Meet Burly, my grandpuppy pug - a former Washingtonian, now living in steamy Corpus Christi, Texas. He's figured out a grand way to stay cooler while exercising - hitch a ride on Baby Claire's stroller! And get pushed for the last mile or so by Casey, my daughter-in-law. He's looking pretty pleased with this system.
Or you can attend this 'cool' event this weekend.
Usually this sign is on my work table in my studio, so I am able to be reminded of its’ valuable message often. Today I placed it in our hydrangea garden for a prettier background shot to share with you.
Hope you are enjoying this weather and/or finding a way to stay as cool as possible!
We spent our sunny Saturday having a wonderful time at the Vintage Summer Garden Market hosted by Bountiful Home in Edmonds.
We’ve got the truck packed with all sorts of wonderful new finds and creations for Saturday’s (July 25) Vintage Summer Garden Market at:
Bountiful Home
122 – 4th Ave. S.
Edmonds
10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
For more info or directions, please contact Todd at 425-775-3800 or Lisa at 425-330-5425.
We’ll be waiting for you in the always-lovely backyard nursery area.
AND....we are happy to announce that Lyneen is our Art Party Giveaway Winner! Congrats, Lyneen...watch your mailbox for some Salvage Studio love! Thanks to all who posted comments and entered our giveaway. And don't forget there are still spaces available for the Art Party. It is shaping up to be quite the event.
Our next Salvage Studio charm swap is August 29. We have two groups of 25 fun-loving customer friends who will get together and swap handmade charms with everyone in their group. We have five openings in the afternoon gathering, which will meet from 1 – 3 p.m. Sometimes people can’t attend in person, so Lisa and I are their proxy traders. This invitation is extended to our blog friends who live all over the place if you’d like to play with us! You would mail your 25 charms to us, and in return receive 25 fabulously different charms sent back to you.
Here are a few guidelines we have found are useful:
Each charm should not be bigger than 1 ½”.
Try to make them as water resistant as possible.
Please remember to cut back on the charms’ weight when
possible.Your charms can be all the same or a variety.
We found it is really helpful if your name is attached
someway to each charm. A simple paper tag is fine.
The necklace in the photo is adorned with charms I have received in our swaps. If you’d like to swap charms with us, please leave a comment, and I’ll get more info to you!
Several months ago I was the lucky recipient of a vintage piano that had to be dissected a bit to get it out of a basement. One part is the intact keyboard with lovely old ivory keys. I’m saving that for a special future project. The other part are the “insides”. I call them striker bars, but I’m probably making that name up. From the moment I laid eyes on it, I considered it a piece of sculpture. I recently got around to hanging it on a wall in my foyer.
I’m darn happy with how it looks!
It took me awhile to figure out how easy it is to rid our garage of used paint thinner, crusty cans of oil paints and such. The Snohomish County Hazardous Waste Drop Off Station is simple to find on 3434 McDougall in Everett. Just a block east of Broadway. Check their website for the hours and days of operation since it isn’t every day. Also find out all the things they will accept – yes on used batteries and no on electronics, for example.
As the sign says, they no longer accept latex paints. But I was lucky finding a home for lots of mine. Deb and Bob of Retreat rescued lots of mine, and are putting it to work lickety-split. I had a couple of partial cans of latex paint that were unusable. I was a bit skeptical that adding kitty litter would dry them out in a reasonable amount of time, but it was sort of fun to do and worked quickly. Then those cans could be put in with our regular garbage.
Here’s an action shot of a happy homeowner!
