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New Finds Everyday for the Holidays + Gift-hunting Assistance As Needed!

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Throughout this holiday season, I'll be out hunting and posting new finds most everyday. Orders are mailed the following day, if not sooner, and priority shipping via USPS means they will be to you in just a couple of days. Also, if you see a find you love but its sold out, shoot me an email to keep an eye out for something similar. 

To make gift-finding a bit easier, you can now search by price point as well as category. And if you like my eye but don't want to spend time shopping, drop me a note and I'll be happy to help put together suggestions to meet your needs and wants, and will gift wrap your finds if you and write personal notes to your giftees if you'd like. Just be in touch! 

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Adopt a FIND! Introducing "Rescues"

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With every Critical Eye purchase, I include a short handwritten note of thanks, and I've been thrilled to be receiving personal notes from customers in return, sharing with me a little about the homes and collections into which my finds are finding their place. This week, I received a fantastic handwritten letter from a couple that included the following line: "You are such a kind person to entrust me with this treasure, which I will indeed love and keep safe always!"  In addition to making me super happy, this really captured the spirit of what I am hoping to do with Critical Eye--discovering...

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Life is Better Surrounded by Beautiful and Unusual Things with Stories to Tell!

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It seems most everyday I hear people bemoaning the fact that “young people these days” are not interested in anything old or antique; that everyone buys their furniture at IKEA and has no love for anything with the patina of age and use. I know this is not entirely true, as I have plenty of peers my age (46!) and younger selling many things vintage, and when I am out picking--at estate sales, thrift shops, flea markets, etc--I encounter many of the same. And yet it is certainly truer than I would wish it to be, and as I sit...

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