Collecting Antiques
Toddlers & Antiques: How To Prevent Breaks
A practical guide to prevent disaster when toddlers live with antiques. Toddlers and antiques CAN coexist quite happily without disaster! My family lives this every day. My son, James, is two and a half years old and he is allowed in every room in the house AND every room has antiques. With the exception of …
Read MoreAntiques Just In For Fall!
Antiques for FallShop Now The coziness of the ‘ber months is upon us! Instead of investing in faux florals and plastic pumpkins this year, add lasting beauty to your home with antiques and art that bring character and story to your rooms! This little collection of antiques is an eclectic mix from gorgeous Rose Medallion…
Read MoreMaximalism Without The Feel of Clutter
Let’s explore how to avoid the cluttered feel when you are a traditional maximalist who loves collecting for your home… I love stuff! I love pattern! I love color! I am definitely a maximalist when it comes to home design. I do Not like clutter and the messy haphazard chaos when things start to pile…
Read MoreFederal Era Food & Finery
A look at the “delicate” dinner table. Bring your best manners and learn how our founding fathers dined in high style at the start of the nation! In relating all I know of America, I surely must not omit so important a feature as the cooking. There are sundry anomalies in the mode of serving…
Read MoreThoughts On The Collected Interior
For me the collected interior is about layering storied decor and slow decorating, taking the time to carefully choose what you bring into your home. It is not so much an interior style as a method of and ethos to decorating. A collected interior could be farmhouse or coastal, Grandmillennial or modern. It isn’t the…
Read More10 Gifts for the Discerning Collector
Exceptional vintage and antique gifts for even the most discerning of collectors! If you are hanging around Pender & Peony, chances are you yourself are a rather discerning collector, and I bet you know a few equally persnickety ones as well. We’ve got refined tastes and shrewd instincts, so the average pretty trinket doesn’t entice…
Read MoreMy Design Tent for The Clinch River Antiques Festival
A look at my design tent for the Clinch River Antiques Festival and 5 tips for decorating a dining room with Grandmillennial style! Y’all, I’ve got to say I’m pretty proud of myself! I designed and sourced an entire room in about 6 weeks; set it up under a 15′ x 15′ party tent in…
Read MoreOur Antiquing Roadtrip North on I81
Loading up your 76 year old mother and 19 month old toddler in an SUV and a trailer to hit the interstate antiquing sounds cuckoo, no? 9 tote boxes… 5 pieces of luggage… 4 rolls of bubble wrap… 2 ice chests… and 1 stroller later we made it through: 19+ hours of driving… 14 antique…
Read MoreThe Antique Collector’s Resource Library
You don’t have know everything about antiques and vintage curios, but you should know where to look for the answers! Whether you’ve spent years developing your knowledge base about decorative arts through formal education or you are new to the field, every collector and seller needs a group of resources to turn to when they…
Read MoreThe Antique Collector’s Tool Kit
Just 4 little things are essential to help you authenticate vintage and antiques! Sometimes our senses are not adequate to determine what a curio is, its date, or what it is made of, so we need the right tools to use when examining it. I recommend keeping a tool kit with you when you go…
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