It’s always great to hear kudos about the shop. Thanks to Cathy for the nice review on Homestars.ca. Cathy isn’t the first to post something nice about Take-A-Boo. Sarah left a postive comment, too.
Martin and I always like to hear from satisified customers.
Thanks ladies.
Andrea Swinton
www.takeaboo.com
Loved Krissa Rossbund’s Traditional Home feature on gift wrapping. Gift wrapping continues to reach new heights of beauty with each passing year.
The days of slapping on a Wal-Mart bow on a hastily wrapped prezzie appear to have passed. Antique lovers wrapping tips that aren’t quite so grand as shown in the magazine can be found in an article by Martin.
Andrea Swinton
www.takeaboo.com
Amy Pataki’s Hooray for the hook article in today’s Toronto Star profiled a handbag caddy that looks a lot like the Take-A-Boo handbag caddy. And yes, Amy, your purse can make you sick. I mentioned it right here a couple of days ago.
Andrea Swinton
www.takeaboo.com
I’ve added a Freddy & Ma handbag to my Christmas wish list.
I heard about Freddy & Ma while listening to a podcast that I downloaded to my Ipod last weekend and just got around to listening to this weekend.
It was a VoiceAmerica Channel’s (yes the same VoiceAmerica Channel that our show will appear on in Feb 2007) internet radio show The Corporate Blogging Show with Debbie Weil. Debbie and her guestTypePad General Manager Michael Sippey talked about ”How to Get Started With A Corporate Blog.”
Michael mentioned a TypePad blog by Freddy & Ma who make custom handbags. Intrigued I checked out their site.
Can’t wait to hang a Freddy & Ma creation on my handbag caddy.
Andrea Swinton
www.takeaboo.com
Read in the Holiday 2006 issue of Traditional Home Jenny Bradley’s feature about Kendall Wilkinson’s shop Threshold in San Francisco. Jenny writes about the pluck it takes for Kendall to breath life into old furniture by stripping off old finishes and lacquering them in bright finishes.
My heart skipped a beat because we’re old school and believe in maintaining original finishes and the integrity of pieces.
Kudos to Kendall for her bravery.
The upside for us is that down the road, we’ll likely see these lacquered pieces in our shop when folks want to go back to a wood finish.
Downside for these folks it that these pieces lacquered, then restored have diminished in value.
Andrea Swinton
www.takeaboo.com
Just realized that our article on vintage Christmas ornaments is featured on the cover of BC Home’s November/December 2006 issue. Knew Martin’s article was coming out in this issue. Thrilled to have made the cover.
Andrea Swinton
www.takeaboo.com
