Tinsel in a Tangle

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 15:24:00 +0000

Take a sneak peek at our first-ever magazine/catalog! Full version available December 1, 2013

I feel about the premature promotion of Christmas sales and holiday shopping the way some people feel about plastic surgery. It's a tragic reflection of our beauty-obsessed society . . . unless I need it, in which case, nobody say anything.

Enter the first-ever issue of our magazine/catalog, Comfort & Joy. I hope you find inspiration in our Holiday Issue, we searched far and wide for content for these pages and we're hoping that you will find our festive playlists, exciting Christmas decorating ideas, and vintage gift ideas from thevintagelaundry.com worth the read. Here's a sneak peek of our full version that will be published December 1, 2013. Make sure to follow The Vintage Laundry on ISSUU so that you won't miss any issues!

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The Crack Cocaine of Antique Shows

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 00:10:00 +0000

I'm an antique show slut.

I visit shows all year long, selling and shopping. Nothing gives me greater pleasure than visiting with and making purchases from my fellow vintage and antique dealer friends.

One of my all-time favorite shows is Antiques Weekend in Round Top, Texas. Round Top, in case you're unaware, is the crack cocaine of the antique's show world and happens to be going on right this very minute (September 21 - October 5, 2013!) The field that I set up in is called The Texas Rose and is located directly across from Marburger Farms at 2075 South State Highway 237, Round Top, Texas 78954. You'll find directions from Dallas, Houston, Austin and San Antonio here.

Bottom line, I "owe" this show; I wouldn't own my own business or be an out-of-control vintage collector (AKA hoarder) without it! And the only shopping advice I have to offer is to forget portion control … it is futile! … there are just too many vintage and antique goodies to pass up!

I just drooled …hmmm … perhaps an intervention is in order …

**Note**
I emailed these clips and photos to my talented son, Noah, and he put this video together for me. He even supplied the music for it! That's him on the guitar, playing one of his original tunes!!

Want It Wednesday: Raising The Bar

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 02:16:00 +0000

Vintage Bar Cart, Hollywood Regency Glasses, Faux Horn Bar Tools

Book 'em Danno: Remix: Decorating with Culture, Objects, and Soul

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Sep 2013 15:00:00 +0000

You know 'em, you love 'em, you can't get enough of the husband-and-wife team behind the blog AphroChic, Jeanine Hays and Bryan Mason. I love their take on upcycling. The pair always manages to live "green" on the glam side of things. In my travels through the interwebs today I came upon a cover shot of their new book, Remix: Decorating with Culture, Objects, and Soul, a lush style guide that mixes high-end pieces with travel finds and artisan objects, and then immediately went to pre-order my copy. Authors Hays and Mason have always managed to blow my socks off with their genuine, personal style online and I'm sure I will continue to be rendered sock-less with this offering, as well!

So, if you're all about stylish, unforgettable rooms, then I have a feeling this book is for you! The title will be released on November 5, 2013 but can be pre-odered here.

Thingy Thursday Revival

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 06 Sep 2013 01:49:00 +0000

I admit freely, without apology to anyone, that I'm a collector slash hoarder slash "if-you-don't-want-it-I'll-take-it" kinda chick. If someone put it in a garage sale, I bought it. If someone trashed it, I dumpster dived it. There is not a minimalist bone in my body and I have the junk to prove it. I come by this green-recycler-obsessive-compulsive behavior, not because I abhor overflowing landfills (which I do,) but because I'm neurotic - and I'm only sorta kidding here!

So, to make myself feel better about all that, I've decided to resurrect a weekly post that I began a few years ago and then let wane. It's called "Thingy Thursday" and as the name suggests, it will serve as a vehicle to showcase collectors and the "thingies" they collect. The plan is to begin with my own personal collections next Thursday, accompanied by specifics and rules and regs for a contest we'll be hosting on our Instagram and Pinterest.

But while you wait with baited breath for next week's "Thingy Thursday" post, I have a few archived posts that I would like to share with you from my friends, Stan Williams, author of The Find (also known as The Elegant Thrifter) and Lynn Goldfinger-Abram, the woman behind the marvelous online store, The Paris Hotel Boutique.

Take a look and walk away, as I did, with a case or two of collection envy!

Want It Wednesdays: Cheetah, Cheetah, Pumpkin Eater

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 05 Sep 2013 02:35:00 +0000

MAXI VINTAGE COAT - Etsy/Doreen's Vintage • LOUIS XVI OTTOMAN - The Vintage Laundry

ITALIAN CERAMIC CHEETAH - 1stdibs/Fat Chance

thevintagelaundry

Instagram Sale: Chinoiserie Chic "Chstuff"

Here's a sneak peek of a few items in this Friday'sChinoiserie Chic Chstuff Instagram sale. . .

De-Stash Bash This Weekend

Come See Us at Fredericksburg Trade Days

Want It Wednesday: Out of the Blue

Thingy Thursday: Artist and Collector, Greg Irvine

The New And Improved Bookbook

Picture Perfect

FROCKTAILS

City Wide Sale This Weekend!

Tuesday Ta Da!

Come See Me in Fredericksburg!

Makers Monday: DIY Champagne Lamps

Merry Christmas And Happy 2014

Merry Christmas and Happy 2014 from all of us at THEVINTAGELAUNDRY.COM

Heavy Sigh, Face-palm With an Eye Roll Dismount

Chapter 1

Read Label Before Use

Nutritional Facts:

Warning:

Catnip Roasting on an Open Fire

Simply Brilliant: Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel

Two Words, One Finger

I Be A Grinch

Girl Please! Pink and Gold

Don't Get Your Tinsel in a Tangle

The Crack Cocaine of Antique Shows

Want It Wednesday: Raising The Bar

Book 'em Danno: Remix: Decorating with Culture, Objects, and Soul

Thingy Thursday Revival

Want It Wednesdays: Cheetah, Cheetah, Pumpkin Eater

Here's a sneak peek of a few items in this Friday's
Chinoiserie Chic Chstuff Instagram sale. . .