His N Hers

This past weekend I decided a change was in order for my office area. First, let me say I share an office with my Dear Hubby so my space is limited.

So we have "your half" and "my half" going on.

It helps if I can let Dear Bebe in the office with me so I can work occasionally on orders for my website or answer some of the emails I receive.

Sounds good? Not if you have antiques on open shelves in the room. Nightmare with a toddler with grippy hands.

So I decided to buy new shelving that would fit in the closet and store everthing where the doors can be closed.

That left my current shelving available for other items! I hadn't thought about it until the new space was created and I love what I've decided to use it for. My shipping supplies, boxes, ribbons, etc.

She loves to play with the boxes and ribbons which can easily be wound up again and put back on the shelf. Nothing to break there!
This is the other half of the room. It doesn't help we also have an antique booth and end up with lots of excess stuff, bins, boxes, containers waiting to be taken to the antique mall.

Rven Dear Bebe thinks it's a mess.

Goal for this year: Work on this room as well as our dining room. We had big plans when we moved in four years ago to paint and put up crown molding, etc in our formal dining area.

Ha! We'll see. I've got 11 months left.

Maybe I'll just start with organizing the rest of my shelves.

Pink Saturday ~ Antiquey Day

Just a few of my favorites from my antique day .... where I searched for inventory for my store.
"Love the Giver" cup.... perfect for a that special day coming up in February?
Pink stripes...what's not to love....


A Lenox collectible for sure but this sat on my window sill in the kitchen for a day and I almost kept it for myself!

Definitely for Valentine's Day!

And my MOST favorite...this pretty pink porcelain ROSE lamp finial! Wonderful!

Thank you to Beverly at HOW SWEET THE SOUND for hosting Pink Saturday today!

Just Listed: Rose Lamp Finial, Silver Sugar Tongs, Valentines, Vintage Cards, Pearl Choker & More!

Excited to bring you some of my latest finds, available right now on the website.



Antique spectacles from Boston. Comes with the case marked with the optometrists name and address in Massaschusetts.

Loved the look of this box! Great size for displaying in your sewing/crafty area.

I have another larger angel on the site... would make a nice trio.

Vintage greeting cards! These always go early.

This 1950's pearl choker is absolutely darling.

This was my favorite find of the day! A porcelain rose lamp finial. Amazing! I had never seen a rose finial before.

And last but not least....vintage Valentines. Just in time!

(Thank you, these have SOLD!)

Lookin' for Love in Antique Places

It has been awhile since I went on an inventory hunt. How could it be the middle of January already?



We started clearing out some of the old inventory last night. Some of what didn't move during my end of the year sales is now going to our antique booth. Rearranging and changing out items brings a new look to our space as well as to the Bella Rosa site.



Hope you enjoyed your holidays and are gearing up for Valentine's day. I'll be on the lookout for some vintage heart ephemera and more! Stay tuned!

PINK SATURDAY~ In the PINK

Happy New Year to all my favorite Pinkies!


Today Beverly of How Sweet the Sound, is having a mini-theme.

Projects we are working on.

Well, I'm in the process of moving out old inventory and making room for new inventory.



So, to help me do this and to celebrate 2010 I'm having an "In the Pink" sale on my website, Bella Rosa Antiques. This is just for PINK Saturday viewers, readers, and participants. Sale ends tonight at midnight.


If it is PINK you may have a 30% discount, right off the top, no further rules apply!


To give you an idea...here are just a few items I found that I considered pink:


(Thank you, this has SOLD)

Just email me at BellaRosaAntiques(at)verizon(dot)net about the item you would like to purchase and mention PINK SATURDAY! Include your zip code so I can calculate your actual shipping.




Have fun looking and have a very happy new year!

Special End of Year Clearance Sale For Mailing List Customers

What a better way to ring in the new year by offering a sale to my special mailing list customers!

If you haven't joined yet and want to participate in OUR BEST SALE EVER....

Click

HERE to find the mailing list. I'll send you the sale info soon after!

Gotta love an end of the year clearance sale. We're looking forward to bringing you "new" and unique antiques in 2010!

Snow Bucks... Perfect for an Old Fashioned Christmas

Just in time for Christmas....



It's either Comet or Cupid....



No, make that Donner or Vixen....

Ut oh! Fighting over who gets to pull the sleigh!


Well, we've cleared out enough snow to get out and about...we're not used to getting 15 inches this early in the season. It wasn't even offically winter yet.

Getting ready for Christmas! Hope you're all enjoying the season.

Pink Saturday: Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow!

Happy Pink Saturday! We're about to get slammed with snow here on the East Coast so this post is about snow...and pink. Pink jammies that is!

This photo of Dear Bebe eyeing the snow for the first timewas too perfect not to use it for Pink Saturday.

We're also sharing the theme of holiday traditions. Not unlike other households we have typical traditions

Each year Dear Hubs and I put up the tree together and watch It's a Wonderful Life. He had never seen it before he had met me.

The other tradition we have is to hang the pickle ornament somewhere on the tree and let our neice and nephew look for it to receive a special present.

We also remember the reason for the season and celebrate the birth of Christ on Christmas Eve. We each open one gift.

For more pinks and holiday traditions visit Beverly's blog at How Sweet the Sound.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

A Christmas Break

It's nice to get away, even for just a day or two, isn't it? Recently Dear Hubby and I got a chance to spend some time at this wonderful lodge. Very similar to the summer lodge on the movie, Dirty Dancing.


Their slogan is "Where the Past meets the Present." Well, for a couple of antique hounds like us, it is just perfect.


Their staff puts together this fabulous display. The gingerbread house is baked on the premises.
See, fun the old fashioned way. We love it!


Mmmmmm. Just look at all of that icing.

In the grand old library filled with antique bookshelves (the kind with the glass doors) is this huge Christmas tree. I love how it is flanked by statuary angels holding the pink ribbons from the tree! (Now there's a pink saturday post!)

We loved having this break in the action...right before the holidays get too hectic and crazy.

I hope it's a place we can go and enjoy old fashioned charm for years to come. It's hard to find!

And speaking of antiques...I'm taking a little break from shopping for Bella Rosa Inventory. The store is still open and I'm still shipping out...but will return soon with "new" finds... Enjoy your holiday!

Pink Saturday ~ A Few of My Favorite Things...

This week's theme is about sharing a Christmas story.

My most impressionable memory which carries lots of nostalgia for me is putting up the tree with my Sister every year. We had a small artificial tree we hauled out of the basement. The same Christmas album would be played which began with the song "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year." To this day the song brings me right back to that moment when the needle hit the vinyl and the ornaments came out of the box. I always had to dance around for a few verses too, of course!

And well, this brings us to the shopping season as we head toward that special day.

Antiques are great alternatives to the same ol same ol stuff found in department stores? They carry lots of nostalgia too which is why I love them!

Here are a few of my favorites just listed on Bella Rosa (all with pink of course!) from a jaunt to a local auction and antique shop:

(Thank you, this has SOLD)

A VERY old ornament...

(Thank you, this has SOLD!)

A sweet little Russian tea tin.... aqua with pink roses? Made my heart go pitter patter!

The roses in these plates are done so well...they seem to pop off the plates. I would arrange these on a wall in a set of three... but I have a total of six of them available for a bigger display.

(Thank you, this has SOLD!)
And an older style clasp on the back of this bar pin.... put it on your coat, market bag or denim jacket for some added splash!

Advertising cards are great collectibles... especially when they have pink roses on them!

And an old pink shaving mug. Guess the fella who used this was "OK" with a pink one.

Or maybe it was a ladies mug? Hmmmm....

(Thank you, these have SOLD!)
Pink glass bead garland...always a classic!

For more lovelies in PINK, check out Beverly's blog at How Sweet the Sound.