Candles Make Your Home Cozy
Bring some warmth to your home with these offerings from Wee Mindings, Shine, Molly Muriel and others.
A Day Of Almost Entirely Vintage Shopping
By Nancy Ranchel
My friend Shannon wanted to shop. I’ve written about Shannon before: we have good shopping chemistry. We like the same (alternative) stuff, we’re mellow, we know how important lunch is to the day. And coffee breaks. On this particular Tuesday, we met at 9:30 to get an early start. And we promptly discovered that most of the stores on our list don’t open until 11AM.
We Went Shopping for Your Home of the Future
Convertible furniture, Tiny Homes and cool stuff.
Old Town Vancouver Shops
By Nancy Ranchel
Funny story: I went shopping in Vancouver this week. Get that confused look off your face — I shop everywhere.
We Went Shopping Salvage Style
We often don’t know what our homes lack until we’ve serendipitously stumbled on that one special item. With this in mind, we’ve spent days exploring a few of Oregon’s finest design stores, and we’ve discovered some truly remarkable salvaged, reclaimed and repurposed items that will give a much-needed dose of character to any room. Here, we show off a few of our favorites.
Salvage to Buy Now
By Nancy Ranchel
It was Wednesday. There were boatloads of carpenters in the house. I was miserable. What’s a gal to do?
It’s Time for Even. More Shopping!
By Nancy Ranchel
Another Saturday, and perhaps a weekday or two, have been spent in search of alternative shopping so that you, dear readers, don’t have to visit the mall.
Sellwood and Garage Sales
By Nancy Ranchel
Garage sale season is NOT ending yet! You’ve still got time to grab your holiday list and get started. Don’t have a holiday list? Start one.
Salvage, Antique and Thrift in Longview
By Nancy Ranchel
Oh, the things I do in the name of research! Like traveling far and wide, through sleet and snow, into bizarre stores, all in search of the latest salvage.
Recent Shopping Scores
By Nancy Ranchel
Thanks to my good friend Karinne, I was out shopping this past weekend in Lake Oswego. Did you know that Lake O has consignment shops? Oh yeah, baby, it does.
