Please vote for us as best resale/vintage shop in OKC at www.okgazette.com
Thank you to everyone that nominated us! Yippee!
This year the Gazette worked to make sure all nominees were truly local businesses (if it was a chain or national person they still had to be locally based!) We are very proud to be on the ballot this year with all the many other great businesses. We are also proud that some of our very own customers are nominated also so please consider voting for these pals of ours also:
Cuppies and Joe - Best Coffeehouse/Best Desserts/Best Free Wi-Fi
Central Oklahoma Habitat for Humanity - Best Local Nonprofit
Collected Thread- Best new business/Best Fashion Accessories/Best Women's Clothing Boutique
Retropolitan- Best New Business/Best Fashion Accessories ( it is your choice between Retropolitan and Collected Thread- maybe give a vote to each in alternate categories!)
Velvet Monkey- Best Salon
Lyric Theatre - Best Dance or Theater company
So kudos to our pals and remember to get on there and vote for Rink Gallery as best resale/vintage shop!
One of our vendors here at Rink has been taking old vintage jewelry bits and pieces (such an earring with no match or pendants with no clasp, etc) and fixing them up to create new vintage inspired jewelry. She even takes the time to rebead and replace stones and and has turned earrings into finger rings. I have attached a few samples of her pieces, but if you would like to see more of her work and keep up with her blog please check out www.vivaciousforvintage.blogspot.com
While many of our vendors come up with such great creative ideas , today I thought I would feature our vendor #53. The way she recycles these old gloves with missing mates and the broken doll heads is adorable. With the gloves she first handpaints the image on and then stuffs the glove and places it over either old stem glasses or old glass candle holders. She then coats the piece in a fabric stiffener to make it stand better and to protect the paint job. They make such great displays and you can even hang jewelry on them. For the doll heads she flips old plant pots over , gives them a nice paint wash,fixes the heads if they need it or if she wants to add anything to them and glues the heads onto the pot. She them calls them "Potheads" which always gives folks a nice giggle. I don't have a picture of it but this same vendor also made a great Americana display for the 4th of July holiday by taking an old banister post and drilling holes into to display a selection of flags.
This is just one sample of the many great vendors we have here a Rink and every week they alwasy surprise us with new designs!
The flowers are so pretty today and rich in their summer colors that grow out in front of the store that I just thought I would share a few pics. If you want to see them live this is the month to come on out to store while their are at the summer peak!
yum, free refreshments....
Guitar tunes with Joe
One of our regular shoppers, Dot
Fun for the whole family at Rink!
Cookin' the dogs
Whoohoo! Thanks to all the readers of Oklahoma magazine for naming us in the top three best antique stores in Oklahoma City. On page 100 of the July 2009 issue they say, " Rink Gallery is a fave of our readers for their wide selection of vintage offerings from art deco to '50s modern and beyond."
WE LOVE THIS MAG, thanks!!!!! If you would like to check out more of their best of the best issue you can pick it up for free around Oklahoma City or Tulsa area( we picked ours up at Borders on NW Expessway) or check out their website www.okmag.com
Recycling and antiques, vintage, and retro merchandise go hand and hand. You know the saying "what's old is new again" and have seen all the shows on TV and in magazines promoting "Salvage Style". Well here at Rink Gallery many of our vendors are not only great at hunting down great used goods but are also very creative and can salvage one person's roadside castoff into a beautiful and useful item for your home, office, or studio, etc. Check back to our blog often for great ideas and see some of the goods we have available in the store.(just note that items posted are meant to inspire and may not actually still be available by the time you come into the store, but that doesn't mean something just as awesome may not be around!) With this blog some of the samples are an old broken bed comverted to a great bench, a door painted to be a functional 
piece of art(can hang as art, use as room seperater, or can use as an door still) , and a screen 
that has become a jewelry display.
Join us for free hot dogs and the music stylings of Joe and his guitar from 2 to 4 this Saturday. Feel free to shop the mall for the unusual and collectible items that make your life a party!
