Category: surplus

songbird work and an upcoming stoop sale

August 19, 2015

by annwood

I wanted to show you a little more songbird progress – she has fancy tail feathers. They take ages to sew but I love them. She’s made from beautiful plum Sri textiles.

And I’m having another annual-ish stoop sale! The virtual kind – I’ll put everything on Etsy. I’ve just started photographing treasures I’m ready to part with. There is still lots more to sort though and decide about – I haven’t even started going through fabric and lace. There will probably be some antique garments too. It’s at least a couple weeks away but I’ll post the date and time as soon as possible and more previews soon. Here are a few things I’ve decided to let go of – they have been lovely for me and now they can be lovely for someone else.

I love the doll clothespins – most of them are antique and beautifully made – I hope they make some doll very happy.

stoop sale

March 21, 2014

by annwood

Happy spring! I’m spring cleaning like nobody’s business and preparing for the second annual ann wood virtual stoop sale. There will be a couple antique garments, some vintage fabric and paper (the usual suspects) as well as some original art work and a truly odd assortment of other things. The sale is happening on etsy : https://www.etsy.com/shop/annwood on Sunday evening, March 23rd, at 8 pm (new york time). As always – you can refer to my calendar to know what’s coming up. There are some previews below and maybe more tomorrow if time permits – this is always more work than i think it’s going to be.

The beading on this wretched antique cape is all black glass, hand done and super detailed – there are lots of different designs and cool dangly things.

Below – another detail form the cape beading, paper mache flatware, a drawing of a ship, a celluloid flower pin from the 50’2 and some art deco chandelier crystals – they’re lovely and I have a bunch.

I think I’ve mentioned before – I had a pretty serious puppet phase in the mid 90’s – the little theater and odd little cast of characters has been in a box forever – maybe someone will enjoy it. I also made tons hand puppets and gave them away, the remaining spare parts and almost finished puppets will be in the sale on Sunday too.

And shells – lots and lots of shells – some I collected, most I purchased. So many possibilities……….

a remarkable collection of vintage greeting cards

March 13, 2013

by annwood

Thanks so much to everybody who turned up at the Surplus Sale on Sunday. I’m gathering things for the next sale and I photographed my collection of vintage greeting cards today. It is mostly 1970’s, some older and it is spectacular. And huge – more than two and a half pounds.

I got this collection 5 or 6 years ago at the park slope flea-market – it was part of someones estate. This lady was a pioneer – she was scrapbooking before it was invented – some of the cards are very carefully cut -I guess to be part of a collage or gift tags or maybe new cards populated with mismatched characters ( I love that idea).

The vase has glitter on it. So good.

surplus sale : previews

March 10, 2013

by annwood

Happy daylight savings time! It was a magnificent spring like day in Brooklyn. I spent a lot of it taking last minute photos for tonight’s sale. I’m featuring mostly textiles this weekend ( next weekend is paper) and here are a couple more previews of what will be available at the surplus sale tonight at 9PM (EST).

surplus shop : dress parts

March 5, 2013

by annwood

I’m spending a little bit of each day photographing things for my surplus shop sale and a little bit of each night editing and writing descriptions. I plan to have weekly updates (until I run out of stuff) beginning this Sunday ( 3/10) evening – it’s my favorite day of the year- the beginning of daylight savings time, sunset at 6:45 PM ! I don’t even mind losing the hour of sleep.

All the photos above are of tattered antique dress parts – you can see all the preview photos I’ve taken so far here. This afternoon I’m going to sort through this box of bits and pieces – vintage millinery mostly.

surplus shop : gowns and lace

February 28, 2013

by annwood

I’ve been photographing more things for the upcoming studio sale – a virtual stoop sale of some of my treasures, experiments and supplies. After considiering lots of options I’ve decided to host this sale on etsy. I’ll give you more info as I figure things out but I’ll begin listing things for sale at the end of next week and will be posting more previews here this week and next. As always you can join my mailing list updates.

I’m beginning with textiles – lace and gowns mostly. It hurts to let them go but I’ve used what I can use. They are undone, tattered beauties- sometimes in pieces.

I’m also sorting through tangles of lace and dress parts and creating little collections – there’s some interesting stuff.

making space

January 21, 2013

by annwood

I’m getting organized and making space, mental and physical. A great letting go has begun. One of the results of this effort will be my first ever online studio sale – a sort of a virtual stoop sale. I’m digging through deep and not so deep storage every night and unearthing experiments, treasures, supplies, samples and props. I think the sale is about 2 weeks away and I’ll keep you posted on the where and the when here or you can join my mailing list here. Today I’ll share a little of what I’ve come up with so far.

Some ruined but wonderful, frothy antique gowns. There will be lots of antique lace too.

I have a little collection of ring pillows made from antique gowns and petticoats available at BHLDN now (ps – their spring collection is lovely) – some of the samples and experiments I made along the way will be part of my studio sale.