Grand Opening

Thinking back over the past 2 months, nothing feels more monumental and amazing, then the news that we opened up our own vintage shop in Redlands, called Pad!!

It all happened so fast. SO fast!

We found the spot.

Applied that weekend.

And we got the call a few days later that we were in!

It felt like a dream! 
And still does...every-time I open the door with my key each morning.

People don't often  get to do what they LOVE to do for a living.
And for that I feel so lucky.  


Our grand opening was on February 17th and was such a blast!
So many of our friends and family came out to support us!
It was a night I'll never forget.


Brandon volunteered as our photographer. 
Here are a few moments he captured!

 

Vintage Book Journals

My latest craft project has been making vintage book journals using old books.

Kyle bought a tub of them at a yard sale, 

and even though they really were worth nothing, the book covers were so cool.

They have the best titles and cover art...

So rather then collect dust on a shelf in my garage, I turned them into journals.

I used to write in a journal every night before bed but then I started blogging and well, now I'm thinking I have a great reason to start writing again, insert cute book journal with a cool title like: O' Doctor!

Sew Funky Marketplace

Over the weekend I teamed up with my home girl  Heather from Hello Bird! to do the Sew Funky Marketplace in Riverside.

This craft fair was awesome. Baby Renegade perhaps?

There were so many incredible vendors (which I'm going to post about tomorrow), I just wish I had more time to shop!

And for being one of the only vintage vendors there, I say we did pretty good. 
I definitely want to jump on the craft fair circuit again, we actually met people who knew us from our booth at the Redlands Galleria! Which was so awesome!

Here are a few photos from our booth (taken my Henneman Photography):

Fast towel upcycle

The other day at my friendly neighborhood thrift store, I ran across these very bright and oh so amazing vintage towels.

Normally I don't trust buying linens at a thrift store (I'm just not a huge fan of bed bugs) but these looked like they had never been used so I went for it. I live dangerously.

Plus I wanted them for decoration, not to wipe my wet fanny after getting out of the shower, so I spent the $2.00 they were asking for the set.

And I love them, but they needed more.

So I sewed on some white pom-poms.

And now I love them even more!

Plus it took a whole 5 minutes to do and those are the crafts that I love the most.

Moving Up!

 
Remember when I told you that we had been dreaming about opening an actual brick & mortar? 

Well, we've finally decided to take the plunge.
Our booth has done great, but it's small and half of the stuff we have just can't fit.
And we are beginning to REALLY look like hoarders.

And when you find something in life that you love doing, why not take the chance? You can't ever succeed without trying right?
And we have such a passion for mid century. 
We live and breath this stuff.
I even dream about it, I love it so much.

And since our house is already packed full of it, and our garage runneth' over we've decided that to run our own shop is the next thing for us.

I know it'll be awhile to get it up and running,
so much is involved in opening a shop,
but I really can't wait.

Playing Dress up

This week we played dress up.

Styling a photoshoot for our vintage shop.

It was so much fun.

And not to mention these jewels: they are all handmade vintage cotton dresses from the 50's.

(You really have a hard time finding cotton dresses from this era, so these are treasures).

And they are in mint condition.

The orange one on the top right is my all time favorite!

Thanks to Amber & Booger for modeling your beautiful selves!

New stuff in shop!

Before we started Ultra Lounge, we had Blueboy Vintage on etsy. 
And with opening up our own booth it has become a very neglected etsy shop...


And I missed it.
I love etsy.
I love everything about it.
I remember when I first stumbled on it 5 years ago,
it was this beautiful mecca of creativity and handmade goods.


So yesterday I spent most of the day taking photos of some great new pieces for the shop and uploading them to etsy.


I'm hoping to get the rest up tonight.
Crossing my fingers.


I hope your Tuesday is going great.  

Sunday

Sunday Kyle & I spent the day sprucing up our shop. 
And I am so excited about our new pieces.


We've been talking about actually opening up a larger space,
because we have so much great stuff that we just can't fit in the space we have now. 


I was telling Kyle today how I would love to start selling vintage at traveling craft fairs... how fun would that be?

  

WE ARE IN!!!

We put the finishing touches on our booth today!

After months of hard work and weekend after weekend searching for treasures, we are officially in! 


And I love how it turned out. 


If you are in town and want to stop by,
we are space # 543. 
Upstairs, second booth on the left at the Redlands Galleria on State Street.

Tell us what you think...

Thrifty Thursday

Tomorrow is the big day! 
We get to move into our space at the Redlands Galleria!


Kyle is going to start painting and removing the one million holes in the walls, while I spray paint shelves and tag our vintage goodies.


Vintage pieces I've really grown to love.


I feel like a foster parent who has fallen in love and now they have to leave to go to their forever home.


As I tag everything tonight I'll take a few photos so that you can see a few of the them. 




It's really exciting, ya know! 

Thrifty Thursday

I'm so excited to start a new series in this neck of the woods called, "Thrifty Thursday."

A peek at the sweet lil' jewels I find on thrift store trips.

Todays jewel:

a Vintage 1960 

Orange Catalina Pencil Dress.

it's lovely.

New Blog for our Vintage Shop!

We started a new blog for our vintage shop:
Ultra Lounge Antiques


Starting next week we are going to begin posting pictures of items that are going in the shop...january 1st!

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