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

Grain Bin

There is only one way to paint a grain bin.

Like a grain sack, of course!

Grain bin bought at the auction a couple of weeks ago.

Old.

Oak.

Great saw marks.

Took the easy road to distressing.

First a swipe of a loaded brush.

Then follow with a swipe of a dry brush.

No sanding necessary.

This is a no-name OOPS paint.

Taped off for the stripes.

First two stripes.

Pounced blue with my trusty stencil brush.

While the paint is still slightly wet, I drag the brush through for a fabric look.

I retaped between the stripes for a thinner companion in the middle.

At this point I was on the fence about lettering or not.

I decided the bin needed a name.

Yes, I often stencil letters upside down.

I can never leave stenciled letters alone.

I fill in the blank spaces and highlight with a shadow. 

So the bin's name is GRAIN.

It can be found in Booth C-23. 

Riverfront Antique Mall.

It is filled with lacy stuff right now.

However I am planning to make something special for it.



See y'all!

ETSY SHOP IS CLOSED

Quickies

New displays for my booth means getting crates ready.

I only beautified four of them so this project counts as a almost-quickie.


It took me about ninety minutes to complete.

Remember these vegetable crates from my Friday Finds post? 

A dealer sells these for $3.75 each.

They hold up to 30 pounds.

These crates were used to ship radishes from Mexico.

There is a YUCK factor in removing the remains of the vegetables. 




A good grill brush and a hand sander does the trick.

Cleaned and ready for the paint.

Usually I brush them with white paint for extra coverage.

However this time I wanted more of a barn wood look.

Had two almost full spray cans of Krylon Creekstone.

It took all of them plus some of a can of Fossil to cover.


 Raw wood sure soaks up paint!

For display only. 

I have BIG plans to restructure the back section of my large booth.

I hope I can finish what I have started.


YIKES!



See y'all!

ETSY SHOP IS CLOSED

Friday Finds

Just a bit of hunting last week.  

We had to ride out Hermine all day Friday, but Saturday was a beautiful day.

Four crates from a dealer at the antique mall.


 

I am planning a new section in my large booth soon.

As soon as I get around to moving everything. 

<grumble, grumble>

Two frames because they were too cheap to pass.

A future Quickies project most likely.

Two more Keepsit Thermos bottles to add to the collection in the booth.

A pine cone heart wreath.

Two dirty baskets.

I got tired of looking through the bin of horse show ribbons and asked if the guy would give me a bundle price for the whole bin.

He did - so I did - buy them.

 
Think Christmas tree with a horse theme.

Many have colorful buttons.

It turns out there are over one hundred of them!

But only one Halloween.

At the same place there were bins and bins of fabric.

I chose three fall fabrics for ...

You will have to wait and see.

In another bin there was a pair of ladies ice skates.

In the original box.

I taped the box top back together.

Skates from Sears.

Including the original tags, a pair of green wool socks, and blade guards.

On the box end - "Ann's Ice Skates" is printed in marker.

Hey, Ann, I have your ice skates.

A wooden waste can - will be painted.

Old muffin tin.

Ironstone gravy boat.

Due to being extremely quanked*, I refuse to drag out this vanity just take a picture of it. 

I have been driving around all week with it back there.

I plan to drag it out to paint this weekend.

Unless I get better offers of fun

While I was digging through the fabric bins, I found this medal.

1914

L.F. Grammes & Sons 

With an engraving of the plant.

In honor of

Mrs. L. F. Grammes

Annual Outing

Of Employees

L.F. Grammes

& Sons

Aug. 29, 1914

 

A sweet little piece of history.

*Quanked
(KWANK’d)
Adjective:
-Overpowered by fatigue.
-To have the strength reduced or exhausted, as by labor or exertion; become fatigued; be sleepy.

Origin uncertain
Used in a sentence:
“After sprunting all weekend, I’m well quanked.”




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