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The Gorey Details

By Jen | Published: October 22, 2011

Two of our display cases that are spooky 365 days a year are from Stars & Splendid dealer #50, Julia Koerth. Julia runs “Gorey Details” and provides our customers with wonderful ink stamps of all sorts to decorate your party invites and letters to friends or have as party favors and prizes. Of course the [...]

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Meet the Dealer: Shelley from Splendid!

By Jen | Published: September 13, 2011

Hello there, everybody! Meet Shelley Henkle, dealer #27 on our wonderful Stars and Splendid side of the antiques mall. Shelley has been selling vintage since 2004 and has been with us since February with her fabulous “Why Not?” shop. “It’s okay if something gets away. We are just temporary owners and everything should be out [...]

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Let’s Shop

By Brent | Published: July 11, 2011

It has been quite a weekend with the mega Summer Palmer Wirfs Antiques & Collectibles Show out at Expo and the Stars On Sale Summer Event. Expo brings in thousands of customers to the Portland area three times a year but the Summer edition is the BIG ONE. If the amount of buying is any [...]

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Summer Whites

By Brent | Published: July 4, 2011

What is it about the color white that is so soothing? When Summer finally arrives, I find myself yearning for the clean, cool color of white. White has numerous hues just like any other color. Warm, cool, creamy to stark, my personal favorite is the white that has the patina of age. I love color [...]

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Praying for…

By Brent | Published: May 4, 2011

It has been a long wet winter and spring here in the Northwest. I was shopping in Stars yesterday and came across these iron letters in Dealer 26′s space. SUN what a wonderful concept when you haven’t seen it for awhile. And why do we feel so much better when that golden orb is shining [...]

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Hats Off to the Royal Wedding

By Brent | Published: April 26, 2011

Friday is the big day for William and Kate’s royal wedding. With all of the media a buzz over the nuptials, we thought it was only appropriate to go hat shopping at Stars. Here’s what we found. Let us know which one you would wear if you got an invitation to the wedding. We received [...]

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Two Hints Are Better Than One

By Brent | Published: April 22, 2011

We are counting down to Easter Sunday for Stars 2nd Annual Easter Egg Hunt. As promised per our contractual agreement with the Easter Bunny here are two more hints for finding an egg with a fabulous prize inside. And the first hint is….. Hint #2: We should also remind you that hints have been posted [...]

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Get Smart

By Brent | Published: April 19, 2011

Maybe the title of this blog should be, Get Smarter. All this week we are providing hints to the location of some of the Easter eggs that will be hidden in the stores on Easter Sunday. If you read yesterday’s blog, you will be aware that while we think this hint business is nonsense, The [...]

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Collecting Mania

By Brent | Published: March 17, 2011

Darwin and I love to buy junk. When you have this obsession, you become a collector. We have always lived with our collections. Why not surround ourselves with the things that we love? We have collecting mania. We admit to it. We embrace it. You may have this same condition. Some call it an obsession. [...]

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In Love with Shelves

By Brent | Published: February 16, 2011

When we moved into our current home, I realized pretty quickly that with less space we needed be more organized when it came to our collections. Thank goodness for shelves. They have been our salvation in so many ways. Living as we do with lots of things, the built-in shelves have provided us an opportunity [...]

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