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From classic kitchen tables to western knick knacks, a new antique and consignment shop on Main Street offers unique and colorful home decor items.<\/p>\n
Forget Me-Not Antiques and More opened on Friday tucked away in a plaza on Main Street near Little Bear Indian Trading Post.<\/p>\n
This is the most recent in a series of small businesses for entrepreneur Inez Gutierrez, who has owned a ceramics shop and a doll store, among others. This year, she left her vending spaces at The Dusty Attic in Farmington to strike out on her own again.<\/p>\n
This time she is bringing a love for shabby-chic furniture to the business. Just in the past week, she refinished three chairs, a sideboard and a buffet using a technique that brings out texture or ornamentation of the pieces.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo me it\u2019s very striking,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
For those intrigued by the technique, she plans to teach classes on how transform pieces using Annie Sloan chalk paints and waxes that she prefers.<\/p>\n
She also specializes in lamp shades that she refurbishes and makes herself. The store also offers dish sets and a large array of home decor items with a somewhat Victorian flavor.<\/p>\n
There are also three vendors in the store that offer more Western-themed items, and she still looking for more vendors, including a few that would appeal to men.<\/p>\n
For Gutierrez, home d\u00e9cor has been a lifelong passion. Growing up in a family of eight kids, she said he house was always in shambles, so she set the goal to have a Victorian-style home.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve always strived for that, to have a beautiful home,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Her grand opening will be Saturday from 3-6 p.m., and her regular business hours will be Monday through Saturday 10 to 5 p.m<\/p>\n