We Shutter To Think!

We all know that shutters add instant cottage charm almost as fast as snapping your fingers. We've always got a few pairs tucked between our monthly treasures at the shop. Can you see them here?

Look closer!

See them?!?!?!

Shutters can add architectural interest, plus a beach-y or French flair, with different paint colors and finishes. Armed with a few ideas, next time you see some shutters you know what you can do with them to add that charm to your house!

Martha's Craft Of The Day email lands in our inbox every day. It's always something simple with readily available materials, and always looks great! That's why this one really caught our eye:

(Photo: MarthaStewart.com)

Keeping the look you want in mind, re-peruse those home decorating books and magazines you already have. We're betting you'll spy more ideas than you can shake a screwdriver at!

(Photos: Better Homes And Gardens)

Or try a web search and see what sparks your interest, then take it from there and make it your own.

(Photo: DIYideas.com)

So think outside the ol' (window) box and show us what you come up with!

January: In Like A Sparkle, Out Like A Rose

As much as we love the holidays, honey, are we ever ready for a change. Outside we see gray clouds and rain, but you'd never know it but looking at our insides!

There's a touch of it everywhere. We're like a winter jacket with a pink satin lining, or a tightly wound bud with a flower bursting forth. This is not a month of your Forrest Gump box of chocolates: you KNOW what you're gonna get, and it's all candy for the eye!
We're ready to drink it in, eat it up and wear it on our sleeves!


This month's opening starts THIS THURSDAY from 6 PM - 9 PM, so button up your overcoat, and join us!

Jump Start Your Heart!

"Pink, salmon, rose, peach. I'll take a generous sliver of each"

We can't get enough of it!

It's de-lightful, it's de-lovely

And it's SO DELICIOUS!

Who cares if it's raining outside? Just like the secret satin lining in your favorite purse, this month we're busy lining the shop in PINKS!

We've decided not to wait until next month when Valentine's Day finally makes its appearance. We want it PINK and we WANT IT NOW!

Hey how did this get in here? You must admit pink is nice, but you gotta have something to make you SMILE too!

See you soon at our January opening from Jan. 21 through 24th!

Another Year Of FUN Starts in Flannel!

What's a gal to do when she's spent the last month (or more!) finding gifts to give, wrapping, cooking, taking care of kids on winter break and organizing holiday get togethers? Don your jammies, girl and TAKE A BREAK!


When you put on your PJ's and wear them outside your house, you can't help but have a good day. (You can quote us on that). Yes, maybe you'll get some strange stares, but more likely you'll get lots of smiles, and people wishing they'd thought of doing that too!

Now that you mention it, some of our customers DID think of it and carried through with that thought:


We hope you made it to our New Year's day sale, where we started the year off with not a bang, but a slouch instead. (There's a lot to be said for slouching.)


If you missed our special half-off sale, you really ought to sign up on our email list so you'll receive our monthly announcements which include our special events and sales.

So grab your coffee, shuffle over to your comfy chair and relax for now. It's gonna be a busy year, but we want you to be able to slow down enough to notice the FUN things you can do, too. Maybe you're back to work, back to school, or back to "real life" now, but we can see that flannel peeking out from under your collar!

Start It Off HAPPY!

Hope you'll join us on New Year's Day from 9 AM to 3 PM for some old-fashioned prices (1/2 off on all holiday items), complimentary brunch and boy, have we got a DEAL for you! For one day only, you can deal with our dealers to get the best price possible on ANYTHING in the store!!!

See our web site for more details, and have a HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Past Due Tuesday ~ Pet 'O My Heart

Welcome to Past Due Tuesday, where all things vintage get their due by sharing them with others!

If you are new and would like to participate in “PDT”, please follow the instructions below. We would love to have you join us!

For what purpose was the artist or maker of these vintage and unmarked ceramic figurines attending to at the time of their creation?

A menagerie of spaghetti canines, dapper dogs

smoothly finished ducks

collies with collar ruffs like a lions.

They just beg to be noticed, and will sit still long enough for us to do so!

One place we can be sure that the kitties will sit peacefully next to the dogs is our own curio shelf.

For what purpose....?? Just to make us SMILE!!!!!!!!

Now it's your turn! Please share your passion for vintage items by following these simple guidelines:

1) Post a picture of something vintage that you love, on your blog and tell us all about it! What’s the story behind it? Do you have an entire collection of them? Where’d you get it? Who did it belong to? What do you use it for, etc?
2) Add a link to your blog (in the MckLinky area at the bottom of this post).
3) Feel free to add the "Past Due Tuesday" button to your post or your blog’s sidebar.

(To add the button & image to your sidebar, follow these steps:
A. Save the image on this post to your computer.
B. Go to your add page layout page and click on the sidebar Add Gadget.
C. Scroll down to where you see add picture, click on that. Now select the image from your computer to download.
D. Now add the ROOMIES blog link in the link window and click save.)

(Please be sure to have your post up before linking in.)

4) Test your links and make sure they’re working! If your link gets deleted, it's because you missed one of the guidelines, so just reread them and repost again!
5) Visit and comment on as many of the other bloggers who are participating in “giving vintage it’s due” as you can, and have fun reading & learning about vintage items every Tuesday!

Party Like An ELF!

We ROOMIES never do anything half-way! With Christmas spirit in the air, we donned our elf ears, hats, pointy shoes and were ready will beg, borrow or steal a reindeer to get to our Room With A Past ELF PARTY! Luckily, all we had to do was pass through the seven levels of the Candy Cane forest, through the sea of swirly twirly gum drops, and then walk through the Caldecott Tunnel.





We loaded up candy, candy canes, candy corns and syrup, had the World's Best Coffee and played some games. There were a few snowball fights instigated by cotton-headed ninny-muggins but

we soon were happy once again and it was just nice to be with another humans that share our affinity for elf culture.

We made paper chains, laughed til we cried, and smiled (it's our favorite). It was overheard more than once as we snuggled good-night, that we all "feel really warm when I'm around you and my tongue swells up."

What's YOUR favorite color?

The best way to spread Christmas Cheer, is singing loud for all to hear, so we want you to know that we all are singing "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" right now just for you!

Happy Holidays,

The ROOMIES