From Sheila's Tea Ministry: new consignments you will enjoy

Our friend Sheila has taken us up on the offer of consigning for charity. Here are some items from her first batch. Nice, huh? Her consignments support a tea-party ministry she does with a friend, offering respite and a spot of beauty to women needing encouragement in life. 

If you want a boost, ask Sheila to tell you some of her "God-stories" about how the Lord Jesus arranges personal blessings above and beyond what she and Jeanette lovingly plan for their guests.

Setting a beautiful table for less than $100

Charming, well-maintained set of dinner dishes by Canonsberg.

Consignor wishes them to go to a home where they will be enjoyed and used.

We hope this price reduction will make that happen for you!

86 pieces:

~ 12 dinner plates, 12 bread plates

~ 11 salad plates, 11 soup bowls

~ 10 cups, 12 saucers

~ 12 dessert bowls

~ Teapot w/lid

~ creamer

~ gravy boat w/underplate

~ large serving platter

Before Shabby Chic, there was Antiquing

Antiqued antique, small, serpentine dresser. $195.

I'm not referring to "antiquing" as in shopping for antiques, but rather a refinishing method that did homage to the look of age.

This little 2-drawer dresser is an "antiqued antique"!
It's in very good condition. Dovetail drawer construction. Top drawer is serpentine.

Original brass drawer pulls and wheels.

Here's a closer look at the Persian-style area rug the dresser is sitting on (UPDATE: RUG SOLD):

Like new area rug, 4'4" x 6'5". Persian-style, durable manmade fibers. $48 SOLD

SIDEWALK SALE (Inside!) Weds-Thurs-Fri: Christmas Decor 50% off

SIDEWALK SALE Weds-Thurs-Friday this week: All Christmas decorations on the sidewalk are 50% off. (UPDATE: I'm moving this inside; it's too cold on the sidewalk.)

Artificial Canadian Pine garlands are 40 cents/foot.

(The Living Room Consignment & Tea will be closed just this Saturday for Christmas Eve. Merry Christmas to all!)

Grandmama's purple velvet Victorian style chair

A very fun place to sit with a cup of tea.
Probably an old reproduction of an older chair; quite sweet.
$225. UPDATE: SOLD

Vintage Korean School Clock

       

The 12" dial sits in 17" frame. Cabinet height is ~35" overall.

   

This clock was hand-carried home by a GI in the 1970s. He'd purchased it when Korea modernized all the clocks in their schools.

A beautiful piece of history. If you need it to tell time, this would take a fair bit of fixing.

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Christmas decorations and gifts, lovely variety, priced to go!

All our Christmas decorations are priced to go...

from the Christmas goose and sparkling lights, to all sorts of ornaments, holiday tableware, feet and feet of artificial Canadian Pine garlands...





You'll love browsing for unique and special gift items at The Living Room Consignment & Tea.


   




Come for tea and shop for a treasure!

Visit our new layout and browse the Silent Auction.

We've finished selecting the 36 items for our December Silent Auction. The collage below features most of them, and you can see more on our Silent Auction web gallery:



Our big rearrangement is mostly done (always a few details left!!), so this is a great week to check out the Silent Auction, which ends Friday, December 23 at 4 pm.

Rearranging begins! Mossy green velvet couch waits for the new floorplan.

Vintage, channel-back sofa in moss green velvet. Original excelsior fills the seat cushions.
At 6 feet wide x ~34" deep, it's a nice, cozy size. It came in as a good deal, so it's going out for only $95! UPDATE: SOLD

I could hardly wait until our work week ended at 6 pm today, I was that eager to begin rearranging the shop into our new floor plan. We should be ready with the updated look when our next work cycle begins on Tuesday at 10 a.m.

(If this velvety green couch hasn't sold before your next visit to The Living Room Consignment & Tea, it would be a good place to sit with a cup of tea and enjoy the results of our "soft remodel".)

SALE today 12/10/11! Getting Ready to Rearrange EVERYTHING!

At the end of today, we'll be rearranging the shop, majorly, for a new look coming next week. 

We are motivated to sell what's here today, so we don't have to move it around tonight!

50% off anything in the two "smalls" sections
...collectibles, stemware, dishes, Precious Moments, vintage kitchen items...

10% off everything else, unless marked further down!

Silent Auction now through Friday, December 23rd!

The Living Room Consignment & Tea is trying something new! Our first Silent Auction!

In addition to our consignment sales, we are offering a variety of handpicked items at auction.

The current auction runs now through Friday, December 23rd, so come by, enjoy a tea, coffee, or hot chocolate while you peruse and contemplate your bid.
Winning bidders will be notified after 4 pm on Friday, December 23rd and will have 1 week to pay and collect their treasures

First in line, a pre-1900 Eldredge C treadle sewing machine in very good condition. Look at the stylish curved drawers in this beautiful drophead cabinet:




We're adding more items to the auction, so stay tuned, visit often, and/or check our silent auction web page, or our Silent Auction gallery on Picasa:

SILENT AUCTION at The Living Room Consignment & Tea

Antique side chairs: Queen Anne meets shabby chic

(UPDATE: These chairs sold 12/3/2011)


Lovely new consignment: a pair of antique chairs, refinished in roses of captivating charm:

The springs in the seat cushions are in great condition, and tell us these chairs are not reproductions but vintage.
Shabby chic refinishing and tasteful reupholstery give these sturdy Queen Anne-style side chairs a beautiful extension on life.
$125 each. SOLD
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Shopping local, non-mall? Come to The Living Room!

A little sampler of what you'll find at The Living Room Consignment & Tea

I hope your Thanksgiving Day was a blessed day for you. Now that you can move again after eating all that turkey, consider a relaxing stroll through The Living Room. We have quality consigned items of all sorts (furniture, home furnishings, collectibles, art, tea...). And we're open the Friday after Thanksgiving, if you want a respite from the malls.

Turkey Platters, China, Glassware for Thanksgiving

We have what you need for your Thanksgiving Day table. In fact, if you need the table, we have that, too.

Remember, your food bank donation is an instant 5% off coupon:
1 donated item: 1 item 5% off, no limit

Autumn weather calls for a fringe jacket in rusty, autumn suede

Look for this stylin' Western leather jacket on ebay this week!

Oh, and don't forget the boots:

Texas brand leather boots, cowgal size 4.5 D, on ebay this week.

If the links get broken, search eBay for:

"Vintage Western leather fringe jacket Interim tawny golden suede"

and "Texas vintage leather cowboy boots"

See ya there!

The GWTW Lamp Goes Chimeric

Here's a happy update to a recent post. Cynthia brought in an interesting piece of lamp that fits perfectly on the vintage parlor lamp base.

Here we've set a small cup with a tealight on the existing socket, but you could use a standard-base decor light bulb.
What do you think?

4 game bird portraits from the 1940s

These four shadowbox diorama game bird portraits were painted by Joseph Q. Whipple in the 1940s for Abercrombie and Fitch Co., NY, back when they were a sporting goods store.



Even the nameplate on the back is intriguing.

That original price sticker showing $6.50 for one of these framed collectibles in ~1940 corresponds to about $120 today. Starting bid for the entire set of 4 on ebay this week is much less!
 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180753299653

Lamplight for cozy evenings

Antique Cast iron cat door stop ($58) contemplates vintage cast glass lion in GWTW lamp base ($38)

I learned yet another phrase to describe a portion of this world's temporal treasures: GWTW, as in anything related to the book and movie "Gone With the Wind", as in this case, Victorian-style, double-globe, glass lamps. So much to learn, so little time :^)

Well-bred cards for dog lovers

Liz Marshall arrived with a charming assortment of greeting cards for dog lovers. I know better than to try to photograph cards in plastic sleeves, but couldn't resist sharing a little glimpse of these personality-packed cuties (not sure what that last breed is):