I have to admitt I have been so excited about setting up my display for the April extravaganza, at the Nashville flea market for weeks. I did not do the March show so I have been buying, collecting, building, and painting for a months. Finally the flea market weekend was here. In spite of the rain and gloomy weather forecast we had a beautiful day setting up and great day of selling on Friday. But as promised the clouds burst, and when I say burst I mean we had a flood. We definitely got our share of rain, but not to worry. Rain does not stop true flea market shoppers. After all, they know there won't be another show for another 4 weeks. They came with their umbrellas, and rain gear, and ready to buy. Sunday my booth was a shell of its self. I did, however, manage to get some pictures. So enjoy.
Ron setting up back display
What a mess!!
Primitive cabinet
French canvas painted chest...
Furniture galore
more, we want more!!
Industrial roller shelf
Old books...
My favorite...ironstone soup Turin
baskets and suitcase
Dresser and mirror display(railroad caution sign belongs to dealer behind me) Ha!!
more stuff
another view
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My Little Porch
l love outside area's. Everywhere I have lived, I have tried to whittle out a little space that resembles a nice cozy porch. My dream porch would be in the front of the house. A porch facing a sidewalk where all the neighbors walk their children and of coarse their dogs. A porch with a big swing, lots of ferns hanging from the rafters. A porch you could sleep on! Ok, ok, wake up. Back to the real world. I have always had
back porches, but I always seem to fix them up and enjoy them. Our house here in Nashville has a "small, small" back porch or
area. After seeing a lot of small porches on pinterest, I decided I wanted to get started on my area. Enjoy these
Real Porches!!,
while I enjoy my small little porch.
Porch from pinterest pin
Porch from pinterest pin
Porch from pinterest pin.
Sue, Robin, and Carol
Junkin with friends, is my favorite thing to do.
They inspire me, mentor me and keep me excited about what I do.
Sue(far left) has been in the business for years. Years before I met her. Carol ( far right)is Sue's dear friend. (like sister friends). I am so happy Sue shared Carol with me. She has impeccable taste. Sue and Carol both are fabulous entertainers and hostess, not to mention awesome cooks. We all have a kinship with antiques, junk and home decor. Robin ( in the middle) is another one of us. (loves antiques, quilting, and junk) Sometimes I feel like we are home decor, junk, and antique addicts and I don't think there is a junkin trip we have been on that we did not fill the van. On this visit we ended up at Scott's Antique Market in Atlanta and it did not disappoint. I will be posting pictures of some of the things I brought home soon. For sure they will be on sale at the Nashville flea.
Full Load
Inventory for flea..
Stay tune.....
After missing a couple of months of the Nashville Flea Market, I was ready and excited about getting back to business. I wanted to change my back drop alittle. I decided I wanted to go with the worn pallet wall look. Anyone will tell you to never pay for a pallet but if you are a person like me and have to have instant gratification, you don't have time or patients to look for and collect "old" worn and torn pallets. You can find plenty of clean looking ones, but that's not what I wanted. So, we found a pallet manufacturer in Nashville. A world of pallets. New,used, and everything in between. The owner of this pallet world was so nice. I ask him if he knew that he had a product that was in great demand among the designer world. He did not. Anyhow he told me he had a pile of old boards already stripped from the frame. Great! Do you know how hard it is to get those things apart? Hard....so we drove away with 100 old worn and torn boards. What do you think?
Great clock, and roller shelf, lamps ( once ugly brass)
Old chicken coop table.
February show was wonderful. Still alittle cool, but fun. I met alot of great people. I love seeing repeat customers like a wonderful lady named Linda. (Great name! Ha..) She said she follows my blog and I like to hear that too. Thanks again Linda, hope to see you in March.
I also met a really cute couple, ( I think mom and daughter and young lady) they purchased a great set of white chairs. Hope to see them again also. Spring will be peeking its head up soon, so March should bring alot of new things.
Thanks for stopping by...
Linda Lou
Ok, it's been awhile since I have posted pictures on blog. Just do not know where the time goes. I don't know if it's me or is it getting harder and harder to find really good junk? I guess I do find it but usually it's been through the original owner, then through the middle man , on to the small dealer, then to the big dealer mall. By the time it get there I can't add one penny of profit to it. I need to be the owner, or the middle man, because I am the small flea market dealer. Anyhow, my driver and I did get out and search thru a couple of places and came up with a few things. It's amazing to me that after I buy it and get it home and put it all together it looks great. Can't wait to find more and get it set up at the flea market in February. Enjoy
Great chair...will recover seat...
Love, love this column
Perfect looking urn...
great looking drop leaf end table...PAINT OR NOT?
Old gold and black frame, wooden candle holders, little wooden black frame.
Love my old french tattered canvas lined bread basket with real dried artichokes.
old brown velvet covered stool. ( in my new decorated bedroom now!)
to sell or not to sell, mmm.
great shelf with wooden detail. Will definitely paint...
notice the small gold mirrors in background. I love them there are 5.
and of coarse the cream ware platter in the front of pic.
Not pictured is a set of dining room chairs to paint , a great bakers rack, and a couple of other
baskets.
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Hey guy, it's a new year and hopefully a great year for all of us. We had a great holiday season and I am ready to get started on some new things. My goals this year is to make my business the best it can be. In my personal life I am determined to get my master bedroom decorated. I'm sure everyone knows about the web site Houzz. I was familiar with it but never realized that you could go on their site and see thousands of great room decorating ideas. I wanted to click on to check out a couple of bedroom ideas, not knowing that they had 53,000, yes, I said 53,00 bedrooms posted. I started surfing on Saturday nite and today, which is Monday, I am still looking at bedroom ideas. Houzz is more addicting than pinterest. Any how just wanted to post of few of my favorites for the month. No bedroom pictures yet but that will come. Enjoy the neutrals. You know me. Love those Neutrals!!
Love the table...
Love this nite stand., and I love the way the lamp is mounted.
Great idea for my bedroom project.
Notice the ceiling in this picture.
Love, love it.
I hope I find something like this on my junkin trip!!
If so I will let you know.
Like the wooden bowl and candles.
Picture provided by: Heather Scott Home Design
thanks for stopping by!
Linda Lou
Love this room.
My favorite pass time when the day done is sit back ( wished I could say with a hot cup of coffee, but I don't drink coffee, so I will have to say a big glass of ice cold tea...)and surf the web for all the awsome blogs that are out there. I go from one site to the next. It is amazing where I start and where I end up. My favorites file is overflowing. So I want to share with you my very favorite picture of a dining room I love.
courtsey of D'ecor de Provence.
Click on picture to see more.
COLOR ME GRAY OR GREY??
My favorite way to test new paint colors is go to Sherwin Williams and buy their $5.00 quart paint samples.
It's a great way to get a quart of paint, for a really reasonable price. It only comes in satin, but that is what I love to use. Most of the time a quart is all I need for a project. It's a great way to collect alot of their wonderful colors.
Gray colors from left to right:
sw6203-spare white, sw6204-sea salt ,sw6205-comfort gray, sw6206-oyster bay, sw6207-retreat
GrAy is how it is spelled in America....
gReY is how it is spelled in England....
#1 question ask.......
Everyone always ask me "Does your house look like your booth?" I always answer "well, sorta of, kinda, alittle, not really." Well I am in the process of setting up a new place so when I get the pictures done, you can decide.
I never have been one to sit around and think about what the new year brings, but this year I did. (Maybe because I turned 60 this past year and it makes you do some thinking)
Last year was a year full of changes for Ron and I. New places, new challenges, and scarey decisions to make.
However the changes were exciting, fun, and welcomed.
Ron took a new job after working for a major car rental company for 3o some odd years. He was given the opportunity to go to work for the competion, a bigger, major car rental company.
Anyhow it took us from Atlanta, Georgia to Nashville, Tenneesse. Yeehaw!!
So we loaded up the truck (like the Beverly hillbillies) and moved west.
He arrived in December of 2010, and after wrapping up a few loose ends (Dealing with a house in the mist of THE MOST horrible housing market ever!) I joined him in Febuary 2011. After having a business in Atlanta for 7 years and alot of good friends, I had to get out and get my party started.So in March I visited the Nashville Flea Market and decided to put my roots down there.
Everyone was so nice and welcomed me and my junk with open arms. I felt like I had gone back in time to the Lakewood Antique Market.
Meeting new customers, making new friends,and getting to know local dealers,I had found my niche. So that brings me back to decorating my new house for everyone to see. Hope you enjoy them.
We arrived, we survived and we are looking forward to learning more about Nashville.
Come visit..Nashville Flea Market every 4th weekend of the month. Friday thru Sunday.
Happy New Year....
PERFECT...
A place for all those vintage suitcases...
Can you believe that the Nashville flea market was held this past weekend. Dec 16th thru the 18th. A week before Christmas. What was I thinking. (Thinking I would make a couple of bucks before christmas, I guess) anyhow just wanted to share with you some of my projects. Starting with these chairs. I purchased them for 10.00 dollars for 6. Yes, thats what I said. 10.00 for six chairs. I have to say I only could salvage 4, but I painted and waxed them and sold them for a great profit.
Great nine drawer dresser that was purchased by an adorable young lady from right here in Nashville. Thanks, hope we meet again.
Our newest farm table.
Ron got busy and built me another farm table for the flea market. Using old porch post that we purchased from the market as legs, it turned out great! What do you think?
1 Betty Crocker Sugar Cookie Mix
butter and egg called for on the pouch
3/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
2 ( 14 ounce) bags caramels, unwrapped
1/3 cup whipping cream
1/2 cup chopped pecans
pre-heat oven at 375
Make dough according to package directions. Make 36 (1-inch) balls. Press each ball into a the bottom of each mini muffin cup and press up the sides.Bake 8-9 minutes or until edges just start to brown. Meanwhile in a small saucepan place unwrapped caramels and cream and heat until melted. Reduce heat to low.Remove pans from oven. Using the back of wooden spoon press down the sides and bottom of each cup to flatten being careful not to make holes. Bake for 2 minutes more. Remove from oven and immediately place 4-5 chocolate chips in each cup.Spoon about 1 Tablespoon of caramel into each cup and immediately top with pecans and slightly press them down. Cool for five minutes then remove with narrow spatula or a knife.
Pantone Colors Of The Year 2012: Tangerine Tango ( Yikes! I don't know!)
It is a reddish orange,that is full of energy and is suppose to give us the boost we need to recharge and move forward. I like alittle in my home decor and I don't mind it as an accent to my waredrobe. I don't know how the color experts picks the color of the year, but I think I will stick with what I know and love the most and that is neutrals, greys, brown, whites. What do you think? Tangerine Tango or not.
INTRODUCING THE COLOR OF THE YEAR 2012!!
( according to Pantone color experts!)
Tangeine Tango
Home Accents!! Great look...
Really bold thing to do. Painting your walls Tangerine Tango.
Pillows, eye glasses and kitchen utensils. All in Tangerine Tango....
Sunday afternoon dreamin....
Hope everyone had a great weekend. Sometimes when I sit down to check my emails I find myself snooping into the homes of people I don't even know. There are some awsome homes out there. When I find one I think I love, love, then I find something I love better. I am a very visual person. I try to find decorated rooms that I like so I will have an instant plan to what I want to do in my home. Is that illegal? Hope not because I use alot of ideas from world wide designers. Hope you enjoy these pictures.
Scarves are so popuar today, so I thought you might like this video. Enjoy!! Let me know what you think.
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