Elegant or Rustic...

Shabby pink birdhouse for a very chic birdie!

Some peeks at an antique floor lamp that we found last summer in Montana. Old and very unique! Safe to use - we replaced all the electrical wiring and socket on the lamp.



Please visit us on September 25 - Angel's Attic Open House!

And the Living Is Easy...

Our four vintage adirondack chairs are basking in the late summer sun!

These little sherbet-colored chairs are child-sized, just perfect for your kids or grandbabies. Summer, you can't ride home in the trailer on one!

Wouldn't these look so cute at the end of a lakeside dock?

Like these on Flathead Lake...

They'll be available at the Angel's Attic Open House on September 25.

Sneak Peek Number One

The Angel's Attic Autumn Open House is fast approaching!

So Jon and I are hard at work doing what we enjoy most -- finding unique items to revive and restore.  We are expecially drawn to furniture. It is fun to create gems from diamonds in the rough. While it may take extra time, we like to add an artistic touch to make our pieces special.

Don't you love this cool, curvy desk! Here is a "before" picture. We're still walking around this piece and discussing the possibilities. We're taking time to decide but don't worry, we'll have it ready for sale at the Open House on September 25 -- don't miss it!

Come back here and see what else we're working on for the Open House. We plan to feature more "befores" and even a few "afters" along with some insider information on special offers and prizes at the show. 

If you visited Sophias at last weekend's Funky Junk Antique Show in Sandpoint, you need to know Kristen will have even more fabulous finds for Angel's Attic! That girl really has a talent for finding the good stuff!

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Pure Pleasure

No, we didn't mix business with pleasure. Last weekend was all pleasure!

We combined a camping adventure on Flathead Lake, Montana with a morning shopping the Vintage Whites Market in Somers (just south of Kalispell.) Great stuff!

Jon was skeptical that we could get all thirteen fabulous finds into the car and still fit Gabby and Lily as well as all the camping gear. Ha! No problem for a determined woman.

Thanks, Vintage Whites for a fun morning!

The girls have been part of our vintage shows and shopping for quite a while and it is cute to see them developing interest in old things. Gabby, who is 9, actually watches out for antique store and museums.

An awesome antique store in Somers.

Just seeing this old "Rocket Tricycle" got Jon to imagining how different his life would be now if only he'd owned this trike as a child. (Astronaut? Rocket Scientist? Funky Trike Builder?)

And check out an opportunity to own this fixer upper? Glamping anyone?

Lily taking a breather at "The Barn" antique store in Bigfork, Montana.

On our way home Gabby found this crazy museum in Polson! Who could resist going inside a museum with a flying saucer on the roof?

 The girls checking out a tin monster outside the museum.

Hmmm...I'm not feeling the "Rattlesnake Beauty." Just plain freaky.

A cool Bickensderfer typewriter from 1897. Just try to find the home row on that keyboard!

Fun to explain the charms of an old fashioned soda fountain to the girls.

A favorite! An old Huey helicopter complete with all the switches, gauges, and dials - to delight two girls and their grandpa.

Halfway home - take time to explore new places - like this store in Perma, Montana. No treasures inside but a cute exterior and a chat with the quirky owner.

We created a lot of memories on this short three day trip. One as simple as a chocolate pudding-stained little face.

Another fun show - as a shopper this time!

On Sunday, we risked exposing our sunburns to the 86+ degree heat (see previous post) to visit the Latah Creek Variety Market, as shoppers rather than vendors this time. After completing the Vintage Barn show on Saturday, it was refreshing just to wander aimlessly around digging through other people's treasures. It was especially sweet knowing we wouldn't have to pack up and haul any of it at the end of the day! Here are a few pictures that we took. It is a little embarrassing that we have more and better pictures of this show than of the one we were vendors at, but when we are working a show we seldom have the free time to do the things we would love to do, like taking pictures - and shopping.

The Latah show is hosted by the Latah Partners, along with Chaps/Cake, which is sufficient excuse to attend the show in itself.

We want to especially thank the exceptionally nice ladies at Sisters, who gave precious little straw hats to our granddaughters to shield them from the heat.

Sweet Summer Event

Vintage Barn 2010 was fun, warm, sunny - THANK YOU to our friends and followers who stopped by.
This was Angel's Attic's first outdoor show so we experimented and learned a lot of lessons.  (Like should have brought a huge drink cooler full of ice water and wear more sun screen!) All of us are sporting some serious sunburn today.

We wish we could have taken some more pictures of the other great booths at the show, but we couldn't get a minute free. Even this photo of a portion of our own booth wasn't taken until near the end of the day when many of our larger pieces were already gone.

Angel's Attic is now taking a little summer vacation! But we hope to see you at our next Autumn Open House here on our property on Spokane's Mountain View Lane -- please reserve Saturday, September 25 from 9 am to 4 pm. We'll have more info and some previews posted as soon as we can.

Our granddaughter, Summer, helping Gramma with customer service.

Love this bed by Chateau Chic Antiques

Come out and Play at Vintage Barn!

We're looking forward to a great Vintage Barn show this Saturday, July 10! Please come out to Rathdrum, ID for this fun, outdoor extravanza and enjoy warm sunshine, friends, music, yummy food and drink, and lots of awesome antiques and vintage finds.
Angel's Attic is bursting with new things. A couple peeks...

Our Vintage Barn hostess, Rolane...

Vintage Barn, Coming Soon!

Ike for President! (Dwight D. Eisenhower, US President 1953-1961)
At a yard sale this past weekend we were lucky to find about 40 darling little posters hand made by a Spokane schoolteacher, vintage 1960's and earlier, used to teach very young students how to read. It was fun to dig through the box of old paper treasures to find old dittos (remember dittos?) of children's poems, Smokey the Bear coloring pages, a tiny leather-bound dance book from a 1927 Gonzaga prom, and a newspaper clipping with the headline from Saturday, February 1, 1969 declaring "Spokane Leads U.S. With Depth of Snow." (Hey, so what else is new?!)
We arrived home with things like a chair made in the 1870's, a very primitive but cute fishing rod that reminded me of something Huck Finn might dangle from his river raft, along with several old oars and paddles.
I think maybe we are celebrating the arrival of summertime here in Spokane (at long last). It set off a free flow of ideas for a theme at our next sale - the Vintage Barn Antique Show in Rathdrum, Idaho on July 10. We are really going to have fun and feature things that hopefully will make you smile and feel like a barefoot kid on summer vacation!
-Linda

This is my personal favorite from the teaching posters mentioned above. Notice the one on the right. Rude awakening on the way!
-Jon