fremont vintage mall

it's the final countdown

hi everyone! i apologize for my extended silence here last week. it did give me some time to think about  life, work, and where this blog is going, but i missed all of you. more on that later though, because today is a big, albeit sad, day...


it's true- today is the last day for Gather and Hunt in The Fremont Vintage Mall. i don't think the full weight of that has hit me yet, but right now i'm a big mixture of sad and excited. sad, because i've had so much fun doing this over the last years and will really miss it, but excited because we're having a party tonight and i'm looking forward to seeing friends, customers, and all the wonderful Vintage Mall staff. 

so, if you're in Seattle, please join us tonight for some sale shopping (bonus discounts from 5-7) and giveaways at the Vintage Mall and then head over to Red Door for a little celebration (they have a great patio, good food and tasty bevs)! 

moving sale time!

as i've mentioned before, the mister and i are packing up and moving to California at the end of the summer. this means the Gather and Hunt space at the Fremont Vintage Mall is moving too, so we're having a big sale!

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if you're in or near Seattle, stop by our space before July 30th to find lots of great vintage goods at amazing prices! 


and make sure to mark your calendars for our Grand Finale Sale and Party on July 30th from 5-7PM! we'll have extra special sale prices on all remaining merchandise and some fun giveaways! after the Vintage Mall closes at 7, we'll head over to Red Door to celebrate and connect once more! i hope you'll join us!

new arrivals

a few new goodies arrived in the vintage mall space this week...

 
i just realized i set the date on that perpetual calendar wrong!

if you're ever interested in an item i post, but aren't local to Seattle, please message me and we can probably make arrangements!

new arrivals

i added some fun things to the space at the fremont vintage mall this weekend! have a look...

baby brownie with case and a brownie 13 MM (plus that awesome Super 37 that came in a few weeks ago)

fun projector reels- how would you use them? 

vintage office supplies are so wonderful- especially compared to today's ugly plastic stuff

ah crewel, so perfectly retro

these aren't new, but i moved them and i just love the pattern- buy one or the whole set! 

lovely south american woven wall hanging- great colors! 

should have photographed this one at home- bad photo, but a really cool lamp! 

i'm feeling extra ambitious today and am working on a 2nd Tuesday post- a look into the 'archives' (aka, stuff i'm saving for the farm chicks show), so stop by this afternoon and take a peek!  i just discovered my camera made a little trip to my mister's work today, so no archives post today. oops!

oh, and if you didn't follow along on last friday's finds to fancy- the live edition, i've just added all the photos to the original post, so scroll down and have a gander at all the fun stuff we found!

gratitude

there was a time when i worked in a cubicle. a grey cubicle. i was surrounded with perfectly lovely people, people whose voices i could hear over the walls of my cubicle, but who i couldn't see. this made me a very sad girl. then one day, i left this land of cubicles and ventured out on my own. i miss the people i met in those cubicles (and the ones who were lucky enough to have offices), but i greatly prefer the life i have now.

if you didn't already guess- today i am grateful for the opportunity to have a business. and this business wouldn't be what it is without a place to display and sell all the vintage goodness i gather each week- the Fremont Vintage Mall.

{photo via Reware Vintage}
the FVM is a collection of vendors who lease spaces and then fill those spaces with whatever sorts of vintage goods appeal to them. the FVM provides an awesome staff so as a vendor all i have to do is restock my inventory, tag my goods, reset displays, and tidy a few times a week (in an ideal world). it's a great, low-risk way to start a brick and mortar vintage business. this made it a great choice when Melissa and i were starting our first vintage business, Dear Darling, since we were living in different cities and had no idea if we'd make any money!

 a bunch of our friends, Melissa, and i at the Dear Darling grand opening.
 the space at the FVM has definitely changed over the last few years...

at the Dear Darling grand opening

the last few months of Dear Darling

right after the transition from Dear Darling to Gather and Hunt


after trading out some grey shelving for white cabinets 


...but every day i'm filled with gratitude for a place where i can bring vintage treasures to find new life with others who love vintage.

what are you grateful for this week?

P.S.

if you're in the Seattle area i hope you'll visit the Fremont Vintage Mall to see all the vintage goodness for yourself. starting tonight you also have the chance to get some great deals at the grand opening of FVM owner Jamie Hoffman's newest project, Auction House. for those of you outside Seattle you can shop for great vintage clothing and accessories at their sister company- Atlas Clothing- on Etsy.

on the hunt: instagram edition

one of the primary ways i find goods for the gather and hunt shop is estate sales. the thrifts can be kind of hit or miss in Seattle and their prices have gotten a little out of control, so estate sales are the way to go. of course, sometimes estate sales are just as hit and miss and this past weekend turned out to be a feast and famine weekend at the sales...

famine. friday was terrible! two different sales and all i found were these two items:

love the colors on this cute water jug! 

a whole stack of shooting targets from Sears!
they're great items, but only two things? come on!

feast. saturday was epic! i had seen a sale listed in west seattle that was being held by my favorite estate sale company out here- Donnelly & Donnelly (they are such good people and their prices are very reasonable)- and from the photos they posted i knew it was going to be amazing! 

my best 'haul' in weeks!

my good friend katie and i headed over a little over 2 hours before the sale started so we could get our names on the list. we grabbed some breakfast and then came back for our numbers (estate sales are complicated out here- but i'll save that for another post)- #15 and #16- not too shabby! with numbers like that we were in the first wave of people let in and we split up and started filling our enormous bags! 

heading out on the road at 6:30am definitely requires our fuel of choice- house made chai from Victrola Coffee

katie and i debated about who should buy this lamp. turns out katie has enough lamps, so i grabbed it for the shop. 

katie picked up that cute raccoon shoe brush guy to put outside her apartment building for her tenants to clean their shoes. we accidentally broke one of 'coonie's' paws off but a little super glue set him right!

katie found some amazing stuff, including that beautiful turkish rug. it had a few little holes so it was a steal and it'll look amazing in her apartment!

while i was unpacking everything the afternoon sunlight was illuminating all the vintage colors just perfectly so i snapped a shot of the prettiest stuff. 

my favorite find from the weekend. i saw this blanket in a photo and deduced which room it might be in. i made a beeline for it when we entered the house and snagged it seconds before another lady scooped up most of the blankets! 

i hope you enjoyed this little peek into the weekend hunt! if you're intrigued about estate sales now, keep  an eye out for a post i'm working on- the g&h guide to estate sale victory. 

new arrivals

my apologies for the silence here over the last few days. i do have a bit of an excuse though- i've been busy gathering up new goods for both the vintage mall space and the farm chicks booth!

here's a peek...

sweet cow creamer

a travel bar set! 

the cutest little 'baby brownie' camera

antique car horn- still working

some fun odds and ends

horse photo and some new frogs (i'm contemplating keeping all of these)!

cool world map mini trash can 

brass directional light 

a whole stack of suitcases!

a plethora of old atlas canning jars (love that green color)

a whole bunch of great office supplies

so that's what i've been up to. now to get it all organized and cleaned up! what have you been up to?

new arrivals!

some fun new goods arrived at the Gather and Hunt space in the Fremont Vintage Mall today! i know not everyone reading this is in Seattle, but i hope you can all enjoy a peek at some of the treasures i've found lately!

fun horseshoes

player piano scrolls

great brass whale bookend

a few new industrial office goodies

kitschy ceramic unicorn and eagle crewel

new business cards are available now! 

new year refresher

as i mentioned the other day, i've been making some slight changes in the gather and hunt space in the fremont vintage mall. one of the biggest is trading out the grey shelves, which were a remnant from the dear darling vintage days, for some larger, brighter pieces. in addition to the new fixtures, and some rearranging, i'm also planning to recover one of the walls this month with some natural canvas fabric. i think these changes are slowly helping to give the space the gather and hunt feel.

while i was bringing a few new items in yesterday, i actually had my phone with me so i snapped a few photos...



what do you think? i feel like it's coming along nicely!

here are a few new arrivals as well...

perfectly patina'd typewriter table with two folding 'wings'. i really wanted to keep this one, but now someone else can give it a good home!

really old, cast iron music stand with a beautiful decorative base. 

rustic and useful, this drawer unit is made from an old wooden liquor crate and has some cool old shipping tags from portland and seattle stuck to it. 
that's all i have for today! this weekend i hope to share with you some of the happenings around here as i prepare for alt summit!

this just in

today brought a little remodel to the space at the fremont vintage mall, as well as some fun new goods...














unfortunately, i ended up without my camera or my phone while i was setting up the new displays today, so a peek at the new look will have to wait!

i hope you're all enjoying the weekend! if you've been gathering some vintage of your own, i'd love to see some photos- send them to me, along with your permission to post them, and i'll feature you in a new series i'm working on- 'get anything good?'.

this just in

a few new arrivals to the gather & hunt space at the fremont vintage mall...

cool orange mechanics laundry shop towel

a little silver sparkle- pewter pitcher and tin measuring cup

just in time for those holiday ice rinks

lots of science lab goodness

my favorite item right now- canvas tote with leather straps and handles

from my personal collection- a howard miller world clock (light works, clock needs some work)
happy shopping!

a work in progress

it's been a busy month around here- seems like every month is a busy month these days! while i haven't done as much as i would like at the new gather & hunt shop space, i did make some good progress last weekend (thanks to the help of my mister). thought i'd share a little peak (i'd love to hear what you think, please comment)...

gather & hunt- the shop

the space in progress

i was excited to find this weathered nautical flag

at the top left are the cutest little match boxes- they're called 'swedish luxury matches'

the most enormous dictionary i've seen

i love these old cones of various fibers and threads

classic lab/art stools

a great find- WWII footlocker that belonged to a consulate member stationed in France