Relics on Adams Street

A New Year At Relics....

Happy New Year!

Relics is starting this lovely Newest Year with a creative twist and a creative challenge!

 

Relics recently acquired a vintage set of encyclopedias. Every home seemed to have a set- but due to the invent of the laptop, the computer and wikipedia- most people have gotten rid of their old fashioned trustworthy hardcopy books of knowledge.

So we wanted to do something special with our set.

This year the word for Relics is Create. We made that our resolution, to try and make our lives more creative- so we are extending and offering the challenge to all of you as well....

Our Set of Encyclopedias has been renamed "The Encyclopedias of Lost Mischief"  we are housing the set at Relics- each volume can be checked out like a library book- we ask that you fill a page with one or more of these things-

1. Drawings

2. Paintings

3. Collages

4. Poems

5. Random bit of art

6. Anything that makes you feel creative

Starting on Monday January 16th- there are will be the set of 21 books to check out at your leisure- your goal is to do 21 creative project over the next 12 months. One or more for each book in the set. You can keep the book for up to 10 days. You don't have to sign your work if you don't want to- if you want to leave a random bit - that's ok too- If you get through the set and want to do more- feel free!

Next January- we will have them displayed at a First Fridays Gallery Event somewhere in  Peoria. They then will be donated as a collection to the Peoria Historical Society.

So get thinking- get creative- come join the fun!

Feel free and email us with any question: missjunk@yahoo.com 

Relics Holiday Music Playlist Contest

 

 

 

RELICS HOLIDAY MUSIC LIST 
            AND CONTEST

Relics December Playlist-1. Aimee Mann- Waiting on Mary
2. Gypsy Hombres- Sleigh Ride
3. Indigo Girls- Holly Happy Days
4. Ray Anthony- Christmas Trumpets
5. John Prine- Christmas in Prison
6. Joan Osborne- Christmas in New orleans
7. Father Christmas- Kinks
8. 2000 Miles- The Pretenders
9. Pogues- Fairytale of New York
10. Anonymous 4- The Holly and the Ivy
 
What are you listening to this holiday season??  

Email me your ALL TIME FAVORITE CHRISTMAS SONG and Artist

This will enter you in the official Relics Holiday drawing for a Relics- $50 Gift Certficate- which will be drawn at random at closing on Christmas Eve (3pm)

Please be sure to include your Favorite Holiday Song, your complete name and address....email to--Missjunk@yahoo.com

Good Luck and Happy Holidays!

alfred cheney johnston

 

 

 

 

The Holidays at Relics

 

 

 

Alternative Ornaments 

For those friends that 

think outside the box

just 9.95 each

Peoria Quirky Landmark!

 

Simple rules-

1-We will post one of our most beloved quirky and fun Peoria Landmarks.

2- If you can name the street  location of the landmark and email it back to me- ONE of you, will be the lucky winner of a $10 gift certificate for RELICS plus one fresh Cracked Pepper Bakery Pastry.

3- Your winning answer must be emailed to me within 7 days of being posted

4- A lucky winner will be drawn from all winning entries  

5- PLEASE- please - pah-leeeze  DO NOT POST YOUR ANSWERS HERE....

Please Email them to us at -       Missjunk@yahoo.com

Bonne Chance &  Good Luck,

Deb  &  Ben

 

The last winner - for the Peoria Quirky Landmark is Mary Houvenagle!

Mary was right! The headless woman is none other than Ms. Lydia Bradley Herself !  The statue is located on the campus of Bradley University- and represents the woman who started it all. Lydia founded Bradley Universty in 1897 as a liberal arts college. 

Such a wonderful lasting gift she made to her community.

 

Autumn at Relics......

Happy Fall Friends! The changing fo seasons makes me just down right giddy!

We have spent all summer- finding the coolest vintage items- and the greatest little holiday gift ideas- If you get a chance- stop by and see all that's new!

 

 

Don't forget the next Relics Book Group!

 

November 13th at Relics from 4-6pm this months book is 

 

 

Who, you might ask, is Henrietta Lacks (1920-1951) and why is she the subject of a book? On the surface, this short-lived African American Virginian seems an unlikely candidate for immortality. In truth, we all owe Ms. Lacks a great debt and some of us owe her our lives. As Rebecca Skloot tells us in this riveting human story, Henrietta was the involuntary donor of cells. This is the story of her and her cells and the family she left behind..... and the ethics of taking organs and tissues and what happens to them in the future....

Grave Yards & Day of the Dead

Took a trip recently through some Peoria area grave yards- why are the old stones, so much more charming then the newer stones? The pictures the fonts, all of it- so so lovely....

 

 

 

Mexican culture sends families into the graveyards to celebrate and remember the ones that have passed. The literally fill their cars with family, friends, foods and candles and head to their families grave markers for a party...  

Exploring old grave yards has been something I have loved to do, since I was a kid. I grew up near a grave yard (learned to ride my bike there in fact - One of the only places my dad would let me ride my bike- because as he liked to say- there are no cars to hit you and you can ride the streets of a grave yard all day long- and get good at riding your bike safest place around- because nobody is ever there== indeed dad!)

I encourage you to find and explore an old lost cemetery. The one I was in above- is on highway 116 on the Peoria side of Farmington. But you can find these little lost and beautiful gems everywhere. Take the kids. Bring their bikes... :)

(**please remember to always be respectful)

Blink

I had the wonderful opportunity this last weekend to attend the wedding of one of my husbands cousins. We flew to Southern California for a few days.

First let me say, the wedding was beautiful in everyway. A black tie event.  My only problem, was that when I got to the wedding, I realized, first, that it was a black tie event, Ben my husband forgot to mention that part to me, and second, that other than my husband I knew no one. At first I found myself being a wall flower, then I picked up my camera and just starting taking pictures of some of the wedding details that made me the most happy. 

 I call it Blink. It's all the details the big photographers might have missed, things you might catch for a second- then when you blink, they're gone. When you look back at your special day, it's all those little blinks, that you wish you could keep forever.

enjoy.

 

   

 

 
   

 
 


   

 
 

 
 

 

 

Peoria Quirky Landmark

Do you know who this headless woman is????

Ah- if you think you do- email me at- missjunk@yahoo.com

 

Simple rules-

1-We will post one of our most beloved quirky and fun Peoria Landmarks.

2- If you can name the street  location of the landmark and email it back to me- ONE of you, will be the lucky winner of a $10 gift certificate for RELICS plus one fresh Cracked Pepper Bakery Pastry.

3- Your winning answer must be emailed to me within 7 days of being posted

4- A lucky winner will be drawn from all winning entries  

5- PLEASE- please - pah-leeeze  DO NOT POST YOUR ANSWERS HERE....

Please Email them to us at -       Missjunk@yahoo.com

Bonne Chance &  Good Luck,

Deb  &  Ben

 

The last winner - for the Peoria Quirky Landmark Tanya Nelson!

She was 100% correct- the Architectural Piece is on the Madison Theater in downtown Peoria, right on Main Street.... 

Thanks for playing along!!

 

Autumn Light

Amazing new test tube vases- can hold flowers or other curious things...

 

 

Great little tins- holding 100's of great glittery stickers- perfect for mailing or just sticking on packages...

Lots of new changes at Relics- lots of Relics-things- all in different places- check out that light from the front window...

Our favorite new Fall thing- Skeleton pendants made by  Barbara Gruenwald- each one different- each one soda fired - 

A look into the trunk of my car- from a recent buying trip in Wisconsin and Iowa.... just when I think I have no more room in the little hatchback- I found room for a Peacock- with a 5 foot tail!  After a little clean up you will find him hanging around Relics.... 

Relics Book Group

Hey!

Thanks to those of you who came to our last book group at Relics- it was fun- yummy food- great conversation...

Our next book is - 

I've never read any Anne Rice- so I'm kind of excited. Hope to see you October 9th- 4-6pm at Relics