Spotted on a metal step in SoHo: three wooden platters and three glass candleholders.
Where do you think the party went?
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- Stan Williams is the Elegant Thrifter and author of The Find: The Housing Works Book of Decorating with Thrift Shop Treasures, Flea Market Objects, and Vintage Detail.
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- Frugal Fun: A $3 Box
- The Find: A Post with a Past
- The Gift of Thrift: It's a Wrap!
- Reuse & Repurpose: With Bells On
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- The Find: Down for the Count
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- Frugal Fun: Tin Terrific!
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- Reuse & Repurpose: A Sweet Thanksgiving
- Frugal Fun: Gobble Gobble
- The Find: Winter Warmth
- Reuse & Repurpose: You Spin Me Round
- Reuse & Repurpose: Cups of Design
- Frugal Fun: Paper Kisses
- Project Prom
- The Gift of Thrift: Kick Up Your Heels
- Frugal Fun: Flying High
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So Who Has Brown Transferware NOW, huh? - Every time I see a blog post that features brown and white transferware china, I pout. Because I don't have any. Only now, I *do.* Thanks to Goodwill Indus...
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Lack Side Table Beautification - *Materials:* Ikea Lack Side Table *Description:* *Supplies* Ikea Lack side table - $10 8 Brass Corner Plates - 2 packs of 4 came to be $12 Brass Fabri...
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Bringing the Paris Ritz Home with Poggenpohl - [image: Bringing the Paris Ritz Home with Poggenpohl] Dear Diva Readers, After last weekend's post on the Poggenpohl Porsche Designed Kitchen in the Imperia...5 hours ago
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Thank you One Kings Lane! - I had a great sale on One Kings Lane and want to thank everyone who bought my items they will all be shipped out on Monday of next week! If you missed th...
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The Week's Top Family Posts February 27 - March 2, 2012 - [image: 2012-33FamHot.jpg] • Adeline's Big Girl Room • How to Make Your Baby Fly • What Are Your Nursery Must-Haves? • Modern Kids: Black & White Rooms R...7 hours ago
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Vintage Freebie with Keren: Shabby Bluebird Rose Frame - Some of you have been asking for Roses and Bluebirds, so here ya go!! :) Enjoy! Click image to enlarge and save to computer Wishing you all a very blesse...
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Special Hotel Silver Arrivals at Paris Hotel Boutique! - I'm excited to share that I've acquired two large collections of hotel silver from some of the finest hotels in the world, including pieces from San Franci...
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Vintage YoT: St. Patrick's Day Mint Brownies - Ingredients for Brownies: brownie mix, eggs, vegetable oil, water, 1 1/2 cups of crushed mint Oreos (reserve 1/2 cup frosting) For Mint Frosting: vanilla f...23 hours ago
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Exciting! - Simply Grove posts about her exciting week next week and a spin stool for swedese.1 day ago
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TWERKIN' at HOME - I love when I get to work from home. I can take small breaks to play with Beatrice and even fudge around with furniture and tchotchkes like this white ...1 day ago
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Vote 4 Pie! - I just found out Pie has been nominated for an Apartment Therapy Homieaward for best food photography! Very flattered and honored, especially since I am u...1 day ago
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weekly wrap up + ariele alasko - I’ve been waiting to write this all week, but wanted to hold off until the week’s end so it could be the top post for a few days in a row. Why? Because I l...1 day ago
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Happy weekend + links - It's been a while since I shared some links, perhaps since I started reading blogs on my iphone and instantly forget what I've read! Here's a few links f...
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How to Make Your Bed in 30 Seconds - I wasn't always a bedmaker. It wasn't until I was living in the dorms in college, and my bed also had to serve as the sofa, chair, desk, laundry-folding ...1 day ago
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Jason Grant for Murobond - Hello my dear, dear friends. I’m sorry I’ve been missing in action this week. I’m currently on deadline with my next book and teaching a workshopthis week...1 day ago
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Oh Stella! - Just a sampling of Stella McCartney's Spring and Summer collection for 2012. I can't get enough of that deep blue paired with gold! What an eleg...
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HOME IS WHERE... - It's been two weeks of travel for me, and this girl is just about ready to get on a plane and head back to my quiet little apartment in Seattle... [image: ...1 day ago
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For your Oscar consideration, What's in my Filofax - My Filofax in motion... It's my first video and a total Ummm-fest. It's pretty awful - Sorry about that, I'll do better if I do another. Subsc...
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Lookey What We Started Before We Left… - Why? Because we’re crazy. And coming home to a partially-finished floor is our idea of a good time. You think we’re kidding, but getting a jump on our cork...1 day ago
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Friday love - The stairwell seen from below into the tower of the Business School Potsdam, Germany. Happy weekend! Image by V.Zlotkowski
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Once Again, I'm Okay! - I'm hoping that this doesn't have to become an annual post (or more often). It's not my favorite kind of post, but it is news and has some bearing on the ...
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2012 Birthday Month Giveaway! - I seriously love my Birthday month. Who doesn't? Because we ALL get to celebrate for the month of March. And I share my celebration with you. Tis better ...
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Introducing: The Talent Scouting Party! - *Can you tell what the big news is?* *That's right! There's a new party in town!* *The Talent Scouting Party @WhisperWood Cottage will be scouting f...
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A Pop-Up Thrift Shop? YES! At Dwell With Dignity - A recent trend happening in retail is the pop-up store concept. Although the concept + term were actually launched back in 2004 (according to Trendwatch.co...
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my strange chair addiction... - *"Making your room come alive with pattern, **is one of the easiest & best ways to energize your existing furniture pieces. This could be the perfect way ...
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Chevron it up or out? - Back to the bedroom, commenter Angela suggested I change up this dresser into a tangerine chevron dream. Now that this seed is planted, I'm a little fixate...
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From Old Stick to Tree - When your creative idea doesn’t translate into a common language of materials, that’s the clue: You haven’t arrived at the solution. Keep thinking. I was f...2 days ago
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Is Brass Back for Good? - Over the past few years brass has been slowly makings it's way back into decorating. At first it was only tarnished well worn pieces with a hint of gleam. ...
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The Traveling Gnome AND......Sebastian - I FINALLY made something new for my Shop, since Christmas. Here he is in all his glory. : ) Have you seen how others will take these little guys along with...
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Guest Post: More Than Meets the Plate - * *Happy Tablescape Thursday! Today's post is by guest *Julie Shuford * Fine china! It is a world like no other, filled with endless possibilities. Anyon...
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Just My Type - You are elegant and refined... a throwback to a more genteel era... You are worldly and well spoken, a scintillating conversationalist, you are... Y...
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MAKING AN INFORMED INVESTMENT - As seen in SNAP magazine, March 2012 During our past 10 years of doing business in Greater Victoria, my experience assisting clients in developing the...
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Multi-tasking Mama - Ah, multitasking. It seems when you have children, hormones release the gift of multitasking into your body. Or maybe it comes wit the baby weight? Either...
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A Most Ingenious Paradox! - Oh the Summer of 2010, what a wonderful summer in my life! In honor of this leap year I declare "Pirates of Penzance" day to be Febuary 29! I was in the...
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Found at the Thrift Store: A Little Lost Sheep - You just never know what you will find at the thrift store! Hope your week is going well! :)
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Renovation..finished, furnished and styled in Rue Magazine - It's done, construction, design, the whole magilla, done, done, done!!! Bet you thought that would never happen, we sure didn't. Just as we were finishin...
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Pickers Everywhere! - What is going on? In my last 2 visits to foof the booth, I've overheard no less than 5 people reference American Pickers—one even proclaimed that he FELT lik...4 days ago
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Grafters: Film Biz Recycling - Have you ever heard the saying, “Waste not want not?” Well, at Film Biz Recycling that is their mission and their sentiment is more like, "Waste NOT wha...
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The Zoe Report - As I mentioned last week, garage sales are taking a back seat as we take baby Zoe to puppy kindergarten. We had a real surprise the first week. Our devil...
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Part 3 of Studio Project - Just thought I'd share where my studio project was going.... for the 3rd part of the project, we were given someone else's "artifact" (I did the radio thin...
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Fab Finds - With travel for work, hither and yon, I hadn't been to the thrift stores in Midland for a few weeks, so I thought this weekend was a great opportunity to s...
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"Sunday Runway, Haute Dog . . . " - Greetings, As many of you might remember - I had the great pleasure of participating in the "Haute Dog Fashion Show" a few weeks back - a charity event t...
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The red brick house - I cannot even begin to tell you how much I love this home... Situated in the French Normandy, it draws you in and keeps you there... This is the stuff that...
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When the Thrift Gods send a message, you better listen - Yesterday featured several rare events. Much of it was spent at an outlet mall and Nordstrom Rack. March is birthday month and I’ve two girls. Given the s...1 week ago
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Behind the Scenes of Comment Ca Va Bien - What do you do when you're invited to be the *"fil rouge*" on French TV and expected to make Superbowl food? You say *oui*. Then you hop on the Internet ...
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Vintage Telephone Table Or Gossip Bench: A Great Idea - *Gossip Benches: Popular In the 1940s and 1950s* Grandma lived in a two family house in Brooklyn, N.Y. with a wonderful front porch, attractive awning and ...
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Fireplace in the Bedroom - via Call me fireplace obsessed, but a warm a toasty fire is what gets me through the long dreary Chicago winters. One place I do not have a fireplace is m...
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The Imperfect Wall Mirror - Have you ever thought to yourself, "That project looks pretty easy. I could get that done today"? That's what I said to myself after I saw the tutorial ...
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My Foyer - Over the last year or so, I've been slowly adding things to make our foyer a little more welcoming and useful. This has been a low priority on my list be...
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WTF?!? Friday. Stacked. - WTF are these five funky servings of? And are we honestly expected to believe that sauce with a sheen not unlike Charlie will enhance the layers of gastr...
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Simple Wedding Shower Decorations - My wonderful, handsome son, Michael, and his sweet, lovely fiance, Jennifer, are getting married this Saturday, February 18th... on my birthday! I don't ...
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A Valentine's Table: Roses, Romance & Peacocks! - When it's time to set a table for a Valentine's Day dinner party, certain obvious symbols come to mind: hearts, flowers, candy, cards ...Since this is a tabl...
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Visual Feast - *Orange Mower* * * * * *I am loving the new show by Christopher Boffoli, here at local Seattle gallery Winston Wachter.* *Cupcake Golfer* *Blackberry C.S...
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Winter in Normandy - It may seem odd to drive the impressionist route to Honfleur but in fact with the mist blurring the edge of the landscape it is an interesting counterpoi...
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It's been a LONG time coming... - The title of the post says a lot ~ to say the least. It says a lot of what has happened in the past, what's going on at the moment, & what I hope the...
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Chapter Deux - This posting gives me a chance to share more details about the next Chapter of Maison Rêve. As I mentioned in a recent newsletter, our mission has always b...
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Faux Cupcakes and Signs and Shopping - Oh My! - It makes my heart so happy to know that I've finally reached my long time goal of opening an online shop of my own - a little place for my creations to te...
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When New York City Was Fashion's State of Mind - Strange but true: American fashion, even in the second decade of the 21st century, owes most of its residual power (such as it is) to a unique cultural ...
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Who Needs Frames? - I don't know about you, but when the refrigerator gets loaded with pictures, schedules, menus and calenders, I go crazy. I can't see a darn thing, and inst...
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Happy Mother’s Day! - Truth be told, I miss the Bastille. The current column that stands where the old fortress towered above passersby seems very bland by comparison. What a bu...9 months ago
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She's a Looker - She's certainly a bit naughty, but she's a whole lot nice. Meet Sofia, a metal vintage Rodo clutch created exclusively for Bergdorf Goodman. She's packed f...
11 months ago
Did you pick them up and take them home? Ha ha. You just never know what you'll see in your neck of the woods!
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