Working On Our Loot

This is another "Flower Power" that we just designed. Our first one sold rather quickly so we were able to design another one. Here is Debi setting it up for it's photo shoot:

Flower Power is Available for $150.00. - ETA: SOLD!
This is where we lay out designs on a white tablecloth. You can see our bins of glass beads. After laying out the design, we start gluing. We have to be outside because the glue we use needs ventilation. We then CAREFULLY move the piece inside to dry flat for 24 hours. Only then, can we see it vertically and photograph it:

Our newest windows are in excellent condition and only require a fresh coat of paint. We are painting half of them white and the other half will be black.
Juli's favorite is this fantastic find - it came from the oldest home that was ever built in Hollister - a nice contractor had saved it for himself but allowed us to purchase it because he heard what we were doing with old windows and he wanted it to be useful. It is 3 1/2 ft. high by 2 1/2 ft wide and we have had a special platter that will be perfect. We are designing it before the paint is even dry we are so excited! This is the window after one coat of paint, obviously, before it is cleaned.

We are hoping to get the design finished this afternoon so we can photograph it tomorrow.

Our Mascot and Our Work Station

We have had an amazing last few days and have sold and shipped out eleven of our windows which left us with less than twenty completed and available windows. We're not complaining but we have an upcoming antique show in San Juan Bautista on August 2nd so we need to build up our inventory. Although, Juli's husband rather enjoys having his deck back to normal when we have no windows, our mascot likes it when we are all outside and working.

No sooner had we mentioned that we needed some luck finding 1800s windows, than our phone rang and it was a local contractor who was remodeling a home in Hollister that was built in 1882. He even removed them for us and helped us load them into our car. This is our late Friday afternoon loot before pressure wash and paint job:
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This is our mascot, Sophia Loren Scarlett O'Hara protecting our supplies: We have a collection of A.M.A.Z.I.N.G. vintage dishes that we found on our antique hunt in Cambria and Paso Robles last week. Here are some of our favorites:

Next week we will be busy bees and will be posting our newest creations. We are so excited!!!

LIST OF AVAILABLE ITEMS- click here

A Lavender Diversion!

'Tis The Season!

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In California, we are in the midst of the two week lavender harvest season and we have been making our favorite lavender crafts. We are so very lucky to have lavender in our backyard - literally and figuratively. This year, Leal Vineyards is kind enough to let us harvest some of their grosso lavender from France and they also have some lovely English lavender:
photo courtesy Leal Vineyards
You can see a bit of their abundant lavender in the above photograph.
We may list our lavender crafts on Etsy but wanted to share them with our lovely blog readers.
First, may we introduce you to our lavender logs:

We sell our lavender logs for a very reasonable $40 each.
These are loaded with extremely fragrant grosso and English lavender and decorated with our own dried roses. Some people actually use these as fire starters but we can't bear to think of that demise with these sweet decorations.
Now, for our lavender wands:

These date back to the Victorian times and were the first sachets (they didn't have little organza bags back then!). Elizabethan ladies used to gather lavender and transform it into these delightful 'wands' or 'bottles' to put in their linen cupboards. Use them to fragrance linen or lingerie drawers, or wherever you would use a sachet.
We have to weave these within an hour of harvesting because of the pliability of the lavender. The lavender buds are inside the basket and these last for decades. A gentle squeeze is all that is need to release the fragrance.
Our lavender wands are $20 each and are made with the fragrant grosso lavender imported from France that we harvested from Leal Vineyards.
We would like to thank Frank Leal for his kindness in allowing us to use his luscious and divine lavender.
Please email any inquiries to dejaviewdesigns@yahoo.com . We will be happy to provide more photos and dimensions and selection choices! The good thing is that shipping should be really reasonable with these light weight beauties!

Thank you for visiting our blog!

Special Order

Our client in Carmel - the one who ordered this window:
She was nice enough to give us her fourth sunflower dish and we had the perfect little window to display it on. A client on the East Coast said that she loved the sunflowers so when we offered this little gem, she purchased it immediately. Thank you so much Mrs. Nell!

We have been super busy preparing for another arts and craft festival and will be posting something completely different next!

This sunflower window is obviously SOLD.

LIST OF AVAILABLE ITEMS- click here

Happy Depression Glass

We combined pink hued glass embellishments with these lovely depression glass dishes.

Because we still can't get good pictures, here is another view:


If you are interested in any of our works of art and you want more pictures, we will be happy to accommodate requests.

This window is from a home built in the 1880s and it is in excellent condition.

Email any inquiries to dejaviewdesigns@yahoo.com .

This window is for sale for $125.

LIST OF AVAILABLE ITEMS- click here

Sweetness Is Our Weakness

Here are two of our latest designs that are made from windows from a home that was built in the 1880s, these windows are in excellent condition and are unique in their shape.

We are often asked how we find old windows, finding old windows in GOOD shape is extremely difficult and we also try to use windows only from the 1800s which drastically reduces our options for potential creations.

We hope you like our latest vintage window art: FLOWER POWER SOLD

This window is unique in it's shape and design. This four paned smaller sized window even has "legs". Each little flower is a different, adorable color (click any picture to enlarge)
Flower Power JUST SOLD!
The following picture is a precious three paned window from the 1880s with AMAZING vintage crystal salt dishes on each pane. We call this one "Purple Passion":
Purple Passion is for sale for $125.00 .

All of these have sold. We try to keep the costs down because we realize how pricey the shipping fees are sometimes. Please email us with inquiries at dejaviewdesigns@yahoo.com and we will answer your email within 48 hours.
Thank you for visiting our blog.

LIST OF AVAILABLE ITEMS- click here

Lovin' The Blues

This is a smaller sized window with "legs" that we painted black. We are not sure about the history of the blue crystal dish, we purchased it at an antique store and fell in love with it's brilliance.

This window is for sale for $110.00. It measures approx. 18" high by 24" wide.

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Thank you for your support!

ETA: Sorry, this window is SOLD.

Please click here for a list of our AVAILABLE items.

Crystal Clear

This is a very unique multi-paned window that is approx. 4 ft. wide by 2 ft. high with "legs". The contractor said that this was over the front door of a home in Hollister, California that was built in the 1880s.

We kept the design simple and elegant, believe it or not, this took us a long time to create because of the uniqueness of the narrow panes.
This window is for sale for $125.- Sorry, this window just SOLD!
Please email us with any inquiries at dejaviewdesigns@yahoo.com .
Thank you for visiting our blog!
LIST OF AVAILABLE ITEMS- click here

Sunflower Delight

This is a custom window for a lovely lady in Carmel, California. She has had these adorable sunflower dishes and wanted us to incorporate them into our art. Juli painted the stems and leaves to bring the dishes to life.

We deviated from our normal designs and she is delighted with the final result. We'll get a better picture when it is hanging in her home.

This item is SOLD.

Cleaning and Designing

We just got a lovely batch of medium sized windows from another old home in Hollister, California. This home was built in 1879 and has some really unique multi-paned redwood windows that are in great shape. We still have many of our treasured dishes from antiquing in Soquel, California and can't wait to try out some new designs. Pictures will be up as soon as soon as possible!

We only have four of the smaller sized windows left (popular for shipping):

BLACK WINDOW ON ETSY - Only $80
Above window with 4 antique salt dishes ~ only $90.
Click here for a complete list of AVAILABLE items.

We will be happy to answer any questions; email: dejaviewdesigns@yahoo.com .

Have a lovely day and thank you again for your tremendous support!

Stunning Vintage Dishes Make For Beautiful Windows

These windows will look just as lovely indoors or outside in a garden or veranda. We just finished these yesterday and the old dishes still amaze us with their beauty.
ETA: The first two windows are still AVAILABLE, the last two windows just SOLD.
ETA#2: The heart window is still AVAILABLE, all others are SOLD.

Here is another view of the beautiful amber depression glass dish (click any picture to enlarge):

This vibrant heart dish is rich with color and detail:


This next design is inspired by this old gold toned glass platter: SOLD

We get many requests for seeing the back of pieces and here you can see the back (original green paint) and the front: SOLD
We made a wiggle waggle mini-me by popular demand and it is paired with a vintage hobnail dish: SOLD

We heard antique dealers refer to this dish as milk glass, vaseline glass and hobnail and we don't pretend to be vintage dish aficionados but we are learning a ton about these gorgeous old dishes.This window just SOLD

Each of these windows are available and for sale for $135 each.

We are happy to answer any questions at dejaviewdesigns@yahoo.com - we look forward to hearing from you!

1893 Window with FOUR Antique Crystal Salt Dishes

Friends in high places! A local contractor is remodeling a home built in 1893 and he saved this old kitchen window for us. It is a rare thicker window (over two inch thick wood frame) and is less than 2 ft. X 2 ft with four panes. We found these antique salt dishes in Soquel, California and kept the design simple because of the beauty of the old window and crystal dishes. They look like diamonds when the sun hits them:

A close-up of the salt dishes:

We still struggle with pictures but here is another view:

We are offering this window for only $90 ~ of course, additional shipping fees apply.
We kept everything in it's original condition which is rare excellent!
Email us with any inquiries dejaviewdesigns@yahoo.com and we will be happy to provide more information.
Thank you for visiting our blog!

Delicious and Divine

Look at these rare old multi-paned small windows! 21" high and 24" wide - light weight for shipping! One of the dishes is an old crystal salt dish and the other one is a very old crystal ashtray that has lovely pink coloring.
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> We have two of the rare old windows. They are for sale for $120 each or $200 for the pair.
Crystal salt dish - very old!
This is a close-up of the very old crystal ashtray:


This adorable little window measures 18" wide by 21" high. We used antique crystal salt dishes that we found in an antique store in Soquel, California. The back was left in it's original condition.
Close up of the crystal salt dishes:
How cute is this back!!!
This window is for sale for $80.
We are also proud of this depression glass design on a rectangular window from the late 1800s that is in excellent shape. We kept the original paint layers and it was begging for our blue depression glass dishes! Really sweet.

This window is for sale for $150.00 . Here is a close-up of the vintage dish:


Discounts for multiple purchases - inquire at dejaviewdesigns@yahoo.com .
Thank you for visiting our blog and we have four more gorgeous creations that we will be able to photograph tomorrow!

Busy Bees

We have just finished scavenging the California coast for some awesome windows and vintage dishes and were lucky enough to find about 5 of the smaller sized windows from the late 1800s.

We have some lovely amber dishes that look a bit like carnival glass (not sure) and some blue depression glass plates that are fantastic, we found TWO amazing vibrant dishes, one is red and in the shape of a heart and the other is a spectacular orange color..

If anyone has color preferences, please email us at dejaviewdesigns@yahoo.com - of course, no obligation to purchase - we love suggestions!

Here is a current list of our available items.

We hope to have some new designs up in the coming days! We LOVE our job!

ETA: We completed FOUR gorgeous windows and will be able to post pictures tomorrow. Three of them are the rare smaller size and we took your suggestions and made some blue inspired designs.

Thank you for everything,

Juli and Debi

Famous "She's" Fine Apparel Window Display

Some of our inventory is now on display at the very popular fine clothing store on San Benito Street in Hollister, California.

We will try to get better pictures without as much glare but we just couldn't wait to share these ingenious window displays that incorporate our vintage window art with She's fine clothing:






We are getting wonderful feedback regarding the window display at "She's" and are so very grateful for the amazing support from everyone.

Really, we do want to try to get better pictures because it looks much better in person!

Thank you!

This is for E.Z. to see

We designed this window with a special family in mind:

Currently, it is hanging over the neck of a mannequin in a lovely window display in Hollister, California.

Sorry, this window is SOLD.

Click here to see our list of available items.