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...

The gentleman on the other end of the line was sobbing. A moment ago, he had been yelling at me, but when that didn’t work, he turned to an emotional plea. He told me about his wife and children that he needed to support, his mortgage, his car payment, his utilities. He probably would have tried bargaining, but we both knew that would go nowhere. This conversation was about one thing: ending his unemployment benefits. I wish I could say I was moved. But I was two hours into my shift, and he was already the second sobbing person I had talked to. I knew there would be many more before my day ended. It was December 2010 and I was working as an operator at the Pennsylvania Office of Unemployment Compensation. It was a rough month. Many people were ending their run on unemployment compensation after collecting for nearly two years. It wasn’t because they had jobs. It was because the special period of extended benefits that allowed people to stay on the program ended every December. None of...

11/30/2014 I am not sure where to begin here..... I called up the store back in the summer of 2013, when I thought I was ready to go with a bathroom remodel as I had a contractor lined up. I spoke to M. Moore, a lady who has been in this industry for a long time so I would assume she knows what she is doing. After a conversation on the phone and several rapid return calls (this changed...  read on) I setup a loose time to meet with her on a Saturday. I got to the showroom 20 minutes late and she informed me she had to leave in 25 minutes for a previous engagement. It is what it is. I brought in design plans from the contractor and another bath showroom to help give her an idea of what I wanted. I was very specific about a few things: (1) I love a contemporary look and wanted all of the fixtures to have the same style and preferably squared shape . (2) Even though the shower was on an outside wall I wanted full coverage of water covering the 4'x4' shower floor and 18 inch be...