Reware Vintage Blog

With all of the busy-ness of the Green Street Fair, I completely forgot to post the press that RewareVintage.com got in the Observer & Eccentric newspapers that weekend.

There was a great article on Handmade Detroit’s participation in the Green Street Fair with the Swap-O-Rama-Rama.

There was a picture of our record earrings in the “green picks” section.

And I wrote up a tutorial on how to make a quick and easy record bowl for the paper, too! Its the first thing I’ve ever written that was actually published and printed, so that was exciting for me.

Thanks Observer & Eccentric!!!

I spent most of my day yesterday in Toledo, Ohio buying goodies for the website. I spent a few hours in different thrift stores in the area (which I hadn’t been to in years) and got some real gems including an 80’s Diane Von Furstenberg sweater, an old school Detroit Tigers shirt, some David Bowie albums and some awesome sweatshirts - LA Gear, IOU, Sassoon, and New York Yankees - all from the 80’s! I was also really excited to find a Ben Folds shirt from his Rockin the Suburbs tour (that one’s for me!).

Next I met with Shayna who had contacted me quite a long time ago wanting to sell a collection of womens vintage clothing she’d decided to part with. After lots of emails back and forth we were actually going to meet! Shayna and her friend were super nice and a real pleasure to meet. I bought some fantastic dresses, skirts, shirts and coats from her and am excited to begin photographing them along with an entire closet here in our house full of womens clothing next week!

It was a really fun road trip, and perfect weather for the day. I met with Dan after he got off work in Ann Arbor and we had a great dinner in the city and a couple of pints of Strongbow. I can’t wait to move out that way - each time I go to that area I get more and more excited. Now if we could only sell our house here in Pontiac…

I managed to stay awake and watch the Pistons game (which was a real nail biter, but I’m so glad they won!), but fell asleep soon afterwards from my exhausting but awesome day.

I’m thinking I’ll make Toledo a more regular day trip for the website! Maybe I can even carve a couple hours out to check out the Toledo zoo!

Thanks to She’s A Betty for including one of our dresses in her bold florals post! I’m a huge fan of this blog, and love seeing us mentioned in it!

Last night was my last bartending shift at the Majestic Complex. I worked in the Garden Bowl with my “work husband” Nathan, and had a great last shift and a lot of fun. I managed not to cry the whole time, but I can’t promise that I won’t writing this out right now…

Thanks to all my friends and our regulars who came out to get one last drink from me. I was really touched by everyone’s kind words, best wishes and contributions (all my tips from the night were donated to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society)!

I’m still going to hang out there a lot I’m sure, plus I’m still going to running the Baar Bazaar (hopefully more each year now that I have more time to work on it), but I will miss seeing everyone there as often as I did. I made so many friends there, and I really am looking forward to keeping in touch with them all now that I can have a bit of a social life again!

Now that I won’t be working nights, I’m excited to work more on RewareVintage.com and really build that up even more, and to continue working with Handmade Detroit and all our future plans. I’m also excited to spend more time with Dan, my friends, and my family!

I took a bunch of pictures of my last night - look at our Flickr account to see all of them!

Thanks to the Zaniea family for giving me a job there, great experiences, and a ton of memories! It was a blast, and one of the best times of my life!

Thanks to all of the participants who came out the Michigan’s first Swap-O-Rama-Rama last weekend at the Green Street Fair in Plymouth! We had a fantastic time sewing with everyone and making so many great projects (Tote bags were the overall crowd favorite!).

Thanks to everyone who donated clothing and material for us to use, and a big thank you to Janome for loaning us sewing machines for the weekend!

Thanks also to all of the fantastic vendors at the Rethunk booth - you showed everyone so many ways to be a “green crafter”!

And last but not least, a humongous thank you to all of the Swap-O-Rama-Rama volunteers - we couldn’t have done it without you!

To read more about the weekend, visit Handmade Detroit! Pictures from the event are also on mine and Lish’s Flickr pages!