GIVE ME YOUR PLANTS: A SHARED GARDEN

GIVE ME YOUR PLANTS: A SHARED GARDEN

 I get my plants from friends and random people willing to give up the goods. Offered some insight on plant sharing today on The Noshery. Read a bit below.

Give Me Your Plants: A Shared Garden

I’ve discussed clipping branches from your neighbor’s curb-dumped Christmas trees, now let’s talk about getting into their beds. Flower beds, that is. It hit me that this form of plant acquisition is really the vintage shopping of gardening. I look at my vintage wedding band and love that it says “Ring ‘O’ Happiness 8-25-28″ inside. Because wearing it is being part of a legacy of love. Because my husband and I got it from some awesome people at a pawnshop at the bottom of my dad’s office in downtown Tulsa. The ring’s history and my acquisition of it is meaningful. And so it is with the newest plant additions to my yard this year. Call me a small business owner, but it doesn’t hurt that they were also free.

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TRENDING: ROCKS, COPPER, HORSES

TRENDING: ROCKS, COPPER, HORSES

We spend all day thinking about lovely home decor, and sweet, kind Meseidy over at The Noshery allowed us to wax poetic about our most recent favorite things. Read a snippet below.Trending: Rocks, Copper, Horses

Here’s a story I tell a lot: twenty-four-year-old me is at the local flea market gathering up all the brass animals in one booth. “I just love, really love, brass animals,” I excitedly tell the vendor, a rotund man with gentle eyes, wearing a top hat, flowing beard and vest, and who I’ve recently found out is nicknamed “Santa.” He tilts his head to the side and says the following in a tone that one uses to deliver a real zinger, “Well, maybe someday they will come back into style.” Ouch, Santa. Not exactly what you want to say to someone about your inventory before the transaction is complete. I should have asked for a discount since brass animals were so uncool, but instead, I looked the man in the eyes, said, “Sir, that day is sooner than you think,” and walked away with my treasures.

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FIVE TIPS FOR ASSEMBLING A VINTAGE BAR

FIVE TIPS FOR ASSEMBLING A VINTAGE BAR

There is certainly some drinking that goes on at the Daly household. I had the opportunity to share on The Noshery how I consume in style.

Five Tips for Assembling a Vintage Bar

My husband and I like to remember the first barbecue of summer 2009. We were drinking Red Bull and Olde English malt liquor and grilling hotdogs at our friend Adam’s apartment. Another friend, Jarrel, the great proclaimer, reacted to something that made him happy by saying, “Looks right, feels right.” The official mantra of our friend group was born.

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MY GARDEN, MY TEACHER

MY GARDEN, MY TEACHER

Lessons From the Garden

February is nearing its end, and while most of the country is buried under ice and snow, here in Oklahoma, we're coming upon a string of freak 60-plus-degree days. Aside from allowing us to leave the doors to the shop propped open all day, the unexpected warm spell spurred my husband Ryan into getting an early start on our garden.

Part of me is surprised Ryan likes to work in the garden - he dislikes mowing the grass so much that we finally broke down last summer and found room in the budget to hire a lawn service. But we've recently realized how much peace there is in routines and rituals. 

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We are on the Noshery!

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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