Vintage Studio Love...

Greetings Sweet Friends,

Want to come on a tour with me & see what's in the studio?

Well here it is, my tiny bedroom studio high in the mountains

of Southern California, in our little mountain home.

Some of my favorite things are in this room,

little treasures I've gotten from here & there.

An old end table hubby found on the side of the road looking just

like this, a perfect place to keep my favorite Stampington Magazines.

One of my KC Willis collages I made for myself,

using an image of her much beloved Annie Oakley,

& a vintage baby book from 1910 that still has baby hair in it.

My desk & chair...the chair I got at a thrift store in Santa Monica

& the desk came from my shop, I love all the big drawers.

Who doesn't love a rusty, old garden chair in the house?

An issue of Belle Armoire Jewelry magazine that I was

featured in has a place of honor on my desk...

along with everything old, tarnished & SILVER.

Soldered pieces I've been working on...

an old light fixture I attached a vintage door knob to...

some rusty old scissors...

chandelier drops of all kinds...

my crystal pen & pencil holder &

a tray with a baby's vintage silver mirror & brush set, so yummmy.

A little piece of green ceiling tin & my favorite Brighton clock...

along with flower frogs, old tintypes & vintage baby shoes.

My brother Johnny peeks over my shoulder as I work & the TV rests on

an empty sewing machine cabinet covered with ceiling tin.

I LOVE this antique armoire, not only for what it can hold,

but also for the richness in color it gives to this mostly white room.

The tulip carving is beautiful.

On either side of the armoire are a couple of my favoritest ceiling tiles

I got in Round Top, Texas, they'll need to bury me with those. lol

I used this cabinet in my shop, 'Lambs & Ivy'. It made many 'cute as pie'

displays & now holds some of my containers of buttons & beads &

miscellaneous, important goodies.

Every shelf, box & tin filled with something I adore...

like this vintage, tinted photograph of a little girl feeding a lamb

a bottle, while standing next to an ivy covered tree.

Thumpty, thump, thump.

 Old jewelry boxes filled with bobbles...

a french grain sack...

my fabulous Texas tin...

& a vintage, mirrored, silver tray filled with business cards & such.

I LOVE JUNK....

especially these cherished doilies I went crazy for on my  last trip to Round Top.

My Gal Pals & I must have dug through stinky, old doilies for hours...

I was in HEAVEN!!!

Flying home on the airplane, I carried them with me in this vintage suitcase,

they'll have to bury me with these too I think. ;)

Doesn't having a little space to call your own make all the
difference in the world! Just a spot to gather your favorite
things & be able to glance at them as you walk by.
It makes me smile! 

XOXO

vintagesusie