Where are your favorite places to find your fabulous vintage
pieces?
I consider them my “treasures” and I find them mostly at Estate Sales and
Thrift Stores. I especially love to look when we travel. Our son, Stiles and
his wife, Lauren live in Denver and it is truly the thrift store land of milk
and honey. We always make time to stop along the way anywhere we
travel. SCRAP Denton is also a treasure trove, and is a favorite place of
mine.
What is your favorite thing to make?
That is hard to answer......right now I am having alot of fun making
applique tea towels, but I love making furniture, even though Vaughan is the actual one who makes it.....but I love coming up with new ideas and designs, and
seeing the amazing talent that Vaughan has in handcrafting my dreams.
Tell us about your roll with DIME. How did you get started with it?
I am the co-owner of The DIME Store with Rachel Aughtry, and am co-
founder of DIME which was formerly Etsy Denton. I got started with it
after Rachel and I had developed a friendship through a handbag my
daughter Shea bought at Art Six....long story short, we both were selling
out at the Denton Community Market the inaugural season and we had a
reporter from the Denton Record Chronicle approach us about all the Etsy
sellers at the market and had we considered starting a group in Denton
like what was happening in Dallas and Ft Worth? She said if we did she
would write a story about us. So we agreed to start Etsy Denton as a way
to have community with other makers in Denton. We decided to host a
barn sale at my home to kick off our new organization of makers. The
paper wrote there story and we had about 400 people come out to shop
from 14 vendors, and well, the rest is history. We moved to the Center
for Visual Arts in the Fall and have had 4 shows that grew each time,
which led us to decide to open The DIME Store.
My day to day.....Rachel and I split the time at the store, working either
mornings or afternoons and every other Saturday unless we have an
event. Whether morning or afternoon we overlap our time in the store
from 1-3 to confer on all the happenings of the business. Working in the
store is so much fun. I enjoy meeting all the customers and visiting. We
also have a working studio with our sewing machines behind the counter
so that we can keep up with our own personal making for the store and
for our Etsy shops.
