Antiques...Vintage, oh my!

I can’t tell you how much love, I have for antiques and vintage pieces. I remember my parents dragging us to what I remember being the coolest shop ever green floors. I now know that it wasn’t a store but a huge well actually massive warehouse. My first auction was amazing and then I was hooked.

All the weird gadgets all around from beautiful ornate desks, cars, old dresses in the original trunks I can almost smell the perfume lingering in the air as they opened the trunk, I think my soul knew then where it belongs… I remember placing my first bid on a old faded red all scratched up, and now it seemed to be an orange color from the sun hitting it outside gum ball machine. Initially, I just wanted the gum but then it turned into oooo,,, candy in my room and then the thought was scratched off my mind and I wanted to keep in the dining room so I could make money to purchase in the next auction. From an early age my parents and aunt would take my brother and I to estate sales, garage sales and every auction possible I learned so much through out the years and really enjoyed the pieces that had survived decades. Pieces with character had always intrigued me and I always wondered where everything came from.

I have lived a gypsy kind of life, I am definitely a free spirit and therefore had many jobs from a paralegal, stylist, consultant, runner, baker and a buyer for retail shop. I have had so many different jobs and loved them all but in 2015 I had the crazy idea of opening up a studio that turned into a brick and mortar shop. During that time I was helping a close friend to coordinate weddings, we went inside this warehouse place and it was a huge warehouse converted into an event hall near the UNION rail-yard. Such an inspirational place high ceilings beautiful wooden floors and it even had the original scale to what had been manufacturing plant of some sort. This inspired me at the time to make wedding goods from veils, custom made dresses, purses and calligraphy on mirrors. But of course incorporating the joys of antiques some how.

I met the owner of this amazing warehouse named Jack Dulaney and I persuaded him to rent me a small 1,000 square foot place. In November my shop opened at this amazing warehouse called EPIC Railyard. I went up some stairs walked into a open floor and met with Jack and as any entrepreneur was eager to show me his baby he opened a door and little did I know, when I went to sign the lease papers that I was walking into the same warehouse with the green floor.

I was at home! In 2016 I had to close my store due to health complications but I am stronger and have decided to throw myself out there again to what I love… the design and vintage love affair. Now a days they call it sustainable. So here’s to many more years of picking and designing.