To celebrate the new shop and terrible weather I went out thrifting in Palm Springs. My fun find this weekend was a Jaru gold ram head from the 1970’s. Looks like the ghost of KWID is infiltrating ye’ old brick house…
What the hell is Jaru? I didn’t know but a quick Google informed me that Jaru was a Californian pottery company started in 1950 by Jack and Ruth Hirsch that made some unquestionably ugly ceramic pieces.
Still more slow progress on the patio pavers
The Boy finished straightening up the first hundred or so pavers and the weather keeps ruining all our plans to finish up the last sixty. Stop raining. Stop.
I just looked to see when we started this whole patio project – December 30, 2009. Two months! It didn’t feel that long ago that we started and we still have so much further to go. Something even more depressing – when did we fisrt start working on painting the exterior? August 29th, 2008. It’s been YEARS!
Looks like 2011 may be the year of the exterior as well…possibly 2012.
We officially ran out of room – room in the house for furniture and room in the garage for storage. As a remedy to this overabundance of vintage I opened a consignment space!
This weekend we went over to the Beaumont Antique Mall and started packing all our leftover vintage into a small rented space. This is an experiment of sorts to see if it is more effective (and a bit easier) than Etsy. After closing my Etsy shop for a brief break I just couldn’t ever get back into the swing of posting, packing and shipping. The shipping just KILLED me and this short break has become pretty permanent.
Things started to pile up…
I kept thinking about this guys consignment booth that is nearby the house at this antique mall off the 10FWY on the way to Palm Springs. I inquired about available space and there just happened to be a spot right next to him.
I didn’t have any shelving for all my “smalls” (that’s what the ladies told me to call my accessories) even though I’ve been on the hunt for a few weeks. So, I resorted to a bit of a Home Depot ad hoc solution with small cinder blocks and a couple of 8′ long pine boards – dorm room style. We also took the lazy way out by not painting out the sad lavender wall color and bluish floor. I was thinking black floors and white walls, but seeing this as an experiment and not wanting to invest a whole lot of cash we kind of just stuck stuff in.
We still have more to things to add, and if it goes well maybe we might pimp out the space a bit more. The whole thing made me a little depressed; I already miss my stuff like some sort of crazy hoarder!
