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Dressing table decor from Vintage Baby. Those brooches are displayed in a glove box that comes with a glove stretcher!
Fashion brooches in a vintage glove box.
Dressing table decor.
Blue jay on a ceramic wall pocket; vintage embroidered hankies.
Gold-trimmed glasses and crystal to make your party table sparkle.
Waterford crystal and fine porcelain.
Gold-trimmed glasses and bar ware.
Holy Crystal Cow! Charming Holstein, in black and white blown glass. $39.00.
Italian ceramics and everlasting magnolias.
Crystal Holstein cow.
Beautiful tableware and crystal to dress up your party tables.
Waterford crystal.
Silver for your party tables.
We’re so happy to have Kate Mason and Across the Pond at Affordable Chic in time for Christmas! Some of you may have found her at the State Fairgrounds; she’s still there but we have better parking!
Make sure you check out her decor and holiday items.
Furniture and decor from Across the Pond.
Arm chair and beaded pillows.
Affordable Chic is a great place to shop!
We love weddings; showers, giving, celebrations. We have ideas, and crystal, and plenty of wonderful things to give to the happy couple, or for them to give to the wedding party.
Wedding and shower gifts.
These are lightweight faux crystal dangles. Hang them on your centerpieces, on candelabra, on ribbons to catch the light.
Faceted faux crystal dangles, to accent nearly anything.
Sparkly lotus blossom candle holders, to catch the sun and the candlelight, both.
Lotus flower candle holders, in faceted crystal.
Affordable Chic: Your first choice for shopping when someone you love is heading down the aisle.
We just love colored glass and colored crystal. We’ve done a few posts about blue glass; here’s some of the red glass we have at Affordable Chic, just in time for summer picnics.
(Put them all together for the 4th of July! You’ll have the classiest picnic table in the neighborhood.)
Ruby cut-glass candles.
Stop by Affordable Chic this weekend–for Father’s Day shopping, weddings, and everything you need for your U. S. Open Party!
There are a lot of ways to take that title!
Dress up your dinner table with fancy salt cellars and salt-and-pepper shakers.
Crystal tableware.
Crystal salt cellars, with spoons.
Set of six wine glasses in the lovely First Love pattern, from Duncan Miller.
First Love, from Duncan Miller.
Affordable Chic, your one stop for better living!
As exciting as a lightbulb? Until you can’t find the one you need, the one that matches the others or the one that makes your chandelier look like it did in the showroom.
We have a wide range of chandelier-base lightbulbs for all your specialty lighting situations.
Specialty lightbulbs for your chandeliers
The Dowager Duchess at Downtown Abbey can run gas to her chandeliers, and we’ll agree, there’s nothing like a real flame. But she didn’t pay the insurance bills for that lighting, either!
Lamp finials, from Finial Showcase.
Lamp finials, from Finial Showcase.
More finials, and some pulls to mix and match. You see that fan pull every morning when you wake up. Why not make it beautiful?
More finials, in crystal, shell, ceramic, and brass.
Lamp and fan pulls.
And while we’re making slightly silly jokes about lighting, “anybody got a light?” There was so much Art in lighters!
If you know someone having a mortgage burning party, and you’re looking for the perfect mortgage burning party gift, take this crystal cigarette lighter, from Ronco. You don’t want to burn a mortgage with a flickable bic.
Ronco cigarette lighter, now for burning mortgages and other “done with” documents!, in crystal.
Affordable Chic. The perfect gift for every occasion.
At Affordable Chic, we do a good bit more for Christmas than for New Years, but there’s a lot in the store that would look good on a buffet, either New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day. How about an iridescent red punch bowl, and 12 matching cups?
Individual salt cellars? Crystal knife rests?
We’ve been busy this season, and we can’t promise everything in this post will still be available in the shop when you come in. But if we’re out, you know we’ll be able to find something just as good!
Open Sunday December 29 from 1-6, Monday 10-6, and Tuesday, New Year’s Eve Day, from 10-4. Closed New Years Day, and then we return to our normal hours. Stop by and say hello!