Late last week, I hit a wall.  I love my work, but sometimes I need to step away from my house and the studio and recharge creatively.  A day out shopping usually does that for me.  So, my mom and I hit a craft store for more watercolor and sketching supplies and we also hit one of my favorite antique stores. I was shopping mostly for inspiration, but I also kept an eye out for things I could sell in the online shop and I found quite a few goodies. Here’s a video showing my “haul”… And here are some detail shots of a few of the items… That huge ironstone platter has the most amazing pattern on it… I did decide to keep the linen napkins.  Just for a little while, anyway!  They are just too sweet to not use in a few photo shoots before I sell them.

It’s been a while since I’ve been able to take a day to mill around an antique store.  There has just been too much to do at the studio and, of course, things have been off-kilter with the summer schedule, my recent trip to Atlanta, etc.  School starts in a couple of weeks and then it’ll be back into the routine. Hopefully. While I haven’t been able to make it out shopping, a few things have made their way to me and we’ll be listing them in the online shop this Thursday (the sale will go live at 8:00 pm EST, which is becoming our usual sale night.) I love these blue and white napkins with fringe detail…  As with all things blue and white, I’m tempted to keep them, but a drawer full of linen napkins in my dining room tells me I need to let these go on to another

I’ve found some beautiful things lately and I was inspired today to put them together for a little show-and-tell post on the blog. First off, the cabinet… It was a craigslist gem and I just might be keeping it!  It’s a really special piece with that wavy glass… …and the old hardware and paint.  It’s also a petite size, so it would be great in a hallway or bathroom. I also got in a shipment of European linens.  In addition to a bunch of hemp sheets, I got some beautiful linen tea towels with blue stitching and monograms. I really want to keep them all and just stack them in a cabinet, but I’m going to sell almost all of them.  (I will take pictures of the cross-stitching patterns to share first, because there are some great ones!) I also have some rolls of blue windowpane toweling as well… When shopping last week, I

First of all, thank you so much for the amazing feedback on our latest video project!  Just like the “yellow dress and the dresser” video, it literally popped in my head and then happened so organically.  I am very much someone who does their best work out of inspiration, not on demand!  I imagine most of us are that way and we don’t feel as proud of things we created just because necessity or obligation dictated. Anyway, as I shared yesterday, I needed a piece of furniture to paint for the video.  For the first time in a really long time, I was fresh out. So, my mom and I went to a few local antique and used furniture stores to find a piece. We found this pretty little dresser.  It really was gorgeous and not one I would usually buy to paint, but I was on a time crunch,