Mom's House - aka Angel's Attic

Just a couple more days until the Spring Open House at Angel's Attic!  We've been so busy setting everything and finishing all those last-minute projects.  I promise a few sneak peaks in the next day or so.  In the meantime, I wanted to share a little of the story behind the Angel's Attic sales.  You see, even though I may have started out being part of The Farm Chicks Shows the last couple of years, I've always said that my mom has more talent in her pinky than all of me.  As she's helped me out in the past couple of years at different shows, I've slowly convinced her of the fact that she should be doing this too.  I also was always telling her how perfect her house would be to set up our own sort of shop that could include the creative talents in all of our family including my seriously talented step-dad, Jon, and step-sister, Jessica Cobb.  It took a while, but she came around and last fall we had our first sale!

My mom's house and the little neighborhood on Mountain View Lane is such unexpected treasure on Spokane's northside.  It is hard to imagine a quaint little street lined with South Hill-esque homes right off Wall St. (just north of Country Homes Blvd), but sure enough, just up the hill and nestled against the Five Mile bluff, is a little slice of country life.  The houses on Mountain View are on large lots, many 3 acres or more, and it really feels like you are out of town, not five minutes from the "Y"!  It's been almost 10 years since my mom and I discovered this street as we followed the small red "For Sale by Owner" signs to this house...

Of course, we both thought it was adorable and at the time I had my oldest daughter and we practically squealed when we saw this playhouse off to the side...

It seemed like it was meant to be.  My mom had just had to sell our family farm in Chewelah after my dad passed away and moving into town would be an adjustment after having endless space on a farm.  The little house on Mountain View was perfect with it's country feel, but was close to everything.  Even though I think we all miss the farm at times, this house has been a wonderful substitute for our family gatherings and my girls love to go to "Grandma & Boppa's" every chance they get.  Now that we have our Angel's Attic sales from here, it seems even more perfect for our family!     

Funky Junk Fun!

Ok, I've finally located my camera with the few pictures that could snap before the battery on my camera died and the show was about to start.  I can finally share a few of the pics of the Angel's Attic booth that I participated in at the Funky Junk Show this past weekend.  First of all, I have to say that I had an absolute blast at this show!  Jennifer and Hollie were such great hosts and we couldn't have asked for anything.  The other vendors all had great "junk" and it was hard setting up our booth because I like to peek at all the goodies that everyone else has brought!  The shoppers that came out were awesome and it was a fun, crazy, whirlwind weekend.

Remember this chippy old door?

Next up, the Angel's Attic Spring Open House on April 24th! 

 

Easter Highlights

I realize that has already been a few days since Easter, but I left my camera at my mom's house (oops) until today.  I wanted to share some of the lovely Easter moments that we had.  Luckily, the sun made an appearance (after snowing the previous two days) and all the girls were able to make it outside for the egg hunt.  This seemed to be a particularly special Easter as both of my brothers were able to be in town.  My oldest brother lives in Atlanta and he doesn't usually make it to the Easter dinners, but happened to be in the area for work.  My husband was also able to be part of the festivities.  That may sound odd, but he's had to work on Easter quite a few times (he's a tax accountant).  It's a shame, but that's all about to change soon...stayed tuned!  

(My husband with our youngest girl, Summer)

(My little Easter bunny at 9 months!)

Instead of buying candy and filling Easter baskets for the older girls, we decorated cupcakes and put them in these cute little baskets.  Even the green grass is edible!

I love coming up with creative ways to dress a table.  My mom usually does the table decorations because the meals are at her house, but I wanted to plan this one just because I love spring!  Any excuse to decorate...

I hope everyone had a great Easter this year!

Trying New Things

I've always been a furniture girl.  At every sale or thrift store, my eyes go straight to the furniture.  Fixing up and painting furniture is what got me started on this path of junkin' and I still make a beeline to the furniture before anything else, but I've got a new love... jewelry.  Yes, I know, I'm a complete late-comer to this.  Creative women have been making awesome jewelry since way back and I never really took notice of it.  Yes, I've always thought the typewriter jewelry was so cute, but I never dreamed I'd make it.  I just didn't do the jewelry thing...until now. My mind started to wander from paint treatments for furniture to ideas for necklaces and took the plunge, ordered some supplies, and started out with some easier (but still cute!) things to make, i.e. typewriter pendant necklaces and bracelets.  

Another good beginning jewelry project has been the popular Scrabble pendant necklaces that I can whip up fairly easy.  I made these with vintage ephemera images and I have some more batches coming with vintage seed packet and cute bird images - just in time for spring! 

Next up was crafting some pendants with some funky pictures out of an old dictionary...

I purchased a vintage backgammon game with these cute and chunky chocolate brown and cream colored game pieces and I've been crafting different necklaces out of them.  These have pink clock faces and I was lucky enough to find some metallic chocolate brown chains to go with them.  I've been adding sheet music and other images to these as well. 

And last, but not least...my favorite!  I'm so excited about these!  These pendants have a big glass bubble on the top that magnify the images underneath.  The image looks different at every angle and though I started out making the birds and cameos, the next batch I make will have more letters and words.   

(with silver settings and chain)

(with black setting and chain)

Of course, I had to make one for me!

All of these little babies are going to be at the upcoming Funky Junk Antique Show on April 10th as well as the Angels Attic Show on April 24th. I still love finding great pieces of furniture, but now my mind is always open to what I can create with those little treasures I may come upon! 

Spokane Funky Junk Antique Show - April 10th

It's time to shower yourself with optimism and join us for a junking party like no other, the Funky Junk Antique Show!


Saturday & Sunday, April 10th & 11th

10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Irish Dance Hall Grange, just 15 minutes north of the Y in SPOKANE!
Get there: take Hwy 2 North, turn right on Elk-Chattaroy Rd, veer right onto Big Meadows Rd and go 3 miles. Follow the Funky Junk signs and we'll meet you there!

$2 Admission; 12 and under free (good both days)

Train rides available for the little ones!
 
See you there!

I Heart Typography~

I can't remember a time when I didn't love typography, the art and technique of arranging type and type design.  It's been popular for a few years now, but it's so classic and clean, I can't imagine it will go out of style anytime soon. 

I tend to pick up anything and everything that has a number, letter, or symbol when I'm out shopping or junkin'. 

And I love to drink my morning coffee out my favorite mugs with my initials.

I picked up this sweet stamp set in a recent Seattle trip and you can see some creations with these stamps coming soon (April 24th - Angel's Attic).

I just pulled these keys off a typewriter and I'm all set to make some rings, pendants, and bracelets with them.

I could spend hours (if I had them) searching and downloading the hundreds of awesome fonts at dafont.com. Do you love typography too? 

While Momma Plays...

Warning:  If you love to click through blogland to find beautiful images of clean and completely "together" houses like I do, this next posting is not for you...  I couldn't resist putting these pictures up that my girls took of each other and the fun they were having with Mommy's camera while I'm trying to just get something, anything done for the upcoming Angel's Attic Show on April 24th (more on that to come).
Last evening, I had left my camera on the table and got busy working on some projects like making price tags and painting a few little things.  With my husband virtually non-existent this time of year (he's a CPA in the midst of tax season), a baby that literally NEVER naps, and two other monkey-children, I've had a hard time getting ANYTHING done around the house, let alone for my little hobby.  Anyway, I begged the older girls to PLEASE play with their baby sister so Mommy can get some work done.  Well, they had a grand ol' time alright!  They dressed her up, spread toys everywhere, played with stamps (just like Mommy) and seems like they took pictures of it all while Mommy was oblivious...

Poor Summer - don't worry she's just fine.  Naturally, I had a few surprises when I just downloaded the pictures off of the camera!  It's really pretty amazing that a 4 year-old could take these good of pics with an ancient camera that's been dropped repeatedly.  Well, I may have had a mess to clean up when the evening was through, but I got about 200 price tags made and these cute little bird pictures painted and done!