Black Friday GRAND Sale

 

Black Friday GRAND sale starts Friday, November 28^th thru Monday December 1^st. This year I am happy to invite you to enjoy 15% off Entire Stock New Christmas Decor, Ornaments and all Vintage Treasures, this is a GRAND sale.  Extended Shopping hours Friday, Nov. 28^th 10am. -8pm.

In true Faded Elegance style we will host a Champaign Brunch and Holiday Cookies.  Nibble and Sip while you shop local for inspired holiday gifts. 

Enjoy a special gift with purchase, PJ Salvage bag, retail value of $15.00.  While supplies last!

We will kick start our annual holiday best decorated dealer space; vote for your Favorite decorated space and be entered to win a $50.00 Gift Certificate.

Let’s sweeten the black Friday sale… Wear you favorite PJ Salvage PJ’s and receive25% off any one item.

Wishing you and your family a Happy Thanksgiving! ~ Cheers Kimberly

Don’t miss Santa arriving in Historic Downtown Snohomish, check out all the fun Home for the Holiday family friendly events http://www.historicdowntownsnohomish.org/home-for-the-holidays-2014.asp

 

 

It’s a Great Gatsby Affair

 

Faded Elegance’s 13^th Anniversary Sale & Soiree

Friday, Sept. 27^th |5-9pm 

It’s our Biggest Sale of the Year!

 20% OFF Entire Stock Antique & Vintage Treasures

It’s a Great Gatsby Affair, Come in your flapper best and win! (Not required) Best Flapper costume judging Friday Sept. 27^th 5-9pm during our Sale& Soiree.  Winners to be announced Saturday Sept. 28^th with pictures!

Don’t want to put on your Flapper best, no worries we will be holding fabulous drawings all night, and did I mention it’s the BIGGEST SALE of the year? 

Enjoy a very special one-of-a kind Tippy Stockton Jewelry Trunk Show.  http://www.tippystockton.com/

In True Faded Elegance Style there will be Sips & Nibbles, Gifts, Drawings and Prizes

We will close early Friday, Sept 27th at 4pm and reopen for our Soiree at 5pm for our VIP friend, that’s you!

Thank you for your support over the years, I am truly blesses to be doing what I love and to be surrounded by so many talented and amazing people.  Thank you! oxox Kimberly

Your carriage, madam..

I get so tickled when I find unique display pieces for Faded Elegance. My heart skipped a beat when I came upon this golden carriage. It's new home is in our La Vie Parisienne jewelry case, showing off our beautiful French jewelry. Of course, Chloe wants the golden carriage in her princess bedroom!

This French Curio is sooo yummy!

This vintage French Country lamp is to die for! Okay, my heart skipped a bit twice that day.

Take a {peek} at a few of our treasures that you will find upstairs!

I love all tr0phies especially when they are encrusted in German glass glitter.

Amy's Key lamp~sooo clever!

This is just a peek at what's new at Faded Elegance!

Keep posted for the weekely {Peek} inside Faded Elegance

Cheers~Kimberly

Take a Peek...

Come take a peek inside Faded Elegance,

we have been busy finding new treasures. Spring has sprung in the store!

Darling Mushroom birdbath, I love mushrooms.

Sea shells add a nice natural ambiance to a room.

Every porch needs a porch swing!

LOVE the antique orchard ladder!

To Fun!

Put the bling in garden!

Las Vegas Design Center & World Market

I have just returned from the Las Vegas World Market and Design Center. It's amazing what a little sunshine and a good dose of inspiration will do for your mood.My dad heard that I was going to Vegas and decide to come along. After working at the market all day we would meet go to dinner and a show and yes gamble. I am not sure if you can really call what I do gambling but I did win $200.00 on a slot machine.

I loved this very inspirational exhibit, 12 Swedish designers
each designed a living space. I found it very interesting.

This was my first time at the Vegas market, I was very impressed. It's broken down into 3 building the A, B and C building with a huge outside common grounds with white leather couches. They have the Cloud 9 bar for buyers with models dressed in all white serving drinks and nibbles. Very chic!

I loved the new color palette for Shabby Chic. The showroom was very calming with the greys and blue hues. They are replacing Rachel Ashwell's signature pink with a french blue.

I just LOVE this new line of handmade art panels. We will be available in at Faded Elegance by February 14th. You can special order any of the art in 27 custom colors.

We will also have the art panels with Cork and fabric attached to the wood panel.

I love the French Grain panel, we will have it in both wood and fabric.

We will have numbers and monograms. I also ordered the linen pillows, the eye chart pillow and panel are super cool.

I also found some neat french country accent pieces from a new line. I "heart" these golden wings, sorry bad picture but I just had to share!

Great burlap french bulletin board.

Too cute!

Adore these little bottles!

Great burlap wine bag and tote.

Bumped into my friends from Lynden, Grandiflora. We were chatting when Chrishopher Lowell walks by, we waved a chatted with him as he went up the escalator. I think we really made his day;) If you haven't been to Grandiflora, you have to check it out when your in Lynden!

My next post will be on color trends, each week I will post on a trend so keep posted!

We still have room in our Craft Class February 4th 6-9 pm

Create your own one of a kind Crown! RSVP space is limited.

Simpatico Bubble Bath..In time with nature, love and imagination

I’ve fallen off the blog and facebook wagon…

I’ve fallen off the blog and facebook wagon…
But I am back! I’ll just get caught up:)
October was a crazy month for us at Faded Elegance. I just love October, not just because it’s my Birthday month.

You all know that Chloe and I take Halloween very seriously. We plan all year what she’s going to be. Last year she was Marie Antoinette, which was really hard to top this year. Chloe had decided on Repunzel, unfortunately when I went to order her costume from Chasing Fireflies it was sold out. We than decide to go with the French Can-Can dancer. (Chloe calls it the French Cha-Cha dancer) Well, Rocco our dog had to get in the action, so Rocco was a Caveman with wig and all.

{Rocco the Caveman}

Chloe giving out candy.

Rocco played too hard!

Kendhal even dressed up, too cute!

We have our Halloween traditions, First we give out Candy to all the Trick or Treaters at the store. After that my entire family meets up at my Grandmother’s house for dinner and trick or treating. Most of us show up in some sort of costume. We have friends stopping in throughout the evening dressed up.

Chloe with our dear friends from my Grandmother’s neighborhood.

Katie, Mari and I hit the road to Ruffles and Rust in October. We had a great time, it was a fantastic show very well run. My camera died so we took pictures with Katie’s Camera. (Hint Hint Katie, I am still waiting for pictures;)) I bought myself a B.day present, the most fabulous French top hat with a great graphic hat box. Our Faded Elegance dealer’s spaces were the BEST!
Well I think that pretty much gets everyone caught up! Keep posted I will be posting about our Holiday Events.
I promise to be better from now on:)

French Laundry Home and Bedding

{Spring Garden} French Laundry

Citrine floral toile and French Laundry wovens

You will have sweet dreams snuggled in one of French Laundry new bedding collections. Like the French Laundry’s custom furniture this fabulous bedding is made in the USA. We are currently taking special orders for French Laundry, for more information contact us via email or call the store. Come visit us and browse thru our French Laundry fabric samples. We are also selling French Laundry fabrics by the yard at Faded Elegance.

{Caroline} French Laundry

Warm blues and natural linens in prints and wovens

{Chinoiserie} French Laundry

Vintage inspired red stripes and French Laundry wovens
French Laundry {Memo Board}
This great french memo board will be at Faded Elegance any day!
I love it, a great addition to a kitchen or office.

Au revoir~Kimberly

A good weekend for a treasure hunt

Summer has arrived! What a wonderfully busy weekend of shopping, T Ball games and family dinners at our house. We are busy at Faded Elegance filling the store with fabulous finds gearing up for the 4th of July weekend. Friday, Chloe and I went on an Adventure driving to Tacoma for an Estate Sale. We had such high hopes of fabulous treasures. Unfortunately we walked out with only a Big Ben Alarm clock. You can’t keep us down! Next stop a sale in Queen Ann a friend told us about. Come to find out it was an old friends sale, the last time I had attended her sale I was pregnant with Chloe! The heavens opened up and the Sale Gods smiled on us. We loaded up with tons of fabulous treasures. One of my many favorite finds an antique scientific thermometer. I am displaying it with antique beakers and test tubes.

Saturday was Chloe’s last T Ball Game; we had the entire family out at the field to cheer her team on. It was a blast. She’s the smallest one on her team but the best batter. She really hits it! Her couch calls her “Small but mighty” Sunday the entire family woke up early in the morning to go to a sale were we scored a Victorian marble top Humidor and six wonderfully ornate chairs. Then it was time to get ready for a family soiree. It was my mom’s 63rd Birthday. We love our Soiree’s , everything I know about entertaining I have learned from my mom, Lin, She’s the queen of the Soiree’s. Monday was our best day, our good friend Julie called Sunday to tell me that she had a stash of treasures for us. I always look forward to seeing Julie and she always finds fantastic finds for me. Chloe and I packed the truck with Chandeliers, tables, mirrors, trunks and Italian Tole finds. We also purchased a beautiful French chair that I have been coveting at her house for a year. I am not sure if it will make it to the store.

My pile of favorite finds, I’d better get to work on displaying these treasures.

I’ll have to do before and after pictures.

BEFORE:

Off to work I go~Cheers Kimberly

Check out our TV commercial on channel 7

TADA! Faded Elegance and Historic Downtown Snohomish now has a 4th of July commercial on Channel 7. With much hard work on behalf of Historic Downtown Snohomish, we now have a Snohomish merchant commercial. We worked with Sparky Taft of Dynamic Results to develop a merchant commercial package to concide with our Historic Downtown Snohomish commercial . Thank you Sparky and Debbie CG, it was a pleasure collaborating with you.

Check out our commercial and look for it on TV .

Come Shop,Dine and Sip in Historic Downtown Snohomish.

Many merchants will be having specials for the weekend.
I cant think of a better place to spend the weekend~Kimberly

It began with a antique door & wine...

The husband and wife team of KnobStoppers had friends over to help them decide what antique door knob to use with a reclaimed door that they had found. A friend picked up antique door knob and put it on the wine bottle and exclaimed" this makes a great wine stopper!" 14 years later we have the KnobStopper and Cake Line at Faded Elegance. Knobstoppers have been described as fun, whimsical and beautiful. Although marketed as a wine stopper they also make great stoppers for other bottles, like a olive oil bottle. Each Knobstopper is handcrafted in the U.S.A from antique door knobs, complete with chipped paint and flaws that gives each Kobstopper it's vintage charm. Each Knobstopper is constructed with a hardwood reinforced cork.

I received a bottle of wine with a Knobstopper tied to it with a ribbon as a gift, I loved it!

Around a year ago Robbie and Angie expanded their Knobstopper line with Cake, inspired by vintage pieces. Cake is a collection that celebrates the charm of the past interpreted for modern life. Each book of their recycled paper place mats gives you 50 opportunities for etiquette training or everyday entertaining. Chloe, my 5 year old, loves to color hers which helps for a relaxing family dinner.

I would love to hear where your family typically eats dinner ? Not those formal
nights where you invite friends over and break out the good china, but your average Tuesday night. Are you the sit down at the table and eat together family, or are you on the couch in front of the TV? Go to Faded Elegance Facebook Fan Page and tell us where your family eats dinner and you will be entered into a drawing to win a set of 6 darling paper "Eat Cake" napkin holder place cards. comment by May 31st to be eligible for the drawing.

Bon appetit!~Kimberly