Two lady pickers, one truck.

Yesterday, my favorite Junkin' partner, (Katie Crane of Crane Farms) and I hit the road to find some goodies for the shops and the sales coming up next weekend. We had such a fun time and picked out some AMAZING finds! 

These were a couple of items that we didn't get. :( 

These circus posters were so awesome!! I loved old circus material, but despise the actual circus. 

These were neat to see in person, especially being a design student. The colors were amazing. They were a little pricey, but now I'm second guessing myself. Perhaps I should have bought just one. 

Here was another fun one! I have never seen a Coca Cola sign in this color! It was well over 1K, so that piece had to stay where it was. Ha! 

We didn't really consider how much room we had to get these items home. We kind of just took the "buy it now, figure it out later" approach. It worked well, however. We ended up fitting 5 tables, 4 doors, 5 laundry bins, one big cabinet, as well as numerous small items in Katie's truck. The boys would've been proud of our packing, and securing job. 

So, where is all of this going, you ask? You will see these items first, this coming weekend...

On Saturday Sept 7th, from 10-4, we will be at the: 

The Bethania Old Fashioned Flea

 5455 Bethania Road 

Winston Salem NC 27106

On Sunday, Sept 8th, from 10-3, we will be at the:

 Zinc Girls Vintage Flea Market

314 Depot Street

 Salisbury, NC 28144

...and as always, you can find our items at: 

Vintage Jane

140 N. Main Street

Kernersville, NC 27284

and 

The Depot at Gibson Mill 

325 McGill Ave NW

Concord, NC 28027

(our booth is located in the Cotton room, first booth on the far right side of building)

Thank you, Katie, for the amazing day! Can't wait to do it again! :)

Handmade Dresser.

This one was a fun piece to refinish...although it took quite some time! Loving the cute knobs that I found! 

Window Table

This was by far the hardest piece to say goodbye to! I loved this piece the first go 'round when I had the top painted black. However, a friend bought this piece and the chest that I had at the Bethania Flea. She asked if I could paint the top to blend in more with the chest. I had no idea how (even more!) amazing that would turn out! Here she is! My husband was pulling away with her in the car, to deliver her after her upgrade...and I yelled "I love you". He asked whether I was talking to him or the table? Haha! That about sums up my feelings for her! Adore and enjoy her, Erica & Chris!!! 

This sewing table was so hard to let go! It sold the first day in the shop! 

Isn't it adorable?!

Shabby Chair

I have been loving the shabby style lately. I'm not exactly sure why. I do not decorate in this style, but I sure do love to refinish furniture to sell, in this style. 

I had this fabric laying around for quite some time, and it was time to put it to use!

I think that it went perfectly with this blue! 

Baby Steps!

This is a unique piece that I found that was begging to be refinished. There was a lady in the store at the time, that was eyeballing me, waiting on me to pass it up so that she could pounce on it. 

I snatched it up and stuffed it into the car! It was coming home! 

This was my first piece of furniture to have EVER refinished. Most of my recent purchases have been smaller items, or non furniture items. 

I decided to go basic with a nice white-ish color, and then distress it. A friend of mine had told me about MMS Milk Paint, and so I tried it. At first, I didn't quite get the measurements correct and it was too watery. After three coats, I figured it out...and it was quite perfect. I had a lot of the natural chipping, which was awesome! I had studied MMS tutorials, so I was prepared and scraped away just as she specified. 

I was very pleased with how it turned out. 

...and now, I'm addicted...and in love with MMS Milk Paint.

It was the perfect nightstand/bookcase for my daughter. She loves it!