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Funky Finds

Every once in a while we come across something that for one reason or another we are drawn to. These lamps and fixture are a couple of those items. We just fell in love with the shades.

Playing Around with Pictures

6704

We have had this piece of stained glass for a bit now. I figure it will take us a while to find someone who either lives with an address of 6704 somewhere lane or has a birthdate of June 7, 2004 or mayyyybeee April 1967 ...its a stretch. Other thoughts?? Update, here is another picture that shows the fantastic coloring of the glass on this window. I have had way too much coffee and I just could not keep the camera steady, but the colors come through wonderfully.

Found this while clicking around on Curbly.com
www.coopamerica.org

74 South Evergreen Beginnings

Lately I find myself flipping through a lot of old photo albums and packs of pictures that I had forgotten about or just never did anything with. I have a bunch of said packs in my file cabinet at the store. Most of them are not so great. But I do have some good ones of our first store. Which was an expansive 780 Sq. feet. (we used to have to base our inventory on whether it would fit through the front door). But that aside, it was great space and we had a lot of fun with it. - Liz

Salvage Fest 2007

We just returned from Salvage Fest 2007 in NYC! This was the first ever salvage festival put together by Jon Butler of Brownstoner.com. (I pulled the "about" info from Jon's site below. It's a great site. Check it out!)

Brownstoner.com is a site about Brooklyn real estate and renovation, and all the tangential topics that impact life inside and outside the home in Brooklyn. Launched in October 2004 by Jonathan Butler, the site currently has about 100,000 unique visitors per month.

Liz and I had set out on Thursday to Long Island (Liz's home) and drove straight through getting in late Thursday evening. Salvage Fest was on Saturday in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn. A fabulous section of what seemed to me to be late 19th century brownstones. The fest was held at a public school (PS11). The vibe was good and everyone from the exhibitors to the shoppers were excited about the turnout and the enthusiasm for a strictly salvage show. Rich Ellis from Architectural Salvage News was there. I forgot to ask but it seemed like people were going crazy for the first ever architectural salvage directory. Even though I've written for Architectural Salvage News and talk over the phone with Rich often, it was the first time we'd met in person. We took a photo to share with all of you which I'll post later (forgot the USB cord).

We met Fred Shapiro and Camille Gibeau of Silver Fox Enterprises out of Albany, NY. They had great salvage from that area. We purchased a couple of light fixtures.

Lisa with "This Old House" was there as well taking photos and interviewing exhibitors for an upcoming article.

All in all it was a great experience. Thanks go out to Jon for coming up with this format and hopefully we'll do this again next year!

Tab

Zero or Low VOC Paints

Having been hearing a lot of buzz around about low or zero VOC paints and truthfully not knowing too much about them I decided to do a little research and learn a bit more. I came across this site and I thought it was a good introduction.

http://www.eartheasy.com/live_nontoxic_paints.htm.