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Hen and Chic Vintage is Heading to the Holiday Village Market! Okay, so it’s just barely September, but around here, that means the holiday hustle is already underway. The news: we sent in our application for the Kennett Square Holiday Village Market at The Creamery—and are crossing are every finger and toe. (That’s how excited…
Hen and Chic Vintage at the 40th Annual Mushroom Festival Well, another Mushroom Festival in Kennett Square is on the books, and honestly, I’m still soaking in all the fun—and maybe also recovering from inhaling a lifetime’s worth of sautéed mushrooms. If you were anywhere near Kennett Square this weekend, you probably saw our little…
Top Ten Reasons To Buy Organic Homemade Soap 10. Organic ingredients are paramount. In recent years people have really been on an organic kick and I thought, “why is this a new phenomenon?” It was not that long ago that people were making their own soap out of the cinders in their fireplace and animal…
Back in 2008, I purchased a pair of 19th Century pine obelisks from an auction house in Philadelphia. I spent the beginning of my career at Freeman’s Auction house in Philadelphia. It is America’s oldest auction house. The obelisks unique quality drew me to them. I had never seen anything like these. The painted star…
Behold the bar, cabinet! It’s the one place we can all have fun around and be with friends. That’s exactly what I was thinking when we removed the old bachelor bar, which later down the road become the entertainment center. Everything in our little cottage comes full circle again and gets re-imagined somehow. We wanted…
Entertainment Center Dresser Since moving into our new home here in the fabulous Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, there have been tons of projects Bryan and I have tackled. One being our entertainment center. The dresser, which dates back to the 1970s, was Bryan’s older brother’s when he was a kid. It screamed, “I am old and outdated,…
Let’s kick off Spring with the amazing story of turning vintage utensils into a great piece of art!! I cannot believe it is spring already!! We have been so bogged down with all this snow, wait I need to rephrase, what snow? We have had such a mild winter it feels like an extended autumn.…
We are back and the soap shop is in full swing We are jumping back into Hen and Chic Vintage head first and opening up not only vintage items but homemade soaps, lip balms, and other organic beauty products. For the last couple years, I have spent my time being a full-time antiques appraiser with…
Trunk Coffee Table This fabulous trunk coffee table started because Bryan needed a new coffee table. Our original coffee table was scratched, dinged up and in desperate need of updating. We decided the best place to start was Consign and Design in Broomall, PA. Bryan went to college with the owner and the place is…
Old Lamps are now New The story of these lamps start way back in 2001, lets take a moment to reminisce. I know it wasn’t that long ago, but it seems like an eternity. So much has happened since then, I graduated high school, college and graduate school, got jobs and got engaged to a…