Joanne's Charming Valentine's Cottage Decor

Just thought I'd share a wonderful cottage, owned by our good customer Joanne.

Joanne just redid her cottage this week, and was kind enough to share!

 I love these decorated cones, they are so reminiscent of Victorian Tussy Mussys which I have always loved!

The sweet gown to the left is Joanne's own blessing dress ... I asked if her daughter had worn it, and she sent me a picture of the lovely gown they had worn, across the bottom of the bed, its the last picture in this post.

So very charming. 

 ... and here is the bed in an alternate, brighter covering.   How sweet is the heart banner?

After seeing her original picture of the gown, she decided she needed a spot of color ... and made this banner ....

And here is the promised blessing gown that her daughters wore as babes ... such a charming cottage, thanks for sharing with us Joanne ... you inspire me.

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Treasures Dealer in Romantic Country Magazine

We have a couple of sisters at the antique mall who do amazing things with their booths!!

It was pretty cool recently to find out that one of them was featured in a national magazine.

In fact this cute beadboard cupboard was the star of the show. 

This is the opened current Romantic Country Magazine's Flea Market issue!

Here is a close up of the same cupboard shown above, when Annette is set up at the Amazing Vintage Whites sale held last February in nearby Salt Lake!

Annette changes out her booth here at the mall according to the holiday! 

Such cute and colorful chairs. 

Here are some more shots of her cute Christmas booth! Isn't the door above just amazing? 

Antique Desk and Inkwell!

 Today we sold this awesome early 1900's school desk.  We sell these all the time, they are a perennial favorite.  We sell them to museums, who are setting us school rooms, we sell them to parents for their kids to use to study, we sell them to TV and movie studios for sets.  We once even helped outfit a lady who was putting together a working school room.

The one thing, though, that we have not sold is one with the inkwell in it.

I was astonished by this awesome inkwell and its pivoting cover.

I also thought it was interesting that it had the word Bakelite on it.  We see lots of bakelite at Treasures Antiques, lots of utilitarian items, like kitchen utensils, and furniture handles, and of course, everyone's favorite bakelite jewelry.  I have just never seen the word on the product before.

The buyer was very excited ... he's been look for a complete desk for a long time!  

We also had this gentleman come into the store today.  As you see he is wearing a fedora, carrying a cane, and has a watch chain hanging on his vest.  He said that he hopes to help bring back elegance to menswear.  I told him he had come to the right place to be appreciated ...  We love it when customers come in dressed in period clothing!  

Jennifer of 3 Dotters Gives Treasures Antiques a Nod!

 Hey Treasures Fans, did you see the Studio 5 feature a couple of weeks ago with Jennifer Reed of 3 Dotters Vintage?

Jenn is a former Treasures dealer, a very busy girl who realized she didn't have time to keep her booth at Treasures stocked, and has moved on to doing three vintage sales a year at the Pleasant Grove Rec Center.

 Jennifer shared her vintage shopping secrets with Studio 5 viewers, and featured Treasures in Springville first ...

These are some of the pictures that she shared on the show, featuring us as one of the 'Best Vintage Shops'

 Jennifer should know, she is one of our best customers ... she collects vintage world globes, and the black one she show cased on segment is one she had bought, while I was working, at Treasures the week prior to taping the show!!

 I was working the day the segment aired, and we had a customer from Salt Lake call us about the Indian statue to the right, before the show was even over.  Yep, the statue is now history as far as the mall is concerned.

 Jenn hosted her 3 dotters sale last weekend in Pleasant Grove, and I got talking with one of the dealers there, a 20 something who is a big Pyrex collector.  She told me that Julie, our Pyrex dealer who has children who are 30 something, is her hero!  Yep Julie's been collecting Pyrex for 15 years .... I guess that sort of makes her a hipster!!

Thanks for the endorsement Jenn, we are glad to hear that your first 3 Dotters sale went so well!!   

Heidi's Amazing Outdoor Decor!

 Had an adorable customer come in this week, her name is Heidi Harmon, and she was buying an oil can for her collection.

It sounded like so much fun, that I asked her to send some pictures of of her collection, and to include some goodies she had bought at Treasures in the past.

She said that she bought her first vintage clock at Treasures, I love the one in this picture!

... and I cannot say how much I love this wall of bike wheels ... and the oil can on the far right is the one that I just rang up for her this week.

 How amazing is this collection?

... and what a great patio scene!  Love the corrugated metal fence panel and the beautiful antique brick patio!   Kudos Heidi!!  And I love rust so much that I am off to the Rust and Roses show in Boise this coming weekend!!  Happy hunting all and thanks to Heidi for sharing.  If any of our other customer would like to share some of you amazing decor, please send pictures to me at patula10@aol.com.  Thanks

Best Ever Play House

 Today I wanted to share something extra fun.  As a dealer at Treasures Antiques in Springville, Utah, I get to meet some of the most fun people on the planet.

One loyal customer, Marcelle, buys lots of child size furniture and vintage table clothes.  Eventually she shared her project with us, a children's size, two story cottage, that she had built largely by herself.

Fitted out in midtone, almost pastel, decor, she has done wonders with this little house.

All of the beds in the house use crib size mattresses, so that children up to age eight can actually sleep over in this Lilliputian house.

This kitchen nook, shows off many of the charming vintage linens she is always adding to her collection.

... and the kitchen is fully stocked to have picnics and parties whenever the hostess bug bites!

Marcelle is an amazing woman, its been so fun to be a tiny party of her amazing project.  Her children are now mostly grown, and she even has a son-in-law, which we all know can lead to another generation of little people to come and inhabit her amazing  little house!!

Thanks Marcelle, for sharing your amazing talent!!

Newly Made Booth Display

 So Vickie, a talented dealer at Treasures, and her husband spent a couple of his days off making over her booth.  I think they did an amazing job and thought I would share.

They decorated and painted Vickie's two booths, which are across the isle from each other, to match, which gives the shopper the sense that one is walking into a lovely old room.  

Then they added antique trim along the top of the walls, which adds to the 'room' sensation.

The pano shot below give you a since of that room.  Good Job Vickie!