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BEST OF PORTLAND VINTAGE: GRAND MARKETPLACE

May 24, 2016

Grand Marketplace Antiques and Salvage

Man I love this place.…

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Filed Under: Favorite Portland Outings, Goodwill & Thrift Stores, Incorporating Vintage at Home in Portland Tagged With: enamelware, vintage

EASY HOLIDAY FOOD GIFTS — JUMBO CURRIED CASHEWS

December 5, 2015

Holiday Food Gifts, Curried Cashews

Man, it’s been busy around here.…

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Filed Under: Eat Portland, Favorite Portland Outings, Incorporating Vintage at Home in Portland, Recipes, Shop Portland Tagged With: gift, Goodwill, holiday, vintage

I HEART REPURPOSED VINTAGE: BOTTLE CARRIER PLUS

May 7, 2015

Soup in Backyard

As far back as I can remember, I’ve enjoyed collecting older things….

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Filed Under: Incorporating Vintage at Home in Portland Tagged With: organizing, vintage

Bins Finds – Oatmeal Linen Stash

February 2, 2015

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I’m obsessed with linen. There, I’ve said it.

I especially love it in white,  cream, ecru, dove gray, caramel — and oatmeal. Oatmeal linen is the best– it looks sort of French with equal parts rustic and elegant. I love the feel of it, the way it catches the light, and if there was a snowball chance in hell the color looked good on me, I’d probably wear it all the time. It looks amazing with so many colors – aqua, cobalt, pumpkin, fuchsia, sage, lavender, navy, white, even black – but alas I look like death warmed over in it.

That fact, however, didn’t stop me from buying the couch I fell in love with at Restoration Hardware. It is covered in Belgian oatmeal linen, took two months to arrive, and sat for one month in my living room before I felt worthy of a long sit. It’s what I like to think of as a grown-up couch; something you buy with intention, see as an heirloom (unless kids destroy it inadvertently with a Sharpie), and can have your in-laws sit on when they visit. (Darn it! I think I see a foot print on it! I am going to have kick some major a–.)…

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Filed Under: Incorporating Vintage at Home in Portland, Shop Portland Tagged With: bins, fabric, finds, Goodwill, vintage

Bins Find – Vintage Christmas Stockings

January 29, 2015

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A couple years back I bought one like these from an artist specializing in vintage and repurposed items. She had the top seam finished off with a reprinted vintage Christmas Card, folded over. This week I found a total of five of these empty stockings at the bins, and next Christmas I am going to take that same basic idea and do that with these.

Perhaps I will then fill them with tiny packages of homemade treats — or just with purchased mini treats of a similar theme (nuts? wrapped truffles? breakfast treats?) and then leave the filled stockings on the doorknobs of friends’ front doors.

Wouldn’t that be a wonderful thing to wake up to?

(approximate cost of items: a quarter)

 

Filed Under: Incorporating Vintage at Home in Portland, Uncategorized Tagged With: Goodwill, stockings, vintage

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