Hope you’ve been enjoying my bits and pieces of art inspiration culled from lots of trips to local thrift and consignment shops this summer!

Like, check out the awesome design of the frame on this heavy wood vintage mirror!

And I can totally get behind coming up with unique ways to store and display your collections. Take a look at this – they used a wine rack to show off a selection of rolling pins!

The pixelated feel of the people on the embroidered towels is a cherry on top for you.

I think one of the best parts about our recent shopping excursions has been being out and about, exploring with family.

Shopping has always been a little bit of a weird thing for me, like I’m strangely uncomfortable spending money. Especially when we’re going through times where money’s tight. But when I’m out with my mom  in law Carole and daughter Joy, it’s so much less stress. I can just hang out and enjoy.

And also, as our family works on reorganizing the house so I can move my studio into the dining room and the kids can have their own rooms… We’re eventually going to be looking into working a used piano into our living room.

It needs to happen.

Love this hand painted sink, but love this little boy even more.

Stay tuned – there’s even more awesome art reference hitting the blog tomorrow morning!