Studio Rewind is planning its big launch for the "First Friday" weekend in November (November 1st, 2nd and 3rd). We plan to open our shop in the outdoor venue of Hickory Dickory in the West Bottoms of Kansas City (1107 Hickory Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64101). If this changes, we will let everyone know.
We have been busy putting together an eclectic, unique and fun collection of vintage, antique, up-cycled and re-purposed goods; and we have been having a ball doing it!
The seeds for Studio Rewind were planted at the end of our last snowy, Kansas City winter. Trey and I were just getting to know each other and after poorly planning a Saturday dinner at Blue Koi, we ended up with an extra hour of time on our hands as we waited for a table. We decided to take a walk, out into an icy night and as the path we were on curved around a small, frozen pond I asked him what his dream was. The thing he would want to do if he wasn't busy with other things. He surprised and delighted me when he told me he wanted to travel around the United States, going to auctions, flea markets and other places that sell old stuff, and purchase items for a little vintage/antique shop. "Whoa!", I thought to myself, "I might have to get this guy to stick around :)"
Some of my earliest memories of my grandmother, were of she and I tooling around on a Saturday morning from garage sale to garage sale scouring strangers' yards for buried treasure. She gave me a love of antiques that I have never shook. My graduate school apartment looked like a Pinterest experiment before Pinterest was even invented. I love finding something with a mysterious history, something unique, (oh and something super cheap or even better free!) and then working with my creative muse to bring it forward into a new life.
I also love to tell a story and to listen to stories, Studio Rewind, allows me to share the stories that move me with others. My contributions to the shop are pieces with a bit of whimsy (or possibly strangeness depending on your point of view). I love old typewriters, telephones, scales, mirrors, fans, Victorian photos ~ I like my pieces with some scratches, cracks, rust (perhaps things that are a bit like me, if I am truthful). I will also be offering some original art ~ collages built from various things found out in the day to day world and on Trey and I's expeditions; as well as re-purposed (or re-imagined) vintage furniture.
Trey has the eye of a talented and experienced graphic designer. He brings that sensibility into the pieces he finds for the shop. He also has a quirky streak so I like to think of his style as "steampunk modern" with a little Asian influence around the edges. He has an eye for the high-end and on a day when I tromp away with some dusty, rusty scales from the 1930's and a post-mortem, Victorian photograph; he will walk away with a first-class airplane seat or strangely breathtaking, antique examination table complete with metal gears and disturbing scratches into the finish.
I will be updating our blog to share before and after pictures of our up-cycling, to share our favorite or most bizarre finds and to pass along the stories we are collecting as we scour the Mid-West for items for our shop.
Welcome to the beginning of Studio Rewind ~ we hope you stop by and visit sometime over the coming First Friday weekend (oh, and I have a free gift for anyone who brings us coffee ~ p.s. Trey will need his de-caffeinated ;)
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