Friday, May 25, 2012

Cake, glorious cake!

Today my husband and I celebrated our 5th anniversary! 

Last night my wonderfully sweet, thoughtful husband brought me flowers and I used my new caddy aka $1.00 yard sale find, to hold two milk bottles full of Alstromeria blooms. 


Now all the table needed was some dessert!


Josh scored major brownie points this year by calling up the bakery who made our wedding cake and ordering a mini version for us to celebrate!  When we left for our honeymoon my family decided it was a good idea to devour the leftovers from our wedding cake.  So needless to say we only got one bite each during the wedding until our first anniversary rolled around and we pulled out our cake topper and thoroughly enjoyed getting to actually eat some of the cake a year later. 

A while back we had a conversation when we passed near the bakery about how awesome the buttercream frosting and almond cake was and I mentioned I could go for some more of it.  SURPRISE!  I got my wish.


I also thought the occasion warranted pulling out our china for the first time :p


I enjoyed every. last. bite.  (I feel I should mention, just so you think I'm not a total glutton, I'm talking about my piece and not the whole cake!)


Happy Anniversary Honey! 

P.S. I love you.

-Jessica

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Casters and Curtains

I'm finally back with another furniture makeover!  Life has been a whirlwind recently.  One where I feel like I get plenty of projects started, but none completed.  After a couple of late-ish nights this past week I have finally wrapped up a coffee and end table set.  I've had this set sitting in the queue since the the end of last year.  Yikes.  New projects came up and this one kept getting pushed back (literally...and stacked upon, etc).  But, IT IS DONE, FINALLY, and I am quite happy with how the set turned out.


I was going to say, "story of my li-ife, I forgot to take a before picture" but from the recesses of my brain I remembered I actually did take a few back eons ago when I got the set.  Dark, dinged up, gross, chewed up cardboardy inlays.  Not pretty!

So this is where I would insert the picture, but,  even though I know I took them, I just dug through my folders and THEY WERE NOT THERE.  Please forgive me, or you could actually just thank me, because it was a pretty hideous sight!

So instead more of the pretty!


See the corner of my $10 yard sale chair from last weekend. SCORE!



Love the metal casters!

How fabulous is the linen texture of this castoff curtain panel?  I found one lonely panel in the same box of linens as this fabric.  I love the cottage cabbage rose print, mixed with the more traditional burgandy and neutrals, with a punch of a decidedly more modern orange thrown in!  The pieces were painted in Annie Sloan Chalk Paint Old White and distressed a bit to get rid of some of the reddish pink "stain bleed" spots (not sure if anyone else notices this a lot when using lighter color paints).  We even primed with Zinsser to save paint. I measured and cut the fabric from the curtain panel and to adhere the fabric I painted a layer of Matte Mod Podge onto the wood, laid the fabric, and then put another layer of Mod Podge on top.  My fabric seemed to "shrink" after it was cut, so I simply stretched it into position and made sure there was enough Mod Podge for it to stick to on the table surface while I stretched other corners and edges into position.  No recutting necessary!

Now this set is ready to make a statement!

Have you used vintage linens or curtains for a furniture or craft project?  Please share.  I'm a sucker for vintage fabric!


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Monday, May 21, 2012

Lucketts Spring Market


This past weekend I went to the Lucketts Spring Market for the first time!  Wow!  Lots of great furniture, collectibles, antiques, home decor, and vintage goodies.  My husband agreed to babysit so my mom and I went kiddie free.  It was nice to see though that had we brought them there was plenty of room between tents to maneuver a stroller or 2 (not in the booths though)!



We were on a time crunch since we had to be back for a picnic, so we made quick work of all the booths!


I loved the colors and the vintage linen seat cover at the first booth we stopped at.   Unfortunately since we were hustling around like crazy women I forgot to jot down the names of the vendors I liked and the ones I bought from. :(

But, I did manage to snag quite a few treasures!

2 vintage aprons- $4.00 each from different vendors
The green apron was from Mezzaluna Uniques and Antiques.
Dug through a bin of scrabble letter dice to find enough E's for both my baby's names!  And yes I already noticed I photographed one upside down. ;) whoopsies!
Digging's the name of the game.  Scrounged through a box of old mailbox keys and found 10 little 1 inch skeleton keys!

2 perfectly sweet teacups and saucers to give to Elise one day!  At $4.00 a set I'd consider these a steal!

Snagged a few freebies too!

Blue Egg Brown Nest was handing out oatmeal chocolate chip cookies.  We got there just in time because my tummy was starting to rumble!

Bittersweet Design Studio gave away this cute nest magnet to their customers. Bought a pillow got a nest too!

And last but certainly not least, Miss Mustard Seed gave out these lovely "move mountains" tags.


The highlight of the trip for me was definitely getting to meet Marian aka Miss Mustard Seed face to face.  We have recently been messaging back and forth and I knew I couldn't pass up an opportunity to meet in person.  Her blog is the first one I ever started following and not only does she do great work, and have awesome style, but she I love that she is humble, personable, and praises and gives thanks to God for all of the success she has had!  I was so happy to have a few minutes to chat with her and was impressed that even with the sea of people at Lucketts and followers on her blog that she could recall who I was when I told her my name.  (It was great to meet you Marian and I hope we see each other again!) Judging by the line of people waiting to talk to her and the amount of SOLD tags marking her furniture (about an hour after opening), I'd say there's quite a few people that agree that she is one talented and lovely lady!


I'm hoping I'll be able to attend next year.  It was a great morning!

Did you attend the Lucketts Spring Market?  If you did, what were your favorite booths, finds, and deals?


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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Wednesday's: Want this look? {Tucked Away Cottage Closet Office}

What's not to love about an organized office?  Especially one you can tuck away at a moments notice.  I love this cottage style closet office found at Country Living.  Follow the links to take a virtual shopping tour of items to recreate this look!

Inspiration image found at Country Living

1. $42.38  Flash Furniture Vibrant White/Chrome Task Chair with Tractor Seat
2. $190.50  Task Seating Deluxe Armless Wood Bankers Desk Chair
3. $178.00  Paris Chair- White
4. $49.99  36x10 White Floating Shelf
5. $73.99  Versailles 1-light White/Crystal Mini Chandelier
6. $272.00  Priscilla Mini Pendant Chandelier
7. $59.99  Tadpoles Three Bulb Chandelier in White Diamond
8. $53.98  York Wallcoverings Remington Rose Peony Wallpaper
9. $57.84/2 rolls  Steve's Blinds and Wallpaper Pattern #2245
10. $49.94/2 rolls  Steve's Blinds and Wallpaper Pattern #JW105671
11. $25.43/2 rolls Steve's Blinds and Wallpaper Pattern #2049
12. $79.00  9" Quincy Globes
13. $63.99  Explorer World Globe
14. $24.65  Chelsea Collection Square Wastebasket in White
15. $24.99  Cayman White Bath Accessories- Wastebasket
16. $129.99  Mobile File Cabinet with Two Drawers- Light Grey
17. $169.00  2-Drawer Letter Size Vertical File Cabinet
18. $133.99  26.5" Deep Commercial 2-Drawer Letter Size High Side Vertical File Cabinet
19. $9.99  Ikea Jansjo Work Lamp- White
20. $69.99  Ikea Tisdag Work Lamp- White
21. $24.99  Ikea Tral Work Lamp- White
22. $184.91  Robert Abbey Real Simple White Boom Desk Lamp
23. $38.00  2'x3' Dash and Albert Negril Stripe Rug
24. $30.00  2'x3' Dash and Albert Aruba Stripe Woven Cotton Rug
25. $8.99  Neiko 50-Piece Peg Board Set
26. $46.95  16x32 (2 pc) Powedercoat White Pegboard Panels
27. $24.12  1 Pegboard Mount Wire Basket- White 12"x6"x6"


What do you think?  Does this give you the inspiration you need to make over a closet in your house?!