VIBE VOL. 2

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November 16, 2020

CORALUN CARES ABOUT YOU/ SCHEDULE CHANGE

Important Shop Information Ahead

Hello friends! As you know the numbers of Covid here in El Paso County have sky rocketed. This quaint shop working at 25 % capacity is a pretty small amount of customers able to shop at one time. We put out feelers last week to see how you, our community were feeling. You responded big time to our online survey with 60% of you feeling more comfortable shopping from home and 40% of you shopping in the storefront. With this is mind, the shop is re-working its business model to keep you, our loyal customers heard, respected and safe. So here’s what I’ve come up with...

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The shop will be open to the public 🅵🆁🅸🅳🅰︎🆈 and 🆂🅰︎🆃🆄🆁🅳🅰︎🆈 11-4pm with 25% occupancy, have sanitizing stations, steaming the clothing, hourly cleaning and social distanced, mask required shopping.

On 🆆🅴🅳🅽🅴🆂🅳🅰︎🆈 the shop will be closed to the public and the Instagram will be filled with Story Sales!

🆃🅷🆄🆁🆂🅳🅰︎🆈 we are bringing back alive at Five over on Facebook! Our live interactive auction of pieces from our store.

I’m doing my best to navigate this new frontier of the pandemic. Please let me know your thoughts below and I will be testing this new model this week!

Curbside service is available! With pickup hours Friday and Saturday 11-4

November 12, 2020

CURBSIDE SERVICE IS AVAILABLE

As a small business, our customers are our top priority. With the rising numbers of Covid in El Paso County, we understand how their also may be rising fears to shop small in a brick and mortar storefront. We want you to feel as safe as possible and so curbside service is available. As always our instagram stories are filled daily with pieces that are available in the storefront. If you are interested in purchasing something from the shop but do not wish to come inside the storefront, shop owner, Lauren will gladly bring you your purchase to your car. All of the purchases can be done contactless via various methods of payment. If you are interested in purchasing something from the store via contactless payment and car side delivery just message us on instagram at coralun_vintage, at our e-mail at coralunvintage@gmail.com or call us as (512)937-3876.

This shop thanks you for your continued support during these trying times and a big ol’ thank you for considering us for your holiday shopping.

August 22, 2020

OUR STORE FRONT IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AGAIN!!

WE ARE PRACTICING SOCIAL DISTANCE, ONLY 8 allowed in the shop at a time, face masks required, countertops and door handles sanitized hourly, hand sanitizer at register and front door, all items steamed after being tried on in the dressing room before going back to the floor.

Hours of operation Wednesday-Saturday 11-4pm

Cora Lee shop dog and I have spent the months of the shop being closed to the public as a blank canvas for the storefront. As we transitioned into our new space at 328 1/2 N Nevada, we wanted to make sure that the shop had all of the boho feels that our Manitou home does. After all Cora and I are in there everyday slinging boho goods, vintage clothes and handmade jewelry. The storefront is full of beautiful houseplants intermingled in with clothes, wicker and wood. Come check out the new space.

The breakdown:

The shop is full of clothing and accessories from the 1960s to present day. The shop is all about lowering your carbon footprint while created a curated closet that is sure to turn heads. Some of the new fall pieces that have hit the floor are cardigans, everything witchy and black, vintage blazers, sheer socks, bucket hats, denim jackets, mom jeans, lacy bralettes, handmade boho jewelry.

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MARCH 15, 2020

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

CORALUN vintage temporarily ceases storefront operations-
As I write this, Fleetwood Mac’s “Landslide” is playing softly in the distance in my living room. I simply asked Alexa, “play music I need today”. Alexa knew what I needed, technology is crazy like that right? I didn’t even realize it was playing that song until I heard Stevie Nicks sing in her heartfelt voice, “Well, I've been 'fraid of changin'
'Cause I've built my life around you”
My life for the last 5 years has been my shop. My life for the 15 years leading up to that was working in the service industry as a hostess, a server, a barista and a bartender. Those hard earned days and nights helped me save enough money to start my shop.
This decision to temporarily cease operations in my shop comes with a heavy heart. My service industry customers are the foundation of my space. In this shop we come together as a community. To laugh, to cry, to talk about our dogs, and our favorite vintage find. We as a community are hurting and it comes to no surprise that this small business has been heavily effected.
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As a business owner I feel it is my responsibility to make decisions that not only effect me, but the world around the shop. I want to be responsible and ensure and protect the health, safety and well being of my customers and community. For this reason the shop is closing it’s doors to the public due to COVID-19. Each day I will fill the Instagram feed with photos of pieces available in the shop, new jewelry I’m making, a funny joke I heard and anything else that I think can keep us close while practicing social distancing. ••••••••
Myself and Stephanie will be in the shop 11-2 Wednesday-Sunday through the rest of March documenting the inventory and providing curb side service. We have both decided to allow for free returns as well, within this window of products you purchase via curbside pickup.
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I also would appreciate so much if you could continue to support the shop through your purchases from curbside pickup or buying from CORALUN handmade. All shipping of CORALUN handmade will be complimentary.
Let’s make this change not a scary one, but a beautiful and bright one.

Please come join us this Black Friday and Small Business Saturday! NOV. 29th and 30th

LOCATED AT 330 N NEVADA, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO

HOURS : THURSDAY-FRIDAY 11AM-6PM, SATURDAY 10AM-6PM, SUNDAY NOON-5PM

CORALUN VINTAGE

CORALUN VINTAGE grew from the original boutique, Thrift Junkie Vintage, in Colorado Springs, CO. After years of operating the shop under the name Thrift Junkie, the owner recognized that while she grew, so did the shop. Much like a child, who is inspired by it’s surroundings and peers, Thrift Junkie had grown into it’s current space CORALUN VINTAGE. The clothing is curated by the owner, Lauren Abbott. Each week she meticulously curates based on the south west bohemian feel of the shops Colorado roots. Finding Textiles, prints, textures, and colors that emulate the Colorado landscape. 

CORALUN HANDMADE

Within the shops quaint 450 sq feet lies the studio space for CORALUN HANDMADE, where the owner, Lauren Abbott creates her one of a kind southwest inspired handmade jewelry line. Each piece crafted by hand in the in shop studio focussing on small batch wearable art designs that come from her natural surroundings. Each piece is crafted using local Colorado sourced natural gemstones.

March 4, 2022

VIBE vol. 2 ** 5pm-7pm**

FIRST Fridays at C O R A L U N vintage have gotten a whole lot more fun in 2022. Now we host VIBE. Colorado Springs’ premier meet and greet vintage event. It’s the perfect place to wear that funky stylish vintage piece that sits in your closet. Those max elephant bell bottoms, that fringe vest, sequin dress, fur lined penny lane coat… all have their opportunity to shine. In the year 2022 we are hoping this event grows every month. It is a great opportunity to mix the vintage, fashion, music and art community in the springs. After dancing it up in the shop, wonder around the corner of the NODO arts block and pop into the various art galleries celebrating first Friday with new art installations, wine and live music.

WHERE:

C O R A L U N vintage

328 1/2 N Nevada

Colorado Springs, CO 80903

WHEN:

First Friday every month 5pm-7pm

History

Coralun vintage, formerly Thrift Junkie Vintage, got started a decade ago while living in the redwoods of Northern California. The community of Humboldt County California is inspiring, filled with nature, art, and magic. The people who chose to live 5 hours into the redwood triangle, live there to be surrounded by nature, and away from any modern cities. They fully supported small business and the community even picketed a Walmart moving in. That’s what gave me the idea to start the shop small, knowing it would be supported by the creative, innovative people who lived there. I purchased a vintage olive green suitcase at an estate sale and painted the outside with my logo and fabric scraps. My little mobile shop called Thrift Junkie Vintage had begun. Filled with jewelry I had made, vintage coffee mugs and scarves I picked up at thrift stores along the PNW.

After a year, I moved to Greece to live with two of my closest friends from Arcata. We started a band in Pogonia, played in the streets of Lafkada and continued making jewelry from sea glass, shells and other natural elements I found along the Greek countryside. I sold to a local gift shop in Paleros and watched my jewelry line take off. As I backpacked around Italy and Spain, I visited as many small businesses as possible, asking questions along the way. What was most inspiring was that a majority of the European businesses were in 500 sq ft shops and smaller. This was very unlike the American dream of a large 1500 sq ft space. When I asked if they wanted to expand I was always given the same response. “If you expand much larger you lose the sense of community and no longer know the people who support you.” This was a revolutionary moment in my storefront dream, and one of the largest turning points for my passion to move forward.

When I moved back stateside, I found home in Manitou Springs, CO. This quaint mountain town at the base of, “America’s Mountain”, Pikes Peak, served as the home for the future store. I purchased a 1962 hunting camper up in Denver, a Nissan Frontier pick up truck and hand-painted the exterior of the camper in my backyard. I alongside my husband put in dry erase board walls, a dressing room, and wood floors. Thrift Junkie Vintage Mobile drove around Colorado Springs CO to Farm and Art Markets, First Friday events, Pop Up Markets and house parties.

After a year, I rented a 250 sq ft shop downtown in an old motel turned apartment building. My shop was the original office for the 1940s motel. After that year the shop blossomed to my current 450 sq ft location downtown Colorado Springs. Since the shop started in an old suitcase then 12 x 7 camper, I had grown talent for creating storefronts in small spaces. After a decade, the shop grew and evolved and so did the name. In January of 2019, the name changed from Thrift Junkie Vintage to CORALUN Vintage. The name comes from the two major loves of my life (outside of my incredibly supportive husband Nick and my family) CORA is the name of our beloved dog who greets visitors in the shop every day, and LUN from Luna, the moon. Adding the natural element also added gemstones and other new-age pieces to the vintage and secondhand clothes and accessories that already filled the shop. The re/brand also made me refocus the shop from a storefront to a studio for me to work on my jewelry line, CORALUN Handmade. Every day, I create new pieces for my jewelry line as well as bespoke pieces for people in my community