Quickies - Shelves

Take three little shelves out of the stash.

Well, to be honest, this one is a divided box.

And to continue to be honest, this one would more likely be called a crate.













 

However, the third victim is definitely a vintage kitchen shelf from an old house in Augusta.

All three needed extreme cleaning and some sanding.

Using spray paint in aqua and pink the divided box, the crate and the shelf are transformed.

Quickly.

To be displays for tiny trees.




Yes, it is that time of year again.

Willie, my supervisor, hunts in the bushes.

He loves to watch me paint.







See y'all!

Quickies - Baskets And Crate

Another true Quickies post.

I needed some fall baskets at the booth.

Found three likely victims.





Pulled out some partial cans of spray paint.

Voila!

Baskets in cinnamon, black, and dark walnut.

Perfect for displaying autumn smalls.

Sturdy berry crate.

Lost its label.

Half can of white.








 

Light spray followed by a light sanding.

Ready to work in the booth.

Coming up - a trip to Madison, Georgia, and a meeting with Linda at A La Carte.


Have a lovely Sunday!


See y'all!

Friday Finds

We start this week with a find from the top of our old fridge which has made its way to the great landfill in the sky.


When we moved into this house in 1990, there was a tiny gold refrigerator in the kitchen.

We had a newer fridge in beige we wanted to keep.

Chucks with the help of a moving company hauled out the old gold and brought in the new - only to discover it was too tall for the cabinets.

Chucks dug out his trusty jigsaw and cut the cabinet off the wall leaving a gaping hole.

No, I was not around - I was at work.

Luckily I had this large crate which fit exactly into the hole.

New anniversary fridge was delivered the other day.

It is taller than the old.

Did not have to cut the cabinets, but the crate was no longer needed.

So it went off to Booth C-23. 

I buy a lot from Brett who usually pulls stuff out of the storage facility he owns, but I haven't seen him around lately.

Coming home from the antique mall I found he had rented a place out on the main highway for a month to draw new customers.

He started me a box of old junk when he saw me drive up. 

Books.

Two green ironstone plates.

A tiny yellow tugboat.

Two vintage Thermos bottles.

The red one is marked Ace Hardware.

Not vintage, but he knew I would want them.

Ice skates.

Sold ten minutes after hanging them in the booth.

Why?

Door decor! 

Chucks and I once had a collection of match boxes.

Love this brass one for long matches.

Selling.

A church bird cage.

A tiny feather-like tree.

The tree will fit into the cage.

Leave natural or paint them both white?

Another dealer was using this trio of patina-plus pitchers.

Yes, I bought them.

Will use for awhile and then off to the booth or Etsy.




See y'all!


 

ETSY SHOP IS CLOSED

 I will accept reserved listings if you see something in the blog posts you want.

Great Crate Christmas Tree

For the past three years I have constructed a crate Christmas tree display in the front of my booth.

Each year it is different.

This year I expanded the size to allow for more areas for Christmas smalls and for my dyed bottle brush trees.

Took all of one day to clear out the front and find all the crates which are used the rest of the year throughout both booths for displays.








 

I added an extra one on the bottom row allowing for the extra crates in the rows. 

All crates are tied together and tied to the chicken wire behind to stabilize.




Yes, children have tried to climb the crates.

This year's color is a red.

Ten yards of tulle split in half.

Used as garland on the crates and to make Miss Chrissy a top.





 

It is quite fun to fill in the display spaces. 

I can change out items as they sell.

All spaces feature the bottle brush trees.

Along with vintage and vintage-looking Christmas items. 

Gold feathers hang from most of the crates.

(PLASTIC!)


 





 

Just noticed the vintage photo cards are sideways.

Miss Chrissy is standing at the very tippy-top dressed in garland and tulle with a feather pendant.

Off to organize stuff around the house to start decorating. 



Finished the outside lights and wreaths Sunday.

Need to haul more items over to the booths.

Shop Small Saturday was a great day for the antique mall.

The dealers at Riverfront Antique Mall have created a Face Book page for dealers to post items and sales. 

Come join us if you wish.

Dealing On The River @ Riverfront Antique Mall 


See y'all!

ETSY SHOP IS CLOSED

 I will accept reserved listings if you see something in the blog posts you want.

Friday Finds

Been in seclusion for the last two weeks.

Recovering from current events.

Did sneak in a flea market run to Columbia.

Let me show you my treasures.

Tiny graters.

Heart gelatin molds.

Fair prize ribbons.

Rudyard Kipling books.

I live in the land of spindles due to the large number of now defunct cotton mills.

However I have never seen tiny ones like these.

Maybe for industrial sewing machines?

 
Four to five inches high.

A small bag of blocks.

Think these are destined for tiny Christmas trees.

Or vice versa.

A small collection of red-handled utensils.

What's bigger than a red and white bread box?

A wicker basket.

Another veil abandoned.

There must be a whole herd of brides running wild and free somewhere.

A large pediment.

About five feet long.

This is the ornate middle.

Needs a lot of loving to be whole again.


Probably like those missing brides.







A student chair.

A green ginger ale crate.

Sorry, the crate sold the next day.

Needed windows.

Saw stacks of them in a truck driving into the parking lot of the flea market.

I chased him down.

Five diamond pane windows.

A whole pile of six pane windows.

I am so old that I did not realized 1970's readers are now VINTAGE!

BUT, people, I used these to teach reading!

The seller threw in the small Santa to assuage my pain.

Painted enamelware plates.

Three painted enamelware bowls.

Another flea market find was this Victrola cabinet.

In very good condition.

The turntable, crank and speaker have been removed.

Sweetest find of the day.

A pair of Pennsylvania Dutch chair desks.

1950's.

Available in Booth W-10!



See y'all!

ETSY SHOP IS CLOSED