Well, we are finally into Fall now, aren’t we?  That heat wave at the beginning of September almost killed me & our business.  LOL!  Wasn’t that awful?  Before we know it, it will be Christmas…I am putting up the trees on October 12th.  Can’t wait!

I am writing this from the Marilyn Suite at the Charlie Hotel in Hollywood (Charlie Chaplin once owned it)!  How cool is that?  Marilyn actually lived in this bungalow in the 1940’s.

Welcome to Lynn’s Latest #007…
Friday, September 30th

Watch for it every Thursday or every other Thursday, Friday or Saturday!
Actually, lets be honest…watch for it whenever I get one finished hahahaha
Volume III  Issue 007

As my last ezine was coming out, I was welcoming my mom and my nephews for a 10 day southern cal extravaganza!  They flew in on August 17th and my mom’s real birthday was August 18th.  And we had HUGE plans!  We had been invited to the Berlin/Boy George concert in Irvine as the guests of Teri Nunn (lead singer of Berlin).  We caravaned to Camarillo and Joanne & Jeff drove from there.  It was a BLAST!!!!  Here is my mom as Terri walked past her.  It was my mom’s actual 86th birthday and she had tears in her eyes during this time!

We had backstage passes for the concert, but made the mistake of waiting until after Boy George played and then the Berlin ones weren’t good anymore!  Drats!  But we still had such an amazing time.  I danced with both Kai and Zach during the entire concert.  So crazy, but my sister used to dance and sing around the house all the time!  She was ALWAYS singing and dancing…..The boys take after their mom and are both amazing dancers!  I was waiting to get a great picture of all of us backstage with Teri and since that didn’t happen, this is the best photo  I have from that night.

My mom and I were sitting close to the stage with her wheelchair and I got to take a photo looking back from left to right…. Zach, Kai, Jeff & Joanne with their daughter Alana.  Such a fun night!

After that super fun night, we were off to the races!  It was nonstop fun having the boys in town.  I don’t think we ever just “chilled” whatever that means anyway?  The next night was one of Indiana’s shows in West Hollywood with a dinner at one of my favorite LA restaurants, Spartina, first.  Check out this cousin pic from that dinner.  I LOVE that my kids and Kiki’s kids are so close.  It is interesting they are all exactly 10 years apart.

Let me explain, Houston was born in 1996 so he is currently 26 and Zach was born in 2006 so he is currently 16.  Indiana was born in 1998 and will be 24 this year and Kai was born in 2008 and is currently 14.  It makes it easy for my mom, brother and me to remember!

Enough about my super fun life…which it really is by the way.  Took me a while to get here.  There were some tough years when the kids were little and I was doing it all on my own and paying for everything on my own.  Nice to be able to finally breathe a sigh of relief and enjoy how hard I have worked.  Thanks for listening to that!

Time for an eBay score, don’t you think?  I bought this random book at an estate sale.  I paid about $2 for it.  I always try and buy “weird” things to list on eBay.  Check it out here.

I am not sure why it sold for so much.  I took a best offer of $160 for it last week.  I do know that it is a really specific item that someone must have been searching for.  A best offer of $160 on an item listed for $173.99 is a no brainer.  Right?

After Indiana’s show on Saturday night, the boys were going to go home with her and Houston & Emma and Grandpa to spend some time with them in Marina del Rey.  The next morning, Houston was dragging them out on a bike ride.  Gotta give the boys credit as they were up for the challenge.  And it was a challenge…I think Houston made them ride about 50 miles.  LOL!

So the rest of the time my nephews were here was a whirlwind.  We did A LOT.  I will share some of the highlight photos.  Two  days at the beach with Cha Cha, both boys working at the store helping with inventory/and ordering, working out at Fit Buddha with Marc twice and a farewell dinner at Casa Bella!

Then we met Indiana at the Academy of Art Museum in downtown LA. It is housed in the former May Company building where I was a department manager of housewares for a year. SUCH memories! And a Super fun day!

I used a photo from my time as a department manager in story #79 from “Kaching the 3rd 100 Best Things I’ve Sold on eBay” book.  Perfect time to share don’t you think?

Remember in the last ezine I was looking for a picture of my brother in the Snake Pit at my grandmother’s store.  Well, I finally found it and it was in one of my 100 Best Books….”The 1st 100 Best Things I’ve Sold on eBay” and it was story number #28.  So time to share it here now!

This picture cracks me up because the snake pit was called the snake pit because there was a 3 foot high cement crawl space under the floor for my grandmother to store more of her “goodies”.  We had a brilliant idea to have my brother stand in the “pit” portion and put his shoes where his knees were to make him look super short.  I know right?  My grandma would have called this “indoor sports for lightheaded people”.   LOL!

I just got some terrible news. Ughhhhhhh. My friend, Audrey Angel Mortensen, just called to tell me that her ex-husband John Mortensen (Lead Singer of the Mono Men) passed away yesterday. Audrey was my first employee at Leaf’s Antiques and she and John lived in the upstairs apartment over my grandmother’s home & store. They are my very dear friends.

John helped me back in 1995 to get our first Leaf Antique web page up and running (back then it was Pacificrim/leafantiques etc…no www) and he also filmed many of my training videos. I am so sad that he is gone way too young, but mostly for his two daughters. John and I share the same birthday and I had mistakenly called him from my mom’s birthday party this past August. It cheers me up a bit to think that we just had that fun conversation. RIP.

And I just found story #19 from “The 100 Best Things I’ve Sold on eBay” that shows he and I during filming of our “Trash to Cash” series.  Heavy heart here today…..

OK, thank you for letting me share all of that…..After the whirlwind that was my 10 days with my mom & nephews, I chilled for the first part of September and worked on my taxes, organized my house and read a lot of books.  It was a great reset from my CRAZY summer!

We also did a new front window at the store.  I LOVE the neutral fall colors and so did Cha Cha!  We have already sold the console out of the window.  Things just don’t last very long!

We just got tagged in an Instagram post for one of our customer’s amazing garden.  Check it out!  I think she bought the buddha from us.

Speaking of Instagram, Rachelle is doing an amazing job for both @lynnsconsignments and @lynnsfunfashions.  Please follow along.  I had to laugh out loud at this recent post.  Sooooooo true!

Check out this sectional that just came in….Charcoal Grey by Thomasville.  Priced at only $1195!  You can view it here on our website.

Indiana had a ton of shows in September.  I wasn’t able to make very many of them due to my travel schedule for the last half of the month.  I did manage to see one show “The Comedy Embargo” which was fabulous!  She is really doing the work and it shows!  She is also taking the intermediate Groundlings Course this month!

The highlight of September for me was heading to NOLA (New Orleans) with Sandy for Annie Sloan’s Big Paint.  So much fun!  Great to meet all of the talented painters, hang out with other stockists, spend time with Annie herself and enjoy the crazy city!  When I returned home, my mom pointed out that New Orleans is now known as the murder capital of the US.  Good to know.  NOT!  Check out this beautiful piece that Sandy did before we arrived and Annie reposted it and called her a fabulous painter!  Sweet.  Click here to see it for sale in our online store.

Here are some fun snaps from that weekend!  First pic, Annie Sloan, me & Sandy.  Second pic is me with Kacha (super talented and famous painter) with her husband Carlos.  I was telling them about my instagram account for @carlosnchacha and we were laughing because it was so close to their names, Carlos and Kacha!  Check her out on instagram at @kachafurniture.

Third pic is Jonathan Marc Mendez who is a painter in residence for Annie Sloan.  Check him out here on Instagram.

Fourth pic is Brushed by Brandy (sooooo talented and a California girl) standing next to Quita Allen (also so talented) from All Shabbed Out and that was the piece that Quita painted in front of us.  It was my favorite piece!  I am trying to get Brandy to come down to the store for a Saturday workshop sometime this Fall.  If any of you follow her please let me know if you would be interested!

Final photo is Sharon, the Redesign with Prima Rep, and we are thinking about adding some of their products to the store. Please let me know your thoughts!

So, we also managed to have some non-paint related fun while in NOLA.  Vicki Penne my friend from Idaho was there for the stockist Monday event so we went out to dinner with her at Two Sisters and also did a tour of the city.  The cemetaries in NOLA are crazy interesting.

What a whirlwind!  I was happy to be back in Ventura though when I arrived home on Tuesday evening, September 20th.  However, my time at home would be short lived as I had plans to stay in LA on Thursday night for Indy’s show and to attend the first LIVE eBay Event in 3 years on Friday in downtown LA and THEN….head to the desert for a thrifting weekend.  Yes, I  am CRAZY!

But, I will tell you who I missed the most….Cha Cha and Carlos!

I actually really missed my kids as well, but for some reason, not as much as the animals.  Strange, but true.  It was National Daughter and National Son day this past week, so let me share those posts with you so that you can see I do love my REAL kids!  LOL!

As I was looking for old May Company California pictures, I came across some pictures of Melanie Souve’s (my best friend from high school) ex-boyfriend Bart.

She met him back in 1987 and moved to Los Angeles because of him….well mostly!  Anyway, Peter (my boyfriend then) and I used to hang out with the two of them all the time.  While I was in NOLA, Mel text me to let me know that Bart had passed away.  UGHHHHHHHH.

Too many men in their 50’s & 60’s are dying from heart attacks.  I have heard that it may be related to Covid or the vaccine.  In any event, it is super tragic and my heart breaks for Bart’s family and his young boys.

Here are a few pics that I found of Bart & Melanie and then me and my gang at Gino’s East in Brentwood back in the day.  The blonde next to me was Jay Payes (my best guy friend at USC) who passed away at 35 from an accidental drug overdose.  OMG…the ezine is getting really depressing…..I promise to change it up in the next section!

Our next calligraphy course is Sunday, November 13th from 12:30 to 2:30 pm.

Her last class was a huge success and my mom took it and LOVED it!   and these are being taught by one of my very first consignors…Joy Goldowitz!

She is a teaching dynamo!  Her course “Calligraphy:  The Art of Beautiful Lettering” will be offered on Sunday, November 13th from 12:30 to 2:30 pm.

The course is just $59 and includes a gift box full of calligraphy supplies!  What?  This is unreal 🙂

Joy is a retired (after 37 years) elementary school teacher.  She is a lover of the relaxing art of hand lettering, beautiful inks and stationary of all ilks.  She is a passionate teacher who happily loves sharing her techniques with others.  She will guide you on a journey creating lovely letters to embellish words, names, addresses, cards, gift tags etc.

Sign up here.

OK!  Just as promised some good, uplifting news!  Time for an eBay score!  This amazing pin cushion came out of my grandmother’s personal collection.  The lady who bought it made me a best offer of $300 and said “I would love to have something that belonged to your grandmother”…gets me every time!  Sold!  Check out the listing here for more great pictures of it.

After my brief two days home, it was time to hit the road again!  I had reserved the Marilyn Bungalow in Hollywood as you read at the beginning of this ezine (where I actually started writing this).  If you can’t figure it out, it takes me DAYS to write these.

But I do enjoy it and am practicing for my first novel that I intend to start writing in October.  I signed up for a bunch of Master Classes with famous authors and will hit that hard!

I also teased in the title of the newsletter that I would be off somewhere else soon…that was the idea…as I had a business trip planned in November, but I just cleared my calendar and will be staying close to home to write through the end of the year.  That is the goal…One fiction novel by year’s end!  Wish me luck!

We had a little pre-party in the bungalow before Indy’s show.  Quite a few of her friends and co-workers showed up and my friend Chris Wade drove up from San Clemente and brought rum infused pineapple (nice party favor :)).  Always a fun time to see Indy perform.  Here are some fun photos from that night!

The next morning was the first eBay open LIVE event in over 3 years and they held it in only 3 cities, Austin, Downtown LA and New York.

I was happy to attend and catch up with some old friends & meet some new ones.  Although, Brian Burke (Sr. VP Seller Advocacy & Engagement) did not know who I was.  LOL!  He had to read my name tag….and then he claimed he hadn’t seen me in 3 years…Whatever…we follow each other on Instagram, but yes, I did call him out!

First pic is me and former Queen’s Court Member Janet Z, 2nd pic is Brian & me and final one is the new head of US, Adam Ireland.

Before I get into my recent Palm Desert trip,  I just wanted to remind you about our clothing store!   If you missed the email saying what we are looking for in clothing…please read it here before you come in.  Thanks!

Wanted…Boots, Furs, Jackets, Coats, Sweaters anything WINTERY

Also, start collecting your Fall items and Adult Halloween Costumes. We are taking in FALL/Winter now.   Call or text the girls to set up an appointment.

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Cell Phone  805-470-6493

So, I left from the eBay event in downtown LA to head to Palm Desert at 1:30 pm on a Friday.  Took me 3 1/2 hours to get to the desert.  Ughhhhh!  But it was all good.  Had a lot of fun catching up with Mo, Vicki (from Idaho who was out there after Nola as well), Carmen and Kel.

Unfortunately, Candy was out of town…but next time!  Actually, the girsl are all headed out here on October 14th for VIP seats to see Tim McGraw at Surfers Point!  Can’t wait!

Here are some fun pics…1st one is Vicki, me & Mo at the American Legion after having brunch at Le Valeruis.

2nd one is Mo, Carmen and me at Skip’s Little Bar for dinner.  But, yes we did do A LOT of thrifting and working in addition to  the fun festivities.

So check out these plates I found while out thrifting…seriously?  $125 for a set of 8 Godinger Salad Plates.  NO Fing WAY!

But later on that same day, I did find a set of Lunt Silver Stainless Flatware that was also prices at $125, but I will sell it for close to $2k.  Life is great!

Speaking of life being great…just found out that we took 3rd place in the Ventura Reporter’s Best of Ventura County in Home Furnishings.  1st Place went to For your Home and 2nd Place went to Couch Potato (can’t really figure that one out) and we were 3rd.

Please let me know how we can improve during the next year to make it to the #1 position.  That is my current goal…among other things!  LOL!

Since I have been very introspective and reminiscing these past few weeks, I thought I would share a funny text exchange with my friend Marty from High School.

He texts me this picture the other morning.  OK, it is a class photo from Fairhaven Middle School in Bellingham (where we also went to school together) and I say super cute….and you are standing next to Mike Stewart.  Marty is upper left with the super black hair and Mike has the “Rex Smith” do with braces.

Then I remember that darling Mike Stewart was killed in Alaska right after high school.  So I ask Marty about it and he gives me more details and I find this story in People Magazine.  CRAZY!

You can read it here.  I am so sorry that this ezine has been about people passing away…However, I guess that is just a fact of life.  But on a funny note….Marty asks on Facebook (really?) if that red head in front of him is me?  Seriously?  Do I even look like that person?

So I answer him on Facebook…and say “LOL, not me?” and then he write…”I hope I am not in trouble”…well guess what? You are! Hahahaha!

Attention Consignors:

What we need for the main store…..

Anything Beachy
Shelves
Bookshelves
Desks
Dressers
Chair Sets
Pairs of Lamps
Floor Lamps
Farm House Dining Tables
End Tables
Consoles

Also project pieces for painting!!!!

Thank you all for supporting me, my family and my businesses as I work on expanding….as you know I am building my empire!

eBay with Heart
Decorate with Heart
Dress with Heart

I try and do everything in my life in a big way and with a lot of heart! Thank you for joining me on this super fun journey. I appreciate you!
AND a HUGE reminder. We have Annie Sloan’s NEW SATIN paint in and it is a game changer according to Val! No waxing is required and it goes on smooth as silk!!!! Yippppeee…I was only able to order 2 cans of each color so come in and grab them before we sell out! So much fun these days at Lynn’s! Because you know, “Everyone Wins When They Shop at Lynns!”

Take care and we hope to see you soon!  Some of my crew!  From left to right, Shawnna, Kailen, me, Houston, Pegg, Indiana, Mor Mor, Candy, Val, Susan, Cindy and Jo Dallas!  We appreciate y’all so much!

Thanks for reading my ezines!  I appreciate it….as always!

eBay with Heart, Design with Heart & Dress with Heart………Lynn

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I can’t believe it is August already!  What in the World? As my dad used to say.  I love this picture of my dad with my brother Lee and me.  We were totally scared to go stand by the Buckingham Palace guard and horse and my dad got so mad at us that we are smiling and he is frowning.  LOL!  Oh, the joys of parenthood!

Welcome to Lynn’s Latest #006…
Thursday, August 18th

Watch for it every Thursday or every other Thursday, Friday or Saturday!
Actually, let’s be honest…watch for it whenever I get one finished hahahaha
Volume III  Issue 006

So the day after my last ezine came out I was on a road trip to the desert. I was driving out there to fly to Bellingham from PSP. I hate flying out of LAX and needed to get out to the desert for a haircut and teeth cleaning. LOL. We lived for 16 years in the desert and I still go to my favorite people…Sherry Mesa & Dr. D my dentist. So great to see them and catch up!
I also go to thrift and take merch to my eBay assistant Mo to list for me. The day I left for Bellingham, we stopped by The Revivals in Palm Springs. As we were walking in, a man came out carrying a set of flatware. Damn! I said, That should have been mine! Inside I found one set and was getting ready to pay when I saw another set being put out. I said to Mo, “Quick get over there and check it out”. She did! And came right back and said, “you had better get over there as there are about 10 sets of flatware”! OMG! Total Score. Flatware is my FAVORITE thing to buy and sell on eBay.

As I was perusing the many sets, I looked up into a familiar face. “Dennis?” I said. And he said “Lynn!, I was just thinking about you when I priced this set of Ventura flatware”. Crazy, small world! Dennis also sells on eBay & is one of my loyal ezine readers from way back and unbeknownst to me now volunteers at the Revivals in Palm Springs. His boss was on vacation and he found 10 sets of flatware in the back and decided to price them and get them on the floor. What amazing timing I had that day!

Here is a photo that showed up in my timehop of me and Dennis and a few other people at the last live eBay on Location event that we all attended in Las Vegas 5 years ago.  Crazy!

Here is one of the listings from that bunch of flatware! I paid $35 for the set of Wallace Colonial Hammered and this one listing will more than pay for the entire set! Score. Check it out here.

I was headed up to Bellingham for my high school friend Jo Dallas’ daughter in law’s baby shower.  That was a mouthful!  While in Bellingham, I did go out to dinner with another of my high school friends Marty to celebrate his turning 60.  OMG!  How can that even be happening?

I do not feel anywhere near 60 years old.  We had dinner at Dirty Dan’s in Old Fairhaven.  I love that restaurant and hadn’t been there in years.  When I was married, William and I used to go there to celebrate big occasions like buying a house or having a baby.  I guess Marty turning 60 is also a big occasion!

That reminds me of when my dad turned 60 back in 1994.  I had just moved back to Bellingham and thought it was such a huge milestone and should be properly celebrated.  So, I took out an ad in the Bellingham Herald with  a photo of him as a kid and said “Happy 60th Wayne Dralle”.  He did NOT find it amusing.  My kids had better NOT do anything like that for me when I turn next year.

The baby shower was amazing!  Jo Dallas went all out for it.  My mom was also invited so it made for a super fun day!

While in Bellingham in July, my mom and I also took some time to thrift.  We headed to the Assistance League Thrift Store across from Haggens on Meridian on the Thursday when Seniors get 10% off.  Wow!  When we got to the store, there was a sign on the door saying that they were going to be closed until August since so many of their volunteers were out with Covid.  Bummer!  But as we were leaving we ran into Theresa Meurs.  I LOVE Theresa!  She did my grandmother’s estate sale for us and she is a pro.  It was so great to see her!

With all this talk of thrifting, it’s time for an eBay score, don’t you think?

I bought this baseball player bronze statue at a thrift store, years ago when Houston (my son) was playing travel baseball.  I think I paid $50 for it.  It has been listed on eBay for almost 5 years.  Patience is a virtue.  Sold it for a best offer of $1,500 last week.  Yipppppeeeeee!

Check it out here.

Here is one of my favorite pictures of Houston back in the travel baseball days.  We were in Cooperstown for the big tournament and Houston hit the winning home run over the fence of the Big Green Giant.  My dad had never been so proud before.

Oh and I would be remiss if I didn’t share a photo of my dad with Indiana during that same tournament.  My dad sure loved my kids and they loved him.  He was the only real father figure they have had.  It makes me sad that he has been gone 5 years.  Ughhhh.

Speaking of losses, it is with a heavy heart that I let y’all know that we lost one of our favorite consignors and someone who turned out to be a good friend .  Bill Swisher passed away last week.  He will be greatly missed.  Here he is with his wife Susan at my recent house warming party.  RIP.

When I flew back into Palm Springs after my July Bellingham trip, my good friend and eBay assistant Mo, decided to follow me back out to Ventura to do some work for me and get out of the heat!  Mo does not like to drive on the Cali freeways so this was huge for her!

She made it and I was very proud of her!  She ended up staying in my casita for almost 10 days.  I LOVE LOVE LOVE my new house because I can have house guests and literally never see them.  We had a blast and did a lot of fun things!  Like dinners out etc.  I don’t have many pictures of us but I do have some fun drink pics.  LOL.

It was also awesome because Indiana had 3 shows while Mo was here and she got to go with us to all of them!  Check out this post that Indiana did showing all of her July shows and I LOVE the caption she put with it…

Mama I’ve Made it!

The first show we went to see was “Tales of The City” Los Angeles at the Comedy Nook and we went to one of our favorite Melrose Restaurants before hand, Spartina.  I finally got to celebrate Houston’s birthday with him in person.  Hadn’t seen him since his birthday on July 10th.  Such a fun night!  Here we are out to dinner!  It was Indy’s first hosting gig that night and she did an AMAZING JOB!

The next show was character roulette and Indy brought back her bicyclist and added a new character, a barista. Makes perfect sense since she just landed a new job at Cafe Luxe an upscale coffee shop with locations in Santa Monica, Brentwood, Montecito, Pacific Palisades and Malibu. She is in training to become the best barista ever! We had dinner before hand at Umbrella Company, another one of our favorite Melrose restaurants!

Before I forget, our Instagram accounts, LynnsFunFashions and LynnsConsignments have been getting better and better! Thank you Rachelle :)! Please follow us if you don’t. You can now buy product directly from the Instagram post through our website and Rachelle has been posting new fashion items and store items daily. Please check them out & give us a follow. Here is a sampling.

OK, before I share about Indy’s final show of the tryptich, let me share a few TBT (Throw Back Tuesday or Thursday whichever you prefer) photos that I posted recently on the Instagram.

First one is one that I took a photo of that was in a photo collage on my mom’s hallway wall when I was up in Bham in July. So much fun and for all of you wondering if I am a real redhead…..yes I am and I don’t have to color my hair. It is natural! This was when my grandma Cheryl Leaf, my brother Lee and I returned from a spur of the moment trip to Hong Kong. Yes, spur of the moment back then was 2 weeks notice!

And for the next TBT photo, I was looking through old yearbooks and found this hysterical photo of me and one of my sorority sisters during Greek Week at USC.  Seriously?  7 days of FUN!  Well back then, University of Southern California was 365 days of fun!

So Indy’s third show while Mo was here visiting was the Comedy Embargo at the Harlowe Bar.  It felt so OLD HOLLYWOOD and it was a super fun show.  Indy hosted again and it was a great time!

Since Mo was out here visiting me from Palm Desert, Candy and her husband Ron also decided to come out to Ventura.  So much fun to have my Palm Desert besties in Ventura!  Unfortunatly, Kel couldn’t join us.  Ughhhhh!

While Mo was here visiting we worked out at Fit Buddha 4 times!  Go us!  Saturday morning after our workout, Sandy, Mo and I headed over to a new restaurant (I think it is called The Six) right across from Fit Buddha for Bloody Mary’s.  It was a little too convenient!

As July came to a close, Mo headed back to the Desert and I was getting ready for a major road trip! I was heading up to Bellingham, Washington to throw my mom and Cha Cha a big birthday party. My mom was turning 86 and Cha Cha 2!

I couldn’t put her in the cargo section of the plane (cha cha not my mom :)) so decided the only way to get her up there to frolic on my mom’s beach was if I drove her. Ughhhh! Indy was going to ride with me up, but we couldn’t leave until July 31st as she had a show on July 30th. Her show on the 30th was once again in WeHo and she did 10 minutes of stand up and killed it! She is getting really good! One of her bits was about the lady in middle school who would check you out for scoliosis. Here is a link to it on TicToc.

The morning after the show Indiana, Cha Cha and I got on the road at 7 am. Started out to be an epic day!  We had plans to make it to Dunsmuir to eat an early dinner at Yaks Burgers and then we had a hotel reserved in Yreka for the night.

We headed up the 101 instead of taking the I5. Much better choice and so scenic and fun. Our first stop was 5 hours in at a Starbucks. Then Indy drove 3 hours and I took over for the last 3 hours of the day. We had an epic early dinner at Yaks where Cha Cha even got her own burger patty with chopped bacon on the top.

All was good as we started driving our final 40 minutes from Dunsmuir to Yreka where we had a hotel reserved & paid for.  About 5 minutes outside of Dunsmuir it started getting really foggy.  But then it got super dark.  OMG, it started to look like a fire.  ..

Indiana was traumatized by the Woolsey fire that hit the Malibu area when she was at Pepperdine.  This was not a good thing to be driving into so I had Indy call the hotel and the receptionist said that they were “under a warning”.  We were only 5 mins away at that time, so decided to check it out for ourselves.

Once we drove into town it was even darker.  I asked the hotel receptionist what should we do and she said “Go north”.  She was going to credit my cc with no penalty so off Indy and I went.

We started calling hotels in Medford and Ashland looking for rooms. EVERYONE was sold out. So we just kept driving north. Finally ended up in Grant’s Pass and had to pay $250 for one night. I will tell you about our 2nd less eventful (but maybe not) day after I remind you about our upcoming course on Sunday. We have 3 students so far!
Our next calligraphy course is Sunday, August 21st from 12:30 to 2:30 pm.

Her last class was a huge success!   and these are being taught by one of my very first consignors…Joy Goldowitz!

She is a teaching dynamo!  Her course “Calligraphy:  The Art of Beautiful Lettering” will be offered on Sunday, August 21st from 12:30 to 2:30 pm.

The course is just $59 and includes a gift box full of calligraphy supplies!  What?  This is unreal 🙂

Joy is a retired (after 37 years) elementary school teacher. She is a lover of the relaxing art of hand lettering, beautiful inks and stationary of all ilks. She is a passionate teacher who happily loves sharing her techniques with others. She will guide you on a journey creating lovely letters to embellish words, names, addresses, cards, gift tags etc.

OMG! I want to take this class! My mom just text me and she is going to take this class. She is signed up!

Sign up here.

We have also decided to schedule caligraphy courses through the end of the year. So, if that date doesn’t work for you. Hopefully, one of these will!

Sunday, September 11th
Sunday, October 9th
Sunday, November 13th

We will be scheduling an Annie Sloan Chalk Paint Class and an Iron Orchid Design class for sometime in September. Please let us know your preferences if you are interested…..evening? afternoon? weekend?

Check out this project piece that Sandy has been working on. How cute is it? It has IRON Orchid Design transfer and moulds on it. BTW, the new IOD Winter releases will be for sale on August 24th. So exciting! They have arrived in store but we can’t sell them until that launch date :)!

But back to the road trip.  I have not done that drive since I used to drive the kids up every summer (before travel baseball consumed our lives) and we would live with my mom at her beach house for a few months.  I think the last time we did that drive was 2005.  I now remember why!

Day 2 started out with a 7:30 am phone call from Paula the owner at Barke & Bathe.  I thought it must be a mistake so didn’t answer.  Then I got a text with a photo of the police in front of my store.  Next phone call was from a police detective.  Someone had broken our front door’s glass.  Thank GOD they didn’t get in nor break one of the big windows.  The day was starting off to be quite interesting.  Indiana said to me, “OMG, what could go wrong next?”.  And I was like, “Honey it is stuff like this that makes life an adventure….& keeps my attention”

Well, thank God for Sandy (my newly appointed store manager) who came to the rescue.  Sandy met the police and arranged for the door to get boarded up and new glass ordered.  So cool that I can leave town and know that I have the best team in place!  Such a great feeling.

And Indy and I continued on our road trip!  We decided to stop in Eugene and go by the house where Indiana’s dad, William, had grown up.  William’s Dad, Doug, had died when Wm was 8 years old in a plane crash when he was covering a story as the County Editor for the Eugene Register Guard.  So crazy that in front of the house was one of those “old” newspaper holders for that same paper.  Life is strange sometimes, sad and still very interesting.

Since Indiana and I had done almost 12 hours that first day of the road trip, we were able to do a pretty easy day 2 and make it to an early dinner at Anthony’s in Bellingham.  My mom drove in and met us.  I had to laugh when we parked at the restaurant and I got this photo of the back of my SUV.  Houston had asked me to bring up his bike so he could cycle around Bellingham  in addition to all of the other crap one takes on a road trip!  LOL!

Since we made it up to Bellingham, it is time for a station break.  OK, just a heads up.  We now have a clearance area for clothing.  Take 25% off the lowest prices.  Come in and check it out!

But back to the Bellingham trip.  Indiana and I had a lot of fun with Mor Mor and Cha Cha before everyone else arrived on the Thursday before the big party that was set to take place on Saturday, August 6th.  Here we are at the airport when everyone arrived….including Grandpa and Cha Cha!

So the first day they were in town, we just hung out at the beach.  Houston resorted to his usual rock baseball bat hitting and Emma (crazy NJ girl that she is) actually got into Hales Passage to swim.  Are you serious?  Yes, I am.  And then, they put Grandpa in the water as well.  What in the world?

The next day we headed out for a 9 am soccer game of Kai’s in Burlington.  His team did great and we all went out to breakfast after at Mr. T’s in Mount Vernon.  So much fun!  Houston did a bike ride to Birch Bay and back while the rest of us chilled…..Then we did an early dinner at Anthony’s….our favorite!  It is always so much fun to be home in the B’ham!  My brother arrived that night at 7 pm….we were all in the house and ready for the big party the next day!

Before I share all of the fun pictures from the big birthday, just wanted to remind you about our clothing store! If you missed the email saying what we are looking for in clothing…please read it here before you come in. Thanks!

Also, start collecting your Fall items and Adult Halloween Costumes. We will start taking in Fall on August 1st. Call or text the girls to set up an appointment.

Land Line 805-628-9208
Cell Phone 805-470-6493

My mom and Cha Cha’s birthday party turned out to be perfect! Seriously! So many wonderful people showed up. My step mom Sue and my step sisters Rita & Renae and some of their kids. My dad married Sue after I married William so I think it was around 1994, so we didn’t grow up together but we all still feel like family. Rita & Renae’s kids feel like my kid’s cousins so that was super special.

My sister’s best friends Missy and Tara also showed up.  So great to see them as they have been such a huge part of my nephew’s lives…they are called the aunties!

And two high school friends showed up, Jo Dallas and Marty Mundell.  Such a fun day!  Unfortunately, my kids had to fly out the next morning at 6 am.  Yikes!

My brother and I left on Monday morning to drive back to So Cal.  I would be dropping him off at his house in Berkeley and spending the night at a hotel in the Berkeley Marina.  That was a super long day.  We left at 7 am and I didn’t get to my hotel until 10:30 pm.  Poor Cha Cha…that was too long for her to be cooped up in the car.  And she went a little CRAZY once we got into the hotel room.  LOL!

The good news is that after that 14 hour drive, I only had 6 more hours to get back to Ventura!  That day was a breeze and we were both so happy to be home!  Not sure if I will be doing that drive anytime soon again.

Back to the store…. don’t forget you can shop online with us.  What has been selling the best lately is our Baggu inventory.  People from around the world have been ordering.  Pretty cool!  Here is a link to our Baggu online.

The night after I returned to Ventura was Cheap Trick at the Fair.  I couldn’t miss that could I?  Sandy took me as my birthday present and we had soooooo much fun!  I LOVE the Ventura County Fair.  So glad it is back!

While I think about it, please vote for us in the VCR Best of 2022 for both antique store and home furnishings.  We would really appreciate your support!  Please vote here.

Please vote for us at HERE.

Here are the IMPORTANT rules…

1. One online ballot per person.
2. Ballots must have at least 10 completed categories.

Voting starts on August 1, 2022 at noon and ends on August 31, 2022, at noon

To find Lynn’s Consignments Fun Home Furnishings scroll to Category #4 Antiques and Category #15 Home Furnishings!

Attention Consignors:

What we need for the main store…..

Anything Beachy
Shelves
Bookshelves
Desks
Dressers
Chair Sets
Pairs of Lamps
Floor Lamps
Bar Stool Sets
One last fun thing to talk about before I wrap up this newsletter. Last Friday night I was invited to a “kick your booty” party at Fit Buddha hosted by Joanne Carolan. It was so much fun! 10 of us went out to dinner after at Rum Fish and here is a picture of some of us.

Marc Kettles and his wife Eva own Fit Buddha and he was my “college crush” at USC. We went to several sorority/frat parties together. So when I posted the Rum Fish picture on Instagram and Facebook, I couldn’t resist sharing one of my favorite photos of us back in the day.

One of our favorite consignors/friends, Pat Clark, posted the cutest comment on Facebook.  I LOVE this!  Thanks Pat!

But in the best news from that evening, Terri Nunn, the lead singer of Berlin, is a good friend of my friend Joanne and she was at the Fit Buddha party and also joined us for dinner.  Super fun getting to know her better and  I asked her when her next shows were and she said she had one on August 18th in Orange County with Boy George.  Too cool!

The next thing I know Joanne texts me and we have 4 tickets comped to attend that show tonight.  My mom just flew in with Zach and Kai (my nephews) and we are joining Joanne, Jeff and their daughter Alana at the concert in Orange County.  We are so excited and what a great way to spend my mom’s actual birthday!

Thank you all for supporting me, my family and my businesses as I work on expanding….as you know I am building my empire!

eBay with Heart
Decorate with Heart
Dress with Heart

I try and do everything in my life in a big way and with a lot of heart! Thank you for joining me on this super fun journey. I appreciate you!

AND a HUGE reminder. We have Annie Sloan’s NEW SATIN paint in and it is a game changer according to Val! No waxing is required and it goes on smooth as silk!!!! Yippppeee…I was only able to order 2 cans of each color so come in and grab them before we sell out! So much fun these days at Lynn’s! Because you know, “Everyone Wins When They Shop at Lynns!”

Take care and we hope to see you soon!  Sandy, Peggy, me and
Val!  Also, Candy, Cindy, Rachelle, Kailen, Robin, Susan & Shawnna (not pictured)….

Thanks for reading my ezines!  I appreciate it….as always!

eBay with Heart, Design with Heart & Dress with Heart………Lynn

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I am happy to be back and writing….you know that feeling when you are in the zone?  When you are working on something and time just stops?  That is what happens to me when I am writing.  It is the coolest thing.  Maybe I will have to write that novel!  More about that later 🙂

In the past month there was a cancelled Girl’s weekend (ugh), a surprise trip to Bellingham, a booth at the Lavender Festival in Ojai, an eBay radio interview, a super fun 4th of July block party and two birthdays!

Here is a fun photo from the recent block party.  I LOVE my new neighbourhood….such nice folks and a lot of young families.  Cha Cha digs all the kids.  I can’t believe I just said “digs”  LOL!

Welcome to Lynn’s Latest #005…
Tuesday, July 12th

Watch for it every Thursday or every other Thursday, Friday or Saturday!
Actually, let’s be honest…watch for it whenever I get one finished hahahaha
Volume III  Issue 005

So the day after my last ezine came out, I was supposed to be hosting my bestest friends from the desert for a Ventura Girls Weekend.  I was sooooooo excited to share my new home with them and then Friday while working out at Fit Buddha, I got a text from Candy who said, “Kel’s garage is on fire…there is no way we will be coming out there today.”  WTF?

It was true.  My poor friend Kelleen.  Seriously?  How does this even happen?  They were able to save the house, but so much damage to the items stored in the garage.  It broke my heart.  For Kel and her kids & for my lost girls weekend.  I know I know….I am being selfish here.

And oh, that word selfish reminds me of the funniest story….I was in Chicago for an eBay event and Mo (my eBay assistant) and I were out to dinner with her sister Anne and her boyfriend Ed.  We were talking about our zodiac signs and she says to me…we are both selfish….I was like, I am not selfish…what are you even saying?

She meant to say shellfish since I am a Cancer and she is a Scorpio.  However, I don’t think either are actually shellfish.  Well, a scorpian is an insect and not even a fish.  And I just confirmed with my fisherman friend that a Crab is a shellfish…..So there is that!  Anyway, it has become a running joke in all of our lives.  Check out this piece of art Indy made for me in 2014 for Mother’s Day.  LOL.

Oh and that reminds me of a super fun time I did have in Chicago with Mo’s sister Anne.  I was out for a different eBay event….btw, eBay used to fly me all over the country for their events.  I was often a speaker or a guest panellist back in the day….so much fun!  But I digress….

For some reason, Mo wasn’t able to join us and one of my Queen’s Court members, Elizabeth Summers, had two extra tickets to James Taylor and Carol King….and invited me and Mo.  Mo wasn’t there, so Anne and I got to attend.

Here is a snippet of that story from one of my ezines from back in 2010.  Here is a link if you want read that ezine in its entirety. 

How crazy was that score?  We live for these!  Since my weekend plans were scrapped (that darn fire) I had a few free days and volunteered to help my friend Janette (Island Girl Spray Tans) move to her new location.  She is now located across the street from us at 2018 E Main Street Suite B Ventura, right above Sticky Fingers Bakery.  She is the best in the game!

Later that day, I got a text from  Donna Kleinman.  Donna and I were buyers together back in the day for Lamps Plus.  She even made the trek up to Bellingham for my wedding.  I hadn’t seen her in years so it was super fun to catch up!  We are friends on Instagram so I feel like I know what is going on with her even though we haven’t spoken.  For all of its downfalls, social media is a great connector.  You just can’t get too sucked in!

Time for an eBay score before I get to the fun evening I had after that fun day!  Check out this flow blue platter that I bought in the desert for $12.  It was as is and cracked, but I just had a feeling about it.  A farm scene is quite rare in antique flow blue.  Got 7 bids and sold for $154.50.  I started the auction at $99.99.  Check it out here!

I actually talked about that platter in a recent interview I did with Griff.  You can check out that interview here.  We talk about the current recession among other things.  At one point Griff called me human Xanax.  I love that compliment…he says I just make him smile!

After my busy Saturday helping Janette move and meeting up with Donna, it was time to head to West Hollywood for Indiana’s show.  There were supposed to be 11 of us at dinner at the Umbrella Company (our new favorite restaurant), but because of the fire there were only 8 of us.  Still a great showing.

From left to right….Patrick (Indy’s friend from the Groundlings), me, Chris Wade (came up from San Clemente for the show–we went to USC together) and his friend Joe, Emma, Houston, Indiana and Indy’s friend Olivia (who puts on the comedy shows).

On my way walking into the restaurant my shoe broke.  Whatever!  Luckily, Marc the manager of the Umbrella Company restaurant took it in the back and fixed it for me with a screw.  LOL!  So friggin funny and then he reposted my Instagram story on his calling himself a Cobbler.  Made me love him MORE!  Seriously?  A cobbler…who even uses that word anymore?   And by the way, I am keeping the repair “as is”.  Ask me to show you my shoe next time you are in…hahahaha!  Don’t you love his Instagram user id….Marcfromthatbar?  So fun!

Indy’s show that night was FIRE and so much fun!  I was bummed my Palm Desert Girls weren’t with us, but hopefully next time!  Here we are after the show.

Before I forget, our Instagram accounts, LynnsFunFashions and LynnsConsignments have been getting better and better!  Thank you Rachelle :)!  Please follow us if you don’t.  You can now buy product directly from the Instagram post through our website and Rachelle has been posting new fashion items and store items daily.  Please check them out & give us a follow.  Here is a sampling.

In super exciting store news, my two store managers (Sandy & Rachelle) finally have “official” business cards with special email addresses and phone numbers that you can contact them directly.  I am LOVING my newfound freedom!  Thank you, girls!

Speaking of Rachelle, she has the most darling 2 year old, Ollie.  As a single mom, it can get challenging to find reliable daycare.  I can certainly relate to that–been there done that!  In any event, I am sounding the alarm…putting out notice…asking for referrals…etc. etc.  If you, or anyone you know is interested in helping with some “back up” day care we would love to hear from you.  It is a paid position and I just thought that maybe y’all might know of someone great to help us all out.  Here is a super cute picture of them from our March 1st Clothing store grand opening.

The next day we headed into Anthony’s or Hearthfire for lunch.  Love both restaurants, but we weren’t sure which one was open for lunch.  Turns out it was the Hearthfire.  As we drove in, I said to my mom, “That looks like Jen, Jeff & Sam walking in”.  And it was!  Jen & Jeff were really good friends with my sister and their son Sam is great friends with both Zach & Kai (my sister’s boys).  CRAZY!  They said, “Shall we get a table for 6?”  Heck Ya!

But then I remembered my friend Audrey Angel was also joining us so we got a table for 7.  So much fun!  And such a random Hometown Bellingham thing!

That afternoon, Kai and I started talking about my great grandmother, Mabelle (his great great grandmother) who had also passed away when her children were very little (just like his mom).  I had put together a compilation of letters she had written over the years into a book (and of course my grandma Cheryl Leaf had kept them)!

I had given everyone in my family that as a Christmas gift back in 1991.  Kai really wanted to read it so we scoured my mom’s house until we finally found it.  So cute to see him wanting to learn more about his ancestors.  He read the entire book cover to cover.   I told him I wanted to use her story as a basis for my first novel.  He LOVED the idea.  I guess I better get writing!

While I was in Bellingham I got some exciting news from Indiana.  She passed her beginning Groundlings Course!  What?  So proud of that kid.  Now, she can move on to the intermediate course.

BTW, Our next calligraphy course is Sunday, August 21st from 12:30 to 2:30 pm.

Her last class was a huge success!   and these are being taught by one of my very first consignors…Joy Goldowitz!

She is a teaching dynamo!  Her course “Calligraphy:  The Art of Beautiful Lettering” will be offered on Sunday, August 21st from 12:30 to 2:30 pm.

The course is just $59 and includes a gift box full of calligraphy supplies!  What?  This is unreal 🙂

Joy is a retired (after 37 years) elementary school teacher.  She is a lover of the relaxing art of hand lettering, beautiful inks and stationary of all ilks.  She is a passionate teacher who happily loves sharing her techniques with others.  She will guide you on a journey creating lovely letters to embellish words, names, addresses, cards, gift tags etc.

OMG!  I want to take this class!  My mom just text me and she is going to take this class.  I had better get her signed up!

Sign up here.

We have also decided to schedule caligraphy courses through the end of the year.  So, if that date doesn’t work for you.  Hopefully, one of these will!

Sunday, September 11th
Sunday, October 9th
Sunday, November 13th

We will be scheduling an Annie Sloan Chalk Paint Class and an Iron Orchid Design class for sometime in August.  Please let us know your preferences if you are interested…..evening? afternoon? weekend?

Check out this project piece that Sandy has been working on.  How cute is it?  Annie Sloan even commented on it and added it to her story!  Way to go Sandy!

While in Bellingham, we watched the Westminster Dog Show and it brought back so many memories of my ASCOB (Any Solid Color Other than Black including Black & Tan) Cocker Spaniel Springdale Buffington.  I LOVED that dog and showed him at AKC shows in both the US and Canada.  He was 2 points short of becoming a Canadian Champion when I went away to USC.  Here are a few photos of us.

Oh and funny story, during the Mt. Baker Kennel Club Dog Show in Bellingham back in 1979, guess who made the front page of the Bellingham Herald?  Me and Buffy!

When I flew back into LA after our super fun few days in Bellingham, I took the kids out to breakfast.  Of course, Grandpa had to join us!

OK, just a heads up.  We now have a clearance area for clothing.  Take 25% off the lowest prices.  Come in and check it out!

In more store news, we had a great idea to add wire shelving units to each of our vignettes by color.  As many of you know, we have red, orange, yellow, green, blue, navy blue, black & white and pink vignettes.  These new wire shelving units are not for sale, but are housing pillows that match the color of the vignette.  Makes it super easy and fun to shop for accent pillows and throws!  Check us out!

I think it is time for an eBay score before I share about our experience at the Ojai Valley Lavender Festival. So here goes…My grandmother was a squirrel. Well, that is what she called herself because she would “squirrel” away anything she could.

For example, in the snake pit (a storage room my grandpa built for her) she had shelves and shelves with shoe boxes on them. It was actually quite organized. She would have a shoe box full of snow babies, another full of trade beads, one full of dice, another with assorted lids, many held orphaned stoppers and so many other things that it would be impossble to list them all!

Check out this listing for assorted stoppers from the “snake pit” that I sold for over $100. Yippeee Skippy! Click here to read more.

Of course now that I have brought up the Snake Pit, I am going to have to share a story from my first “100 Best Things I’ve Sold on eBay” books that tells a little bit more about it and shows one of my original stopper scores!

OK, so about the Lavender Festival in Ojai on Saturday, June 25th…it seemed like a good idea at the time.   Not so sure about that in retrospect.  The booth rent was like $225…which is a lot.   In prep for the festival, I dug out my grandmother’s old property box that we used to take to antique shows and fill it with supplies, power cords, scissors, tape, zip ties etc.

And I didn’t think I would be the one schlepping the clothing up and back to Ojai.  Well, think again.  It is my store!  Thank God for Shawnna and her daughter Brooklyn who also helped Schlepp.  But it was a PITA and way too hot.

The festival turned out OK.  We did sell a fair amount and Jeff & Joanne Carolan showed up.  Marc Kettles (he & his wife Eva own Fit Buddha and I went to USC with Marc) had invited me over to his house after for a cocktail and after the 100 degree day, I text him to see if he was serious.  He was and he said Jeff & Joanne could join me!  Turned out to be a super fun end to a trying day.  He and his wife Eva’s home is AMAZING!  Seriously, it is like an estate or compound.  They even have an amphitheater!

So something super fun came into the store recently on consignment…Mattel’s Dancerina Doll still in the original box.  I had one of these when I was a kid and if you can believe it…I found the picture of me when I received her on my 6th birthday…OMG!  It sold pretty quickly for a great price!  I am always saying that  people are trying to “buy their childhoods back” and this just proves that point!

Speaking of birthdays, it was mine recently and it started off super weird.  I am not sure if that is the correct word, but I woke up to two emails from my dad.  My dad has been gone for 5 years now and I have only ever received one (obviously spam) email from his account on Easter day after he passed and the subject was “He is risen”.

Well on my birthday morning, I got two emails from him that said “Hello Lynn!”.  When I told my mom, she said “He is obviously thinking of you today” and that made me cry.  Ughhhhh!  What was even weirder is that they didn’t show up on my computer AT ALL–only on my phone.  Not in my inboxes or in spam.  Coincidence?  I think not.

What an amazing start to what turned out to be a wonderful day spent with Indiana.  We started it off with a private training session with Marc at Fit Buddha.  I thought he may go easy on us because it was my birthday, but NO!  Just the opposite.  One of the hardest training sessions ever.

Then we headed out to the Mandalay Oxnard Embassy Suites to sit by the pool and have lunch & some cocktails.  Then I got a massage.  To end the evening we ordered take-out and watched the Love Boat.  LOL!

Indiana is sooooo funny, she posted on her Instagram account all day in the style that she calls “Lynn Dralle”.  Here are a few of her funny posts.

Then two days after my birthday, I walked into the store and thought that Cha Cha had gotten in and DESTROYED it!  Turns out Sandy (store manager extraordinaire) had come in super early to decorate.  It was greatly appreciated and put a smile on my face :)!  I think it is still a mess, but whatever!

And them, Val gave me the coolest throw EVER from the Junk Gypsies.  It says “Well Behaved Women Rarely Make History”.  Still working on finding my place in History 🙂  LOL!    I had a fantastic birthday week that just kept giving and giving.  Next year, for the big one, I will definitely be in Greece or Croatia….maybe both!

Time to talk about the clothing store!   We still have appointments available for you to bring in 20 of your best clothing items.  We are also now taking Mens items.  Please call or text the clothing store….

Land Line  805-628-9208
Cell Phone  805-470-6493

If you missed the email saying what we are looking for in clothing…please read it here before you come in.  Thanks!

Also, start collecting your Fall items and Adult Halloween Costumes. We will start taking in Fall on August 1st.  Call or text the girls to set up an appointment.

Land Line  805-628-9208
Cell Phone  805-470-6493

Oh and one more thing, when we get items in lately they are selling super fast.  And I do mean super fast.  You need to come in often if you are in the market for “cool stuff”.  Check out these two items that sold almost as soon as they hit the sales floor.  The outdoor playhouse sold the same day!  The beautiful navy blue sectional sold on the 3rd day.  “You snooze You lose”.

OK, funny story.  Y’all probably know how CRAZY Cha Cha is and that she loves to chew up remotes.  Little did I know, she is apparently also eating parts of them.  Check out this hysterical text exchange that I had with Jensen who helps run “Send Rover on Over” where I take the Cha a few times a week for socialization.  LOL.

One more birthday to share…Houston turned 26 on Sunday, July 10th.  I can’t believe my baby is grown up!  How did that happen?  He was away in New Jersey/North Carolina with Emma so we will have to celebrate when he gets back.  Here is a fun photo of him biking with his Pepperdine buddy in No Carolina and one of the throwback photo I posted for his birthday.

Since they were out of town, I sent Houston and Emma $100 to buy a birthday dinner for themselves in New Jersey. Ironically, they had sushi and ordered The Love Boat! LOL.

Also, had to share the cute post Indiana did for his birthday. LOVE that he is her “ride or die”.

Now that I have shared about Houston, let’s check out what Indiana has been up to.  She hasn’t had any shows in a while which gave me a bit of a break.  But she has a ton booked in July and August.  Watch out world!  She did fly to Denver recently for her first adult wedding.  That is a BIG deal.  Evatt and Haidyn her Pepperdine friends got married and it was a super fun time for all of these kiddos.  Here is a fierce photo of Indiana and her girls at the reception.  I LOVE this shot!

Finally, don’t forget you can shop online with us.  What has been selling the best lately is our Baggu inventory.  People from around the world have been ordering.  Pretty cool!  Here is a link to our Baggu online.

Oh, I almost forgot!  One of the reasons I named this ezine tales from the road (as opposed to tales from the Crypt-LOL) is that as you are reading this I am headed to Palm Desert to see my friends, do some thrifting, get a Sherry Mesa haircut and fly from there to Bellingham.  I am going home again to attend my really good friend Jo Dallas’ daughter in laws Baby Shower!  Go Micheal & Maggie!

And then in August I will be back up in Bham for my mom and Cha Cha’s birthday.  Unfortunately, the only way I can get Cha Cha up there safely is to road trip.  Not happy about that, but hopefully it will be fun.  Indy will ride up with me, but she will have to fly back the morning of August 7th since she has a show that night.  I need someone to drive back with me!  Ughhh!

I forgot to share a photo from the 4th of July.  The one at the beginning of the ezine was the block party in my neighborhood….so much fun!  This one is me, Sandy and Indy at the Pizza place the night before.  Ventura is just soooooo awesome!

Attention Consignors:

What we need for the main store…..

Anything Beachy
Shelves
Bookshelves
Desks
Dressers
Chair Sets
Pairs of Lamps
Floor Lamps
Bar Stool Sets
Thank you all for supporting me, my family and my businesses as I work on expanding….as you know I am building my empire!

eBay with Heart
Decorate with Heart
Dress with Heart

I try and do everything in my life in a big way and with a lot of heart! Thank you for joining me on this super fun journey. I appreciate you!
AND a HUGE reminder. We have Annie Sloan’s NEW SATIN paint in and it is a game changer according to Val! No waxing is required and it goes on smooth as silk!!!! Yippppeee…I was only able to order 2 cans of each color so come in and grab them before we sell out! So much fun these days at Lynn’s! Because you know, “Everyone Wins When They Shop at Lynns!”

Take care and we hope to see you soon!  Sandy, Peggy, me and
Val!  Also, Candy, Cindy, Rachelle, Kailen, Robin, Susan & Shawnna (not pictured)….

Thanks for reading my ezines!  I appreciate it….as always!

eBay with Heart, Design with Heart & Dress with Heart………Lynn

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