06/26/2026
A letter to the vintage community,
With an incredibly heavy heart, I am sharing that The Common Place will no longer have a physical presence at The Cotton Shed Vintage Market after next week (Tuesday, June 30th, 2026).
I’ve devoted the last three years of my life to a place that, unfortunately, has failed the very people that have built it to its success today.
And when leadership fails the community, the only thing left to do is build a better one.
When I envisioned The Common Place brand, I wanted it to feel like walking into a home. One where you don’t even need to knock on the front door to be welcomed in. For the last three years, that is exactly what I tried to build in-store - a place to host stories, from people to antiques alike. The human craftsmanship instilled in antiques is a love letter itself to the patience and skill that we as people are capable of, and it has been my absolute honor to share those love letters with you.To my regular customers who stopped by just to say “hi” in the booth, and to my fellow vendors who became family, thank you for stepping into that home with me.
Connecting with you has been the absolute best part of this journey, and what hurts the most will be no longer seeing your faces and making my pieces easily available to you in the market.
Without you, there never was The Common Place.
While I’ve made the decision to end our in-store presence under these circumstances, this is definitely not the end of The Common Place.
I don’t know exactly where things go from here, but I do know the story isn’t over. I can’t wait to welcome you back into our home, wherever that may be next.
Home isn’t just four walls, but a feeling.
-Shelby