Happy Second Anniversary, Sweet Salvage!

Sharing my favorite displays with all of you from the last two years of Sweet Salvage events.  Here goes:

Beautiful shabbiness and plenty of ruffles here.

Love the chandelier and all the goodies in there with it. 

This display and the one in the picture above it are by far my very special favorites!  Love the shutters, large bouquet, chairs, dresser, everything!!

Roses, shabby chic and vintage.

Ruffles and roses.

Give me a cloche with a good display any day.

Seashore collections and shabby white dresser.

Love this chandy in the box!  Another favorite.

Halloween loveliness!

Love the gray and white and draped curtains.

Pink cotton Christmas tree!

Love old cages with plenty to view inside!

Too sweet and full of vintage toys and goodies.

Another great cloche display with plenty inside to make you stop and look a while!

COLOR!!!

Always love a great wall display of frames.

Cameras, fans, and plenty of great guy stuff, too!

Love this basket full of pretty pink roses!

These are just a few of the many pictures I took.  I had loads of favorites but just couldn't put all of them here!  Come back and visit later in the week to see what I picked this week at Sweet Salvage's second anniversary event!  See you there!

Sweet Salvage Summer Lovin! -- June 2013

The Sweet Team put together another Sweet Salvage event called Summer Lovin'.  I have some favorites among the many pictures I took and here they are!

Love this gray table backed by a window and blue shutters.  Those urns were fabulous!  And think what you could do with holiday decorations in those!

 This gray cupboard is really nice.  I should have snagged it!  Nice display piece!!

 Nice glass decanters backed by an American flag.  Pretty nice!

Loved three things in this display.  The cloche on the plateau with a small scale on an old book.  The industrial bulb cage.  And the lamp made out of old pipe fittings!

Another great lamp made from old pipe fittings!  How cool!

 Another favorite is this cabinet of curiosities!  You could stand there quite a while and not see everything in that cabinet!

 I bought one of these industrial storage drawer sets.

Am going to create one of these for my booth soon!  This is way cool!  Love it!

 Love all this wonderful crochet cotton and string in this wire basket.

Rusty the Dog!  He was a hit and sold quickly!!  How stinkin' cute!!

The printer's trays, old books, boxes, etc. make for a great curiosity display!

Neat, neat 8 drawer wood chest in a great color!  The enamel bucket is good and rusty!  And that candelabra is way cool, too!

Another great event at Sweet Salvage this month.  Next event will begin on July 18 through July 21!!  Looking forward to it already!!  Thanks to Kim Rawlins, Katie Cryer Hibbs and the Sweet Team!  You did good!!

Backroads and Blooms at Sweet Salvage on 7th this month.

Gail and I made our way to Phoenix yesterday morning to visit Sweet Salvage on 7th's March event, Backroads and Blooms.  Took lots of pics yesterday and here are some of my favorites!

Here are Gail and I posing for our photo op by the back wall, in the shade, before the store opens.  This one is for Dawn Marie . . . 

Here is Dawn Marie of the blog Bohemian Vahalla.  She is usually there and it is always good to see her and catch up! Check out her blog for more pics from yesterday!

I just love the wonderful displays under these large cloches!

This one has a little doll, a small clock, and en pointe shoes.

This tool box is excellent for a gardener.  I love the aqua tiles with the little hummingbirds.

Pink roses, pearls and white items!

Old silver, and jewelry .

More interesting jewelry displays.

Interesting display of collectibles or just stuff!

This lounging lady is on top of the divided box in the picture above.  Lots of real greenery all over Sweet Salvage yesterday.

Here you can see what I brought home yesterday!  Two beautiful crocheted throws.  One has shades of blue on the edges fading to off white in the center.  The throw on the right is a kind of aqua blue with fringe all around.  In the silver tray is a sweet figure of a kneeling Mary, children sized wood shoes, rusty metal roses and a lovely mother of pearl ex voto from a new vendor at Sweet Salvage.

Here you can see up close the metal roses I found in the SteamPunk AZ corner of Sweet Salvage.

I love this ex voto (I didn't know what it was until I saw it on Dawn Marie's blog and looked up the definition).  Dawn Marie bought one yesterday at Sweet Salvage, too.

You can see two full albums of more pictures I posted earlier today on my FaceBook page.

Going to Sweet Salvage events each month is always a treat for Gail and me.  We shop, we gab, we visit other shops on 7th Avenue between Indian School and Camelback, have lunch, and then stop for frozen yogurt on our way home.  A fun day for us each month.  We miss our gal pals who used to live here in Arizona but have moved to Colorado and Utah.  But they look at all the pictures and read all about it!

The weekend adventure

My friend, Gail, and I attended the grand opening of Sweet Salvage on 7th in Phoenix.  It was wonderful!  Kim and her bevy of wonderful and talented helpers and organizers did a great job.  Everyone was raving about it.  Kim and Katie were on TV to talk about it.  In all it was a great success.  Here are some highlights of our trip to Sweet Salvage:

Believe it or not, Gail and I did not plan to wear black and white tops on Thursday!

This was at the entrance to the shop.  Love the glass topped table, pillows, cherub and crystal chandelier.

Loved this bed!  See the curtains behind it and the great torn strip valence!  I bought two of the curtain panels for my bedroom bay window.  Can't wait to get them up!  Note the tumbleweed in the iron pot next to the bed.  Got to get a tumbleweed!  When it gets cooler!

I love this lamp shade and that great tiered display piece!  Wonderful old dresser, too.

There were several peacocks around in the shop.  And the aqua/peacock blue color was abundant.  Also a lot of peacock feathers.  Love that cupboard!

Some seashore collections and more aqua blue.  Cute, cute chair!

This looks like a summer collection from the seashore.  I love these huge glass containers!  I have several in my booth at Merchant Square and they hold tags, rolled music pages, and pearls.  More will be coming to my booth soon.  Pictures to come later!

Another wonderful display of white cups and saucers and ironstone pitchers.  Small vintage price cards were everywhere along with school word cards in English and French!  See the old shoe brush on top of the suitcase?  I have several that will appear in my booth soon.  They make great picture holders.

This was a great experience and a very successful one!  Thanks Kim and ladies!  Can't wait to see you next month -- Sept. 15-18!!  Gail and I will be there!