As I planned this post in my mind, I googled the word “vignette”.  At first I was alarmed — did this word, which I use often and with confidence, not mean what I thought it meant?  Would I have to take this post in a whole Princess Bride direction?  But then I read further.
Wikipedia says [...]

We bought this vintage Waverly fabric swatch book at auction recently.  It was a true impulse buy.  I had not even seen it on preview.  But when the floor person was holding it up for bid, and flipping through some of the pages, I caught a glimpse of my childhood.
It’s funny, but if you asked [...]

                                      
Do you love MCM but are on a tight budget?  Do you yearn to surround yourself with great design, but live in a shoebox?  Then read on …
                                     
This is definitely the coolest item we are listing on etsy this week.  A three-piece set of miniature furniture, with awesome mid-century style!  Toy furniture with hairpin legs [...]

I love bakelite, even if it is not worth what it used to be.  It has wonderful qualities that are unlike other vintage plastics.  Bakelite colors tend to be rich and saturated, it was intricately carved and worked, and it has a nice weight in the hand.  I am attracted to it whenever I see it, [...]

 
I spent time yesterday listing on my etsy site.  My etsy shop is all vintage, and I am really having a good time with it.  The mood of the marketplace there reminds me of the way ebay used to be 8 or 10 years ago, when it was fun.  When you could offer up all kinds of neat, kitschy things, as well as real [...]

 
One of the things we did this weekend was walk down Fifth Avenue in NY and look at the holiday windows.  Some were wonderful and some were gaudy, some charming and some just over the top.  But it got Steven and I thinking about Christmas shopping in general, and the contrast between shopping for new and for [...]

 
I have finally started listing some stuff on ebay again.  It is something we do mostly in the winter, when we are not doing antiques shows.  Every little bit helps!  A lot of times the things we sell on ebay are items we find that we know are saleable, but are not necessarily our “style.”  Not [...]

We enjoyed a truly beautiful upstate NY summer Saturday today — sunny, hot but not unbearable, with a breeze that felt lovely if you were standing in the shade.  You might say it was a perfect day for a picnic, or a hike in the hills, or a visit to a historical site.  And you would [...]