More Milk Glass
Here is a set of 4 footed milk glass mugs, decorated in the cutest, colorful cherries. Markings include “U.S.A.”, “HEAT PROOF”, and “16″. If anyone knows the brand (anchor hocking??, westmoreland?) please let me know. Aaron and I will definitely be drinking our morning coffee out of these in our 1950’s kitchen!
Trever the Travet
We’ve decided to thank everyone who participated in our 3-month-long efforts at researching the usability and user experience of our Travets. I’m calling this little USB guy, Trever. We will be sending these to all of our customers in the coming weeks.
Travet USB
depression-era sideboard
I lied earlier this week when I said I was done thrifting. This poor sideboard/credenza was sitting in the store with an incredible price tag, I couldn’t possibly walk away. Today’s thing of the day is refinishing furniture, which this piece will surely need! I’ll post again as I progress on it, and integrate this wonderful piece into our home!
1930's sideboard
Dinner and wedding planning with the girls…
Today’s thing of the day is wedding planning. One of my best girlfriends, Chelsey, has asked me to join in her wedding party as a bridesmaid!! So very excited.
Because I recently planned my own wedding and another friend, Nina, has great experience planning wedding events, we’re off to the sushi bar tonight for dinner to get things going. Very pumped to get a project going with Nina (we had various joint efforts in graduate school and she also helped me plan my own wedding). I’m also partial to Chels’ wedding because her vision is an outdoor event with lots of vintage charm! Anxious to talk about colors, flowers, graphic work for invitations/savethedates/etc, website, really anything Chels needs our help with.
Here is the dress we’re all going to wear, how pretty!!!
Chelsey's bridesmaids' dress
last shopping trip of the week
Today’s thing of the day is milk glass. I just love this stuff. It’s pretty intricate in the details, but the milk-white makes it all seem uber simple. It’s easy to mix and match pieces, and of course adding a pop of color like a few flowers would work wonderfully. I think I’ve met my quota for the week, the Ol Man says I’m starting to acquire too much.
vintage toys/kid’s stuff
Today’s thing of the day is vintage kid’s stuff. I’m somewhat obsessed with old toys… I’m absolutely loving Oscar’s Room over at AT! Here are a couple of my finds.
my lucky day
Today’s thing of the day is collecting. I’ve been a collector for years, since I can remember really. I recall being very young and taking anything and everything my grandmas would want rid of. I realize now (especially after watching A&E’s “Hoarders”) that it would be easy for a collector to go astray. I’ve decided that the best way to keep things under wraps, whilst still continuing my obsession, is to open a store on Etsy. I’m also going to start putting things in Nanny’s booth at the antique mall. The hard part now will be deciding what to keep for myself, and what to sell.
I can’t say enough about Bloomington’s Goodwill store on the west side of town. They are constantly updating the material on their shelves, bringing in pieces of furniture that you wouldn’t believe are sitting there with a $5 price tag, the overall experience is steller. I frequent all of the second hand stores around, they easily have the most mid century modern and vintage finds.
Here are just a few of today’s finds… I’m on my way, Etsy! Store details to follow in the coming weeks!
Hello world!
The past few years have created a nearly perfect series of events for me. I graduated from design school at the IU School of Informatics in Human Computer Interaction Design, got a fantastic job at Cornerstone Information Systems (allowing me to remain in Btown!!!), got married to a wonderful man, Aaron Buechlein, and we just bought a house with the Marching Hundred in the backyard! Designing things has become a way of living, completely consuming most of my time (in my best Edna Mode voice); whether it be a computer user interface, a vector print of our soon-to-be 4 years old labradoodle, Sadie, interior/deco work for our house, graphic work for mom and dad’s new restaurant, Mimi’s …. I could go on and on. I try to design everything I can, to the absolute best of my ability. This blog is dedicated to that, my efforts at practicing my craft, enhancing my critical eye for beautiful things, a place to record my finds from the thrift store, share my work with others, and keep my New Years resolution for 2010, to blog, as I should have been doing for the last 8 years.
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