Obscure Relics

05/01/2026

Filled the booth,saw someone I was happy to see, went for a crab cake. A good day.

04/25/2026

04/17/2026

Busy curating my inventory for next weeks adventure. Concentrating on items that provide textural, storied and depth building character to everyday living. I’ll have goodies at all price points. One of a kind folk art that can anchor a rooms mood. Delightful and interesting discovery pieces to enhance your living space. Nautical, equestrian, primitive, vintage bar, weathered gentleman, hippie core. Visit Obscure Relics April 24th and 25th.

04/12/2026

Visit to Aldens place of work in Vermont. Amazing to behold a utilitarian structure containing the artistry of human adornment

04/12/2026

Visiting where my son Alden works in Vermont. Amazing to behold

03/05/2026

Spending an evening in the studio processing inventory. A gray day ends softly and without much notice as it is absorbed by a wet fog of even deeper gray. A purposeful lack of overhead lighting and the much intended half hazard placement of various thrifting lamps around the rooms create islands of light and shadow . Cheap deep red wine in an elegant spendy, thin as paper glass tends to be abandoned and then discovered as I go in and out of rabbit holes. Pricing sends me back in time and into thoughtfilled wonderings. Soft and warbly voices of young women singing about troubles that sell bumper stickers mellow the night noises in an old and settling structure. I wish I had better legs. I think of a boy who told me I had great skin. My socks don’t match. This a fabulous brush-how old is it? Racing thoughts and slow decision making . A night of my choosing.

02/21/2026

Set up for the flea. Having a chai, it’s amazing. Saturday moment. You dig?

02/10/2026

We are redoing the upstairs bathroom at our humble 1940s bungalow. It’s needed it from the day we bought this place. Pink sink. On a plywood vanity. I’m saying it was ugly and worn. This is a budget redo. We are doing it ourselves. The plumbing all of it. I’m doing the paint and giving it a look, right? After searching online for stuff during the recent cold snap here, with our heat on the fritz, huddled with dogs and hot tea under blankets- I heard my own voice. Buy vintage!!!! Pressboard cabinet- over 200 bucks and needs assembly-nah. New medicine cabinet- you’ve got to be kidding!$$$ I was looking at this pic from my booth this morning. We are giving this bath a very minimalist industrial nautical vibe. I spy that fish, the concrete sea captain, an antique blue wall cabinet with a mirrored door! And that water cooler would make a great waste can. I’ve already shopped other vendors for some of the items on my list. Bamboo wall shelf, soap dish, artwork. I’ll be looking for a small antique rug , peg rack, tp holder and wall scone. Oh and a small architectural salvage piece, there’s a trip to Burning Bridge. That wee bath is going to sing with voices from the past. Support local, buy from your neighbors, get a unique experience and a space you love. Source yourself at thrifts if you want. Or spend some time at your local coop shop where passionate folk like me resell. Curated items abound and at all price points. Resellers aren’t always devils. Retirees looking for purpose, dudes with time and debt, moms making it work, young people following passion and profit. I’ve been on my own since age 15, cleaned houses and doctors offices, then started reselling seriously when I had my first kid. It worked. I could drag him along to auctions . I’d pile the top of the stroller with my haul and struggle to the car. My first real booth space was in a big coop building. I’d hand Alden over to the manager, then run out for the playpen, a stack of books and toys. Tina would then plop my baby in the assembled child minder and hover while I steamrolled my inventory into the shop. I’m telling you, it was a wonder to behold. Worked so hard. I did that.

01/17/2026

Italian cookware. For a very Strega Nona kitchen.
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