12/19/24 We are Open Every Day Until Christmas….Lynn’s Latest #000026

Welcome to Lynn’s Latest #000026

Thursday, December 19th, 2024
Volume V Issue 000026

OMG! I finished my Christmas Cards….what a relief! But, I am waaaaaaaaay behind on holiday shopping!

Luckily, I know a really great local store named Lynn’s Consignments where I can shop! And you can as well! Thank you for supporting local this holiday season. It means the world to us!

Extra shopping hours next week….

Monday 12/23 11 to 5
Tuesday 12/24 also known as Christmas Eve :)11 to 2

& please stop in for some holiday cheer on Christmas Eve….champagne, wine & baked goodies!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! I can’t believe that when I write the next one, Christmas will be OVER! OMG…where did this year go?

The Mid-Century furniture is selling quickly. We just sold the matching 6 dining chairs on Saturday. What a beautiful set!

The past week was all about finishing those Christmas cards! And I even brought them to the store with me on Saturday to work on them. I was sitting at one of the tables in the store writing away and I hear “Hola” and it was Val and her family! Made me sooooo happy! Love them!

Sunday was a big day in our family. Indiana turned 26! And I met the kids down at Gladstones for Brunch. Houston cycled down from the Marina and we had a lot of fun. I LOVE Gladstones and have been going there since my USC days.

You would often find us down there on a Sunday, eating the peanuts and grabbing drinks. Brings back great memories. This year, we made new memories and Cha Cha joined us!

At one point, I said to the kids, “How did I get such old kids?” and Houston says, “because you are old”! I laughed so hard.

After Gladstones, Cha Cha and I headed back to Ventura to meet up with a friend and his dog, Bear at the beach. It was my mission to wear out the Cha Cha and she LOVES the beach!

Mission accomplished! Check out my puppy after her fun day!

Monday, I did Fit Buddha and then had lunch down at Aloha Steakhouse with Marc. We are so fortunate to live here!

Tuesday, I met up with my friend Janette who owns Island Girl Spray Tan for dinner. It seems like the holidays are going to be over before we know it and there just isn’t enough time to see everyone that I want during this special time of year.

Wednesday night, Indiana had a show at the Elysian Theater in Los Angeles. Marc and I went in early to meet Larissa for dinner first.

First stop was Laretos in Frogtown where we thought we would be having dinner, but it wasn’t our vibe. LOL.

So we text Larissa (who was late) and said, “Pick us up and take us to Ivanhoe”. It was a restaurant that Marc spotted when we got off the freeway. And it was Perfect! We had a lovely dinner. And it was open mike night with a ton of super talented singers. Score!

Then we headed to the show at the Elysian. Indiana was amazing and I am sooooo happy she brought “Sister Jospehine” back. LOVE this character!

And a final pic with my Indy Girl before we headed back to Ventura. Long day, but super fun!

We have a high end design job in Pasadena that we are installing on December 29th. We are desperately looking for:

Think Old World Pasadena

Traditional Chandelier
Dining Room Table…round or oval not too big 42″ to 48″
Parsons Dining Chair or Traditional Wood Chair we need 4 to 6
Dark Wood End Table
Small Dark Wood Console Table
Pair of Traditional Table Lamps Think Brass/Porcleain
Throw Pillows…Old World Needlepoint
Artwork

Here is our Inspo Vision Board

My social life is keeping me from Christmas shopping. Ughhhh. My mom flies in tonight from Bellingham. She hasn’t been down here in a year probably because I went home so many times this summer. Stop in the store and see her.

Here she is with George (one of our first and favorite consignors) who passed away this year. Ughhhh!

Time for an eBay score. I found two of these French Jars Trays up at the Catholic Church Thrift Store in Carp. I paid $5 each for them. Just sold the last one yesterday for 127.49! Check out the auction here.

Tonight before my mom arrives, I am going to a progressive dinner. I was telling my kids about it and they had no idea what I was talking about…they thought it was political. Hahahaha.

In any event, I explained to them that we start at one house for appetizers, then move onto the next house for the main course and finally arrive at the last home for desert. Sounds like a blast and I can’t wait to go.

Time for another eBay score. I do not like to get up early. I am NOT a morning person. So, I typically get to garage sales closer to the end rather than the start. I need to work on this! But, this time it worked in my favor. I arrived to a garage sale as they were packing up to close and everything was FREE!

I got this really cool wine opener and a bunch of other neat stuff. Just sold the wine opener for a best offer of $35. Not bad! Check out the listing here.

In super weird news, I was so happy to see a Christmas card on the floor of my store with familiar writing..it was pushed through the mail slot. It was from one of my favorite sorority sisters, Sandy Weber.

I wanted to tell her how happy I was to see it so I reached out to her on Facebook and if you can believe it she is from Ventura. I had no idea! She graduated from Ventura High School in 1983. What a small world! I said to her, “I bet some of the people you went to high school with are some of my customers/consignors.”

But wait, there is an even weirder coincidence that happened with Sandy and me and our husbands many years ago. My ex-husband, William, went to high school at Webb Boarding School in Claremont. It is a very tiny school.

William and I went to the 10 year class reunion and Wm walks up to this guy and says “Cheese” (his nickname and his real name is Tony) and proceeds to give him a big hug. His wife turns around to see what all the commotion is about and it was Sandy Weber!

We lost it! What are the odds? Our husbands went to high school together. Still blows my mind! I will have to find that picture of the four of us to share with y’all.

We got in some really great items this week! Please stop in and see us soon!

Please don’t bring in any consignments on Wednesdays…it is our CRAZY day! And we are looking for some higher end clothing…remember to call for an appointment for clothing….Brands….

Outerknown
Johnny Was
Citron
Anthropologie
St John Knit
J Jill
Theology etc.

AND I wasn’t able to find anyone to help with furniture…but Kevin came back from fishing! Yay!

We have some deep discounts on two of our grey couches. The first one came in at $995 and was marked down to $597 and is currently ON SALE for $295.

This boucle sofa came in at $495 and was marked down to $297. It is currently ON SALE for $145.

Small mystery…which one of our consignors brought in this small side table?

And now, for what most of you have been waiting for….our new arrivals

Rust Velvet Couch $795.00

Plaid Swivel Chair $395.00 each – 2 in stock

Recliner Upholstered Name Brand Manual Brown $225.00

Recliner Simple Fun Modern Velvet Blue $495.00

Arm Chair Fabric Orren Ellis Wykeshia Natural Tones $495.00

Dining Chair Simpli Home Malden Mid Century Woven Fabric Modern Bentwood Turquoise Blue/walnut $95.00

Counter Stool Poly and Bark Weave Black/natural $95.00 each – 2 in stock

Accent Chair Jacobsen Denim $345.0

Coffee Table Dakota Fields Solid Wood Multi $249.50

Off White Tufted Ottoman $195.00

Off White Round Table $246.50

9 Drawer Dresser Shimeka Brown $495.00

Large Glass Cabinet with Glass Shelves $595.00

Vintage Gumball Machine (working) $125.00

Set 4 Oval Berry Raffia Placemats $69.95

As I end this ezine, I just want to say THANK YOU so much for reading these and mentioning it to me in the store or by email.

I LOVE to hear that you enjoy reading these and it makes my day!

Again, I am so thankful and grateful for you all!

eBay with Heart
Decorate with Heart
Dress with Heart

Whale, Indiana, me, Val, Sandy, Susan, Cindy and Tina.

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

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

BTW, we now have a blog on the website where you can read all of our past newsletter
Link to Blog.

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12/12/24 A Free Christmas Tree?….Lynn’s Latest #000025

Welcome to Lynn’s Latest #000025

Thursday, December 12th, 2024
Volume V Issue 000025

I can’t believe how fast time is flying. Christmas is only 13 days away and I have only purchased one gift. Yikes!

Luckily, I know a really great local store named Lynn’s Consignments where I can shop! And you can as well! Thank you for supporting local this holiday season. It means the world to us!

If you missed last week’s ezine with all of the AMAZING Mid Century Modern Furniture we got in and my crazy adventures…..you can find it here.

Time for an eBay score! I can’t remember where I got this…probably at an estate sale and I paid $10. Just sold it for $194!

Check out the listing here.

This past week I have been working on my Christmas Cards. We send out 400 so it is a lot of work! And last year with me closing the store, I just wasn’t in the “Holiday Spirit” and did not send out our card.

This year I am sending two cards and two letters! I am exhausted and only about 1/3 of the way finished. Wish me luck! I want to be finished by Indiana’s 26th birthday on December 15th. OMG! How am I the parent of a 26 and 28 year old?

Seems like it was just yesterday that they were in High School in Palm Desert. How cute are they?

This past Saturday, a few of us headed downtown for the Wine Walk. We don’t buy tickets anymore and just hang out at Fit Buddha…Hahaha. First though, we met up with Sendia and her husband Tim for dinner at Lure.

Here is a picture of my store’s Christmas Party from 5 years ago, when we all did the wine walk. From left to right….Val, Sandy, me, Santa Claus, Peggy, Mrs. Claus and Cindy. That was such a fun night!

Here we are at Fit Buddha this year! Another fun evening!

Sunday, I had plans for coffee in the morning and then Sandy called me and invited me to a Christmas Party in Ojai, where you could get a free Christmas Tree. What?

Turns out it was true! Sandy, Marian and I headed up to Ojai in Sandy’s Truck for the party. It was a potluck and the guy having the party owns a Christmas Tree Farm in Oregon. So there were free trees! We cracked up getting our trees to the truck.

With all my time being taken up with those Christmas Cards….. I decided to put up my fake tree and leave the real one outside. My fake tree was up and lights lit in literally 15 minutes and I put the real one in the tree stand with water in my front yard. Why not? When the kids come home for Christmas, they can put lights on it!

We have a high end design job in Pasadena that we are installing on December 29th. We are desperately looking for:

Think Old World Pasadena

Traditional Chandelier
Dining Room Table…round or oval not too big 42″ to 48″
Parsons Dining Chair or Traditional Wood Chair we need 4 to 6
Dark Wood Pair of Two Bookcases..no Oak
Dark Wood End Table
Small Dark Wood Console Table
Pair of Traditional Table Lamps Think Brass/Porcleain
Throw Pillows…Old World Needlepoint
Artwork

Here is our Inspo Vision Board

On Monday, it was Fit Buddha and out to lunch with Sandy and Marc at Lure. I sure hang out there a lot!

Time for an eBay score. I was just looking at a stack of these old license plates and thinking that they were never going to sell on eBay and that I should put them out in the store. Then lo and behold, I sold one the other day for a best offer of $75 and it got shipped to Australia. Check out the listing here.

I have had a busy week. On Tuesday, I met Val for lunch and not at Lure! LOL. I feel like I haven’t seen her in forever. I really miss having her working at the store, but her family is her priority now and I totally understand that.

Do you remember the eBay class I taught last month? Andrea listed this darling Christmas set and I featured it in my newsletter. One of my consignors, emailed to ask if she could go and see it in person. Guess what? It sold because of my newsletter. Who needs eBay? LOL.

Here is that set in my consignor’s home. She already owned quite a few pieces of the Patience Brewter for Krinkles collection.

We got in some really great items this week! Please stop in and see us soon!

Please don’t bring in any consignments on Wednesdays…it is our CRAZY day! And we are looking for some higher end clothing…remember to call for an appointment for clothing….Brands….

Outerknown
Johnny Was
Citron
Anthropologie
St John Knit
J Jill
Theology etc.

AND I need to hire someone for a day a week to help us move and assemble furniture. We had Kevin, who is awesome, but he is currently out fishing and we miss him!

It just pays minimum wage, but Lynn’s is a fun place to work. Please text me if you know of anyone that might be interested 760-880-3535.

We have some deep discounts on two of our grey couches. The first one came in at $995 and was marked down to $597 and is currently ON SALE for $295.

This boucle sofa came in at $495 and was marked down to $297. It is currently ON SALE for $145.

Small mystery…which one of our consignors brought in this small side table?

And now, for what most of you have been waiting for….our new arrivals

Velvet Sofa $795.

Loveseat Vicente Leather Brown $395.00

Power Recliner With Rivet Caedin 40.5” Breathable Vegan Leather Brown $249.95

Coffee Table Beaumont Distressed Silver (Distressed Grey/blue Tones) $225.00

3-Drawer Nightstand Picket House Black $125.00

Tresanti Desk White $195.00

Wooden Hall Table Primitive Blue Rustic Brown $795.00

Large Rustic Stick Mirror $195.00

World Map Typvs Metal Gallery Poster Ortellus Orbis Terrarvn 1570 Urban Trends Collections $39.95

Metal Wall Art United States Map and Territories Together With Canada Urban Trends Collections $39.95

Headboard Modus Furniture Oxford Grey/beige $249.50

10″ Round Vase Green Ceramic Urban Trends Collection $19.95

Box of 46 Christmas Ornaments $49.50

Black & White Santa Boot Puppies $249.50

Oscar De La Renta Fox Fur Coat $575.50

Stripped Mink Short Coat $525.50

Manchester White Snow Leopard FAUX Fur Jacket $79.50

As I end this ezine, I just want to say THANK YOU so much for reading these and mentioning it to me in the store or by email.

I LOVE to hear that you enjoy reading these and it makes my day!

Again, I am so thankful and grateful for you all!

eBay with Heart
Decorate with Heart
Dress with Heart

Whale, Indiana, me, Val, Sandy, Susan, Cindy and Tina.

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

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

BTW, we now have a blog on the website where you can read all of our past newsletter
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P.P.S For those of you who don’t live close to Ventura…don’t forget you can shop our store online!
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12/05/24 Christmas is Coming!….Lynn’s Latest #000024

I hope your Thanksgiving was excellent. I was pleasantly surprised when I got to Fit Buddha on Thanksgiving morning to see one of our high school employees, Emily, there to take the same class.

So of course we had to get a group picture! Shanti, Marc, Sandy, me and Emily.

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Thursday, December 5th, 2024
Volume V Issue 000024

Then it was out to breakfast with Marc, Shanti & Sandy and then home to clean the house for my kids arrival. Houston arrived first at about 2 pm and ran some errands with me. Then Indiana and Larissa arrived about 3:30. And we got to getting the Honey Baked Ham and Turkey ready.

We were ready to eat at 5 pm and I even took a plate of dinner to both of my tenants…which they really appreciated.

Dinner was lovely and after dinner we headed to the store to shoot our Christmas card photos. Unfortunately, this is the only photo I got with the kids. I wasn’t on my game!

Time for an eBay score! I bought this plate back in 2018 for $5. It is a beautiful dinner plate. The picture does not do it justice.

Just sold for asking price of $101.39 less 5%! Yippppeeeee!

Check out the listing here.

It was fun shooting the Christmas Card photos at the store with it being dark outside. I think the card turned out really cute! We put some outtakes on the back side and Indy came up with the cutest slogan…”What Happens at Lynn’s Consignments…Stays at Lynn’s Consignments!

Friday and Saturday were slow in the store and I took Saturday off to watch the Notre Dame game. I was out at garage sales on Saturday when I got a text from Susan. Guess who was at the store?

I knew he was going to be in town, but did not know what day. He always thrifts in the LA area on Black Friday and Small Business Saturday. He had a tight schedule and I couldn’t make it back to the store in time to see him so I asked where he was going next and I met him at Buffalo Exchange.

No time for lunch & tiki cocktails this trip. But it was fun to catch up and see the sh*t he buys! He found two Laurel Burch Purses New with Tags. Laurel Burch passed away in 2007 from a rare bone cancer and her stuff does well on eBay.

This is a Laurel Burch Purse that he currently has listed on eBay. Check out the listing here.

Jason typically sells men’s and women’s clothing, CD’s and Tiki Mugs. His user ID is TikiPugMusic. Here is a Tiki mug that he sold recently for almost $375.

Check out the listing here.

Fun afternoon with Tiki and I headed home to watch the USC Notre Dame Game.

The USC Notre Dame game was atrocious. But at least I had long legged Cha Cha to keep me company. Hahahaha.

Speaking of Cha Cha, we couldn’t figure out what happened to the leftover homemade Apple Pie the morning after Thanksgiving.

We have a high end design job in Pasadena that we need to install mid December. We are desperately looking for:

Think Old World Pasadena

Here is our Inspo Vision Board

Carlos (our cat) missed my kids so much that after Thanksgiving dinner we let him up on the table and he just couldn’t get enough of both Houston and Indiana. He had to put his little head on their heads. It was so cute!

We have such amazing customers here at Lynn’s Consignments. The day after Thanksgiving, Tia, came in to do some shopping and she picked out a light up candle that Indy had put batteries in the night before. Crazy!

I asked Tia if I could put a picture of her in my newsletter and she said “Of Course!” as she and her sister had made it into my newsletter a while ago because I didn’t think they looked alike at all and they turned out to be twins! LOL.

Then we had two friends come in shopping for clothing, Teri and Andrea. Teri was visiting from the Bay area and bought this amazing Moschino Rainbow Blazer. What a hoot!

Then on Wednesday, a new customer came in and bought a pair of arm chairs that had just arrived. She carted them home in her adorable VW Bus.

Time for another eBay score. There is a long story about my friendship with Stanley Papel, but not today, just know he is the King of Coffee Mugs and still owns Papel. He had one of his artists/contractors, Marci G, do the poetry for these mugs when she was pregnant and bedridden.

These name mugs ALWAYS sell for a lot! I got close to $100 for this one. Check out the listing here.

On Monday, I did Fit Buddha and then Sandy and I went out to lunch at Aloha. It started out as a lovely day, but by the time we were finished eating, the pier was socked in.