The Treasures I Brought Home

The Farm Chicks show had so much to offer.....I tried to set a budget and these are the items I came home with.

I love these wooden hangers--they are great for crafts and a little hard to find. I picked up three of them.

This is the table I found for my bedroom. It is the perfect shape and scale for a coffee table in front of the vintage sofa I hope to have recovered soon.

I have the fabric (which you see draped behind the table in the 2nd photo).

It's a cheetah print that I found at Ballard Designs several mnths ago.

Check out Retreat Style's site (the vendors I bought the table from). What great things they offer!

Can you believe this great chair was on $15.00? It has a torn leather seat, but that is any easy fix to recover.

This baby doll just called to me. I don't collect them or have any real knowledge about them (I'll have to ask my friend Jeanne about it).

Something about her face...

And last but not least, I found these two wooden spools in a bin of great spools and ribbons. I've been wanting a few of these.

The most important thing I brought home???

Inspiration.

The display ideas and the creativity of the vendors is amazing.

Here's to all the people who have carved out their niche and taken the risk of starting their own business.

What I Would Have Liked To Bring Home...

from the Farm Chicks show yesterday....

Definitely this incredibly well-preserved Carnation Milk truck. Just fell in love with this as soon as we walked in the door.

You have to wonder who had the foresight to store this beauty away all those years ago...amazing.

there was this upholstered headboard...stunning...

these great rusty cans with numbers on an aqua display cabinet...love this combination...

Missing a drawer from a yard sale find? No problem. Use the first space as a shelf for linens and paint it this great color, just add crystal handles.

a few wonderful hat boxes in gorgeous neutrals...

Old bottles with seashell "jewelry"

collection of unique frames

a stately vintage chair with burlap and great trim accent

one of the Tarte fabulous display areas with chairs to die for and a combination of two of my favorite happy colors - red and yellow. Isn't this striking and fresh?

A fun petite nightstand with great drawer accents...

a very chic bulletin board in a fabulous dreamy frame...

nesting tables from the past I would love to have today...

corbels in a lucsious shade of light aqua chipping finish

a "to die for" kitchen island that looks like it s right out of a grand 20's kitchen

a fan that conjures up images of summers gone by...

these fabulous enamel pieces that were so unique and in gorgeous colors...

a coffee table fashioned from an old large exterior shutter in the most yummy shade of aqua and "age"...

a wedding dress fit for a queen...

a funky and fun twin headboard with a chalkbaord inset....Isn't this fun??

Now this I really WANTED to bring home....a bench that was put together with a church pew and a sleigh bed headboard and finished in the dreamiest off-white finish....good thing for my wallet it wouldn't fit in the car and would have been WAY too expensive to ship home..

Don't you love this?

there were lots of great bicycles this year...this one was special in it's spiffy blue color....

My second year at Farm Chicks did not disappoint. So much creativity and display goodness to soak in. Thank goodness for all the photos.

Hope you have had a great weekend. In my next post I'll show you what I DID bring home yesterday.

Friday Fun

This morning we are going to drop off a few items at the store and then we are headed to The Farm Chicks Show in Spokane.

I'm sure I will have lots of photos when I return on Sunday. This will be my second year there. I'm sure this year I will be soaking up lots of inspiration for my own small consignment shop space.

My first month ended a few days ago and I am happy to say that it went better than I had expected.

Diane and I have practiced a lot of new techniques to give thrift store pieces a new life (including this distressed black chest below which started as a boring flat white painted piece).

We used the Minwax finishing paste wax as a final step and I love the way it turned out.

Have a fabulous June weekend and maybe I'll se you at the Farm Chicks Show?

Organizational Bliss

This is my pantry.

Yesterday Diane and I tackled the organization of this great space.

It took it us most of the day.

It was a daunting task that has been hanging over my head since we moved in over a year ago and just quickly put everything in there.

Yesterday we DID IT.

We took everything OUT.

We labeled all the great canisters I got at Target over a year ago.

We organized and we cleaned.

We forgot to get a "before" shot, but here is all the "stuff" out on the countery and island.

Lots of stuff....right?

Here's the pantry almost empty and all the shelves cleaned and ready to organize.

What an absolutely fabulous feeling to get this huge project done.

Thank you so much Diane for all of your motivation and help during your visits.

I just couldn't have done all this without you!

Here's to checking things off our very long "to do" list "with the help of our friends".