classic cars

I have a crush on vintage cars and trucks.  Mostly the 40s thru the 60s.  It's been a great summer for spotting them. Seems like every weekend while out rummaging I run across 3 or 4 of them.  Sometimes I'm quick enough with my iphone to get a good snapshot.

Here are 4 of my recent favorites from my instagram stream.

My husband and I have a vintage 68 Mercedes that we keep stored waiting for the day that we have the time to fully restore it.  It sure will be fun to take it out when its spiffed up.

Hope your summer is going well.  Mine is flying by crazy fast and the next few weeks will be filled with receiving all of the goodies I ordered at gift shows and spending time with visiting friends.  I'm sad that July is over.  August always feels like summer is ending soon.  I'm like a little kid and wish that summer vacation could last forever.  sigh.

Do you instagram??  We are @moxiedekalb.  Hope you'll follow us as we share photos from our daily life and roadtrips.


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summer shopping and vacationing

Summer is going by so fast!!  I've been traveling lots and visiting with friends and family all the time!  Of course I manage to hit estate sales no matter where I'm at!  I've been super lucky this summer and had the great fortune to find lots of fabulous vintage treasures.  These items arrived today and this was last night's sunset.  I took it at about 9:15 over Lake Michigan.  Hope your summer is going great!

To see more photos of this weekends finds please pop on over to our facebook page ... www.facebook.com/moxie.dekalb

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Adornments

I'm finally trying to get back some blogging momentum after a hard 3 months of not feeling well.  I had a very weird severe allergy/auto-immune thing going on and now after eliminating tons of things from my diet (like wheat and sugar) I am feeling a bit better.  I've also changed out almost every chemical product in my house and I'm not sure I'll ever really  know the exact cause of my spiral into a highly allergic state but as a life long allergy sufferer I know that keeping away from as many harsh chemicals and foods that trigger me is my only real hope to keep my symptoms at bay.  I can't handle anti-histamines on a daily basis.  Even the non-drowsy ones knock me out.  So hope you forgive my lack of posts.  For now I'll just be doing some quicky ones as I try to get back into the rhythm of it all again.

Despite my not feeling well this Spring, team moxie carried on heroically as they always do and the shop is super full of really cute stuff.  We added so many new lines after our visits to the winter gift markets and now that I'm back on track I've been shopping my bootie off every weekend at the estate sales.  Lots of new and very unique vintage finds have been arriving several times a week.

I'm really looking forward to a fun memorial day weekend and hope you all have a great one too.  

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what's new at the shop???

I've been doing a lot of what I love these past few weeks now that the weather has warmed up somewhat here in the midwest.  That is vintage shopping of course!  Here are a few things we dropped off at the shop this afternoon.  A full photo album of the rest of our weekend's finds can be found over on our Facebook page.  www.facebook.com/moxie.dekalb

Hope you had a great weekend too!  

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hello tiny glimpse of spring

It's been a long winter here in the Midwest.  I've been thinking Spring was going to be missed altogether this year.  Despite having some snow flurries yesterday, the sun did peek out today and the buds on the branches are coming to life.  I took advantage of the sun, while still wearing my winter coat and scarf, to take some photos of the budding branches.  

 I hope the sun was shining where you were today.  

The sun also made it more fun to take some photos.  My photos of late have been as gray as the skies and I love them to have more warmth and happy colors.  

 Have a happy week ....

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