Tuesday, May 29, 2012
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
Thursday, May 24, 2012
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
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
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
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Destination Found Preview
Monday, May 14, 2012
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
P.S. I will add Sweet Cynthia's vignette tonight so check back to see her work.
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 |
Saturday, May 12, 2012
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.
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Sweet Ruth Anne |
Sweet
Friday, May 11, 2012
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
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Meet Sweet Lisa
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Lisa Matthews |
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
Sunday, May 6, 2012
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.
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.
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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
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
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
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