A dream come true

About a month ago I had the idea of hosting a handmade sale.  I’ve read blog posts about little parties where handmade items are sold and it seemed like a fun idea.  I figured I would just have it in our home, set up some tables, ask a few of my talented friends to join me and we would enjoy an evening together.

I told my {very creative & entrepreneurial} husband about it and something happened.

He LOVED the idea.

And so we spent the next couple of days coming up with a very ambitious concept of hosting a party where we could also showcase a few things I love: stationery, salvaged & vintage items for our home, embellished things like pillows and art and anything silver, old or white.   We asked a friend if we could set up our shop at their amazing home and she kindly obliged.

And so, The Summer Boutique was born.

You may have noticed the image on the sidebar or the menu item up top, but I thought I’d explain a little bit more about what this event is all about.

Really, it is just us being us.

We are creative. We love using old funky things in our decorating. We find great pleasure in finding cool stuff, making something unique, re-painting, re-upholstering and finding new uses for random objects.  And {perhaps most of all} we love dreaming.

I’m hoping for a great turn-out {if you are in the Seattle area, please come by!}, but mostly I feel so grateful that my husband and I get to bring a dream of ours to life.  And that we get to do it together.

My father-in-law asked me this weekend where I was hoping to go with this.  Poor guy was living amongst his wife {our master curator of fine used goods, as we affectionately call her}, his son and me filling his house with our great finds and I think he was a little confused over our gushing! Anyway, I couldn’t really answer the question.  I don’t want to have too high expectations on this event, but at the same time, it feels so natural to us that you never know … we just may do it again.

Regardless, I feel so thankful to be able to express my creativity in a way that may inspire those around me – through my own creations and through what we will have available at the boutique.

And, like I said, to be able to do it with my husband is even more exciting to me.

It will be a busy week finishing up lots and lots of projects, but we are so looking forward to next Tuesday!

If you are interested in stopping by, click here for more information.