Lowe House Vintage Pop Up Sale

I am very happy to announce the upcoming pop up sale I’m having with my friend John (and in conjunction with my friends Annie and Eric over at 3 Fish Studios.) We’ll have a ton of stuff for sale, and everything is priced to move (almost everything is under $20 and a lot of it [...]

bedroom peek 2

My bedroom is finally approaching being done (I switched directions kind of drastically half way through, which didn’t help) This is the small(ish) dresser that I’m using as a bedside table – I picked it up on Craigslist for $25, partially because it looked like this: Some hardcore cleaning, re-staining, and waxing/polishing later (no sanding, [...]

cursive

Love these. They would look great framed our leaning on top of a door frame Cursive Handwriting Classroom Charts (Black) $25.00 from Three Potato Four

flash cards

This post from Say Yes to Hoboken reminded me that I hadn’t posted pictures of my redone dining room, specifically this arrangement on top of my sideboard: I bought the flashcards on etsy a few years ago (from a now defunct shop,) and just framed them a few months ago. Pictures of the rest of [...]

canisters

I picked up the stainless steel set at an estate sale last fall, so when I spotted the yellow set at the Alameda Flea Market a few weeks ago I had to have them too. Luckily, they only set me back $15. Score.

I heart yellow

What was up with the Alameda Flea Market (also known, affectionately, as the crap fair) today? hardly anyone, either vendors or shoppers was there. It was very very odd – I suspect some sort of combination of the Super Bowl and the predicted rain that failed to happen. Anyways, I did manage to pick up [...]

new desk set up

Yesterday I finally got my dining room “office” set up. I don’t like having a desk in my bedroom, and our second bedroom is taken over by T.’s crazy office set up/doubles as a guest room when needed, and I wanted somewhere I could not only do “desk” things but also sew, so I decided [...]

Stuff

This past weekend’s Chronicle featured a story by the lovely Anh-Minh on renters who improve their spaces. She was nice enough to interview me for it, and managed to make me not sound like a blathering idiot, a mark of a very good journalist indeed. There are also pictures of Maggie’s (of Mighty Girl) baby’s [...]

pitchers

It has been really hot here lately (88 degrees today,) which means that it’s totally time to break out the iced tea pitchers. Pitchers are great – much to T.’s chagrin I’ve started somewhat of a collection of them. My favorite place to look for pitchers? eBay of course. Here are some of my current [...]

sidedish

Etsy store sidedish sells vintage items, and is sort of like the best part of a flea market – just the good stuff, none of the crap, and amazing prices. Some of my current favorites: vintage white glass tray, $20 vintage DeCesari metal tray, $9 super cute vintage basket, $6 pristine vintage tissue holder, $8 [...]