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On sale this weekend: Vintage dishes at Swankety Swank

Top 5 Reasons to Visit Swankety Swank over Memorial Day Weekend!

Number 5. You may have decided not to travel this weekend, since gas prices are higher this year.  So you may have visitors at your apartment and you really need to impress your In-Laws. Bring them to Swankety Swank for a taste of authentic, made-in-the-Bay-Area goods.

Vinspirationals

Vinspirationals

RECLAIMING MATERIALS OF THE PAST… FOR THE DELIGHT OF THE PRESENT… We have exciting new fashions at Swankety Swank this week by Mary Meg Vinspirationals! Using One of a kind original designs from authentic vintage, recycled, repurposed and reclaimed materials with lovely feminine charm and soft textures, Mary Meg’s work fits right into our aesthetic for gorgeousness “Honoring [...]

Bag of Brown Hues with leather snap flap

Mother’s Day: A Week Away!

Next weekend is fast approaching and we have what your Mother, Wife and Daughter would love! View some of our pleasing Neutrals…

Broken Dollhouse Exhibit Wows the Divisadero Art Walk Crowds

Broken Dollhouse Exhibit Wows the Divisadero Art Walk Crowds

Thursday, April 14th was the Spring Divisadero Art Walk and the opening of Sheri DeBow’s After Fool’s Day at the Palace of the Broken Dollhouse.

More Good Reasons to Say NO to Consumerism

More Good Reasons to Say NO to Consumerism

I recently posted about a BBC documentary series call Century of the Self over on my blog. The series is about how government and big business used Freud’s theories as the basis for developing techniques to control the minds of the American people.   How?  Oppression of  the “savage barbarism” lurking just below the surface [...]

Relax in style at Swankety Swank. Photo by Eartha Goodwin.

Monday, Monday…

Expanding Hours! While we usually take the day off, we are looking towards Spring with more shoppers, so we are expanding our hours. We’ll be open now Thursday thru Sunday 11am to 7pm and MONDAY 10am to 5pm. STORM is expanding his heroic tarot hours while still in town these last couple weeks to Monday [...]

Swankety Swank’s Shining Spring Spirit!

Swankety Swank’s Shining Spring Spirit!

While the weather is still a bit chilly and overcast, we’ve already welcomed Spring at Swankety Swank.  Yabette has been hard at work with the designers to fill the shop with pretty new pieces in a variety of price ranges and sizes.  We have several new designers offering one of a kind pieces for under [...]

Take me home for your Sweetheart room!

Of TreeheARTs and Vintage Flowers

Today, Alex and I changed our window. We are in a happy place in our lives and it feels good to decorate with Valentine’s Day in mind. I added several new things we have in the shop to the window display, including a gibbous fancy on top of my new Fuchsia TreeheART Dresser, next to the art [...]