Damask Is In!

Damask is In!
I have had quite a few Custom request for the black & white damask patterned Pieces lately.  This is my 3rd Custom Order for the Damask, and I have 2 in the Waiting as well as a Daughter who is in the process of changing her whole room to the Black-White Damask..

This little Darling Chair (I love), I even love the pink pattern on it.

And Now her little Darling Chair is Custom Pretty in a Lovely Damask with removable-washable seat, black legs and A whole new look..

The Black and White Will always be a Classic.

Pretty Blue Touch

A little sharing of a Pretty little Vintage Chair i did for a Customer.

The chair was in a velvet blue like color, and tons of deep tufting..

This beautiful soft blue Rachel Ashwell fabric brings a new Lovely Touch to this Vintage Chair..

So Much to Do, So Little Time!

So much To Do, So little time...
This time of year is pretty busy for me, as the Events Coordinator for my girls Cheer leading-Football Assoc.. I am in charge of planning-organizing-getting donations-shopping-putting it all together -the main Fundraiser (a Crab Feed)Sept. 10th (do you want to donate or promote your esty-would love donations Shameless plug)....Then you add 2 girls in cheer-3 days a week, a son in high school football 4 days a week, 1 in elementary, 1 in Jr high, 1 in high school, home, trying to run my little shoppe-make my items-paint-upholstery my pieces, take special orders, shop for food, laundry, gifts for instructors-coach's, work at high school Fundraiser Dinner , make -pick up flyer's for my Crab Feed I'm putting on, buy table clothes-decorations,make favors for event, clean home THEN all the stuff i really want to do, create new aprons, make some pillows, blog, update items in shoppe,AND I'm expanding my shoppe (yeah) so excited...
So I'm a little bad at blogging lately...So Sorry for not visiting some of you as much as before...

SO when i have so much going on, I start feeling like everything is a mess-so me and my husband cleaned out the garage, so I could see exactly what i have- or need or can put in order of what I'm going to work on...
SO i thought i would share with you, I admit I'M not a retail seller- BUT a Collector it appears.
Here are few of my pieces in the line up ...

One of my prized possessions, I just talked to an antique dealer- he told me this is from the early 1900's, He had one exactly like it, he was selling for $1800 (can you believe that) his wasn't as torn as mine. BUT still-I could care less how much it is worth,I love the curvature-the detail.. I love it all the same..

These matching wing back chairs-with fluted carved legs, wouldn't they be cute with a table in the middle, well when I'm done Upholstering them that is.

This slip back chair, My daughter is eyeing for her room, but I love the lines of it and not sure where it will end up, One bonus of my job, is keeping some of the treasures.

This little cutie, is in some odd-motel-carpet like fabric- But when I'm done, How adorable it will be, for a little girls room.

I have had this one for a while, I really wanted it for myself, because it is so unique, But then I say that about all my pieces.

This little gem is just perfect for a darling accent piece- maybe ill go with something fun..

Love this one- Totally a one of a kind, Maybe some sort of a toile..

This chair is just so charming- a dainty, love the turned legs no arms.

I just could not leave this chair behind when i saw it- I can add a cushion- and Gosh i just love it..

This Chair matches the Sofa as well, My husband , was all over this one- I was going to pass on it- seeing as i have so many- But he pushed me to go back and get it, Now I'm glad..

Aren't these little vintage cuties great, I plan on just making slip covers for them and allowing the legs to show- and leave that lovely original green on them..

Can't go wrong with a wing back -this is one of two I have left like this. This Style wing back is what started my whole love-desire for upholstery-and got my collection going and growing.

This is the couch, i am going to keep for our home, I do so much for shoppe and requests-that I'm always slightly jealous of the ones i Sell, So i have decided that I'm going to start doing some for our own home- I think I'm going to paint-distress it in black, then upholster it in a black-white plaid-check of some sort and add toile as accent ..(or at least that is the plan), when i figure out how to get more hours in the day.

This one, has such cool carving detail, one more i cant wait- But as with so many, I just cant decide what to do.

In my shoppe, i try to coordinate colors-I want it to flow and not be messy or hodge podge or too many colors of variation going on..

That is where the tricky comes in.

 And that is just some- i didn't get pictures of the 4 antique dining ladder back chairs a friend gave me-she was down sizing, and didn't want to hall to So.Calif., or the 4 sweet white wood vintage fold down chairs(too cute for a wedding), or the 2 in my bedroom, 1 in bathroom,and rattan seat, with arms hanging in garage-that i couldn't get down..

And Lastly while I love Chairs- I also LOVE frames, especially old-vintage detailed ones..

Here are some of my 36 i have saved-

Back to work i go, have to go sort picture forms for cheer-make cards to say thank you, print labels for bags at shoppe and make some coffee..

Sweet Pink Mixture

One my many Chairs I have re-upholstered, I choose to go with shades of pink, for that girl in all of us, but with a Shabby Touch.

The Chair was originally dark wood, with a vanilla satin textured fabric.

With some Lovely Soft White, Distressing & then a mixture of fabrics.

I used pink chenille for the seat cushion bottom-top and for the sides as well,Then a soft sweet pink pin stripe Cotton for the arms, edge front of cushion, a flannel floral for base of frame work and back, and lastly I used a pretty pink check for the piping to accent it all together.

I also love to include matching pillows with all of my chairs, So i used the pink pin striped Cotton on one side and the floral flannel on the opposite side and then added buttons in the pink chenille.

The Cushion is totally removable,

I guess the girl in me always love the pinks, How Darling would this look in a Nursery or a little girls room, Or in a Baby shoppe or shucks even in my room.

Garbage Picker, Yes I am!

While I Love to turn a lost piece of furniture into a charming addition to a home, I also love the challenge of making nothing become something.
So when I saw this old gross cassette holder from the 80's, that was about to go in the garbage, I had to take on the task of making something useful & possible decorative out of it.

The inside of the Brown fake wood Storage unit-there were tons of little cubbies for the cassette tapes, not functional for anything I could think of.

SO I decided to use pliers and pull out every other one, and then some I pulled out 2-3 at a time, allowing for more space between slots.

 Then Painted white- sanded out the edges as much as I could to give it the shabby look.

Once it was all white, with some roughed up edges, and differ. sized slots for misc. items, I added a mixture of knobs, some vintage metal-small wood- larger wood, and vintage wood ones all I painted black and slightly roughed them up .

And here you go, my little box with tons of storage for screws-bolts-washers- buttons-crystals-push pins,glue sticks-red hots (one of my favorite candies), what ever you want and with convenient drawers for easy clean-organized storage of those little minis.

Now days, I see beauty in every single thing, Going to an Estate Sale today instead of going inside or to the garage or garden area I headed to the area that looked like garbage,  much more challenging, making something out of nothing, especially like this one here, I grabbed it right before it was tossed into garbage..

Now a cutie for all my little things-that get lossed in my sewing tackle box.

Rolling Pink Trunk of Paris

My little Rolling trunk of Paris & Pink..

Here is the Trunk, before I played with it, a bright blue, some writing on it, and a foam scraped inside, with lots of left over pieces.

After I  power washed inside- scraped-picked and vacuumed up the inside, then covered with a plush batting,

and  then covered with a linen.

I first painted in a Sweat Pea Pink, then decoupaged in a Paris Map, and plenty of music sheets- then vintage photos, crowns, ladies of the era and any other cute phrases or pictures  I came across.

So this once blue music traveling trunk, is now a cutsie Pink Paris Rolling Trunk, that could be used to store blankets- pillows- or toys and you could roll in and out of a room..

Broken into Beauty!

Recently I bought this from my neighbor at my shoppe, Wayne (The Shack) he comes across the most amazing antique-vintage pieces in his travels.
So he brought me this old piece- it was once a cabinet for a record player of some sort (now empty), with no back, no inside finish, and of an odd set up.

You can see why I love this piece so much, those fluted legs, the detail in the carving, Just so Charming.

You can see, that the bottom portion is useless, unless you access from the

back, which isn't that practical.

I decided to go with a blossom white, I tried to overly distress it giving it a more worn look.

Then I added vintage music sheet paper inside covering the sides and bottom hiding the tattered-worn frayed wood.

I also removed the front carved piece- that way if someone wanted to use that bottom portion for storage or to display plates or something they could.

Lastly I added a back, with some light padded thin wood, and covered with burlap.

So although this was probably a beautiful record cabinet- it is now a cute

little display piece, for vintage books, china dishes, linens..

Here is an example of what i put in it, Vintage books on the top shelf, and old piece of luggage on the very top, and some vintage linen napkins on the bottom shelf, with the peek hole.

I just Love how anything can become something, just because it was a Record Cabinet doesn't mean it has to stay a Record Cabinet.