While I miss having Vintage right around the corner from me, I am really happy that it is now a hip & happenin' part of our wonderful downtown!
If you have a minute, slip on your walking shoes, come with me, and let's enjoy the Vintage vibe together! I won't be chatty - I'll let you browse and simply enjoy... (although that little green fan over there is calling my name)
;-)
That was fun! Thank you for going with me to Vintage! You may also visit their website here. If you have the chance to visit the store in person, please tell Angie that I sent you! She'd love to meet you!
Hmm.... if you'd like a luscious bar of French soap from Vintage, please leave a comment on this post, and I'll get one to give away to one of you! I'll pluck the winning name from my vintage daisy hat on, let's see.. how about Friday?
I have these soaps too and they ARE heavenly. Oh, and you never know what else I might put in your bag! I love to shop for you! Maybe I'll tuck in a tea towel, or a candle, or some note cards, or .... ;-)
Stay tuned for more downtown fun ... lots of places to go and see and of course I'll be taking YOU along with me!
xo,
Kim
I follow your blog every single day! My husband just smiles when he hears the music come on and he knows what I am up to..........my Kevin came home to stay from Florida but he sure misses it. I am a collector of all things vintage also - love the shops there!
Posted by: Debbie | June 03, 2009 at 06:55 PM
Wow! What a fun shop... Thanks for letting me escape to your world!
Posted by: Sarah | June 03, 2009 at 06:57 PM
Lord, it took me forever to get to the bottom of this to comment! You're one popular gal. I see quite a few red items there I'd probably snap up quick. And a box I'm pretty crazy about too. Along with many other things. Those linens I'd be rifling through too.
Brenda
Posted by: Brenda Kula | June 03, 2009 at 08:04 PM
I love it all, thanks for sharing! I am enjoying that music, too! Karen
Posted by: Karen | June 03, 2009 at 08:11 PM
Oh, love this shop! Wish I could see it in person.
MJ
Yellow Beach Dog.blogspot
Posted by: MJ Smith | June 03, 2009 at 08:22 PM
LOVE the pictures and pieces from Vintage. Thanks for sharing.
Posted by: Linda | June 03, 2009 at 08:28 PM
My heart goes pitter patter over stores like that. That is my happy place...thanks for sharing.
Posted by: Becky @ Farmgirl Paints | June 03, 2009 at 08:48 PM
Very nice - and inspiring too! You find the nicest things to share! I'd be honoured to have my name thrown into the hat. Ciao Jewels
Posted by: Julie | June 03, 2009 at 09:49 PM
208 I know that is the lucky number Kim
Please enter my name...
What a great place...
Kathy :)
Posted by: Kathy | June 03, 2009 at 09:57 PM
Oh, how I wish that store were here. Or I were there. What a great place! I truly enjoy your blog - thanks for sharing.
Posted by: Molly F | June 03, 2009 at 11:10 PM
Kim!
Thank you for taking us along on your wonderful walk thru VINTAGE treasures (eye candy for sure!) ((hugs))
Posted by: Hasmin Cannon | June 03, 2009 at 11:46 PM
Again, thanks for brightening all of our days with all this color, charm and sentiment...Ahhhh, just makes me feel good!
Very very cool vintage shop and such a sharp eye you have Kim...you captured it all so well!
Posted by: Mary Johns | June 04, 2009 at 12:38 AM
Kim,
That was a great store tour. It must be wonderful to live in a town with old homes and a happenin downtown!
The soap looks yummy.
~elaine~
Posted by: Elaine L. | June 04, 2009 at 01:02 AM
Kim how lucky you are to have all those treasures down town!!
Alison
Posted by: Alison Gibbs | June 04, 2009 at 06:42 AM
Kim,
Thank you for the perfect start to my day. Eye candy shopping!! Love the shop - know you enjoy browsing through it often. I would love to try the soap - looks wonderful.
Gail
Posted by: Gail | June 04, 2009 at 08:04 AM
So in love with your blog, there are days I come in over and over just to get my fix. Thanks Kim!!
Valerie
Posted by: Valerie | June 04, 2009 at 08:24 AM
I love that antique shoppe and I would love to go antiquing with you. I really want that table cloth..almost looks like something from Pottery Barn. Thanks for taking us with you!
Posted by: Kerry | June 04, 2009 at 09:18 AM
OMG!!!! I am SO planning a trip here. I swear I saw about 10 things I want just from your photos. The soap sounds divine, and I would love the opportunity to win a bar!
Posted by: Barbara | June 04, 2009 at 09:49 AM
Such a gorgeous shop! Thank you for the tour of Vintage - I think I'll take a peek in a few of my favourite thrift shops this afternoon :-)
Posted by: Deb | June 04, 2009 at 10:22 AM
I love shopping with you! What a treat!
Posted by: Sylvia | June 04, 2009 at 10:23 AM
Thanks for the tour! Gives me lots of ideas!
Posted by: Brenda Fuller | June 04, 2009 at 10:32 AM
I was just in awe the entire time I was looking at all those wonderful photos! Thanks so much for sharing them!!
Posted by: Loretta Bankston | June 04, 2009 at 10:51 AM
I just discovered your blog for the first time today, and I've fallen completely in love! Thank you for posting such wonderful photos!
Posted by: Debra Rose | June 04, 2009 at 10:51 AM
When can I move into that shop? :-)
We have a chair very much like the one in that first picture and I've been unhappy with it lately because it's faded and the cushion is a bit flat - that photo gave me the inspiration I needed to look into getting it reupholstered.
Posted by: casacaudill | June 04, 2009 at 01:18 PM
Thank You! Loved the tour of Vintage! Love the red cross bag and flowered chair - thanks for their website.
-Sue
Posted by: Sue | June 04, 2009 at 01:28 PM
Mmmm. . . I can smell that French soap.
Thanks for the shopping trip and can't wait to hear more about what you bought there!
Your photographs are great!
~Pamela
Posted by: Pamela | June 04, 2009 at 01:38 PM
Thanks for taking us along! I'd love to win some soap! ~Mandy
Posted by: Amanda | June 04, 2009 at 04:49 PM
Kim, I am enjoying your blog. I never know what you will have posted. I am a "vintager" too. My decorating style is Country Cottage with a little Victorian thrown in for good measure. I've been collecting for a while, but I collect to decorate not for collecting's sake (I don't have the room). I have alot of vintage items from the 30-50's and when I moved into this little ole 1920's home all my bowls and vintage linens felt like they were home.
Thanks for the drawing!
Posted by: Kathy | June 04, 2009 at 04:56 PM
What a gorgeous shop! I'd love one of everything there!
Posted by: Ginger | June 04, 2009 at 05:14 PM
All wonderful things! I wish I lived in your town! Thank you for taking us with you through the shop. . .I would love to be included in the drawing for the soap, thanks! :)
Posted by: Holly | June 04, 2009 at 05:49 PM
Thank you for the tour of that incredible shop. I think I saw something I wanted in every photo!
Can't wait until the next road trip!
Posted by: Natalie | June 04, 2009 at 07:14 PM
What a great tour -- I'd love to have the old rusty porch glider -- I remember one from my grandma's house in Nebraska.
The soap sounds wonderful -- add my name to your list, please!!
Patty
Posted by: Patty | June 04, 2009 at 07:16 PM
Thank you so much for taking us shopping! Enjoyed all the pictures.
Posted by: mymosk | June 04, 2009 at 07:40 PM
Pink dresser...YES! Chandeliers....YES! Upholstered French Chair...YES!! Now all I need is a little more money and my own cargo plane. LOVE this shop, thanks for sharing it Kim.
xo Lidy
Posted by: frenchgardenhouse | June 04, 2009 at 08:31 PM
I love Vintage. I had stopped in once but plan on taking another trip to Lakeland really soon! Thanks for the wonderful tour!
Posted by: Michelle Lorie DePietto | June 04, 2009 at 09:20 PM
This is my first visit to your blog. Just love it. Take me shopping again, please...
Posted by: Wendy F. | June 04, 2009 at 09:42 PM
I LOVE Angie's shop!!!! And I can say that I have a treasure that I bought there and brought alllllll the way back to California. Kim, you did such a fantastic job showing us this adorable shop through the lens of your camera. I spy several cute things that would have to come home with me again.....like that BIG "R". Hmmmm...how much is that? I was just bit by a bug that gave me an irresistable itch to buy it!!!!! Does Angie ship?
You are so wonderful to have yet another giveaway. Toss my name in your Daisy hat!!!
xoxo
Becky
Posted by: Sweet Cottage Dreams | June 04, 2009 at 09:55 PM
Hi Miss Kim...just got back after a trip and had to check out your beautiful blog...beautiful photos of the treasures you encountered. Thanks for sharing with us. God bless you. Patty in Kansas
Posted by: Patty in Kansas | June 05, 2009 at 01:15 AM
Wow, what a treasure trove!
Posted by: Cal | June 05, 2009 at 06:09 AM
What a wonderful tour! Thanks for sharing.
Posted by: Tina in Duluth | June 05, 2009 at 07:21 AM
Wow. I LOVE that shop!
Posted by: Cathy | June 05, 2009 at 08:47 AM
Thank you so much for allowing me to visit Vintage with you! I loved it. I actually found a red lantern like the one pictured here at a flea market a couple of moths ago. It looks like the exact one. Im going to post a pic on my blog today, incase you want to check it out!! I wish I lived near you so I could actually visit Vintage and have some tea afterwards...
Well have a great weekend:)
Liz at the Shabby Chiki Cottage
Posted by: Elizabeth Gomez | June 05, 2009 at 10:02 AM
Hi Kim!
Thank you for the wonderful trip to Vintage. It took me back to the rainy Oregon days of my childhood I spent with my cousins in our grandparents' attic filled with old treasures.
Posted by: Leslie | June 05, 2009 at 03:30 PM
Oh my goodness, that is one of the best shops I have ever, ever seen! So good I would be willing to drive to Florida to shop there! I would have to rent a UHaul but that's okay.
Posted by: Colleen | June 05, 2009 at 08:11 PM
Loved the sweet little shop, & my feet are tired from all the walking, haha. Please include me as one of your fellow treasure hunters, Linda*
Posted by: Linda | June 05, 2009 at 11:43 PM
My shopping trip inspired by your tour of "Vintage" didn't net me the great things that Vintage has, but I did come home with a great lamp, a double vintage dresser picture frame (minus the glass) and two vintage white vases. In addition, I'm calling one of the stores today to have him mail me a candlewicking cream and sugar set and a 4th of July vintage inspired picture. My daughter found some vintage rhinestone earrings and a box of cards entitled "Authors." Thanks for getting me moving to find some great things. elizabeth
Posted by: Elizabeth Compton | June 06, 2009 at 10:14 AM
This is a perfectly precious shop! Thank you so much for sharing your visit via these amazing photographs.
Posted by: Suzann | June 07, 2009 at 03:13 PM
I enjoyed our browse and have decided to buy the entire store!
Posted by: Jo | June 10, 2009 at 03:57 AM
this contest is over i presume but i just HAD to comment.
was there anything left in this store after you went? how did you not buy everything? i couldn't have said no to any of it.
i see so much that i want.
i could move into that store for a long time and only come out for coffee!
it is a fabulous store! love your pictures...as always.
Posted by: meg duerksen | June 14, 2009 at 12:07 AM
i know i'm far too late for your contest, but that's ok. i wanted to post a comment just to tell you how much i love that store we just strolled through! excuse me while i go lift my jaw off of my desk and go get something to clean up all the drool. what an awesome store. thanks for sharing with all of us.
Posted by: Patti | June 14, 2009 at 10:34 AM
Many things here catch the eye, but especially the cakes of Savon de Marsaille. I keep many of them around as I have horrible dry skin. The salt cured soap helps me keep that at bay.
The globe reminds me of Joni Webb's use of graduated sized globes in her decor on Cote de Texas.
Just seeing the French Provencial dresser, drawerless would be a good repository for shallow baskets full of vintage linens.
The gym basket of decoupaged globes is another great idea. Finally, I think the Red Cross vintage bag would be great paired with a reproduction Red Cross poster for Harpers Bazaar with a very young Lauren Bacall on the cover.
A friend wrote to me on facebook that I should check out this cottage that was very Doris Day-ish. I went and looked and it was YOUR home. I had to write and tell them that it was my friend Kim who could outshine Doris any DAY. But I took that as a compliment for you.
Posted by: Kevin Graves | June 21, 2009 at 03:01 AM
You've made my day TY--->Peggy Sue
Posted by: Peggy Sue Johnson | December 17, 2009 at 11:05 AM