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What is it?

It's an empty bag with hand painted and hand carved limbs. No place to attach a marionette's strings...Any ideas?

Yellow

We've more costumes than the US has debt!

Well, maybe not trillions, but we have a LOT of costumes, including Rasta-zombie below.

Up-cycling

Up-cycling is the process of converting a material into something of similar or greater value, in its second life. (Transforming old T-shirts into jewelry). These two up-cycled garments were created using T-shirts (T-cycling), a linen dress, and a blouse. The finished products are a maxi (back in style!) and a parisian dress.

The jewelry is made of old T-shirts, some with added baubles.

Sarah is also a talented knitter. Check out the beanie below, knitted for and modeled by Sting! Yes ThAT Sting. That makes another cool connection to the parisian dress above.

Last Days of Summer

It's been hotter at the shop than I ever remember it being. It's hot. It's dang hot. Usually we have a nice cross breeze running through the shop through our open back doors and open garage-style door at the front. Lately, though, I think we're having a heat wave, a tropical heat wave. Up country at the farm we're starting to feel the hints of autumn in the air. It can't come soon enough for us!

One of Charlie's summer memories is having iced drinks from fat Buddha's. We found this smiling version at a garage sale over the weekend. Dunno about sipping a drink from an old man's belly!

Vintage Shell Mirror

Again with the bluegrass

This gorgeous little guitar (made in Spain) came in today. $550.00 new, our price $200ish. It's small, designed for a child, but the woman that brought it in used it because she's petite herself.

Learn Bluegrass!

Never a better time to learn to play a new instrument. Smoking deal on the Mandolin, new $650.00 our price $200.00. The student guitar is priced right at $35.00 with the stand.

Phew!

A day off. We're opening on Tuesday now, so just one day closed per week.

Consider this...

When you don't have time to bake, and really aren't that hungry anyway:

Do you Yelp!?

If you like Hawaii Consignment or buying used, consider writing a review on Yelp. Getting the word out will help everyone, the consigners, the shop, the customers, the environment (no energy used in manufacturing junk).

Empty Nest Redoux

A room sits empty except for Bob Marley, painted on a flag.  Only darkness surrounds half-used candles, random stuffed animals, and a fuzzy blanket of the yellow submarine.  A friend should intervene. A space trapped in time like a hippy in amber needs professional help to attract new occupants. No room left behind.

I decide to step in.   I can't literally step, since I am also A Space. I am a room full of perfectly good stuff that people know they can sell. The items that they bring to me they no longer use.  This is their way of getting treasures to someone who can use them.  I am a letting-go place.

Other people come to me to gather from me what they need or want without having it new.  They also choose me over a Mart because I contain Unusual Items and things that no one knows what they are for.  A few come because I hold some promise of a smaller carbon footprint.  Those people confuse me the most as they rarely buy shoes.

Whatever the motivation, people pass through my space in patterns of setting down and picking up things. If you were to watch people in building-time, you'd see a traffic pattern of moving stuff from here to there, over and over.  And now, I'm joining in by moving some of the things from inside of me to inside of that abandoned High School student's room which now sits empty.

Down a small road perched above an island bay, my pillow covers, blankets, lamps, and tchockes are making their way to their new abode.  I can't wait to see the pictures.  I feel like that empty nest just gave me some offspring.

Magical Finds!

 A 1950's Chalk Lamp lovingly named Absinthe...