Quickies - Sap Buckets

Remember the old sap buckets from Vermont featured on Friday finds?

After carrying them around for a few days, I realized the rust was smearing all over me and the car.

But I did love that rusty, crusty look.

I did not wish to lose that patina.

Used a wash of watered-down white acrylic paint.

Let the rust shine through.

Several coats of clear wax inside and out.

Notice I took the liberty of stamping "VERMONT" on the bottom edge of each bucket.

The only problem was the buckets locked together when stacked.

While filling them with newspaper, I thought about my Dollar Tree stash of pumpkins, straw, and ravens.



Time to put all to a good use.

Fun fall decor.

There are eight of them.

Booth W-10 Riverfront Antique Mall North Augusta, SC

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The Mannington/ Revive floor we chose is featured here: Revive Floors

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Kitchen Reno - Day One - Demolition

Kitchen Reno - Day Two

Kitchen Reno - Day Three

Kitchen Reno Week Two Day One - Dry Wall 

Kitchen Reno Week Two Day Two - More Dry Wall 

Kitchen Reno Week Two Day Three - Cabinets 

Kitchen Table Dream 

Kitchen Reno Week Four Tuesday 

Kitchen Reno Week Four Thursday 

Kitchen Pantry - Before and After 



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The Pumpkin Patch

A recent visit to Rick's Produce made me pumpkin patch happy.

Every year people around here make a pilgrimage out Whiskey Road to choose mums, corn stalks, and PUMPKINS!



Not really a pilgrimage - about four miles from my house.

Tiny little orange ones - I passed these by - used them last year.

Baby boos!

Yes, I'll take a bag full of these.

Last year as you may remember I bought a pink mosaic. (HERE)

However while I was waiting for them to be unloaded, my eye was attracted to the BLUE pumpkins.






And the blue-green turban pumpkins.

I still have to decide.

They are selling out quickly.

Pink or blue?

What would you do?

Of course the Charlotte Sisters are quite taken by the creamy white baby boos. 

Sister seemed to attract dirt as she picked her pumpkins.

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Quickies

I gathered my ancestors together the other night and decided enough of summer, let's do a fall mantel.



Yes, I am late, but it will stay up until the week of Thanksgiving.

Cling-ons for the mirrors.

(No, Eddie, not Klingons!)

A white cast iron cat.

A few fall leaves - faux, of course.

A few primitive pumpkins by The Rusty Thimble.

A few pleasingly plump pumpkins by yours truly.

A wooden tool caddy turned on its side.

An old saw box on one end for my three gourd pumpkins.

One bottom space for my jar of snake skins and wasp nests.

A tiny book page wreath.

The television is in a cabinet just to the right so we can gaze at the fall vignette as we watch.

Chucks thinks the mirrors are a bit much.

That may be because I stuck one on the shaving mirror in his shower one morning.

Wish I had recorded the screams!


PS:  As I write this post on Saturday afternoon, Matthew is departing with his rain and gusty winds. We did not have any major damage.

Thank you for your emails and prayers.


 See y'all!

ETSY SHOP IS CLOSED

Quickies

What is it about blue and orange for fall?

When I am swimming each day, I look at an azure sky with the autumn leaves.

It makes me happy.

I gathered three victims for this quickies makeover this Sunday.

A pair of black iron arrows.

(Yes, I forgot to take a before pic before I painted the first coat - OOPS!)

A market basket.

HINT:  Rust-Oleum in Aqua.

A desk organizer.

For extra interest for the iron arrows, they were sprayed first with cinnamon paint.

Market basket?

Check.

Arrows?  

Check.

Desk organizer?

Check.

Perfect with a prim pumpkin.

Of course, I distressed the arrows and desk organizer. 

Ready to point the way to FALLLLL!!!

Looks rusty to me.

Great way to display.

Look out for primitive pumpkins.

And one more pic for the road.









See y'all!

ETSY SHOP IS CLOSED

Friday Finds

This week my Friday finds post is quite different as I did NOT shop this past week.

Yes, you heard right - no shopping.

Instead I pulled several bins of fall decor out of the deep, dark reaches of the attic spaces.

And drastically downsized Horror Monster, my beloved craft stash, holiday decoration section.

These three jack o' lanterns - the very last of a series of painted gourds, I plan to keep.

This small copper student art - reminded me of a Day of the Dead piece...

Sent to the booth. 

 

There were bags of gourds - both cleaned and in the natural state.

The clean ones - well, I confess to keeping a few for old times sake.

Over a twenty year span I painted hundreds of pumpkins, Santa's, snowmen, and elves.

No more!

I had collected dozens of market baskets in graduated sizes.

Kept one set and sent the rest to the booth.

 My giant fake acorns - a deal several years ago from Hobby Lobby - I decided to hang onto for a while.

It's hard to beat twenty-five cent nuts.

Of the numerous fall arrange- ments, I kept two and donated the rest to the thrift shop or sent to the booth.

Thrown in the donation pile - two large trash bags of fall leaf garland.

We are talking at least a hundred yards of the stuff!

I might keep these gourds.

Old habits die hard.

This once was a favorite of mine, but has lived in the attic the last three years.

I need to find a new home for this vintage box of COOKY Cutters.

The inside of the box is just as amusing as the front.

It can be found in Booth W-10.






 

Hunting will be limited this weekend because of a family reunion.

Also I continue to clean out the Horror Monster attics.

No telling what I might discover.


See y'all!

ETSY SHOP IS CLOSED