Everyone has one or two guys on their list that you have no idea of what to get them.
Make them smile with a Pin-Up matchbox.
Happy shopping.
Have you been Naughty or Nice????
November 29, 2011 Leave a Comment
The elves at Shandell’s have been busy making lots of new matchboxes themes for you to enjoy this Holiday Season.
Naughty or Nice, Peace & Joy, wonderful vintage pin-up girls for your guys to smile at. “WTF” to make gift giving fun.Vintage state souvenir postcards, you have a cousin in Mississippi that you do not know what to give, a Mississippi matchbox will make them smile.
Made in America Map
November 10, 2011 Leave a Comment
How honored, Shandell’s has been put on the Made in America map at ABC Word News. I want to shout this from every roof top. Glad to join all of the other businesses who are working to strengthen America.
I will be adding lots of new matchboxes for the holiday season, so stop back and see what is new.
Can All You Can, the season has begun
May 25, 2011 Leave a Comment
I have been to 3 farm markets in the last week. Cannot get enough of fresh greens and produce. Living upstate New York in the Hudson Valley, there are so many wonderful farms around. With all that said, what do you do with all that you bring home?? Can all you can. I found this great image for advertising canning jars in the 1940′s, when having a garden at home was part of the way of life. I made a matchbox with this graphic image, great for a hostess gift this time of year.
As canning will be on so many peoples mind, head on over to my friends Margaret’s site A Way to Garden for a chance to win some Weck canning jars, these are on my list to add to my collection this year.
What is your favorite thing to can? Mine is peach chutney and whole peaches. As I was hunting around the internet I also found this great site dedicated to canning, Food in Jars, there are wonderful recipes and tip that Marisa gives.
I love to open up a jar of anything I put up last year in the dead of winter, it is like opening up a can of summer.
Happy canning.
Home Page of MSN!!!!!
May 24, 2011 1 Comment
Baby It’s Cold Oustide!!!
December 9, 2010 1 Comment
House Beautiful-Thank you
October 26, 2010 7 Comments
I get a call, House Beautiful is putting one of Shandell’s matchboxes in their magazine.
All I can think about is how grateful I am.
A big thank you for putting Shandell’s matchbox in the pages of “The Best”.
Susan
An Amaryllis that needs no water.
December 9, 2009 1 Comment
Amaryllis, a native South African plant, Latin amarysso meaning “to sparkle. What a perfect meaning for this time of year. I love these plants, every year I search for a new, variety to bloom in my house.
Over the years I have collected 19th century botanicals of these amazing plants, the detail in the drawings is what I love the most about them. In the day with no cameras, the fine detail all done with the naked eye.
I have put some of the prints on Tissue Boxes and Matches, they make a wonderful presents, with absolutely no care they will bloom for years.
Susan
Making your list and checking it twice. Great gifts for under $50.00
December 3, 2009 1 Comment
1-Vintage Wallpaper Ornaments, each ornament is papered with wonderful vintage wallpaper and edged with 19th century glass glitter.
2-Matchboxes made with vintage imagery and more… House Beautiful , Eddie Ross and
Hudson Valley Magazine put these in their Holiday Gift Guides.
3- Tissue Boxes, to hide those ugly paper boxes we all have around the house. There is one for that will fit anyone on your list.
4- A night light to guide you or someone on your list through the night. This group of night lights that are waiting to be packaged are made from Paste Papers, the papers are hand made in Upstate New York by this amazing artist named Claire Maziarczyk. I fell in love with her papers years ago, they make beautiful night lights and lampshades.
Hope this list helps you with yours. Have a fabulous time checking it twice.
Susan
Chairs + Ginger Jars = A fun project with Anne Harwell
November 30, 2009 4 Comments
I have met the most amazing, talented people this year. The blogosphere is a world all to itself. Anne Harwell from Annechovie is one of these people. Visit her blog and see what I am talking about. She is an artist and paints all different types of things, but her chairs are one my favorites. I sent a tissue box with her chairs on it as a thank you for a wonderful post she did on me.
I was in the shower thinking (I do my best thinking there) about projects for the fall and winter. Anne’s artwork popped in my head, I thought how wonderful to collaborate with her. Put her art on my art. A new twist. I work mostly with vintage images and I am finding that there are so many artists work that would look great on what I do.
So, here is the first of what I hope to be many fun projects. The tissue box and matches will be done in limited quantities.
Enjoy.
Susan
Shandell's is the creative home of me, Susan Schneider, a longtime collector of things vintage with a passion for recycling them into things that make you smile. Shandell's, a working lampshade and vintage lighting studio, has just relocated to 2976 Church Street, Pine Plains, NY 12567. I draw on a collection of thousands of unique handmade papers, antique wallpapers and other very special materials in my work. We will be open by chance or appointment. 
