I love stuff...all kinds of stuff. I love looking at stuff.
Touching stuff. Knowing stuff. Hearing stuff.
Smelling stuff. Talking about stuff...
Touching stuff. Knowing stuff. Hearing stuff.
Smelling stuff. Talking about stuff...
You get the picture.
Now, I'm not talking about that big ticket, showy, all-about-label kind of stuff. I'm talking about those things that make stop and look twice. It might be old, repurposed, dirty-damaged-or-dinged. It might be full price, marked to 75% off, or free on the side of the road. It could be something that makes you look back to your childhood or something that makes you yearn for future days. It could make you laugh. It could give you comfort. It could just be...it.
And I love to be the person that finds "it."
I've been on the quest to be a purveyor of "it" my whole life. I come from a long lineage of window shoppers, bargain hunters and pack-rats. My crazy aunts would sneak me out of Catholic school on a regular basis to take me shopping after a ladies lunch and fashion show at the local tea room. I grew up in a town that hosted one of the biggest and best monthly flea markets in the country. After college, I abandoned my degree in Economics and went into the Procurement world, buying everything from ethnic foods, singing wall mounted fish, antiques, gourmet cheese, high end technology...the list goes on and on. As a buyer, I could go out and find the coolest of cool, the neatest of neat, the awesomest of awesome...and for a short time there, I lived out one of my dreams -- creating and opening my own shop from the ground up. I was able to manifest buying "it" into selling "it" and that was "it" for me.
Five years ago, I was a single girl in Chicago with a sweet paycheck and a whole lot of freedom. Food, friends, entertaining, travel, and the smell of new shoes on the Nordstrom's sales floor filled my days. I'd hit art house movies, catch the late set of little known local bands, and wander aimlessly through open-air flea markets in search of that "awesomest thing."
And then I went out and fell in love and some things changed....
Now, as a stay-at-home-mom who is preparing the family for a big move to a new state while her husband travels a lot, I don't get out much. Although my wanderlust has been put "in-check" for the time being, I still haven't lost my passion for cool stuff. In fact, my life changes and new role as a wife and mother have opened the door to a lot of things I never bothered with in the past. So many more "its" than I could have possibly imagined.
So today my friend, you will benefit from my current state of hibernation as I get a little tangled up in my favorite past time -- as my father once said -- Swimming the Web. This blog will serve as my outlet and allow me to be a purveyor of all things neat-o again.
So, hold on to your time and money....because I'm going to love spending it for you.
