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

See y'all!


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

Want to see our kitchen renovation? Read the series!

Kitchen Reno - The Day Before

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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Floral & Shabby Curio Cabinet

Both kitty and pumpkin approved.

This floral and shabby corner curio cabinet.

She was a tired old thing.

After being scrubbed and lightly sanded, she took a short nap.

Rust-Oleum in Heirloom White.

Just a light coat - front and back.

Then heavily sanded.

Mod Podged this faded floral calico paper on each shelf.

Dry-brushed a Sea Mist green (Folk Art) here, there, and everywhere. 

Several coats of satin varnish.

Miss Floral and Shabby looked very pretty, but no room for her here.

So off to Booth C-23 she went.

I wish I had bought more of this paper.

It has been hidden in a stack of junk. 

I know it has been years since I bought it.


 
Is it illegal to scan and print?

Probably.

SSSHHH!!!  Don't tell!

Perfect for displaying your tiny pumpkins.

Definitely pumpkin-approved!







I looked back to find a project using the floral paper - had to go all the way back to August, 2012 - Priscilla, Plant Princess.

Gosh, my blog was awful back then! 



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Shabbilicious Friday
Amaze Me Monday #186 

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!

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Quickies

A slightly different take on the brown and orange theme for autumn.

Directions for the Pleasingly Plump Pumpkins can be found HERE.

Using fabric from a storage sale.

Some torn into ribbons.

Some cut into rectangles.

One change: in places where rubber bands are used, I tied twine around the rubber band for extra strength.

One Pleasingly Plump Pumpkin.

Three Pleasingly Plump Pumpkins.

(Three are easily made in less than an hour.)









 

A whole basket filled with Pleasingly Plump Pumpkins.

The leaves are from a cheap inexpensive bag of fifty or more.

Thirty Pleasingly Plump Pumpkins in all.

For sale in Booth C-23, Riverfront Antique Mall, North Augusta, South Carolina.

$8!

The ones I made three years ago are still in use on the mantel.


See y'all!

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Shabbilicious Friday

Quickies

I don't usually flash my pumpkins before Labor Day, but I had these completed and needed a Quickie project for today so you are getting early pumpkins.

If it seems I have been spending w-a-a-a-a-y too much time at Dollar Tree, you would be correct.

Picked up these burlap beauties.

Stamped THANKS around each with brown ink.

Tied autumn ribbon around the stems (YES - from Dollar Tree!)

And rolled this early crop of pumpkins right over to the booth.






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