i’ve been working on getting Kenner Road Vintage Market up and open for a while, and although i don’t have nearly as much ready to go live tomorrow {not enough hands} as i had hoped i’m just going to get it up & started. i then plan on making shop updates with new goods 1-2 times a week.

i’ve had an online vintage shop before, it’s what i did back before we had the littles and i have to admit i’m excited to get it up and running again. i still have all of may inventory + more and the hubs is happy i’m passing it on. i want to share with all of you more about what i used to do and what my plans are with the new shop but today i need to keep processing pics and getting everything ready for tomorrow morning. so… more background friday. promise.

happy wednesday!
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my amazing friend dina came up for for a girls weekend while my man was out of town and the littles were safely tucked away at team grandma’s houses. we got inky & painty in the garage on sunday, we started planning & experimenting with some things for later this fall/winter and then sunday morning we headed out to the alameda flea market as dina had never been.

oh that sweet face. this was taken at the beginning of our treasure hunting, after this it was alot of sour sad faces because everything D wanted was big & she couldn’t drag it home on the plane later that afternoon. i kept offering to “store” it for her {ie : use it as it lived with me} but it didn’t fly. next time she’s driving up.

i LOVED this huge tree stump island. seriously cool.

ran into cute shelly!

drooled over this gorgeous french beaded flower wall medallion. it was enormous, as in 2.5 high enormous and so beautiful.

these upholstered chairs were gorgeous. the dealer had a few different designs and i saw a few other dealers had similar reupholstered chairs with vintage inspired fabrics.

this booth had the most amazing furniture. all repurposed with stripped wood. every single piece was already sold, but this one was calling to me. perfect for the family room as an entertainment hutch to put the tv on. i love the battered and worn.

the same booth also had an old “gone with the wind” marquee set but i only wanted the wind part. how awesome would this be in a men’s bathroom as a hip restaurant? can you imagine the rmearks the guys would have when coming back to the table? priceless.

happy monday!
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over the last month i’ve been spending the time that we’ve been here at home on home renovation restyling projects. remember back in may {right before the littles got out of school for the summer} when i was talking about the rearranging and my tackling of the giant to-do list? well, i’m getting there. i’m crossing things off the list alot more often than i thought i would.

a few weeks ago, before some family things came up and before our BIG family reunion in southern california i started tackling the front room {which also includes the dining room}. it seemed like such a big project. the mantle was a hodge podge of picture frames that didn’t match and a diy inspiration board that never really got finished. not really the sort of setting that i wanted guests to experience when they walked through our front door. plus, if i didn’t like it what in the world was it all there for?

so i took everything down and made a pile on the dining room table and started fresh. alot of the items that are on the mantle now were scattered around the house, in drawers being saved for something or on the fireplace mantle in the family room or out in the studio. but this room is more rustic than the fm and i really love all the woody things i gathered, mixed in with some red {to counter the couch fabric} and metal, because metal is always good.

that huge mirror isn’t really what i want up there, i’m thinking i want to mix it up with something diy’d like this, which i pinned the other day. aren’t those signs amazing? so now that project is on the list. i do however love all of my old vintage wooden levels and i need to take a closer pic of that sweet little picture frame with the five silhouettes. it’s from the turn of the century and i found it at the goodwill in san francisco and the cutest woman is posing with a different expression in each little opening. love.

this couch is still my little lover. a christmas present from my inlaws a few years ago and it’s down and squishy and that chintz still makes me so happy. the extra cushions need to be done in something different, i need some contrast, i’m thinking something like these {which i also pinned the other day} but in a different large scale print. blissful home has some amazing architectural prints like this london scene {oh gosh, they’re on sale!!} or even some diy jack flag pillows in linen like this one. see… the list gets longer.

some comfy magazines to look at {that’s my friend lisa’s project on the cover of sL, cute right?} although these are older because i seem to only download them on the iPad now. one day i’ll show you the tower of old mags i keep saving for inspirational tear sheets. maybe.

and my french door cabinet. this was the first real piece of grown-up furniture i ever bought. that green is feeling a little stale now, not really a hue i’m into anymore so i guess one of these days i’ll paint it a fresh new hue. right now it stores all of my precious art history books from college and my travels. i never read them anymore but there’s some serious college loan cash invested in there and good memories so i can’t seem to let them go.

so all in all, i’m getting it together, crossing something off the list each day. and even though it seems i add more than i cross off it’s the getting something done part, the doing or the making, that has been so fun. nesting. making this house a home. a comfortable, beautiful home.

happy tuesday!
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