tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64462686990601932832024-02-06T21:43:16.843-08:00The Cotton QueenMy name is Anita, I live with my husband and circus of a family in the middle of an Alabama cotton field. I'm a self taught DIY-er. Which means, I usually mess it up before I get it right, BUT I'm always willing to try. I want to spend this next year pulling together all the things I have and love to make my home a more finished product.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14833376508265849954noreply@blogger.comBlogger92125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446268699060193283.post-80657961788320235802015-04-18T12:54:00.000-07:002015-04-18T12:54:57.826-07:00Canning Jars -New v Used<div style="text-align: center;">
If you can't tell, I'm on a canning kick. I came across cheap chicken and it snowballed. Strawberries and rhubarb are in season here, but I haven't gotten to those yet.</div>
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I was probably down to about 3 dozen empty jars in my stash. Over the last few years they've just been chipped, cracked or given away. When I started looking into buying new ones, I remembered that they can be expensive. </div>
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Last weekend, I hit a few yard sales and thrift stores looking but didn't have much luck. I already have plenty of rings and flats aren't terribly expensive, usually $1.49 a dozen. So, I thought I was doing okay to pay about .40-.50 cents each. I think I picked up 7 quart jars in all. However, after the cost of driving around and the new flats I realized that I didn't save any money </div>
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I tried craigslist and found one listing, but that's another story and doesn't need to be told. Let's just say this -People are crazy and I didn't get any jars on craigslist. Buying used you have to be careful to check for cracks or nicks. Also, you don't know how many times they've already </div>
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I can get Wal-Mart brand jars 12pints/$7 or 12quarts/$7.50. Coming to about .63 each for quarts and .58 each for pints. So, unless you're getting them for closer to .25 each used. New could be better in the long run.</div>
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I wanted to share a little bit about me beyond the basics you may already know. </div>
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Most people know I was a nerd long before Sheldon Cooper made it cool. But before Star Wars and Harry Potter I lived in another world that now seems so far, far away...</div>
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I should begin at the beginning. I was born. In rural Alabama, I have my first memories... I think we can skip a little here. I will tell you though, up to the age of 10 I spent most of my time with</div>
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my Great-Grandmothers and my Grandpa. Being raised by a village that survived the Great Depression is inspirational. I can say and understand this now, but when I was five it was just how I lived. I wasn't nearly as enthralled by their stories of sparse "play pretties" and when there was "no such thing as Coca-Cola" as I would be now. As an adult there are countless stories I'd love to hear regaled. I'd want to understand and appreciate them in a way that my child self was incapable of. I did bounce around a bit from each of these folks, but let me make it clear that I NEVER felt unwanted or unloved. It was just my life.</div>
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Both may have been strong and southern, but that, friends and relations, is where the similarity ended. Mama Ruby was a fiery redhead. She chewed Redman and cussed like a sailor. A master fisherman, she hit the topwater based on how the liquid in the mason jar read. -Something I understand now as the changes in barometric pressure, she knew it as high fishin'. Her red velvet cake was the best thing you'd ever put in your mouth and her catheads were equally lustful. Together, we faced down tornadoes and stood in line at the national guard armory for block cheese and powdered milk. With the exception of my one friend Walter, I was the only child there. She had so much more to teach me. I was only 14 when she died.</div>
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Grandma Williams house was 20 miles away and a world apart. She put me in dresses and took me to church. We washed our hands and blessed our food. A mother of seven, she taught me to quilt, cook, sew, crochet and reuse everything. If something could be repaired, washed and reused -she did it; plastic baggies, paper towels, solo cups, ANYthing. She had a MacGyver supply of rubberbands, scotch tape and paper clips. She made playthings out of random items around the house that a million dollars in toys couldn't have compared to. When I arrived on Friday afternoons, I never knew what the weekend would hold. We might be drying 100 lbs of apples, canning soup, shelling peas or road tripping to visit her sister's house. Best though, was when the cousins all converged on the tiny two bedroom house. Together, we'd sit on our green vinyl cushions because we were too short to reach the table full of good fried eats, cornbread and meal gravy. The house was busting at the seams, but it was never crowded. It was what family should be. </div>
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There you have it... a little of the "why" a 30 something year old woman would want to do what I do and live how I live. It's my choice. I hope they'd be proud. </div>
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Hellllooooo friends and relations! Been a while. Sorry about that. Things have been a little hectic. Ok, most of you know I took a tumble and ended up having ACL replacement. Unfortunately, I fell again after surgery. And then again, and again, and again, you get the idea. I went to a new doctor and discovered the source of my vertigo, nausea and general clumsiness. That's all boring, so I'll just stop there. I'm on medicine now and life goes on. :) </div>
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This blog started because I wanted to finish decorating my home and get organized. Well, I've done that. So now what's new for this little blog 'o mine?? I still have my antique booth and it's doing amazing, but I just don't think I'm doing enough projects to keep you all interested. I think it's time I opened up the blog to the rest of my life. I probably should have started with a lifestyle blog anyway. While I enjoy my creative and home projects, I do so much more that </div>
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I garden, can, cater, bake and coupon. I love to cook and even enjoy cleaning- sort of. I love tiny houses, which we're hopefully moving toward. I have a considerable passion for travel and culture. </div>
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I've never been a fan of TV's beyond their entertainment value. I'm sure there are people who have the ability to incorporate them flawlessly into their design and never miss a beat. I'd have more luck turning a hippopotamus into a side table than I would making a TV stylish. So, I hide them. And yes, I hold similar prejudice to stereos, surround sound, modems and routers.</div>
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This cabinet was originally my parents and was born knotty pine. It held the TV in the living room.</div>
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Don't get me wrong, I love having a little extra time to spend with the Doctor, but frankly I'm dreaming about weeping angels, so enough is enough. I'm not freely mobile, so I needed something easy that could be done while I sit. I also wanted something I could easily put down and pick back up when I was ready.</div>
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Last year I made a garland valance and just loved it. I wanted to do something a little different with this one.</div>
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This time, I went thicker and fuller than just the valance style. I decided to use less lace and shorter strips. I cut an old lace curtain, scrap muslin and burlap.</div>
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I folded the muslin in half and cut the strips. They shouldn't be perfect, but within a couple inches on both length and width.</div>
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I don't know if I've ever mentioned this before, but we don't own our farmhouse. It is a rental. I know a lot of people feel this is just a waste of money, however there are valid reasons for choosing this option. </div>
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We will eventually buy a home. We absolutely have nothing against home buying it's just not for us <em>at the moment</em>.</div>
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Let me give you a little background. We got a late start. My husband and I met when we were 32. We both had been married before and had children. I had a 10 and 12 year old, he had a 12, 4 and 2 year old. Yep, 5 kiddos if you kept up with that. We didn't get married for another 4 years. We weren't working on the same kind of 25-30 year time line that we would have if we had started the process before children. The boys were then 16 and girls were 14, 8 and 6. Three of the kiddos may only be around on the weekend, but their stuff is PERMENANT and we were busting at the seams. We started looking for a house and were approved for a small amount. We had to search foreclosures and short sales to find enough house to accommodate all of us. We also had to stay in our school district, limiting us further. If you've ever dealt with FHA or HUD home loans, you'll understand the frustration. My student loans were a constant issue during the process as well. We had 3 different houses under contract and each fell through for different reasons. It was extremely emotional and trying. Each time I was sure this would be the one. After failing an inspection or the seller not meeting certain standards, we were back to square one. Again, living out of half packed boxes and spending hours online and peaking in windows. Exhausting.</div>
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We finally decided that our nerves couldn't take anymore. When I say "we" I mean <em>my</em> nerves couldn't take it and my husband couldn't bare my disappointment. <br />
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We live in a home that suits our needs. It's large, updated, has lots of character and is full of love.<br />
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I had such great ideas for my anniversary post and Christmas posts and all the great things doing at the shop... So, I blinked and it was January. Thanksgiving weekend I jumped off a short wall to do a courtesy gravity check. I bruised the bones and tore the ACL, MCL and cartilage. Needless to say, I couldn't keep up after that. I had to wait for the bones to heal before repair surgery could be done and in the midst of it all, I lost my sweet Papaw. </div>
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So, here I am now. I closed the doors of the shop last week. I had reconstruction surgery on Monday and I'm feeling as well as could be expected. I've a couple months of physical therapy ahead for the walking and a lifetime of effort to fill the shoes.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14833376508265849954noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6446268699060193283.post-71480090802269785562014-11-21T11:56:00.001-08:002014-11-21T11:56:52.868-08:00My First Mustard Seed Piece<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Our town square Christmas Open House is this weekend. It's another first for me and I'm so excited! Tomorrow, I'll have some gorgeous trees to show you. But that can wait :)</div>
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Good Sunday Morning friends and relations!! I had an email asking about <a href="http://thecottonqueen.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-holey-cabinet.html">THE cabinet</a> that almost made me cry. You can click it if you missed it. Anyway, I made a curtain to go on the inside of the cabinet doors. I previously replaced the glass in another dinette hutch with chicken wire and thought it would look great in the cabinet too. I originally planned on adding chicken wire, but left it out as a time issue. </div>
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For now, I'm just going to show you the curtain though... Chicken wire can come later. -Truth be told, it's cold and early and I don't want to go dig all the supplies out of the basement before sufficient coffee. But I will shortly, because y'all are worth it :)</div>
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NOW, listen closely. This is not difficult! You can do this... I'm talking to you BFT :)</div>
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If you don't own a sewing machine, you probably know someone who does. Borrow it, try it, don't be afraid of it. You got this.</div>
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Here's a reminder of the original cabinet. It was one of the hardest pieces to let go of.</div>
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The curtain on the inside are attached at the top and bottom.</div>
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You could use this for any kind of cabinet of door. It would be great on french doors if you don't want your curtains swinging around every time you open the door.</div>
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I have a really neat ironing board cover that I believe is used by quilters. I have it because it came in a box of old linens that I bought at an auction. It's handy, but totally not necessary. </div>
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I pulled out a piece of scrap fabric just to use as a demonstration.</div>
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I'll show you 2 different ways you can do this.</div>
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If you didn't need to cut the sides of your fabric, then you probably still have the manufacturers edge on it. Since this curtain is going on the inside of the cabinet you can leave this edge and save yourself the time of hemming it.</div>
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Let's do it that way first...</div>
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You are looking at the end where you want your curtain rod to be (Rod Pocket). Make a fold about 2 inches down and iron. Fold it down again and iron again.</div>
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Just sew down both sides and you have a perfect pocket for the curtain rod. </div>
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Repeat the same thing on the other end.</div>
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Here are the curtain rods I used. They come in a pair and cost about $3 a set. So for double doors you would need 2 sets.</div>
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NOW, if you need to hem the edge of your fabric because it's been cut or doesn't have the manufacturing edge on it.. </div>
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<u><i>DO THIS BEFORE YOU MAKE YOUR ROD POCKET.</i></u></div>
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If you do not do this first, you will have a much harder time sewing the rod pocket.</div>
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This is best described as a "roll". You will sew slowly and roll the edge over as you go.</div>
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Stop and any point and reposition as needed. Make a fold or roll about a half inch and then fold again. Work your way all the way down the side of the fabric.</div>
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After you've hemmed all the way down, you'll fold for the pocket.</div>
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When I was little I spent alot of time with my Great-Grandmothers. Each had their own unique phrases and vocabulary that now make me smile when I think of them. <br />
If I left my toys in the floor, my<br />
Grandma Marietta would say, "Don't forget to pick up your pretties." My toys have changed a little over the years and now it's my job to leave my "pretties" around for all to see.<br />
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Last weekend I was fortunate enough to attend a local fundraiser dinner.</div>
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The dinner was supposed to be held in the middle of an orchard, next to a pond on a perfect southern October night. The weather decided otherwise.</div>
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Stuffed mushrooms from Endless Catering. I coulda ate my WEIGHT in these things.</div>
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Just look. Cotton, burlap, apples, mason jars and wine bottles come together to create a gorgeous fall table. Around here these things are in abundance.</div>
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I don't attend many events like this so it was definitely a treat. Thanks for the invite, Steven. <br />
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Well, I didn't wake up with the intention of working on Christmas before Halloween, but it just happened. I found out this week that our town square open house will be the weekend before Thanksgiving. I was determined that I wouldn't display Christmas before Thanksgiving, but I'm afraid I'll just have to give in on this one. </div>
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The first was mercury glass containers. I tend to hang on to things even though I don't always know what I'll use them for. Same was true for the candle holders I used at Eric's 40th birthday. Today those found their purpose. I'm still playing with process. More on that later.</div>
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I found a great dresser this weekend. The drawers needed a little more love than I first realized, but otherwise it was in good shape. I like the dark finish and thought it would be fun to just do the drawers. As usual I jumped in before I took a picture.</div>
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I love the way it turned out. They give such a crisp design! The stencil is a little tacky on the back and covered in a thin mesh film. It won't slide around on your surface and as long as you keep the paint on the brush light, it won't bleed! If you've ever used large plastic stencils you know how tough it is to keep it neat and tidy.</div>
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It's already in the shop! I'm still not open, but that doesn't stop me from playing.</div>
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Remember the chair as it started? I couldn't bare to just throw the needlepoint away. It was probably close to 100 years old. It was dirty and a little dry rotted around the edge, but the center was okay.</div>
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I sewed the same buffalo check to the back and flipped it right side out. Stuffed it, and...</div>
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Pretty Pillow.</div>
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The colors came out a bit, though not as much as I had hoped. Like I said, I just couldn't bring myself to separate it from the original chair, much less throw it away.</div>
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Hey, Hi, Howya been?? Needless to say, I've been super busy. I have been taking pictures along the way, but just no time to share. Here's a chair I picked up at the flea market when my friend Tiffany was visiting from Virginia a couple months ago.</div>
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It was in pretty good shape, but the edge of the seat fabric was dry rotted. In the next post I'll show you how I salvaged some of the old seat.</div>
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It just fell apart if you pulled on it.</div>
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The padding was old, but in good shape so I left it alone.</div>
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It needed a little gorilla glue in the seams. I used a butter knife to get it in there with little fuss.</div>
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To make the new seat cover, I just carefully pulled off the old one and traced around it on the new fabric. *note~trace on the back side of the fabric, so that your marks won't show up if you cut a little beyond it.</div>
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I saved the original nails and reused them.</div>
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I very carefully nailed all the way around the seat.</div>
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I had some trim that I pulled off a coverlet a while back. However, it was a stark white and didn't really fit the buffalo check. A tea bag, a few minutes and it was just what I wanted.</div>
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Easy Peasy. I considered painting it, but the finish was still too pretty.</div>
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A little transfer courtesy of the graphics fairy. Remember when I did this on the <a href="http://thecottonqueen.blogspot.com/2014/03/fabric-transfer-tips.html">fabric</a>? </div>
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It's starting to feel more like an excavation than a flooring project. There was a basic commercial loop carpet on the floor in the front room of the shop. It wasn't awful, but just not what I wanted. The previous tenant had torn up the carpet in the back room and painted the concrete. I had this crazy idea to do the same. Let me interject here to say I didn't know when I originally had the idea that it was crazy. Last week it was just an idea. I'll even venture to say I thought it was a <i>good</i> idea. Bwhahaha. I'm over it.</div>
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So, when we first pulled up a corner at the first obvious seam we found, this is what we saw. Just some glue. No biggy. I got this.</div>
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As we pulled, I realized that the first layer I was looking at wasn't just glue. It was glue on top of 50 year old linoleum on top of weird paper on top of MORE GLUE. To the left you see the carpet. The next yellowish layer on both sides of the pic is the carpet glue and linoleum. The white is the paper under the linoleum.</div>
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We discovered that if we cut the carpet in small strips and pulled carefully, we could pull up carpet <i>and</i> linoleum in one sheet saving ALOT of time. Wetting the paper layer seems to make it easier to scrape. Today I sprayed it with fabric softener, poured on boiling water and covered the area with a towel. I made a good bit of progress with this method. That pattern in the paper is the pattern that was on the green and gold linoleum.</div>
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See that little speckled section in the middle? That is my reward! I would have been satisfied with just gray concrete, but instead I will have this gorgeous flecked brown, white and SMOOTH </div>
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That's the only explanation I can think of as to why, they'd choose orange shag carpet over this beautiful polished floor. I don't know if the whole floor is in this good of shape, but so far so good.</div>
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So this is just a peek. I was going to show you more, but well I can't seem to retrieve all the pictures from the SD card. I'll try again tomorrow. For now, I'm heading to Italy with my buddy Rick Steves. Good night friends and relations.</div>
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It's been a great Labor Day weekend.</div>
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Friends and relations came from Fort Payne, Indianapolis, and Virginia!</div>
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Great company, yard sales, flea markets, and so much wonderful food.</div>
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Here's a few of my finds.</div>
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Cakes are sometimes hobby and I made a gymnastics cake for her party. You may remember me telling you about the Hoosier cabinet they had waiting for me. Well, guess what. I brought it home! ...along with half of thier garage. Nope, not kidding. We got the cabinet loaded and my brother-in-law said, well before we strap that down, why don't you come look at this too. HA-an hour later, there was no room left in the truck.</div>
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So, it was a busy Saturday, but always fun to see family. Happy Birthday Claire Bear! </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Batang","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I was going to wait, but I stink at waiting. Even with all the other exciting things going on in our lives, there's now one more!</span><br />
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started my blog last December with the intent of pulling my home together into
a finished product. After the surprise of
a new sewing machine for Christmas and some well-placed Christmas cash from
family I opened my booth at Firehouse.
Though I loved being there, it was quite the drive and being sick for a
spell </span></span><span style="line-height: 17.12px;">didn't</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"> help. So, I packed up and
brought it home with the intention of finding another booth closer to
home. We have several stores around town
that offer booths, but there was </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Batang","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">just nothing available.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Batang","serif";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">I had been on their waiting lists since June before I left Firehouse and decided to find a small warehouse space to use
for storage and workshop in the meantime. </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"> I knew I
wanted to be close to the town square. I
drove around scouting for empty buildings, peeking in windows and pulling more
than a few cockaburs out of my shoes before it was over. I came across a small “for rent” sign on the
side of a building and called. The fella
told me where the key was and that I could let myself in and take a look. *Did I mention I live in a small town? </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ascii-font-family: Batang; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-hansi-font-family: Batang; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span><span style="font-family: "Batang","serif";"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">
However, it </span></span><span style="line-height: 17.12px;">wasn't</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"> really what I was looking for, so I thanked him and
moved on. He called me back less than a
day later to say, when he got back
to his office, he had an email from the lady who rents the front half of the
building as a photography studio. She
had decided to move her studio back to her home and she would be vacating the
building in less than a month. I went
back and looked with only a fraction of a thought that I should open </span></span></span><i style="font-family: Batang, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">my own</i><span style="font-family: Batang, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> store. After talking with my husband, parents, kids,
co-workers, friends, neighbors and the checker at the Hometown Grocery, </span><span style="font-family: Batang, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I convinced myself that I could do this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Batang, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-family: Batang, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">We will offer antiques, painted pieces,
linens and a variety of vintage goodies.</span><span style="font-family: Batang, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> It's only a 400 sq ft space in front, but it's just enough. I'll have 2 rooms in the back for storage and workshop. </span><span style="font-family: Batang, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Like my booth, I will stock my store with what I love with the hopes
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<span style="font-family: Batang, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I can't wait to take another step in this journey.</span><br />
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With several lengthy projects in the works I don't have anything completed, but I wanna share one that I've been working on and see if anyone else has had similar results or thoughts..</div>
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Recently, I was given THIS...</div>
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A small truck load of boxwoods</div>
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My mind went wild with the possibility of creations with preserved boxwood. So my daughter and I started clipping! And then we kept on clipping.. and then we clipped some more. I think they were multiplying when we turned our backs.</div>
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Using a FOOD scale, I carefully weighed the clippings to make sure my ratio for the solution was on the nose. My mother dropped this off to my husband at work so I could borrow it for this project. He thought it was funny to keep referring to it as my "weed scale"... since I was weighing what he considered to be "weeds".</div>
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This is where it really got fun! -Not really- I painstaking laid the clipped pieces into the tub making sure that each stem base was touching the bottom of the tub.</div>
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About 9 days in, all the liquid was absorbed. I took the stems out and placed them in a crate, upside down. Within 48 hours they were browning slightly. I think maybe I should have used a little more food coloring considering the amount of stems I was working with. They seem to be preserved well, just not that gorgeous green I was hoping for.</div>
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that I enjoy going to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve tried to
branch out a bit and hit some new ones, but frequently they don’t carry the
good primitive(cheap) stuff I’m after.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
seem to do better with flea markets, thrift stores and yard sales.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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it and I'm not okay with the price I can haggle a bit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do have to say here, that I’m not much for
haggling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If something is priced fairly,
I will not ask the seller to take less just for my own sake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If something is ridiculously overpriced for
me I don’t usually haggle on this point either, because I don’t want to be
insulting offering what I believe it to be worth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s in the middle ground that I’m willing to
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out of time before they run out of stuff… they sell again the following
week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, I think I’ve come to the
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I've been working on a few pieces at one time here lately. I'll paint one coat and move on to something else, then come back to the first to finish. I picked up this stool Thursday evening. I went to a new auction where I saw some beautiful antiques, but not much I could afford. This little stool was very sturdy and hand made so I grabbed it when no one else bid. I wasn't sure what I was going to do until this morning. I forgot to take a pic before I started, but you get the idea, it was just a pine stool. </div>
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I did a base coat in Annie Sloan. This is STILL the can that I've been using since March.<br />
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Things like this, I turn upside down and paint first. It makes it soooo much easier. When the white was dry, I dabbed on a little vaseline on the rungs. This makes distressing easier later.</div>
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I was still just playing with it, when I did a second coat in this great Williamsburg Blue. It's one of my favorite places AND colors!<br />
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I left the seat white and let it chip. I taped off for the stripes, painting the dark ones first and letting them dry. Then I painted the lighter blue on the inside.</div>
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So here's my Saturday morning. My sister was in town this weekend and we hit a few early morning yard sales. I can't wait til she's home for good.</div>
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Remember that scene in Harry Potter where every item in the Lestrange Family vault multiplied when touched in order to bury the trespassers alive?! I'm under the impression someone has put this curse on my craft supplies. Every time I turned around there was more, every where. It was totally out of control. </div>
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So, I came across a cheap (in this case, cheap is code for ugly) cabinet last week and</div>
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I also gathered up ALL the containers, big and small, that I could find. I piled those up the dining room also. When I had amassed everything I could think of, I tackled one pile at a time. </div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">Then, eventually, containers into the spaces in the cabinet. </span></div>
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I weeded out some fabric. I'd been holding on to a few pieces that I decided I would just never use.</div>
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Found this desk caddy on my last trip to the Salvation Army and knew it would be great for paint supplies.<br />
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I also threw out some dried paint and glitter.</div>
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I think it will work for now and <em>most</em> everything is now in one place.</div>
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Thanks for reading :) Now, stop reading-start doing!</div>
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