Check out this gallery for some Thanksgiving ideas! Credit – http://www.marthastewart.com/
Category: To Decorate
Indiana’s Hunt and Gather Pop-Up Market Comes to Vintage Garage Chicago For Season Finale 10.19
Dealers from Indiana’s Hunt & Gather Pop-Up Markets will be setting up at Vintage Garage Chicago this Sunday. Hunt and Gather is held several times a year at various locations in that state.
“The partnership with Vintage Garage Chicago seemed to be a natural extension of the growing interest by the next generation of antiques vendors,” says Hunt and Gather owner Carey Keenan-Rowell. “Everyone is excited to bring their wares this weekend. We’ll show Chicago what we’ve got.”
The last event of the season, the October installation of Vintage Garage Chicago will also include the popular Record Ramp attraction, as well as DJs spinning vinyl records.
“For the Vintage Garage customer the partnership will mean a new crop of dealers and merchandise,” says Melissa Sands of Vintage Promotions, LLC. “Some fresh faces and a new set of eyes curating vintage merchandise.”
The market will feature furniture, records, housewares, clothing and jewelry, decor, architectural items and more.
The Season Finale of Vintage Garage Chicago and Record Ramp will be held October 19 from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. The address is 5051 N Broadway, at the Argyle stop on the Red Line. For More information, visit http://www.vintagegaragechicago.com
U.S. Apothecary Opens On Southport
For anyone that has walked down the Southport Corridor, you’ve seen the boutique Cerat. Wedged in between Crosby’s Kitchen, Suvarna Chiropractic, Free People, and Mystic Celt, the store closed down earlier this year leaving an empty store front and everyone wondering what will come next. In merely a couple weeks, the store was transformed into the new shop U.S. Apothecary.
The store, owned by the brand K. Hall Studio, Inc., features home goods and personal care items along with a small selection of clothing and gifts. This is the brand’s first time branching out from St. Louis, Missouri, where its flagship store and other location is. The new store has been given quite the makeover, featuring exposed brick and specially made sections for candles, lotions, soaps, perfumes, and other items. Like the other two locations, U.S. Apothecary is the only place where you are able to find everything. Although K. Hall Studio does wholesale through boutiques across America, including Anthropologie, this will be the only location in the area that will feature all four of the lines that the brand has to offer.
Each product feature simple and straight forward packaging with some even including letter press hangtags. All the fragranced goods are made by K. Hall Studio, with two lines even offering cleaning products (yes – that means you can have body cream that smells the same as your cleaning spray). Right now K. Hall Studio is testing the location in Chicago, featuring it as a pop-up shop through the holidays and continuing on if successful.
U.S. Apothecary opened quietly October 6th at its location on 3451 North Southport Avenue. To find out more you can visit the store or visit the collection online at khalldesigns.com.
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Lindsay Grundy– Fashion Contributor, Poor Girl’s Guide Chicago
Connect with Lindsay @lindsaygrundy or on her website, lindsaygrundy.com.
West Town Art Walk to Canvas Chicago Avenue 10.3-10.4
West Town Art Walk
Location: On Chicago Ave from Milwaukee to Western.
Check in: 1850 W Chicago Ave (Empty lot next to Tecalitlan) to pickup official West Town Art Walk pin and map.
Parking: $5 parking in Empty lot at 1850 W. Chicago Ave.
Cost: Free (no donation request)
Website: westtownartwalk.com
Facebook: facebook.com/west.town.art.walk
Phone: 312-850-9390
Hours: Friday, 5 pm to 8 pm; Saturday, 11 am to 8 pm
West Town’s thriving art scene takes over the neighborhood on Friday, October 3rd and Saturday, October 4th for the 4th annual West Town Art Walk. Presented by the West Town Chamber of Commerce, Dovetail and Seek Vintage, this eclectic fest mimes the creative talents of Chicagoans and celebrates West Town’s diverse business community.
“Our mission is to showcase West Town as a rich, cultural hub that has a lot to offer business owners, residents and visitors,” said West Town Chamber of Commerce director Kara Salgado.
West Town Art Walk
Throughout Friday and Saturday, attendees can stroll up and down Chicago Avenue, mingle with local business owners, and enjoy art in all forms: visual, performance, culinary, music, and fashion. The free-to-the-public Art Walk features everything from artistic spins on classic cocktails to full blown pop-up-galleries and takes place within dozens of West Town storefronts, everything from restaurants to boutiques. Many of the participating venues also run their own exclusive promotions and sales during this time.
An official West Town Art Walk touring map will be distributed on-site. Other activities include: complimentary rickshaws for transporting guests throughout the event and after parties at many participating businesses on Friday, Oct 3rd until at least 10pm.
The Participating Venues, Addresses & Artists or Specials:
Ad Hoc 1948 W Chicago Ave TBA
Alcala’s Boutique 1739 W Chicago Ave TBA
Asado Coffee Roasters 1651 W Chicago Ave 25% off coffee & espresso drinks
Awake Café 1357 W Chicago Ave 25% Mocha latte & hot chocolate. Sandwich, side & drink combo for $6.95
Beauty Bar 1444 W Chicago Ave No cover before 10pm & discounted signature cocktail
Bow & Stern Oyster Bar 1371 W Chicago Ave Signature Cocktail: Vander-Slicin’ It Up” $6.00
Broken Art Restoration 1841 W Chicago Ave William & Michelle Marhoefer, Sclupture & Paintings
Chicago Avenue Salon 1941 W Chicago Ave Megan Kind, Paintings & Bella Vintaj, Jewerly
Dovetail 1452 W Chicago Ave Leah Ball, Jewerly & Ceramics
Epic Spices 1725 W Chicago Ave TBA
Five Star Bar 1424 W Chicago Ave Signature Cocktail offered
Flo Café & Bar 1434 W Chicago Ave Christina Silvestri, Paintings
Green Zebra 1460 W Chicago Ave Trio of Roses tasting $10
High Dive 1938 W Chicago Ave Ali Manesh, Projection Mapped Animations
Inside Home 1942 W Chicago Ave Kimberly Creswell, Paintings
Intuit Art Center 756 N Milwaukee Ave Art Exhibit by Found Magazine, Collage & Multiple Artists, Paintings & Sculpture
Krispy Fringe Vintage 2130 W Chicago Ave Sara Engimann, Photography
Le Thrift 1821 W Chicago Ave Christine Sanderson, Paintings, Jorie Gillis & Valerie Hahan, Paintings & Photography
Noble Grape 802 N Wine Tasting
Paperish Mess 1955 W Chicago Ave Jonah Ortiz, Mixed Media Installations
Pie Eyed Pizzeria 1111 W Chicago Ave
Seek Vintage 1432 W Chicago Ave Marisa Klug-Morataya, Photography & Yasmin Panjwani, Graphic Artist
Shaman by Chilam Balam 1438 W Chicago Ave Beef brisket tamal w/ pecan mole & free glass of virgin sangria $9.95 per tamale
Sprout Home 745 W Damen Ave “Living on the Foil-edge”
Study Hall 2016 W Chicago Ave TBA
Tarnish 2024 W Chicago Ave Cormac Kehoe, Photography
The Chicago Academy for the Arts 1010 W Chicago Ave Multiple Artists, Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture
Treva Gallery 1659 W Chicago Ave Danielle Monet Morse, Paintings
Ugly Mug Café 1458 W Chicago Ave
Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art 2320 W Chicago Ave Art Museum: Multiple artists
Unite Urban Grill 1450 W Chicago Ave Allison Evans, Photography / Signature Cocktail: “Chicago Ave” $10.00
Urban Source 1429 W Chicago Ave April Noga, Textile design
The Fine Print
West Town Art Walk is part of Chicago Artists Month 2014, the 19th annual celebration of Chicago’s vibrant art community presented by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.
How-To: Melted Crayon Pumpkin
Crayon Melted Pumpkin (credit: Robin Wulf – Poor Girl’s Guide Chicago)
What you need:
– large white pumpkin (real or faux)
– Tacky Glue
– 16-20 crayons
– Hair dryer
– Surface cover or trash bags
Prep: Remove all the labels from your crayons. Break them in half.
Set up your work area with newspaper or trash bags. If possible to do outside. it’s recommended.
How-To (Hair Dryer):
Crayon Melted Pumpkin (credit: Robin Wulf – Poor Girl’s Guide Chicago)
1. Glue your crayons in place with the tacky glue or glue gun. Glue is needed to grab the curved surface. Use wherever needed to hold the crayon in place.
2. Place your crayons around the pumpkin. You can either choose to do this all at the same time, then wait to heat or heat as you go. This depends on if you want to see the look as you go, or you know the desired outcome of colors and combinations.
3. Apply heat on high using a hair dryer. The wax tends to splatter, the higher the temperature. If you’re getting too much splatter, lower the heat. It takes a little under a minute for each of the crayons to melt and drip.
How-To (Candle) – Credit Robin Wulf:
1. Unwrap wrappers of crayons
2. Place newspaper under pumpkin
3. Light a small to medium size candle (for these I used long skinny tapers from IKEA)
4. Tilt your lit candle to the side in one hand and end of crayon directly to the flame in the other over top of pumpkin. (for a more kid friendly version use a hair dryer method above instead of candle)
5. Rotate crayon all around pumpkin as you watch it mix with the candle and crayon wax over top onto the sides of pumpkin, keep moving pumpkin around to drip crayon wax to all the area you want covered
6. Repeat with each color can keep reusing each color to add more color to pumpkin.
2. Place newspaper under pumpkin
3. Light a small to medium size candle (for these I used long skinny tapers from IKEA)
4. Tilt your lit candle to the side in one hand and end of crayon directly to the flame in the other over top of pumpkin. (for a more kid friendly version use a hair dryer method above instead of candle)
5. Rotate crayon all around pumpkin as you watch it mix with the candle and crayon wax over top onto the sides of pumpkin, keep moving pumpkin around to drip crayon wax to all the area you want covered
6. Repeat with each color can keep reusing each color to add more color to pumpkin.
Have fun trying different color combinations, plastic spiders, goggly eyes, glitter and more!
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