It is show time again! Tomorrow we will be at Magnuson Park’s ‘Sandpoint Antique and Design Market’ from 8am-4pm with our French Antiques and some of my jewelry. We will be unveiling some new treasures including several vintage French games, Victorian mourning frames and some really great beads and found objects. Also I will have some of my latest jewelry creations including necklaces and earrings with vintage French religious medals just in time for All Saint’s Day.

During set up my eye kept wandering to the other booths and their magnificent autumn displays…not to mention the great finds. We bought a few small pieces of furniture for shop displays and I have my eye on a huge (3 foot) enamel and metal clock face that would be an amazing wall hanging. If you are in Seattle we hope to see you there! It is an excellent show for finding decorative items from a wonderful group of people.

I have been organising the vintage beads in preperation for the shop opening and I keep finding the most wonderful treasures! Our plan is to have one whole wall of 200 or so glass jars filled with glass beads, buttons and findings from the 1940’s and earlier. I think my favorite pieces so far are little swarovski snowflake pendants, the coolest oval glass cabashons with butterflies and itsy bitsy glass flowers. Also there is a bead (that I just made earrings with) that I am officially smitten by, they are round flat 1940’s black lucite with little rhinestones set in them and I am calling them ‘galaxy’ beads. And so much more to come…

The search for interesting decorative pieces to fill the Curious Nest has begun with trips all over town to try to find a glass case that inspires and a checkout counter that is just perfect! So far we found the perfect counter just waiting to be repainted and decoupaged and uterly transformed into a wonderful little hub for our bags and tissue paper. Now on to bigger and better things in the days to come! And hopefully the glass case of my dreams to house all my little jewel creations. I would love it to look something like the inside of the rabbit hole that Alice tumbled down with little shelves filled with trinkets, old books and treasures covered with vines and flowers made out of metal and stones. I am sure it is out there somewhere waiting for me to find it!