Old and New

I have been wanting to make my own stamped jewelry , I think that it is charming and possibly easy .
When I was at the Aberfoyle antique market a few months back I had looked at some stamps , not realizing what they were for. After realizing these were the tools I was after I needed to make another trip to find those tools , well I was lucky this time and after asking a booth owner if he has such letter stamps , he showed me a tiny little set , a full set , I was so thrilled .

I came right home and after an attempt at a nap, I like always, couldn't wait to try something new , stamping silver .
I always wear a Tiffany style silver bracelet with a heart tag , I first stamped Sophie and Mason's names on either side , turns out to darken the letters you can use a sharpie , how easy is that .
I think I am hooked , I grabbed some other silver pieces like my cuff bracelet and stamped in "create" how fitting for me who lives to create .
I recently bought some silver discs to make into pendants but I will show you more on that later.

I will now show you all the other goodies I found there today...


These letters where hidden under some rusty old hand tools in a box , I don't know how I saw them there , I think I will add them to a piece of furniture , I am not trying to spell anything , I just bought what appealed to me.

Great patina! they are much smaller than they appear , they are smaller than the palm of my hand , I will show you soon.

Mason needed this sign , who knew she liked signs , I guess it is a new thing. Sophie got a faux pearl necklace for $2.00 and a little green glass alligator, and the stamp set was just $23.00.

Oh happy new hobby .

I found those painted hooks I was looking for .

There was a table full of jars for $2.00 each, I loved the lids .
I think these will be great for cotton balls or q-tips.

I also found my wire basket , an egg basket , I am using it for toilet paper in the master bathroom which makes it useful already .



So there you go , that was my day , hope you too had a good day , another busy day tomorrow , seeing the girl's favorite boy singer , should be fun and loud , I better go rest up , which is why I decided to put together this post tonight , I might not have gotten around to it tomorrow .

Cheers for now

Chris

Linen cabinet makeover

I am going to start out with a little disclaimer for the former owner of this cabinet , you may just want to skip scrolling down any further , and come back tomorrow for another post , or if you dare come on take a look at the cabinet and see how cute she is now .... To review I purchased this cabinet on Kijiji {an online classifieds site , where I buy lots of great treasure's} it is pine and was $30.00 , it was finished I believe with a can of stain / varathane mix , which is tough to work with , and I assume the owner wasn't happy with it and listed it for sale with a mirror . I gave the mirror to a friend who needs one for her daughters room , because I do not need another mirror in this house . I knew I could work with this piece it would be the perfect linen cabinet.

Here it is now , isn't it sweet , I primed it with zinsser BIN primer because I wanted to seal in any knots , I then gave it two coats of Popped Corn a Behr shade in satin finish , then I took my handy mouse sander and aged it , I always like to "wreck" it first , if a piece of furniture is going to live in my house it will see some wear so I like to start it out on purpose , and I like the look better .

I quickly filled it with toilet tissue and sheets and pillow cases , now I can use my blanket box for blankets. I plan on painting the interior teal , but I am clean out of mistint teal/robin's egg blue paint .

I added these inexpensive plastic blue knobs , they look like crystal but for a fraction of the cost $4.00 each.

So the grand total for this gem was $38.00 , amazing , think classifieds people really , I would love to get out to yard sales but I never seem to get up that early on Saturday mornings.

The girls asked for me to take them back to the barn to visit their kitty's so I did , I thought I would show some of the great pieces that I drooled over while I was there steering clear of the kitty's , allergic.

This cabinet has the original paint , gorgeous.

A coffee table of table for the kids playroom .

I could really use this cabinet , I adore it , the only bad thing about this spot is that there are no prices on the items , wonder how much this would have been ??? I can only imagine .

Wouldn't this be perfect for an office , yes , it is quite tall too about 4 feet high .

And this , how can it still be there , adorable , right .

A cute sign too .