Closed Saturday, June 23, for a family wedding!

Sorry to disappoint our treasure hunters, but this Saturday, June 23, The Living Room will be closed for a family wedding.

We look forward to opening for you again on Monday, June 25! Meanwhile, here's a bit of prettiness for you:

Miniature talavera teaset pieces.

Let it flow...

Eileen's hard work has lifted The Living Room up a notch above the clutter.
Now we have flow!

Come visit while we still have a little headway against entropy.

Come for tea and shop for a treasure!

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Sidewalk Sale Continues! Rain or shine!

SIDEWALK SALE! 15% -50% off everything on the sidewalk!
As The Living Room Consignment & Tea
gets spiffier and spiffier inside with Eileen's rearrangings,
we won't need to put so much stuff so many treasures on the sidewalk, so enjoy the Sidewalk Sale while you may!

OVERSTOCK SALE, new consignments, and NEW HOURS!

"Dear" is not too strong a word when we think of our consignors and our shoppers. Thank you so much for helping us grow and continue to fulfill our mission in Kenmore. Thank you for coming to shop and visit and share your lives with us. You are helping us connect down-sizers with nest-builders by shopping, consigning, and sending in your friends. You are the best!

REALLY GOOD NEWS: Our team is growing, enabling us to be open more days!
Starting in June, Margo, Eileen, and I plan to be open 10-6 Monday through Saturday!

Meanwhile, we need your help once again! 

A neighbor in need is bringing us a large and unexpected consignment on Wednesday, May 16! Can you do some "good will" shopping by bringing your friends to "come for tea and shop for a treasure"? We'll make it easier by offering mark-downs all over the shop!

Come shop our OVERSTOCK SALE this week!
You don't even have to buy! Just help us keep the aisles from closing in :^)

Check our craigslist ads for some of the furniture price reductions.

This week, take 15% off the last marked price on our "Wall of Smalls" at the back of the shop:

Punch bowls make beautiful serving bowls for salads!

Crystal stemware - at these prices, no worries for everyday use!

This acanthus box is a charmer!

Vintage Currier & Ives mugs!

Espresso cups from Italy

Art, furniture, antiques, housewares, and collectibles!

Not seeing the furniture, art, or collectible you want marked down?
Where we are free to negotiate with "aged" consignments, we will gladly consider your offer!

Thanks for shopping locally and helping us connect downsizers with nest-builders!
Come for tea and shop for a treasure!

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

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!

Saturday Sidewalk Sale today: 15% off and more...look what's out there!

 Looks like half the shop is out on the sidewalk, but no, there are more great items inside, and many are marked down, as well!

Do come for tea and shop for a treasure during our Saturday Sidewalk Sale in Kenmore!(I know some of your favorites are out there! We put out the good stuff :^)

I'm so tickled with Craiglist's new improvements!

Art glass flamingo, $28
Cobalt glass vase w/iris, $58

So happy! Craigslist has removed all my objections and gripes about using their free ad platform. (Well, almost all, but I'm not going to dwell on the negative of having anonymous peeps able to flag down perfectly good ads, with no recourse to the poster except to submit a query to the rude forums. Nope, not going there.)

Craigslist now allows me to renew with a flick of the click, and to repost all my ads one after the other without getting the "You're posting too fast; you must be a spammer" time-out.

And when you search for all The Living Room ads on CL, you can use CL's cool new feature that allows thumbnail photos of each ad. Try it here. (If it's turned off on your browser, see the option to turn it on in the upper right corner of the CL search results page.)

Enjoying the mercies and graces, big and little.

Shop in our cozy store, or try our latest online store...

My quest continues for an affordable, easy-upkeep, online store to augment the irreplaceable experience of visiting The Living Room in person.

Yes, I should wait until the new webstore is ready and then do a proper roll-out. (When we were kids, shielding an art project from view until it was finished was called working on a "slam-bammy-boozle", although I've since thought that Al Capp, the cartoonist who coined the term, had something else in mind for its meaning.)

But perhaps you'll be curious to watch my progress? http://www.thelivingroominkenmore.com/
If not, don't click the link until I let you know it's all in place. Until then, here's a peaceful photo where you can sit with my son (about 6 years ago) watching the grass grow at Lakewold Gardens :^)

Booksigning was fun, prompted us to clean up!

You know how inviting company motivates a little house cleaning? Lydia Harris' booksigning did that for us. Come quick before it wears off!

For those of you who missed Lydia's booksigning for her new book, "Preparing My Heart for Grandparenting", she will be at Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park tonight, Saturday, October 16. 6 pm, I think.

So, no sooner did we clear up the cookie crumbs after Lydia's tea party, another consignment came in. As if the empty table were calling them through the ether...



...these 12 ceramic frames came in and took over the table. One for each month of the year. Aren't they charming? I could see a creative teacher making use of these in her classroom, but my imagination can't cover all possibilities. Where might you use these cute frames?

By the way, this is the last day of our "Make Room to Swing (with) the Cat" Sale. Hope to see you on this sunny Saturday.

Blessings...

"Enough-room-to-swing-(with)-a-cat" SALE now through Saturday, Oct 16

**See disclaimer at the bottom of this post.

We definitely don't have dancing room in The Living Room today, with or without a cat. But sometimes the mood to dance strikes, so...

... that means another 10%-OFF-EVERYTHING sale now through Saturday, October 16: dressers, couches, tables of all sorts, hutches, curios, lamps, beds, original art, and lots of housewares! There are many items already marked down 10, 20, and 30%, so take another 10% off through Saturday!

(Please mention where you heard about this sale in order to be sure to get the discount.)

Warning: when you come to browse, you'll find there's some serious visual overload in here, so if you don't see what you are looking for, please ask. It may be right in front of you! This actually happened today :^)

**Can you tell I had a photo of a dancing cat to look at, but not of a dancing man?