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07/08/2026

Some photographs speak to you the moment you see them. This 1938 image of the Schomburg Reading Room at the 135th Street Library was one of those images for me.

The original photograph was dark, blurry in places, and showed decades of wear. I spent hours carefully restoring it to reveal its beauty while honoring its history. Every detail reminded me of the power of books, learning, and the stories that connect us across generations.

Today, it's one of my favorite pieces in the LMC Vintage Goods collection. See it in person this Saturday at the Black Girl Book Fair.

đź“Ť Brave + Kind Bookshop
722 W. College Avenue
Decatur, GA 30030
🕙 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM

I'd love to meet you and share some of the stories behind the collection. History worth displaying. Stories worth sharing.

✨….they pushed carts through city streets, selling flowers out of wooden wagons, building something from nothing but ski...
03/27/2026

✨….they pushed carts through city streets, selling flowers out of wooden wagons, building something from nothing but skill, dignity, and determination.

During the Great Migration, black floral vendors carried more than blooms north — they carried a tradition. Women like Lucille Caines turned street corners in Harlem into storefronts, bringing the knowledge of the land into the heart of the city. They were some of America’s first floral entrepreneurs, and most people never learned their names.

We’re learning them now.

This legacy lives in everything we do at LMC Vintage Goods — hand-poured candles made in Atlanta, rooted in the beauty and history of Black American craft.

And next Saturday, we’re bringing that story to Atlanta Plant Fest.

Come find us. Browse prints, t-shirts, and tote bags, or smell something that stops you in your tracks. Take a little piece of history home.

We’ll be there — flowers, fragrance, and all.

🌸 Atlanta Plant Fest | Saturday, April 5th 📍 Atlanta, Ga 🕯️

There’s a quiet kind of power in tending to the earth 🌿 For generations, Black women have carved out spaces of rest, bea...
03/24/2026

There’s a quiet kind of power in tending to the earth 🌿

For generations, Black women have carved out spaces of rest, beauty, and creativity through gardening—transforming small plots of land into sanctuaries of reflection and joy. In times when leisure wasn’t always freely given, it was intentionally created. Every bloom, every rooted plant, became an act of care, resilience, and self-expression.

As I prepare for the upcoming Atlanta Plant Fair, I’m thinking about that legacy—how something as simple as sitting among flowers, hands in the soil, connects us to a deeper history of presence and peace.

Gardening isn’t just about growing plants… it’s about cultivating space for yourself 🌸

đź“·: photos hand colored by LMCVintageGoods

✨..Anne Spencer tended her garden the same way she tended her words — with quiet intention and deep roots.As I’ve been p...
03/22/2026

✨..Anne Spencer tended her garden the same way she tended her words — with quiet intention and deep roots.

As I’ve been preparing for Atlanta Plant Fest, I keep coming back to her story. A Black woman in Lynchburg, Virginia, who built a sanctuary so powerful that Langston Hughes and W.E.B. Du Bois came to her.

That’s the energy I’m bringing to my vendor table this year. 🌿

Stop by at Atlanta Plant Fest for: 📚 Harlem Novels literary heritage collection 🕯️ Candles with soul, inspired by heritage 🛍️ Vintage prints curated with love and history

Let’s connect, browse, and celebrate the beauty of things made with purpose.

✨ 352 University Ave SW April 4, 2026 ⏰ 12–5 PM FREE entry This isn’t just a plant sale — it’s a whole community day.

đź“·: Images from the University of Virginia

🌱 I’ve been preparing for , my first market of the spring and something stopped me in my tracks. When I went looking for...
03/20/2026

🌱 I’ve been preparing for , my first market of the spring and something stopped me in my tracks.

When I went looking for vintage images of Black people gardening for joy — and I couldn’t find much. Most archival photos of Black people gardening were taken by government agencies (FSA/USDA) documenting poverty and labor — not joy or leisure

“Pleasure gardening” was largely inaccessible for many when survival gardening was mandatory. Black gardeners with means and leisure time were rarely considered subjects worth photographing. Lastly, private family photos from that era had much lower survival rates in archives.

What I found mostly instead were images like this one. Black women, heads down, working the earth out of necessity. Survival. Sustenance. No choice.

So, this series is for them. And for us.

Because we get to do what they couldn’t — garden because we love it.

Follow along as I count down to 🌿

A whole world in three objects. 🕯️ A candle that smells like the era — aged paper, to***co, leather & ink 👕 A tee wearin...
03/06/2026

A whole world in three objects.

🕯️ A candle that smells like the era — aged paper, to***co, leather & ink

đź‘• A tee wearing the canon on your chest

🛍️ A tote carrying the lineage on your shoulder

All of it rooted in the writers who turned one Harlem neighborhood into a literary revolution.

This is what it looks like to love the Harlem Renaissance in your everyday life. Shop the full collection at LMCVintageGoods — link in bio.

Which piece speaks to you?

What you carry says something✨This tote carries the images of books from writers who changed American literature from a ...
03/04/2026

What you carry says something✨

This tote carries the images of books from writers who changed American literature from a neighborhood in upper Manhattan. The 1920s. The 1930s. A moment in time that changed everything — but lives in these pages, and now on your shoulder. Sturdy enough for the farmer’s market. Meaningful enough for everywhere else.

🛍️ Shop the Harlem Novels Collection — link in bio

What books are you carrying around right now?

03/03/2026

Some stories begin in silence.

In the pause before a sentence forms.
In the quiet glow of a room at dusk.
In the steady focus of a writer at work.

Storyteller was created to honor those unseen moments — the atmosphere where ideas take shape and history is preserved through voice.

Part of the Harlem Novels collection.

Light. Reflect. Continue the story.

Before they became part of literary history, these stories were declarations✨ They spoke of dignity, migration, creativi...
03/02/2026

Before they became part of literary history, these stories were declarations✨

They spoke of dignity, migration, creativity, and everyday life — turning lived experience into art.
Harlem Novels is rooted in the belief that storytelling preserves history and voice.
This collection is inspired by that tradition of expression and cultural memory.

Some stories did more than entertain.They shaped identity.They challenged silence.They redefined voice.My passion for re...
03/02/2026

Some stories did more than entertain.
They shaped identity.
They challenged silence.
They redefined voice.

My passion for reading has always been closely tied to my love of history — especially the Harlem Renaissance, a period where storytelling became a powerful act of presence, expression, and legacy.

Harlem Novels created from that passion.

This pattern featuring 1st edition book jackets and the collection it inspired, is a tribute to the writers whose words transformed lived experience into lasting cultural memory.

Not as history alone — but as living inspiration.





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