One of the shops in Cincinnati we checked out while hunting for mid-century modern treasures.
Phone Photo Friday
06/04/2010
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My Cincinnati Framily
06/03/2010It’s been a while since I’ve used that term: framily. That what I call friends that are so close that they’re like family. Over the long weekend I went up to visit my framily in Cincinnati. This cute little bugger and his mom, who is my best friend from design school (and her husband, who I didn’t take any picture of … sorry Sean.)
Isn’t my “nephew” so cute?
I love him! It’s especially fun making him smile and laugh.
It’s always a wonderful time when I get to spend the weekend with this family.
Added bonus: they’re also in to mid-century modern design and have an awesome home. After every visit we end up bringing all kind of thrift store, vintage store and antique store treasures back home with us. (Look for that post next week!)
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Lamp, Pitcher & Utensil Tray {MCM thrift store finds}
06/01/2010We picked up a couple of little treasures on a recent trip around the Nashville thrift stores.
A retro green silverware tray – not too exciting but I love the color and it has more slots than our old one. And it was 75¢!
Jason’s never going to let me forget that he spotted this lamp FROM THE STREET! Meaning: we were driving past one thrift store on the way to drop off our garage sale junk at the Goodwill and he saw this lamp out of the corner of his eye through the window of the thrift store. That man has eagle vision!
We still need a shade. It had an ugly one paired with it that we left at the store. No thanks. Price: $6.99.
Jason also spotted this neat round plastic carafe. The brand is Alfi and it’s made in Germany.
Sadly, in it’s beautiful roundness it rolled off the counter top and the top broke. It’s no longer a functional piece but it still looks pretty on our display shelf.
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Painted Ranches in the ‘Hood
05/31/2010
I live a neighborhood loaded with brick ranches – red brick, pink brick, orange brick, gray brick, smooth brick, textured brick. You name we have it.
But thankfully (in my opinion) we also have some painted brick houses. (And we almost had one more. But then the flood swallowed it.) I’m a big fan of paint and if done right it doesn’t harm the lifespan of the brick – just adds a little more personality. And it breaks up the monotony of brick, brick, brick. I like being able to tell people “it’s the green house; the only green house on the street.”
A few days ago I asked Jason to drive me around so I could snap pictures of some of the other painted brick houses within a few blocks from our little mid-century brick ranch.
We saw some blue and gray-blue:
Some taupe and warm gray:
Some cream and white:
And some green and olive:
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Phone Photo Friday
05/28/2010
Does anyone else see an abstract garbage-art bride? Or is the heat getting to me …
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A Typical Evening
05/27/2010I imagine other people have typical evenings like this: come home from work, eat dinner together, watch some TV, go to bed.
I’m not sure if Jason and I have EVER had an evening like that. We’re always running around doing this or that … working late, running to the hardware store or grocery store, doing freelance graphic design or music recording projects. Sometimes we eat dinner together but it’s often at 8 or 9. And maybe one night a week we catch up on our favorite shows through Hulu (24, The Office, Modern Family). Our wind-down-relax time rarely starts before 11pm.
The other night I was thinking about what a “typical” night looks like for us and I decided to snap a picture of what we were both doing right before our late dinner break.
Jason was installing a new bowl sink in the guest bathroom. The teal glass one was pretty but impractical – it has about 7 chips in after 3 years. (Only one of which was made by Jason or me.)
I was cutting and packaging wedding invitation orders for my etsy shop.
Will we ever have simple evenings and neat-and-tidy lives? Probably not. That’s why I’m one good beach vacation away from a quarter life crisis.
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Upside Down Right Side Up
05/26/2010This kind of graphic design just intrigues me. Wonderful DVD cover for one of the most quotable movies from the 80s – The Princess Bride!
I saw this here.
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TN52 Yard Sale Booty
05/25/2010(ya know, like pirate booty)
On Saturday we got up at the butt crack of dawn and headed out to the TN 52 Yard Sale extravaganza with Leila and Jeremy and Jason’s mom. It’s 95 miles of yard sales; I think we probably hit 10-20 miles of it.
We found all kinds of different mid-century modern and vintage treasures and managed to spend the rest of the profit from our own yard sale the weekend before. I’ll let the pictures do the talking but I’ll just say I’m most excited about the chair I spotted from the street as we were driving past one of the last sales and the owls – just because I think they’re adorable. Oh, and the tea and coffee canisters, too. It’s so hard to choose a favorite!
It seems like everywhere we go we find Homer Laughlin Co. Gold Cortez (or Sheffield Granada Green) pieces. (above)
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Scootin’ to Loveless
05/24/2010Wow – what a great big busy fun weekend we had! I have lots of photos to share of our mid-century modern finds from a big string of yard sales we went to on Saturday. But first here are some photos from Friday night.
Our dear friends Leila and Jeremy (the ones that lost their home and almost everything in the flood) keep asking us to ride scooters with them.
It’s really not fun at all. But since we know they’ve been through a lot lately, we always agree to go along for rides whenever they ask.
And we pretend we’re having fun. You know … to be polite.
I think they’re hoping that we have so much fun that we buy our own scooter.
Those stinkers! We don’t have money for a scooter right now!
Stop trying to tempt us! It’s not going to work!
Friday we rode out 20 miles to Loveless Cafe and ate all kind of delicious Southern cookin’. Again, totally not fun at all but we’re willing to do our part to help Leila and J get their minds off of their situation. Cuz we’re such good friends …
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Phone Photo Friday
05/21/2010
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