Showing posts with label fleur-de-lis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fleur-de-lis. Show all posts

Saturday, August 31, 2013

Oh the things we do...and redo!


I recently purchased two shelving units for my studio that are made out of barn siding, painted white and then distressed. I love both of them! One has a vintage screen door on the front to close it off and this one does not.
So you know what that means...I had an excuse to rearrange my studio all over again!


This is an old vanity that I have had for several years that was in the back porch entry way, but I put my chippy, new, old table there and brought this one in here. I purchased it at a garage sale for $2.00. 


Even the floor lamp doesn't escape some vintage lace treatment. 


One of my ribbon centers and my inspiration board.

The lighting in this room stinks. I had to jump through hoops to get halfway decent photos!  I reallyyyy need to take a photography course to find out what in the heck I am doing. LOL! 


One of my stacks of vintage tablecloths, pillowcases, lace etc. 


One can never have too much vintage lace. :)


I found these iron fleur-de-lis several weeks ago at Hobby Lobby in their 90% off pile so I had to add them to my studio.


A wonderful lavender sachet that came from Little Cottage Shoppe. I ordered several of her Jeanne d' Arc scarves that she was selling at half off and she included this in one of my packages. Love it! 


This is the cabinet with the screen door on the front...love it! 
A closeup for you of my berry box filled with goodies that I purchased from Becky over at Timewashed! I LOVE the detail and care that she puts into each package. I really need to hang these up so they can be seen. Of couse I haven't actually used anything or even opened anything that I bought from her yet. Do you do that too? I just love pretties!!

My inspiration board with some fun goodies on it.

I love little button cards with the buttons still attached. 

One day while looking through Pinterest , I was inspired to round up all my old salt and pepper shakers and fill them with glitter. Sure makes for a pretty picture. :) 

More glitter love... 

Pretty boxes...this particular day the lighting was extra horrible with shadows and everything. hee hee  

Little metal tins that I found at a garage sale a few years ago for 25 cents each. I LOVE THEM, but sold most of them and all I have left are these two. WHAT was I thinking?? Oh, the life of a creator and seller. 

The crowning touch...my Goodwill chair!! I didn't have to do one thing to this except wipe it down cause I always do that. It is PERFECT in this room. I took out the huge, BLACK, clunky, rolling wheel computer chair and put this in and was instantly a happy camper! We rolled the black, ugly chair out the door to the roadside with a free sign and the neighbor snatched it up! She said her daughter is thrilled with her new desk chair. :) I love to share, don't you? 


Here we are again...back at the beginning. ha ha!! Guess I didn't need this in here again.
I hope you enjoyed your tour of the south end of the studio/computer room. One of these days I will get the other end redone and show it also.

I will say this about "redoing" things. This room was a porch when we moved here back in 1982. The inside walls {that we covered up with paneling and then wallpapered} are a light gray board and batten!! Every day I would like to rip this paneling off and have those walls showing, but I just haven't gotten around to it yet. Maybe one of these days. It also has a cement floor underneath the berber carpet...gray...oh the things I could do with that. LIVE and LEARN ...or so we hope. Ha! Happy weekend!!

 

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

French & Vintage Style BLOG GIVEAWAY

This is post # 98 for me and always wanting to be different I decided to have a giveaway now instead of waiting until post #100! And also as usual I have my pictures all mixed up! I will be drawing two names and the 1st place winner will received the lot of things at the bottom of this post and the 2nd place winner will receive the Vintage Christmas Crafts Book by Sara Toliver.

To enter the drawing just put a comment on THIS post and I will draw a winner next Tuesday. (Only US residents this time please) Please feel free to put my giveaway on your blog as well.

2nd place winner will receive this neat book! It has patterns in it and instructions to make vintage style goodies, including those cute little cardboard houses that so many of us love! It shows how to get the silver off of the back of a mirror to make it more vintage looking and many other wonderful ideas. There is also a chapter in this book called Simply Vintage that has photos from Debbie Dusenberry's home... owner of Curious Sofa that are just gorgeous!

1st place winner will receive this assortment of goodies which includes a neat vintage style journal just in time for the new year, assorted hang tags made by yours truly, several scalloped oval tags, 5 sepia toned rose notecards, fleur-de-lis ornament and a gold glittered key ornament. I saw the key ornaments in a magazine and hurried off to Lowes to get a couple and they are so pretty! I may even add some other goodies ~