Crafting Music

Top 5 artists (and some sample songs) that I listen to while crafting, in no particular order:






Fleet Foxes - Blue Ridge Mountains
The Black Keys - Pretty much any song!
Arcade Fire - Ready to Start
Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes
Modest Mouse - Edit the Sad Parts

Happy Listening-
Katie

Favorite New Blog & Seller - Fresh Vintage

Certainly fresh, hilarious and great finds - just a few ways to describe Fresh Vintage.

Rachel and I first met Colleen of Fresh Vintage at a fall Clover Market show in Ardmore, PA.  What's not to love about her fantastic booth and camper below?!  

The entire show, Rachel and I took turns running back and forth to check out the fantastic collections of vintage finds from  Fresh Vintage .  We nabbed all kinds of wonderful goodies.  We have integrated many of our finds into our jewelry lines as well as our displays.  An old stamp holder propped up on an old spool now displays our typewriter keys.  We've taken some of the number tags that we acquired from Fresh Vintage and have turned them into jewelry.  

Rachel also is displaying an old gas station number sign in her house over her mantle.

We immediately fell in love with Colleen's blog.  Her wit, gift picks for the holidays and features kept us giggling and gave us and our friends and families some wonderful gifts.  We've also been following the Fresh Vintage etsy shop like hawks!  I am in love with this bell -

We're so eager to see what else she brings to the next Clover Market in 2012!  All images are from Colleen Allison of Fresh Vintage.

Baltimore Brunch Spot

As our show season came to end for 2011, Rachel and I stopped in the Morning Edition cafe (corner of Fayette & Patterson Park Ave) for brunch for a Charms City Company brainstorming session!  This was our first time dining at this spot, even though we pass it often on our trips around the city.  Not only is the food amazing and reasonably priced, but the interior is so homey and cozy!  We'll be stopping in Morning Edition soon again:)

Picture from BaltimoreSun.com

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!  We'd like to thank all of our followers, fans, customers, fellow crafters, friends and family for your support!  This past year has been so eventful and exciting that we wanted to take a minute to say THANKS!  Have a great Thanksgiving and happy holiday shopping:)

REMINDER: Trunk Show Saturday, November 19

Just a reminder that we'll be in West Reading, PA at Hello Bluebird on Saturday, 11/19 from 12-4pm!  Hope to see you there:)

Trunk Show - November 19th 12-4 @ Hello Bluebird!

This coming Saturday, Rachel & I will be heading to West Reading, PA to display our wares at Hello Bluebird.

We met Alex, the store owner, at the October Clover Market.  We absolutely loved all of the wonderful things we saw at her booth and were super excited to find out that she was taking new jewelry vendors:)  We'll be premiering our full jewelry line from 12-4pm on Saturday, November 19th in the shop.  After that, you'll still be able to find our jewelry for sale there - just in time for holiday shopping:)  Come by and hang out with us!  The address is 609 Penn Avenue, West Reading, PA  19611.

We've got a QR Code!

Charms City Company now has a QR code that takes you to our website.  You can find our events, press, where to buy, links to our blog, facebook and etsy shop from our website!  Hooray for technology:)