Our 1st Vintage Home & Garden Market....Down the Rabbit Hole

Thank you to our friends, the vendors that helped create such a magical setting for our first show and thank you to our friends, that came, shopped, played, and enjoyed the beautiful gardens for the day!!! We love and cherish all of you!! Truly you have given us so much, we are grateful!!! XOX Glad & Celia

Special thanks to our friend Cary Burnett for all the lovely photos!!

Down the Rabbit Hole!

We will be celebrating our First Vintage Home & Garden Market on May 4th!!! We will be bringing you a village of vintage/antique vendors with beautiful tents showcasing everything from garden furniture, painted & chippy furniture to primitives, handmade jewelry & gifts, decorative items for the home & garden, garden flowers, and The Bee's Knees will be serving spring drinks, fresh salads, scones, and desserts.

We hope you come join us for the day, enjoy and relax in this charming garden setting.  Featuring wonderful vendors, that are bringing THE BEST treasures from their gathering & scouting in and around the country. We are so excited to present to you our vendors:

All That Glitter
A Brush Stroke Away
Barnmarche
Branches
Cary Burnett Photography
Iona's Antiques
Ladybird Creations
Paint in My Hair
Palouse Soap Company
Peace Within
Sisters Creed
Two Women Vintage Goods
Unexcpected Necessities
Whimisical Details

WHATCHA GONNA DO WITH ALL THAT JUNK....ALL THAT JUNK IN YOUR TRUNK?

            With the junking season in full swing, we felt this story seemed appropriate! Hope it inspiries you to get out and find some great treasures and we're sure you will meet some interesting people with wonderful stories about life experiences as well!!!                     

                                                                 "No One Knows"
                                                         Will Farrel in Blades of Glory
                                                    
                                            By Gladys Hanning & Celia Hanning -Therens

(  Celia's SUV can provide a surprising amount of room for found treasures. A pickup truck aided by a) few bungee cords can go it one better....The only problem is; where do the boys go?

As for me and my daughter, we take the term literally...the junk in our trunk is actually JUNQUE.

JUNQUE is a word coined by the many creative souls who have taken to treasure hunting--finding a piece of junk and transforming it into something beautiful and useful.

As designers, entrepreneurs, mother/daughter, and junquers extraordinaire, we have the thrill of rescuing relics of the past and reusing, repurposing, or receating them as the perfect accents to any home.

It all starts at the SALE....estate, yard, or garage. It may be a planned trip or a spontaneous drive-by. Our buying style has been described as--fast--a technique developed out of necessity as we often have three young boys accompanying us, the youngest strapped to Celia's back!

We never know what we are looking for until we see it and then we may not know why but we know it is PERFECT and have to HAVE IT

Once the piece arrives home and out of the trunk, it lives in our garage. Each day we see the piece as we leave and when we return home. If we can't think of anything to do with a piece immediately we will take a break, sleep on it, and come back to it fresh the next day. Sometimes just leafing through some magazines or books provides us with inspiration. It may sit there for days, sometimes weeks, until one of us says...

                                          "You know what we should do with that piece?"
That's the moment that gives birth to the new purpose of a "piece of junk." Whether it is a sofa and chair...broken, tattered, and torn, or the adorable vintage baby bath tub, a cast away lamp shade or old wire fencing, the possibilities are endless and the style can be romantic, whimsicial or clean and simple. Re-purposing found items creates a unique design scheme that gives character and individuality to a home.
To us a good find is more than just a piece of furniture or junk, it is someone's memeory.Many of our customers and clients are more interested in the history of the piece than its function and will purchase it simply because it reminds them of something they remember from their own past.

We believe that vintage treasures transcend all decorating styles and mix beautifully with contemporary and traditional decor for a timeless, collected look.


**Find us at 'Down the Rabbit Hole' ~ May 4, 10am-4pm & 'The Mad Hatter Vintage Flea Market' ~ September 27 & 28, 2013

For more information contact : junebugfurnitureanddesign@gmail.com

Creating a Visual Flow Design for The Nailry

 Making The Nailrys' interior personal to Ray & Beth Maack was a must! They wanted their salon to be dramatic and cozy!

The thoughtful placement of the elements in this room created an overall feeling of wonderfulness.

We wanted to encourage the eye to hit the sweet spots and gloss over anything underwhelming.
The clients enter through an oversized dramatic arch way, and are welcomed into the casual and comfortable seating area, the coffee table and a glass terrarium filled with birds, glass, rocks, moss, and small terra cotta pots and candles adds life, texture, and in this case, color to the space.

The sofa begs you to stay, and two snuggly chairs for clients and guests to read, sip coffee, and relax are waiting. The pillows on the sofa and chairs add a little bit of color and excitement to the space.

The gold fabric light fixture in the center of the room creates height and does the trick of tieing the look together.

Large urns filled with curly willow branches are part of the decorativve objects in the organic-inspired room, giving the room the earthy feel.

We finished the room with magazines, stacks of books on the shelves that were actually read, and small pieces of significant items, sentimental pieces from Beth and Ray's home, this helps the eye move from object to object.

As clients leave the salon they are greeted again with a saying Beth chose for the archway, this oversized arch way acts as an sculpture, and again it stops the guests and prompts people to visit and engage in conversation, because this is really what makes a room complete, is the people who fill it!!

*much thanks and gratitude to Denny Wuesthoff for his talent of signage and Cary Burnett for the lovely photos!!

The Beginning of Rescued Garden Mania

Our passion for collecting and arranging is soon to be moving outdoors.  Before the garden is ever planned we begin the hunt for its furnishings ~ old, chippy peeling painted chairs and tables, tools, fences, wagons, barrows, gates, birdbaths, trellises, and vases. Our search begins in other people's yard sales and garages, flea markets, junk shops, and the once in a life time side-of-the-road giveaways!! 

Gardeners, this is the time of year to be on the lookout for artful ways to show off your prized tomatoes.

* fun chalkboard buckets

Virginia Shawver of The Rusty Bird at The Mad Hatter Vintage Flea Market filled beautiful vintage bowls with hens and chicks & a baby bird nest...so cute!!

Love planting old tomatoes in vintage galvanized buckets, and then propping them on old tiffany blue garden chairs!!

Our vision of the Hanging Gardens includes old rusty galvanized siphons, love that it already has a proper drainage hole.  

*Easy to make with a little wire for the hangers.

Save the date: Down the Rabbit Hole ~ Vintage Home & Garden Market ~ May 4, 2013 from 10am-4pm ~  412 West Hazard Road, Spokane, WA

Linking up to DIY Saturday Night Party

Funky Junk Interiors

Collections!! Alarm clocks that no longer tick tock, mix-and-match salt & pepper shakers, What speaks to your soul????

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Alarm clocks that no longer tick-tock we adore! All shapes, sizes, colors, and the fat numbers!!

We love to set a table with mix-and- match salt & pepper shakers, it is not only economical, but downright fun and creative! Many collectors will add a little bit of silver to liven up the table.  

Photo: From Deb Brock ~ The Mad Hatter Vintage Flea Market ~ 2011

Collections of yesteryear's kitchen tools, used in the days when housewifery took forever~ 
We hope you are enjoying the journey of collecting...Find something that speaks to you, that you can rescue.....something you are longing for......

Most importantly, have a fun weekend and keep on junking!!

xox Glad & Celia

February the month of Romance

Oh My Goodness month number 2 of the New Year!!! February the month of Love and Romance!

 I'm loving the vintage romantic touches of paper, crocheted doilies and beautiful lace that can be added to any room to give an elegant and romantic look. 

A while back, before Christmas we were was droolling over the Anthro Catalog and fell in love with the many beautiful wreaths. Gorgeous!!! Like so many others out there like us, we thought that we might have to sell our soul to pay the price that they wanted, especially because we knew we could make them!

The first one was made from coffee filters, Celia and I tea stained and hand tied each one to the wreath, this one hangs in my guest bedroom with a wide burlap ribbon. They are so addicting...... Celia and I made several more, they were all sold during the month of December. After making them we realized we should have taken pictures along the way for a tutorial.

We are creating a few wreaths for spring and plan on taking pictures along the way!

I hope you will add a little romance in your home this month....celebrate the month of Love!!!

XOX Glad & Celia