Before, I would stay home like June Cleaver or Lucy Ricardo and be a good little housewife busy with the daily chores like cooking, cleaning, laundry and donating my spare time at the school. But between all of those chores, I also prided myself in decorating and updating our homes just the way we liked it. I guess you should probably know that we have a long history of buying a home and then fixing it up until it's just about perfect, when we would sell it and move on to the next home. This has been done 6 or 7 times in the last 18 years. I know it sounds crazy, but I'm starting to understand that we may have done this because we crave the art of restyling, re purposing and refurbishing, hence starting a business that does just those things! I'm hoping by finally doing these things on a daily basis, we will stay put! Our new/old home does need its updates and they are coming along, but we are getting our fix with the business and shop now.
So without further ado, this is what we've been up to this week....
Remember this cute little sewing cabinet from last week? Well I'm just tickled pink to show you what has become of this quaint gem!
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| Cute but not functioning or exciting... |
At first glance you would think I simply just painted the cabinet, which by the way is Miss Mustard Seed's newest color Eulalie's Sky, isn't it a pretty shade? It was inspired by Miss Mustard Seed's famous painting of a cow names Eulalie and behind her shows a pretty sky blue.
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| Cute as a button now in MMSMP Eulalie's Sky, couldn't think of a more fitting color for this one. |
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Miss Mustard Seed's Eulalie's Sky Painting
You can read more about it here.
When I first came about this piece, I noticed the big open space where the sewing machine once was stored. I also noticed that the door had a cute little compartment to hold your threads and such and that when the top was open you had this nice size table top. This gave me the idea of re purposing this into some kind of server but how?
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And this is what I came up with. I thought and thought of how I could find some kind of ice bucket to fit where the sewing machine was. After looking online and at Home Depot, I finally found the perfect fit with a simple oval metal bucket found at no other than Ace Hardware.
I did have to remove the trim inside holding the machine in place, otherwise the door wouldn't close. I simply drilled 2 small holes on each side and screwed short screws to hold the ice bucket and also allows you to be able to take the bucket out and empty it.
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| The inside in painted Coral shade, a mix of MMSMP Tricycle and Mustard Seed Yellow. One of the many reasons I love the paint, it's very versatile. |
Not only is this paint very versatile, it is also unpredictable which I find exciting! Because there wasn't much sheen to begin with, I simply sanded it a bit and thought it was good to go. Rarely do I add bonding agent to milk paint because I personally love the chippy look, but on this one surprised me with lots of chipping. So much on the door, I did add bonding agent and redid that part.
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| The "Ice Bucket" was a bright blue when I bought it, so I sprayed it with Rustoleum's Iodized Lead spray paint, it's one of my favorite new looks for hardware too. |
And then there is this Antique Hoosier Table and Chairs that I finally gave in and redid my redo. You heard me right, redo my redo!
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| Painted in Annie Sloan's Chalk Paint ™ Graphite, this table set now looks cute, simple and classy, |
The set sat and sat at the shop for months. Received lots of compliments about how unique it was, but no takers, so it had to be REdone. I think it was the orange that scared them, haha! And what are the chances that the day I started painting it, a girl who took my milk paint class that night wanted to buy it because she is a huge
U of I fan! She was so upset she missed it by just a few hours, guess it wasn't meant for her, but now listen to this. The morning I put this redo, now in a charcoal gray, back on the shop's floor, it sold within the day!
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| This Hoosier table set was originally orange so I first I traced my utensils and dinnerware on vinyl place them on top, painted the blue over the vinyl and the peeled the vinyl off to reveal this really cool table set for four! See my post all about this project here. |
Now onto more fun fun fun! This king size french provincial headboard was given to me by a customer because she thought I could do something fun and unique to it. Well I did and it is! My daughter Macey actually tackled the painting on this one. See, even 13 year old can use milk paint! She used Miss Mustard Seed's Yellow on the base coat followed by Shutter Gray. We did use hemp oil to promote the chippy. The Shutter Gray chipped here and there leaving the piece looking loved and worn. I hand painted Mr. and Mrs. on the panels for fun. I'm not sure why, but the whole time Macey was painting the headboard, I kept thinking of Ricky and Lucy Ricardo and how they would have something like this only on 2 separate headboards!
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| I just fell in love with whole look as soon as it came together. Apparently so did a young couple who bought it after only being in the shop for an hour! |
Of course my day wouldn't be complete without my girls by my side as they always are! A big thank you to my sweet husband Kevin for loading, unloading and helping me set up, to Jennifer for also helping set up and watching the shop for me. And to my girls Chloe and Macey for your hard work this summer both helping at the shop and watching your little brother and sister. I'm very blessed and fortunate for you all!
And thank you for visiting me today. I hope you too have a blessed week full of new treasures!
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