Summer Lovin' Contest

Dear Friends,
  This month's contest, Summer Lovin', will be fun and simple. Throughout the month leading up to the Summer Lovin' Event June 21st-24th random questions about Summer will be posted on Facebook and the Sweet Salvage Blog. For every question you answer you will receive an entry into the contest. On June 20th five lucky names will be randomly drawn to win VIP passes into the Thursday show 15 minutes early.  Good luck!

The first question is, what is your favorite summertime food?

Sweet

Summer Lovin'

Dear Friends,
Thank you all for a wonderful weekend. I am so thrilled that you loved my new digs as much as I do. The next event Summer Lovin' will be held at Sweet Salvage June 21st-24th. This will be a fabulous kick off to summer incorporating all the fantastic ways we celebrate the season. From long walks on the beach to back yard picnics, county fairs and celebrating our freedom, the Sweet Gang is already buzzing around to make Summer Lovin' a show you will love. Mark the dates and watch for the Summer Lovin' Contest which will be posted soon. Remember the contest is your VIP ticket to 15 minutes of early shopping Thursday morning.
Have a Beautiful Day,
Sweet

Grab Your Passport

Dear Friends,
    Grab your passport it's almost time to board for your trip around the World. Departure time is 10am tomorrow morning at the Destination Found station located at Sweet Salvage, 4648 N 7th Ave. Check in early for your chance to win a custom Subway art souvenir by Flert. You will arrive back to Phoenix Sunday May 20th at 6pm. Please be advised that some vignettes may be hazardous causing heart palpitations. Sweet Salvage is not responsible for jaw dropping or eye popping. Additional parking is available and there is plenty of elbow room for your convenience. See you bright and early tomorrow morning. We look forward to the journey.

Sweet

Destination Found Preview

I think it's almost time.

Dear Friends,
Here are a few more glances into the Destination Found Event at Sweet Salvage beginning this Thursday at 10am. Enjoy. Make sure you have entered the Sweet Moves Contest for your chance to win a VIP pass for Thursday, Also, be one of the first 200 guests at the new Sweet Salvage, 4648 N 7th ave, to join in the giveaway for a free custom Flert Subway Art. See you in just 48 short hours. I am dancing with excitement,
Sweet

Destination Found Event Sneek Peek

Dear Friends,
     Can you believe we are only a few days away from the Re-grand opening event Destination Found at Sweet Salvage? This is beyond my wildest dreams. The Sweet Gang has been working tirelessly for weeks now and the finishing touches are being put in place. I am amazed at the designs this month. It is truly a trip around the World. I thought today I would share some vignettes as they are evolving, listing the designer who created them. This is only a small view in to the new Sweet, remember 5000sqft my friends 5000! Let me tell you it is packed with Fabulous. I will post more tomorrow. Enjoy.

Sweet 


Sweet Kim

Sweet Heather



Sweet Stephanie



Sweet Robert

Sweet Julie



Sweet Sandra



Sweet Steam Punk



Sweet Jackie



Sweet Pat



Sweet Lisa



Sweet Katie

P.S. I will add Sweet Cynthia's vignette tonight so check back to see her work.

Jeanne d'Arc Magazines and Books at Sweet Salvage

Dear Friends,
   Jeanne d'Arc Living is now available at Sweet Salvage, double Yippee! Next week at the Destination Found Event, Sweet will premiere our newest Sweet Gang member Ruth Anne Pedersen. 

Sweet Ruth Anne

She is from Norway,a distributor for Jeanne d' Arc Living, collector and designer. Ruth Anne will be stocking Sweet Salvage every month with Jeanne d' Arc Living's incredible Nordic style magazines, books and product line. This is truly a treat for all of us. Up until recently Jeanne d' Arc was only available in Europe and their magazines where published quarterly. By popular demand they are now published on a monthly basis. Filled with inspiration, recipes and an inside look into this beautiful way of life. Magazines will be available for $14.95, can you believe it? What a great value..Please join us in welcoming our newest Sweet Gang Member. We are so very excited to have you on board, Ruth Anne.

Sweet

Sweet Salvage Giveaway

Dear Friends.
   We have all enjoyed the fabulous Subway Art designs premiered  by Flert every month at Sweet Salvage. This month at the Destination Found Event, Flert will be giving away a custom Subway Art designed for one lucky winner. Imagine being able to design one for your home, priceless. The first 200 guests May 17th will receive a raffle ticket. Julie, owner of Flert, will draw the winner Thursday night.
  I am bursting with excitement. So many wonderful changes have taken place and I have a few more surprises up my sleeve.

Stay tuned,
Sweet

Meet Sweet Lisa

Lisa Matthews

Dear Friends,
   Please join me in welcoming Lisa Matthews to the Sweet Gang. She is a true product of the hard working mid west. Lisa grew up on the industrial south side of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in a family of resourceful tinker-ers, artsy crafty folks and thrifters. Quality time spent with grandma and grandpa "rummaging" (that's yard-saleing to the Wisconsin folks) instilled in her the love of the hunt. Lisa also spent her childhood drawing, painting, taking art classes, devouring magazines, rearranging the family furniture and sketching house plans. Ever the curious type, she had a natural love for art and history which she studied in college. Lisa bummed around Europe and eventually went to Grad school for architecture. She followed that with more study abroad, some real adult jobs in architecture firms and then ten ten years ago,a move to Phoenix, which prompted a shift to commercial architecture. (Full circle...remember those childhood home plans Lisa used to draw?) The junker in her remained through it all. Three years later, in addition to practicing architechture in her firm, Studio Seven Designs, Lisa began devoting serious time to sourcing, restoring and selling unique finds with her vintage home goods business, Salvage Workshop. You'll recognize Lisa's style by her bohemian mix of raw, industrial, urban-minded, worn-in, humble pieces. You are going to love her as much as I do. Welcome aboard Sweet Lisa!

SWEET

Dear Friends,
   One of the wonderful things about the new building is the expanded space. It has given opportunity to add to our Sweet Family. This morning I would like to introduce to you one of two fabulous women who have joined the Sweet Gang.

Sandra

                                                      

  As an Ohio farm girl, Sandra was born into the “junking” life. It didn’t matter whether it was furniture, collectibles, machinery, animals, or even pets: If it wasn’t bid on, bartered for, traded or swapped out, it didn’t have a chance to go home with Sandra or her family.

  Sandra’s “love of the hunt” continued after buying and moving to a ranch on the San Pedro River in Southeastern Arizona. The farm girl gave way to the rancher, who now was collecting and selling antique Western memorabilia. Her store, called “The Stagg Ranch Collection” was named appropriately after the ranch she now called home.

  A move back to Phoenix prompted her to infuse a certain eclectic and energetic urban feel to her new finds. Sandra found an outlet for her creativity and her new style among the clients that hired her to paint faux marble on columns and walls, full wall murals, and trompe l'oeil renderings. She painted and decorated and tracked down furniture and collectibles for clients from Desert Mountain near her home in Cave Creek, all the way out to commercial and residential projects in the Windy City.

  Windy City work trips ultimately gave way to frequent travel to London. On other trips, visiting little towns in Switzerland and Italy or the back roads of Germany has given her a new outlook on the truly international reach of good “junking”.

  The challenge and reward for Sandra now is to track down and acquire the eclectic pieces locally that reflect her love of the craftsmanship and history of the Old World that she and her clients have come to recognize as her style: Old World Eclectic.

           You are going to love Sandra, we sure do.

  Friends make sure you have entered into the Sweet Moves Contest to win one of five VIP passes into the Destination Found Event May 17th.

Have a wonderful Sunday,

SWEET

Sweet's Story Continues

Dear Friends,     I was content, so I thought. I was happy, so it seemed. My daily routine had become just that, I thought it was enough. Until a day one year ago when twenty feet crossed my path. My angels, the Sweet Gang, opened doors within me I had tightly closed, asked me what could I be not what had I become.   They believed in a potential, that I had long forgotten and saw beauty in me where I saw age. I was transformed. As if I were a child again, I gazed into the mirror, for the first time in many years, I smiled.    I made a promises to myself and to them. I would embrace my dreams. I would grow in ways I had never believed possible and I would continue to make changes in myself to keep these promises. With change comes Courage. Courage to be steadfast. Courage to take risks and Courage to believe. I have Courage. With their support I have transitioned from a woman I let the World create back in to the beautiful Lady that I was born to be, simply Sweet.    Each and everyone of you has also been apart of my awakening and I thank you. We have much further to travel my friends and I look forward to our new Journey. Dreams do come true. Your Friend, Sweet