Our Favorite Mid Century Shopping - Columbus, Pittsburgh, Charleston

Some of our favorite places to shop for Mid Century items

CHARLESTON, WV:

The Purple Moon
906 Quarrier St.
Charleston, WV


Pittsburgh, PA:

WHO NEW
5156 Butler Street
Pittsburgh PA

HEY BETTY!
5892 Ellsworth Avenue
Shadyside


Columbus, OH:

Boomerang Room
3274 North High Street
Columbus

Rag-O-Rama
3301 North High Street
Columbus

Eclectiques
3625 N High St
Columbus

Mad4Mod
3292 North High St
Columbus

Flower Child
989 N High St
Columbus

Atomic Cupcake Studios Pinup Photography

New stuff at Atomic Cupcake Studios! New business cards, new facebook site, new photos!

I had new pin up photography cards made at MOO.com last month and I LOVE them! Go check them out. You can even get free samples of your own designs!

www.moo.com

I am now on FACEBOOK.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#!/pages/South-Charleston-WV/Atomic-Cupcake-Studios/132851670064373

I've been shooting a lot of pinups lately so I thought I might share a few of my favorites.

Tops Off Barbershop

I have been working on a new venture over the past few months. A vintage, "rat pack" inspired barbershop opened in our city recently and the owner asked me to offer pinup photos to clients in the shop once a month. We are calling it "The Tops Off Pinup Experience". Below are a few links to news stories about it. I'm pretty excited!

http://wowktv.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=84738

http://www.wvexecutive.com/news/top%E2%80%99s-barbershop-opens-downtown

Our new look.

We are very excited with the new color. The original was a nice yellow, but it had begun chipping and was SUPER dirty. The door was brown with white plastic designs on it. We went with an era-appropriate taupe, black door and of course kept the original mid century lighting. After adding the floating house numbers we called it a day.

House numbers were a special order through Home Depot and we went with Behr paint/primer in one. It took one full weekend and about $300 for Brent and I to do it all ourselves.

Before photo of color/door:

Lots of new goodies!

I am such a slacker. I apologize and beg forgiveness. We have had quite the year. Lots of good and bad happenings, but finally back to the good ol' blog.

So...what's new? Well, we painted the house, hung new floating house numbers, hit some great flea markets all over Ohio, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. We have been super busy doing pin up modeling shoots, and we bought lots of new vintage goodies to share with you.

Because we have so many new things to talk about I will spread them out over the next few weeks.

BIG NEWS IN THE MEANTIME!!!

Some of you may or may not know I had gastric bypass surgery and lost 150 pounds. Well, I am going in the day after tomorrow (Sept. 22nd) to have my plastic surgeries to fix all the yucky skin. Blah.

This healing period will leave me with plenty of time to blog for you. Woohoo.

xoxo,
C

Be gone snow. Be gone!

It is March and I am hoping; neigh, praying that we see the last of this years snow. I am ready to plant some spring flowers, get some fresh air, and just get out of the house in general. Bring on the good weather, flea markets, and estate sales!!!



We took this picture of Brent and I last night at our church's volunteer banquet. Brent and I work the nursery at church and get to take care of all the little babies. FUN!

New Logo

I have a new company logo. Yay!



Special thanks to:

http://www.etsy.com/shop/camillechung

ME!

This is me in some of my favorite hats. I have about 75 vintage hats. xoxo

Pin Ups

This week I had a big pinup photoshoot. I also took commercial photos for a local rockabilly shop. I figured I'd share a few. XOXO

SWING DANCING!

Brent and I are getting ready to start swing dance lessons and I can't wait! I have always wanted to learn. I have been watching YouTube videos to get myself psyched out. This is my favorite, so I thought I'd share. Enjoy! xoxo

NEW CARPET and the little things...

Here are pictures of our new carpet. It went in today and we are thrilled with the vintage-esque results. YAY! I also added some pictures of details around the house. Just a few of the little things that make it "home". xoxo

CARPET:




KITCHEN WALL TEXTURE:



CLOTH WALL TEXTURE:



BATHROOM TILE AND DECOR:




WALL ART IN FAMILYROOM:


(ok, so Velvet Elvis' are more 70's, but we LOVE him!)