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This Week’s Story: Smells Like Grandma (Spirit)

(If you prefer, you can listen to this as a podcast! Smells Like Grandma, episode 1 – 5.) A few weeks ago I spent the weekend washing out old perfume bottles. Well, technically, washing vintage…

This Week’s Story: Paint By Numbers & Wundertüte

Hi, I’m Deanna Dahlsad of Fair Oaks Antiques, here with This Week’s Story, and I am a paint by number collector. (If you’d prefer, you can listen to the podcast here.) Many mock paint by…

This Time Of Year…

This time of year, we must remind you: Nothing haunts us like the junk we didn’t buy. * But it’s true all year ’round! https://youtu.be/FbEadqywFeA…

This Week’s Story: It Was The 80s – Even Lingerie Had Shoulder Pads

This Week’s Story is prompted by a vintage piece of lingerie. You can listen to the audio podcast here. This particular lingerie piece, in a powder blue satin, is more slinky sleepshirt than…

This Week’s Story: Man Enough For Pink

Hi, I’m Deanna Dahlsad of Fair Oaks Antiques. This Week’s Story is a little bit different… It’s still about an object, just not one for sale. And it’s also a story for…

This Week’s Story: One Man’s Trash Is Another Man’s… Art?

Hi, I’m Deanna Dahlsad of Fair Oaks Antiques.  This inaugural edition of ‘This Week’s Story’ is based on a mixed media artwork we found. (You can listen to this short audio…
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