Yard Sale TREASURES and a tale of turning into my mother!

I think it is safe to say I've come full circle in ONE area of my life.  My whole life I have been appalled by random things about my mother.  We are very different you see.  She is a free spirit.  I calculate my every move.  She says what she thinks.  I think about saying what I think.  She hops in her car on a whim and takes trips by herself.  I plan our vacations down to the minute.  She decides she wants chickens and just goes and buys some.  I gasp in horror and immediately starts freaking out about where is she going to put them and does she have any idea what a commitment that is (I now appreciate never having to buy eggs!) I could seriously go on for days!

I have always thought about how cool it would be to be like that.  To not worry about things!  Don't take this the wrong way... I am not there.  I have resided to the fact that I never will be!  Some people are just worriers/planners/type A's.  Is that changeable (word I made up!)? 

One thing that is "changeable".... the ability to walk up to a yard sale!!  I think my aversion comes from sitting in the car as a tween, slinking down in the seat, while my mom laughs and cuts up with the people at every yard sale in a 30 mile radius.  (That's another fact about her... everyone LOVES her from the very second they meet her!).  Up until the last few months I have still had the aversion.  But.. change is in the air!  I've realized that there are treasures to be had out there and that they are CHEAP!!

Here are a few of my favs finds from this weekend.

Pillow fabric ($2)

A woman hand embroidered this fabric!  She had sewn it into a chair cover that I ripped apart and was able to get 2 pillows out of it.  It is so beautiful.  She said she did it 20 or 30 years ago.  I think she has amazing talent and taste!  Does anyone know what this technique is called?  She told me and I have completely forgotten!

Trophy($4)

It seems trophies are everywhere these days.  I found this really heavy cute little thing at the Goodwill for $4.  Today I am using it as a vase and I think its adorable.  It is engraved with "Best Camper, Camp Hemlock, 1967". 

Lamp ($3)

This pharmacy style lamp was a pretty bad brassy color but for $3 I couldn't turn it down.  A quick spray with Krylon Fusion in Nickel Shimmer and this sweet little lamp look perfect on my desk!  I found another pharmacy lamp online in this same style for $399.  That is just absurd!

Bundle Bin

I had to go back after this guy after not being able to stop thinking about it all night!  The owner told me it was called a "bundle bin" and was from a local factory.  It is wicker, huge, heavy, and has the greatest huge easy to roll casters on the bottom.  I wish so badly I had a place to keep this guy at my house but off to the Hendersonville store he went.  Is it weird that I am hoping it doesn't sell?!?

Here's to being a little more like my mom every day!

Kandi

Spring Show

I spent this morning setting up for Karen Covey's Spring Show.  I am fortunate to be included in a very talented group of women who make and sell their products here in Lynchburg VA.

Please join us and bring a friend to our gathering at

Karen Covey's home @ 211 Howard Drive

Lynchburg Va

Thursday May 3 Noon-8pm

Friday 10 am - 5 pm

Saturday 10 am - 5 pm

Venders Include

Karen's Fine Jewelry & Photography

Karen Covey

Pottery by the Guild

Gail Kowalski & Harriet Hellewell

Floral & Landscape Paintings

Myrna Nein

Colorful Impressions-Ladies Fashions

Shirley Phillips

Boudoir

Kasey Forehand

English & Asian Antiques

Carthy Hensley

Woven Home

Rebekah Moody

A sampling of my products, and design services...

Wedding Shop
(Love/Be Mine Pillows)
(Personalized Monogram)

Little Bitty Shop
(Monogram Pillow Orders)
(Monogram Baby Blankets)

Holiday Pennants

Wreaths
(Antique Hymnal/Book)
(Burlap)
(Rag)

Kitchen Shop

(Tablecloths/Napkins)
Homemade Strawberry Jam

Fabric
(Grab Bin/$5 yards)

as always you can custom order!

Hope to see you!

Rebekah

Pillows at Boudoir in Lynchburg

Exciting news!!  Woven Home's custom pillows are now available at Boudoir, a boutique lingerie store in Lynchburg, VA.  The owner has decided to expand her offerings from lingerie, to all things bedroom.  Boudoir will carry our custom pillows,  lavender saches and bedroom accessories.

Boudoir located in the Boonsboro Shopping Center

Look close and you will see our Valentines Day decorations in the window display.

string of hearts ($15 each)

lavender saches ($5, $7.50)

valentine's pillow display



"be mine" pillow 13"x 20"  $55

"Love" pillow 20" square $65

one of a kind heart pillow 20" square $75

one of a kind purple velvet heart 18" square $55

  If you are not familiar with our product, we make "pairs of a kind" custom pillows that we sell through our website, and locally in Lynchburg, VA and Hendersonville, NC.    Pairs of a kind because most of our clients want two of the same pillows, and they don't want to see the same pillows in their best friends home.    If I make the same design more than once, like my word pillows, we vary the fabric.  We sell pillow covers, and we sell our pillows with down inserts.  All of the pillows above include the down insert. 

You can also find our product at Old Towne Market in the Locus Street location Hendersonville, NC

Valentine's Day Ideas

This week has been exciting and crazy! Woven Home has been invited to sell our products at a local store, here in Lynchburg Va.  I will share more about this in a future post, but I have been cutting and sewing all day, everyday to make enough product for our display.  As therapy, in my down time I have been surfing Pinterest looking for Valentine's Day ideas, here are a couple of my favorites.....(all of these images can be found, and linked back to the original creator if you go to my pinterest page ((Rebekah Moody)) and look under Valentine's Day ideas)

how cute and easy is this wreath!

homemade valentine's day card

candy cane hearts

hearts can be found at Michael's, paint with chalk board paint

paper love art, easy to do with a cricut

These are just a few of the images I have found and loved this Valentine's Day season.  I think I will be running out to Michael's tomorrow morning to buy hearts and chalk board paint.

Rebekah