new etsy listings

Spending the day shooting and listing a few new Etsy items. 

It's been awhile : ) 

                                             

Pre-Spring Cleaning Panorama

awesome vintage art supply case

This is the type of antique find that I LOVE. 

When it came to me it was chock full of half used 

paint tubes, paint brushes and turpentine.

 It is just so personal and sweet. 

It's like a little hobby time capsule.

 People buy crafty things like paints and supply boxes 
with the full intention of using the entire jar, 
tube or bottle to make something beautiful. 

It's a little eerie to wonder what happened to N.M. that didn't allow him or her to finish the supplies.

 On a happier note... it's for sale on my etsy page : )

Eastern Market, Cuisine and Demetri Martin

Yesterday morning Stefanie and I went to Eastern Market. I was so distracted by the antique shops that I didn't even buy any produce. I found this cute Michigan postcard. The guy said it was from the 1940s.

Then I came across this little treasure. A school text book on hygiene from 1913. It's from the Philadelphia Public School system. I thumbed through a couple pages and knew I needed it for my coffee table. The diagrams and topics are priceless and its in pretty good condition. I naturally loved the chapter called "Emergencies." Come over and read it sometime.




We also got to talk to Karen Brown, owner of Savvy Chic. I am in love with what she did to the shabby industrial cement floor in her shop. It's painted to look exactly like hardwood floor and I honestly had to bend down and feel it to believe it. I think that would be awesome to do to my basement. I might have to go visit her again for some tips.

Friday night I went with Snoodie Foodies to Cuisine (in New Center) for our monthly Detroit restaurant adventure. Join us sometime! Angela (my future roomie) found this amazing place near her work. It was super fancy so we tried to be on our best behavior. Delicious! I highly recommend the Lobster Linguini. Check it out sometime.



Oh and I got to see Demetri Martin last night. Hilarious. We decided his jokes can rarely be successfully retold as he is all about the dead pan delivery. So go watch some of his stuff for yourself.

Gray paint, vintage dressers as TV stands, living in the movies

I love the light gray walls in this picture.

Instead of having an ugly "entertainment center" I want to fix up an old dresser. I think it would look cute plus there are drawers for hiding wires, DVDs and such.

Ever wanted to feel like you were living in a movie?
Check out this page from Design*Sponge.

vintage pennants

This summer I went to the Brooklyn Flea Market, which honestly blew my mind. I highly recommend making it out there sometime.



Since I was traveling light I past up a lot of lovely treasures. However, I found these vintage travel pennants that were a perfect souvenir. The vintage sports pennants are great too but I especially love the travel variety. I guess they were quite popular to sell at the gift shops of American travel hot spots. I will post pictures eventually of the ones I bought but I thought a "pennant post" would be fun. Here are some great examples.





One sports pennant for my Detroiters!