Vintage Books

Great for adding height and interest to your tables, bookshelves, vignettes -- these "antique" books! We've enjoyed learning how to create these and finding just the right appropriately vintage books to cover using this special technique.

We'll be selling them at our spring events...the Funky Junk Antique Show held April 9 and 10 as well as our first "home" event for 2011 - the Angel's Attic Spring Open House on Saturday, April 30.

Can I Blink and Have This Done?

Sarah Richardson is one of my favorite designers!
For one of her television projects, she gutted and redid an old farmhouse in Canada (HGTV series) and I think she is now living in the house with her family. Sarah is great at adding vintage lighting and furniture to her rooms, which fits right in with the work we do at Angel's Attic. Of course I cannot begin to match her remodeling budget or talents, but the minute I saw her master bathroom it became my inspiration for the redo of our main floor bathroom.
Our current bathroom has a big jetted tub, which is rarely used and we need another shower in the house.
We haven't started the project - still in the planning, budgeting stage and beginning to gather the main elements such as tile, fabric, paint. Sarah planned her bathroom around the drapery fabric. Sarah paid $130 a yard for her fabric. Husband says too expensive. I agree. Especially now that I've found something very similar to what she used for a much more affordable price.
Right now I am looking forward to our new bathroom. Not looking forward to the mess along the way. Stay tuned...
Here is the inspiration...

And here is the more down-to-earth designer fabric...

No room for both a shower and a clawfoot tub so there will be some modifications. Plus, we sold the old clawfoot tub that we found on the property - the deer were using it to drink from. Seriously.

Faded Elegance or Too Far Gone...

That is the debate here at Angel's Attic. We just picked up this "beauty" today - Linda was instantly in love but Husband thinks it is too late for this one. How sad. So we bought it cheap, mainly for the weath of old mouldings and bric-a-brac (or so I told him). For our spring shows, we plan to create a tremaux mirror, which would be a great use for the antique dentil moulding. (But shhh, I'm still secretly hoping for a miracle and to bring this table back to life.)
Yes, it time to start designing and planning for shows in 2011, beginning in April. More on that to come very soon. And watch to see the fate of this wonderful old table - either revitalized or repurposed, it will be a gem.

Winter Break

Hello, Spokane! Yes, it is back to winterness after our vacation to Disney World in Florida. It was a lovely week with Kristen's family (which includes our three granddaughters) and several days with our son and daughter-in-law who joined us from Atlanta. It really is true - Disney is a great place to create family memories. It was delicious to see the excitement and delight of the little girls when they first glimpsed Mickey Mouse or one of the princesses. Jon, Kristen, and I also soak in the creativeness that is Disney - from their architecture and landscaping, ride designs, to the amazing shop windows.
      It was hard to return to our regular lives and even harder to give up those breakfasts outside in the sunshine!

 Summer got her first haircut and set of Ears, complete with fairy dust.

 Lily Happiness!

 Lily with some special characters.

 Magic Kingdom

              Gabby in Kermit the Frog Ears

   Disney dining plan - yes, desserts like these for lunch! Our bad!

   

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year...

Jonathan and Linda at Angel's Attic wish you a wonderful Christmas!
We're looking forward to hosting our kids and grandgirls which means spiffing up the house a bit...
here are a couple of peeks.

Vintage Finds and Handmade Treasures Market

I hope you had a chance to visit the Vintage Finds Market this past weekend, hosted by Unexpected Necessities Jennifer and Kathy!
There was a wonderful variety of goodies - from the ooh la la Frenchie chic to vintage '50's Christmas.
Jon and I came home inspired and with a gorgeous stained glass window!

 Jennifer and Kathy

 Shari with her wonderful Southern Charm jewelry.

Autumn at its Best

Just have to share a few photos of our little "treaters" - little granddaughters all dressed up for Halloween and some pics I took of our house during the five minutes of sunshine we got while the leaves were still colorful and on the trees.

 Gabby, her best friend Kathryn, and Lily - scary, huh? 

Little Jillian on the Prairie

Gabby the beautiful princess with Lily the knight and little lion Summer.

Coming Soon!

Since so many of you have asked whether Angel's Attic keeps regular store hours (which we don't), we've decided to feature a page here featuring some of our treasures. So if you fall in love with something and just can't wait for the next vintage sale to get it, you can contact us and make special arrangements. Happy shopping! Just look for the tab at the top of our home page (right here), next to the button named "Home"!