I sold at my second craft fair on Mother’s Day weekend. Here are some pictures of my booth and the items I sold: Not my favorite picture but it’s the only one I got of me in my booth! I was lucky in that it was a nice, sunny weekend[Read more]
Are you on Instagram? If so, let’s be friends! I’d love to follow some of my fellow bloggers and vintage aficionados. My username is scavenger_hunt_mel. See you there!
Ok, so I’ve had them since January, so they’re not really that new, but I love my vintage glasses! I’m slightly near-sighted so I’ve been prescribed glasses since high school for driving and to help me see things that are small or far away (like the blackboard in school!). I’ve[Read more]
After forcing myself to stay away just one weekend, I visited our antique space at the Depot Antique Mall in Los Alamos last Saturday. I was happy to find out that we had made a total of $557 in February (minus our $250 space rent) which left us with a[Read more]
We’ve been selling in our antique space for a month now. We make the trek down to Los Alamos about once a week, and the space has slowly transformed each time we visit. This last Saturday, I replaced a small bookshelf with a taller one and did a bit of[Read more]
A week ago Sunday, Phillip and I officially began renting a booth in a local antique shop. We were (and are) pretty nervous but excited at the same time about this new little business endeavor. We have both been antique lovers for years and have sold our finds on[Read more]
I realize this post is coming a little late, being as it’s now the second week of January, but anyway here’s my post-Christmas post. We had a very good but busy Christmas between Phillip’s and my families. We started off at my aunt’s house Christmas Eve for my Mom’s side of[Read more]
Have I mentioned that my boyfriend, Phillip, is an amazing artist? After our last trip to Disneyland, I mentioned that it would be cool if they made Christmas ornaments based on the “Small World” ride (which is pretty much the most adorable thing on earth). They didn’t, of course,[Read more]
The weekend before last, Phillip and I took a trip down to the L.A. area. We drove down on Saturday and went to Disneyland, and unfortunately I don’t have any pictures of that part of the trip, as I forgot to charge up my phone the night before and it[Read more]
I couldn’t even wait until Thanksgiving to put up my Christmas decorations this year- I was just so ridiculously excited. On Wednesday evening, despite being exhausted from cooking and serving the Thanksgiving meal at work, I put “Christmas Radio” on Pandora and got to work setting up and decorating the[Read more]