hellobeautifulcreatures

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...

Finally. FINALLY. I've lived here for almost two decades, and finally I have found out what the secret is to the mysteriously happy, glowing ladies I spy every spring. I mean, it's Mud Season for goodness sake - at this point of the year I am pasty-white, anemic, and damn cranky from lack of warmer summer rays . I always assumed these serene women must be the Adirondack equivalent to the Stepford wives - blissfully unaware that they have entered the post-skiing/pre-hiking-biking-boating/what-do-I-do-today season. The Muddy Background Info Let's take a moment to set up how this adventure came about... It's spring break, my son has had no school for two weeks, and I'm working from home trying to decide which Mud Season activity to highlight. Oliver is lamenting (and by lamenting I mean repeating over-and-over-and-over as 5-year-olds are wont to do) the fact that I won't take him out to ride his bike. Now, in my defense, this is his brand-new Christmas bike, bigge...