Mission's new consignment store; Winstead’s Metcalf closes
As a couple left Mission ’s A Fabulous Find, a clerk called out, “Have you-all been to our new store?” Sharon Choikhit opened A Fabulous Find in mid-2012, in a 11,500-square-foot space at 5330 Martway St. in the Mission Mart Shopping Center . It features about 175 vendors selling antiques , home decor, memorabilia, books and more. In March, she took over a 9,700-square-foot space a few doors down at 5304 Martway for One of a Kind Home Furnishings & Fashion, selling consignment furniture (new lines, vintage and antique), as well as home decor and accessories, and new women’s clothing, jewelry, accessories and gifts. The store recently had a wood fringe chandelier for $740 and a mantel clock for $545 (if you break it, you buy it, a tag warns), along with red flowered Sur La Table dinner plates handcrafted in Italy, a wine cabinet (or bathroom storage cabinet , a tag suggests), a roll top desk, pewter server, a suitcase chair, alphabet bamboo rug and much more. People with furnit...