Vintage Shopping in Tulsa: Tulsa Antique Malls

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Vintage Shopping in Tulsa: Tulsa Antique Malls

First up in our series on our favorite places to shop vintage in Tulsa–antique malls!

While a great friend may love hitting up the thrift stores and estate sales with you, an antique mall may appeal to a wider audience. For example, Palmer used to take friends and extended family to Generations Antique Mall after breakfast at Tally's on the weekends. Everyone seemed to find a trinket (like a plastic lemon tree or German Shepherd figurine) to take home or at least enjoyed looking.

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Cocktail Napkin Sewing Night with Owl and Drum

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Cocktail Napkin Sewing Night with Owl and Drum

This past Thursday, we hosted a cocktail napkin sewing class at the shop with our friends at Owl and Drum, the cutest sewing and craft store at 15th and Delaware in Tulsa. Have you been? Their fabrics are to die for, they've got cute gifts (headbands, books, jewelry, etc.) and classes that will whip you into a beautiful crafting wizard. Bianca, the owner, is delightful, kind and helpful. Since our shops like each other so much, we decided they should go on a date. Enter Cocktail Napkin Sewing Night at Retro Den. The lovely Mary Perisho teaches most of the classes at Owl and Drum, and she taught our class too. We couldn't have been more excited that she brought vintage sewing machines for us and our guests to use. To top the evening off, attendees enjoyed fancy cocktails, Antoinette's Baking Co. treats and our ever charming banter.

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We are on the Noshery!

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We are on the Noshery!

Want to know more about what the Ashleys are thinking about and doing? Meseidy at The Noshery asked us to blog a few times a month about home decorating and projects. Here are sneak peeks of two posts for her so far:

Introduction by Vignette
Hi! My name is Ashley Daly, co-owner of Retro Den, a vintage home store in Tulsa, Oklahoma. When Meseidy asked my business partner, Ashley Palmer (two Ashleys!) and me to contribute some guest blogs to The Noshery, we were pumped. CONTINUE READING

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Sara's Room: Hollywood Regency Meets Flea Market Nerd

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Sara's Room: Hollywood Regency Meets Flea Market Nerd

Our theme here is white, clean, almost stark, but with punches of color and quirk that add warmth. Kinda Hollywood Regency meets flea market nerd. Our friend Sara's chic style inspired this room. It's an office and workspace where meetings with clients could take place and creative feats could be achieved. There was so much joy in picking out what she might put on her shelves to inspire her.

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Jeff's Room

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Jeff's Room

Jeff Room 2

We just let husband Ryan in on our trick for making up new rooms in the store. He gave us a premise for our next arrangement. Mission: Make a room for Jeff, a seminarian who is a traveling salesperson during the summer months. His mom gave him these rugs with hints of pink. We tell Jeff we can make them work into a masculine room.

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