Finally got around to taking photos of the stuff I got in Little Rock, and now most of it is down at the booth. Or, hopefully, already home with a lucky buyer. I came back with a ton of potential display items that can also be sold.
(I find it totally weird that I seem completely incapable of taking a photo on a level line.) The little desk was in my parents’ storage space. I still have quite a bit of stuff stored in there but didn’t have room to get it all home this trip. Those doggone babies take up a lot of room in the car. I need to do something to the top — it’s got some water rings on it — but I’m not sure what to do yet. I could strip it, but that means stripping the rest of it. I could paint the whole thing or just paint the top and leave the rest as is…not sure what would look best. So for right now, it’s waiting for some TLC. The little table with the chippy aqua legs is my mom’s that I wrangled out of her hands. She really wasn’t doing anything with it and I knew it would look so cute in the booth…hopefully I can make a little money for her at the same time it helps to display my wares. Everything else, I purchased the weekend I was in LR. The tall stool is from the estate sale I hit last, where I missed out on so much good stuff (sob). It is big and chunky and I think I’m going to paint it cream. The little blue stool wasn’t cheap but I’m looking for things that are stackable and will allow me to give items different heights for more interesting displays. The little brown one, though, was a find at $2. I love it.
I’ve got to paint it. The whitewashed table is really old (though the finish is not) and a nice size. I just took it as-is to the booth.
Since Shara over at MokeyBoxBlog’s amazing success with stone fruit, I am drawn like a moth to a flame to any and all examples of faux fruit I see. These apples weren’t stone fruit, unfortunately, but they’re a very heavy wood and the price was right so I grabbed them up. The egg basket was at a separate yard sale for a buck. I rarely turn down a wire basket.
I will never, ever, ever say no to pink milk glass. EVER.
I got this at an estate sale, on the third day, half off. It was $4.
Isn’t it so beautiful?
I got this eiderdown quilt at the same estate sale. I have another of these as well. They are so impractical as they need to be dry cleaned and inevitably lose their feathers, even if there’s not a hole in the fabric, but I love them so much. I’ll probably keep this one since the price of dry cleaning would make it impractical to re-sell. They are warm, I’ll give them that.
I found these two chippy guys at a yard sale for fifty cents each.
I spent a little more than I would like on this dress ($12), but I couldn’t resist. I’m going to try this on Etsy before putting it in the booth.
I found two non-working cuckoo clocks at two different yard sales — weird. This one is a hard plastic, so I will have no guilt feelings over spray painting it a bright color. What I want to do is use it as a frame, and put a quote about time inside, but I don’t know if I can figure out how to cut the middle out and if I do manage to do that, how to make the quote look as good as possible without the use of glass. Or do I use glass? Here’s hoping this isn’t just one more project that sits on my desk and makes me feel guilty for two years.
by Lara Jo
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