Patience is king

WARNING: Usually I take pictures specifically for each blog post, or a blog post comes from pictures I've taken. In this particular case I have none. You will be mercilessly subjected to my stinking cute kids.

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Last week over at the new TVB blog, Libby posted about hating her dining room and doing something about it...

Wait.

You guys read this blog, right? It's basically a super-blog. While Libby and Katherine still have their individual blogs, Alexander Salvage and BackGarage, the two co-creators of The Vintage Bazaar are putting the pedal to the metal hand in hand.

Wait.

...Oh, man. Right now I'm listening to Shrinebuilder, which among others, include metal god Scott Kelly of Neurosis(possibly my favorite band of all time) and Dale Crover of The Melvins, easily making them a super-group. The Vintage Bazaar is super-blog. Therefore, The Vintage Bazaar is Shrinebuilder. whoa.

Sorry about that, I enjoy breaking life down to its most purest form, hardcore/ metal bands.

So, anyways, I commented(on Libby's post) that patience is king, and baby, in this vintage business, it's the truth.

We can all agree, for the most part, money is the biggest factor. I guess in a perfect world I'd drive my Cadillac Escalade with rims to the swankiest boutique on the northside and buy whatever leather couch I wanted. Unfortunately, this is real life, the democrats control the White House, so not gonna happen.

Even if I had money to burn, I'd still be hitting strangers homes to rummage threw their earthly possessions. For all the reasons that estate sales( or all secondhand living for that matter) are wicked awesome, catalog-like predictability is not on the list.

Patience is king. Not only do you need to find that perfect "something". You need excellent condition, good timing, and a damn good fair price. At least in my experience, finding the perfect, whatever, is not that hard. It's finding the perfect of something you're actually looking for.

So we wait. My wife and I have been looking for a leather couch for almost two years. Our current couch below is great, and vinyl is the best there ever was with three little rascals running around.

But! If I could get it in red leather, cushioned arms, and one more spot wide, oh baby...baby, baby, oh.

The hunt continues.

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Categories: Howto.

Tags: amateur photography, Chicago, estate sale find, sweet vintage goods, thevintagebazaar

By Morgan

—October 21, 2010 at 12:00 pm

Have I gone too far?

Heck no! I've languished without art in my life for far too long. While I'm not gonna be holing myself in my attic with my oil paints anytime soon, Manly Vintage's Etsy shop will be pulling no punches. Personally, I need to try and have the best pictures on Etsy. If taking pictures of one typewriter takes 3 hours, so be it. Good art always takes a long time.

I've always been competitive. I was a jock up until high school, when my competitive nature in a team setting hit a brick wall in an indoor soccer league sophomore year. When I started drawing and painting vigorously Junior year, I regularly destroyed my past work cause it didn't add up with whatever artist I was obsessing with at the moment.

Then my stint in college, forget about it. I took over the painting studio, spending literally open till close, putting thick layers of paint on just about everything in the 20' radius of my canvas. What finally tamed this monster? The love of a good women. I got married, dropped all my classes, pack my supplies in storage, got a job, had three kids. Do I have regrets? Hm, no. But man, every time I see my easel just sitting there, I want to put my fist through a wall. I have a feeling holing up in the attic with my oil paints may just happen in the near future after all.

In the mean time, I hope you all enjoy my pictures.