A Visit to Fresh Heirlooms

A few weeks ago, we decided to visit Fresh Heirlooms, located in New Kensington. Fresh Heirlooms moved to the neighborhood a little over a year ago, and is located at 887 5th Avenue. We are so glad to see new businesses in our neighborhood!

Fresh Heirlooms is a shop after our own hearts as they sell re-purposed items and etched glass. We spent our time investigating the nooks and crannies of the shop while chatting with one of the owners. Of course, we shared secrets and talked shop.

We picked up a couple of items including an etched humming bird vase. At one time, the vase was a wine bottle, but the amazing folks at Fresh Heirlooms cut, sanded, and etched the bottle to create a vase. It's just lovely, and will make a great gift.

We picked up a few other items including these fair trade pencils from India. Every now and then I just love using pencils to scribble ideas or quickly create a design. We purchased a hummingbird statue photo holder. This unique piece will also be a gift. Our purchases were nicely packaged in a handmade tote!

 




If you are in New Kensington, please stop by Fresh Heirlooms and check them out! We look forward to shopping there again soon. And we would love to work with them on some future projects!

Skull Soup and Scattered Fairy: An Introduction

In this first post, I thought I would take a minute and introduce us, after all if you are going to follow our adventures, you should get to know us a little better.

Skull Soup enjoys working with a variety of mediums and will try just about any artistic adventure. While he is a graphic designer by day, in his spare time, he enjoys creating custom pieces, making found-object sculptures, and creating one-of-a-kind zombie pieces.

I, Scattered Fairy, enjoy turning broken, discarded vintage jewelry into fun, beautiful pieces. I also dabble into a little bit of sewing. Even with sewing, I try to re-purpose discarded items into something new. I've always believed things are never truly broken.


We love to explore thrift stores, antiques shops, and places that are off the beaten path. In the summer time, we also enjoy rummaging at yard sales and the local flea-tiques.  

We run a store on etsy, SkullSoup, which is where you can see some of our fantastic finds and fabulous creations. Check out our Facebook page to see some additional pieces, including our custom work.

Our blog is a way for us to share our adventures while promoting re-purposing and recycling as well as local events and businesses. You may even see a tutorial every now and then.

Stay tuned for more of our adventures!