What I did with some of my finds from last Thursday

I have thought for months that I wanted to replace my desk lamp with something a bit more up-to-date.

This is the old lamp.  Nice, but I am tired of the eyelash trim and beads.  Here is the lamp I found at Sweet Salvage on Thursday.

Just a bit more up-to-date and in step with what I want in the den.  The shade is wonderful and has a printed fabric on the inside which gives the lamp this great glow!

Here are the other items I bought.  I drink white zinfandel on occasion, and intend to put this in the kitchen!  Love that necklace and will definitely wear it.  The pulley wheels will make great paper weights or whatever else I can think of to do with them.  The holy cards are for art work in the near future.

This great cross and lovely doily were found at Zinnia's on Melrose.  I collect these crosses and this one is going in the niche in my entryway.

After we left Sweet Salvage, we headed on down Camelback Blvd. had lunch, visited My Sister's Attic and Closet, had yogurt at Yogurtology and headed towards Scottsdale Fashion Square to visit Anthropologie!  I had never been in that store and what a treat it was.  Found these cabinet knobs and the great Vintage Numbers stamp set by Cavallini.

These were the current blue glass knobs on the cupboard doors in the guest bath.  When I found the knobs pictured above at Anthropologie I KNEW they were perfect for the guest bath.

They were!  The guest bath is decorated in brown and blues and these knobs fit in perfectly!  Love them!

Have to say, I will be going back to Anthropologie again soon.  Can't believe I had never set foot in the store before last Thursday!

Home Sweet Home at Sweet Salvage, Part 2

I have a few more pictures to share of displays at Sweet Salvage on 7th.

This is the close up of items in that beautiful black display cabinet I posted yesterday on my blog.  I love the flowers and all the silver!  "Dazzle" is right!

Love the black, white and gray in this display.  That clock is to die for!

Believe it or not, this was wired to be a lamp!  And it sold right away!  Awesome "repurpose" idea!!

Black, red and silver for New Years!!

Happy New Year!

Nothing like "bling" on a large mercury glass vase!  I bought this necklace for me!  It wasn't the only thing I bought at Sweet Salvage.

Tomorrow's blog I will share with you some of the items I bought at Sweet Salvage, Zinnia's at Melrose, and just what I did with them in my home. 

In the past few days

As many of you may already know, Arizona got a LOT of rain last week.  Even had tornadoes touch down near Flagstaff and destroy a number of homes.  Here is what was going on in my yard last week during one of many downpours that day.

You can see it was really coming down and the wind was blowing.  However, a few seconds before I took this shot, you couldn't see the pink bush in the background at all it was raining that hard.  The drip system for the landscaping will remain off for a couple of weeks.  The ground is pretty wet.

Yesterday my BFF Joy and I took a ride over to 7th Avenue and Indian School in Phoenix to wander through our favorite shops over there.  We first visited Zinnias on Melrose and Hollywood Regency.  The owner of Hollywood Regency recently passed away.  There were several people working in the shop clearing out the inventory.  Everything was 50% off!!  Hollywood Regency was packed full of vintage clothing.  Although it was pretty well picked over, I did manage to grab a few bargains.  Here's one:

That great pony jacket!  How cool!  It is Liz Wear and a size medium.  In beautiful condition!  How cool with a lace skirt and cowgirl boots.  The jacket looks big and it is big on that tiny dress form.  Also wanted you to see the great white petticoats I got at an estate sale several weeks ago and that fur capelet -- it is marked Alaskan Fur.

Next we visited Rust and Roses.  Joy and I love to look through there!  So many wonderful things to see!  As we walked in, here was this great torso form wrapped in some gauzy fabric and sporting a rhinestone heart on a chain!  And, note the owl on the top of the form.  I asked about that gauzy thing and was told it was tea dyed cheesecloth.  I loved it!

So today I visited Wal Mart, bought some cheesecloth and set out dyeing it.  Check out the two colors I did today:

You can see the original color of white in the center.  On the left I used Easter egg dye in red.  Had to be sure I rinsed out some of the color because it was pretty strong even though I used a lot of water to dissolve the dye tablet.  On the right I used tea.  It takes a lot of tea bags to do this nice color.  Think it is time for a trip to the dollar store to see if they sell tea bags!!  Next up is to see if I can get the cheesecloth to look like that wrap in the picture above!!

Lastly I leave you with this pic of great black boots and cloth pumpkins on top of a shabby dresser in Rust and Roses.

Do any of you watch "Teach: Tony Danza" on A&E??  I watched it yesterday and found it very powerful.  I used to teach grade school but would never take on 10th grade like Tony has.  Anyone who tells you teaching is easy has NEVER set foot in a classroom as an adult and tried to teach.  It's a tough job!!  I admire Tony for doing this program and taking the viewers along to see just what a tough job it is.  Especially for someone who cares, like Tony.  Tony's my hero!!

Thursday's adventure

Kim and I had a ball on Thursday visiting all the cute shops at 7th Ave. and Indian School in Phoenix.  Here are a few pics from Thursday.  Many more to come!

First stop!  Zinnias at Melrose, on the corner of Indian School and 7th.

Kim and I browsed around until Hollywood Regency opened.  I love this pink dresser!!

Old and new friends.  Trisha (on the right) is an old friend.  Both Kim and I know her.  She is Vintage Bliss.  We didn't know she had a booth at Zinnias.  I'll add a couple more pics of her booth soon. 

Jenny (I hope I have that spelled right) is on the left.  She works in Hollywood Regency (sorry, no weblink).  This shop is so me!!  Have a look!

Hollywood Regency is all about vintage clothing.  My thing when I can find it!!!  Look!  Pink formals!

Vintage pink hats!!!!

Vintage rose corsages!!  I'm in heaven!!!!

This is just the beginning!!!  Come back soon!!  Lots more to share!