This summer, I will be visiting The Corson Building. 

Just read through their entire website.  AMAZING.

So amazing, I considered not sharing... but decided to not be silly.

Have any of you ever been?

Tell me about it. 

please.

Has anyone been to Melrose Market?  Because I'm sitting here wondering why I haven't.  Look at this gallery of all thier shops.  The place looks great! 

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I spent all day yesterday (and most of the weekend) looking forward to last night, when I got to enjoy so many wonderful things at once.  Kaylee is my Strait-loving, whiskey-drinking, cupcake-baking, risotto-savoring friend.  We've talked about enjoying all these things together for years - and now that her and her amazing family will be moving to North Dakota on a grand adventure... it was now, or not for a very long time.  I spent the evening sipping Knob Creek (favorite) and Mischief (a local distiller in Fremont), chatting with two lovely women (and laughing at two very silly little ones) and enjoying a delicious dinner.  It was fantastic and made me all the more sad to be soon saying goodbye to this incredible woman.  But, I couldn't be more excited about what is next for them and seeing them follow the calling on their lives.

Okay, I know I keep posting about Marian Built  (and that Michael Marian in return keeps posting about my posts - FYI, he is one of the nicest guys!), but he has a blog too and I especially love this post about one of my favorite pieces: The Mason Jar Chandelier!  I kind of don't want to share this because I don't want any of you to steal it before I can snag it.  These pieces are all custom made and if I am correct, there are typically only one or two of each.  But having written my post before having the opportunity to read his blogs, I was pretty excited to discover what I read in his work is exactly what he was intending to say through it - or perhaps it is more that those pieces were saying the same thing to him as the owner and creator as they communicate to the customer.  I love that integrity in the art itself - that it carries a single voice.  And I fully agree as to the power and draw of vintage right now - we don't want commodities and the  mass-produced.  We want depth and solidness - we want to feel something that has survived.  We want to know the owner of the our favorite restaurant, have our waitress remember our name, buy from the same butcher each week and shake the hand that crafted our table.  We want to return to our community. 

I shared this company with you back in December.  But thanks to my sis, I just discovered their Facebook page today.  Here it is for those of you who liked them and would like to keep an eye out for new pieces.  Marian Built is a local company with incredible industrial modern (my description, not theirs) custom-made pieces. 

You know me and my love for original, and vintage.  Knowing that it is a unique piece is important to many of us, and getting to shake hands with the man who crafted it adds a lot of value when you're making it a part of your own home.  I'm a firm believer in telling a story in your living space... and I like these as fixtures in any story.

P.S.  I noticed some new end tables on their website today.