We’re Having A Baby!

And this isn’t just any baby.  This is a baby that is going to take four of us, four very determined and dedicated women, to nurture and give birth to.  This is a BIG baby.  As in a BIG BEAUTIFUL RED barn on ten acres!!

Here she is!  Isn’t she absolutely beautiful!?

And here is our new facility for work shops and classes.  And it’s AIR CONDITIONED!!  Be still my heart! 

And a huge storage facility for all of those fabulous finds the girls are always dragging home!

So what are we going to do with this fabulous barn and 10 acres? 

Grow it into the BIGGEST……BADEST……..MOST AMAZING…….BARN SALE in this part of the country!!!

Here are a few views of the inside as it looks now.

Forget all of the junk that’s still inside, look at those amazing taalllll ceilings.

Baby oh baby!!  Oh how we love you!

Dirty dirty.  This baby needs a bath in a BIG way!

Concrete floors throughout the ENTIRE barn!  Yippee!

Looking toward the back of the property.

What would that be?  The view of the road right outside of our property.  Historic Rt. 66!!

Could it get ANY better.  A beautiful red barn…….a building for our workshops and classes……ten acres……..all right off of historic highway route 66!!  In Oklahoma centrally located and easily accessible for shoppers and vendors all over the United States!

Our first barn sale will be October 4, 5, and 6th!  Thursday evening the 4th will be our preview party.  An opportunity for people to have first pick of fabulous  merchandise and enjoy an evening of food and live entertainment.  And then shop, shop, shop, all day Friday and Saturday.

Here’s our Ms. R.  doing what she does best.  Directing and organizing.    She keeps us all motivated and moving!   I expect we’ll be seeing a LOT of this leading up to October.  And that’s JUST fine.  We’ve got a LOT of work to do.

Our fall schedule is now available HERE.  We will be providing you with further information shortly.  In the meantime, you can at least mark your calendars!

We are now taking applications for vendors.  The room is limited inside of the barn but we also have prime locations outside.  If you are interested, please e-mail me.

Are you ready for the ride?!   It’s gonna be fun in the months to come!

Denise

 

Back In The Kitchen!

We just finished another project in the kitchen!  Meet my new blackboard.

It’s on the door going to the utility room

I love it!  Hubby drew out the entire project for me.   I had thought about doing a separate blackboard and then attaching it to the door, but we go in and out of this door constantly.  We finally painted the blackboard paint directly onto the hollow core door.  Then we used old fence pieces for the trim.  I was going to leave the trim more rustic, but several splinters later we decided that probably wasn’t a good idea.  The trim is  painted with A.S. Provence chalk paint and then lightly glazed.  I applied several layers of clear coat.  Then Hubby attached the trim with his handy dandy nail gun!

Then…..with the door looking so pretty……I decided the center island needed a bit of a pick-me-up. 

Again….Provence chalk paint.  Then her pretty legs got a little Provence and a little Old Ochre.  Again I applied just a little bit of light glazing.

Is she stylin’ or what?! 

I would eventually love to do a zinc top. ( Baby steps Denise……baby steps.)

The kitchen is coming along.  Next I need to decide what to do about that wine rack above the fridge.  Not that I don’t love wine.  Heck I could use a couple of glasses after all of this work. 

I just don’t love the wine rack any more.  It would be a major pain to tear out so I think I’ve decided to do a little curtain to cover it.

Then paint the walls.  Yuck!  Anyone up for a paint party!  Yeah…..I didn’t think so……

Lastly….this is Miss Molly’s newest adventure.

Grab a dish towel off of end of the center island and ruuunnnnnn.  Willow cheers her on.  I wash a LOT of towels these days. 

Couldn’t get rid of those creepy eyes.  Oh well. 

Hope that everyone has a fabulous week. 

Joining Mod Mix Monday!  Find the direct link on my left side bar.  ALWAYS a great party!

Denise

Cute!

Just something to make you smile and say aahhhhh……..

Willow the cat and Molly.  We rescued them within two weeks of each other when they were babies.  I captured this pic. with my phone the other day.  They’re usually in perpetual motion.  Chasing each other through the house.

Sitting on the stair landing.  They’re best friends.

Hope you’re having a wonderful weekend!

Denise 

Happy 4th of July!

Jack the cat insisted on a patriotic theme for his room!

The milk glass vase collection is finally complete!

This latest “redo” actually started with my Mama’s vintage cowgirl pillow.  It was one of her last purchases before she passed away.  Then Heather had the pretty French style euro sham.  I found a vintage Ralph Lauren pillow case at the Rink.  The sheets are vintage and match perfectly!

This paint by numbers picture came from the Goodwill.  I painted the frame white.

Beside the bed.  I seem to have a lot of vintage linens with red in them.

Left side of bed.

Yes…..that’s Jack’s bowl of food on the second shelf.  What can I say.  At least Molly can’t reach it.

I used A.S. Emperors Silk to highlight my display piece.  It looks wonderful over the Paris Grey.

When I sanded, some of the previous pink and black came through.  Yummy!!

This door stop blends perfectly with the room

Red has always been a particular favorite of mine.  Surely I can leave things alone in here for awhile.  ……..maybe!

Hope you’re having a wonderful 4th. I can hear the music playing in the park not too far from us.  It’s just too blasted hot to be outside right now, for me anyway!

Denise

Love her or not?

I love……well…… unusual “stuff.”  Little quirky accessories that a lot of people would never consider.  But you’ll all understand, I know.  Bloggers are a savvy lot.  Even if it’s not so much “you”, you just get it!

For instance, this guy.

My little chalk ware bear……with saddle!  I love that guy.  He is proudly displayed in my dining room hutch.

And my Santos.  I have five.  Heather HATES my Santos.  She calls them creepy crash dummies.

Now how can you NOT love that?  Complete with glittered crown wand.

Or my articulated hand.

Holding a rhinestone bee for summer.  Accessories vary according to the season or holiday.

So when I saw THIS cute piece this weekend at  show, I HAD to have her!

I’ve never seen anything like her.  She’s huge, about 16” tall.  AND she’s chalk ware.  It was love at first sight.  Again, Heather was speechless,  she’s not fond of my new find at all.  And my husband, he gave up a long long time ago.  He just shakes his head and goes with the flow.

Her back.  Love the bow and the flowers.

I bought the white paper parasol at the same show.  She’s now sitting on my coffee table.  Right next to the caged ostrich egg and the ceramic bird!  HA

I added the vintage flower bouquet.  The little flowers are the perfect color.  She has a small hole in her right hand.  I would bet she was probably an incense holder?  Maybe in a restaurant or as a shop display. 
Any way….I’m a happy girl!  I think my new find needs a name.  She just has so much personality.

By the way…..if you are in the OKC area and you missed the Junk Hippie show this weekend, you missed a good one.  It was just one day and one building at the Fair Grounds, but the vendors were well chosen.  NOT an over flow of pricey clothing and jewelry.  NO mass produced product.  Handmade and vintage only.

  A special thank you to everyone who shopped with Heather.  She had a wonderful show.

Happy 4th of July week!

Denise

The Power of Paint. Updating my Kitchen!

I hope that everyone is having a wonderful summer.  The heat is in full swing here, so I finally had a moment to sit down and blog.  I have been working tirelessly painting my kitchen cabinets.  For any of you who have done the same, you know it’s a slooooww process. 

But I am ALMOST done.  ALMOST……..

There is really no stopping point for the wood work in my kitchen.  Making it difficult to use anything other than one color.  So I compromised.

Although I wanted this entire side of the kitchen in grey, I ended up only painting the cabinet doors on the top so that the white would flow through the entire kitchen.

The grey is Seattle Mist by CeCe Caldwell.  The white is Anne Sloan old white.  Which gave me the perfect opportunity to test BOTH of these products and compare them.  I have to say that the A.S. chalk paint wins hands down over the CeCe Caldwell.  It isn’t as runny and goes on much smoother and gives a much nicer finish.  Because I was painting so many cabinets, there was no way that I was going to wax over everything.  Instead I choose the polyacrylic satin finish top coat that we use on all of our furniture.  We have used it many times on the A.S. chalk paint with consistently great results.  Not so with the CeCe Caldwell.  When I clear coated over this product, I was left with dark streaks and  darker patches.  Thank GOODNESS I only painted this small bank of cabinets because I was about ready to pull my hair out.  In the end, I had to prime over each door and start completely over.  Although this still did not leave me with a perfect finish, it’s much nicer and I’m leaving well enough alone!  I do love love this color though.

 

I left my wallpaper faux finished back splash.  Even my old counter tops look nicer with the new paint!  Darn it!  I soooo want to replace them.  I love my little lamp that I found at The Rink.  It had a hunter green shade with little apples.  YUK.  I replaced it with this simple linen shade from Target.

The black knobs are from Hobby Lobby.  Do you like my little fruit crate?  I think it looks pretty cute in my cabinet.

Part of the other side of the kitchen.  I made myself a few cute kitchen towels for a splash of color.

I freshened up some hardware that I already had with black spray paint.

And finally installed a couple of hooks for my aprons.  Instead of hanging them from nails. 

Heather told me about this cute rug from Lowes.  I have to say though, that I am a little disappointed in the way it washed.  One of the edges is already unraveling.

I am definitely loving the way my kitchen is shaping up!  And I LOVE A.S. chalk paint.  I does everything I had heard it does and more. 

Next, I have to choose a paint color for the walls.  Surely I can find something out of the bazillion samples I have taped to the wall. 

Hope you are having a wonderful week!

Denise

Home Again! In The Living Room

Seems like I’ve been gone forever!  The sale last weekend was a ton of work but well worth the effort.  Thank you so much to everyone who got up SOOOO early to attend!

But now it’s time to get back to work at home.  As women who love to decorate, are we ever finished with our homes? 

In fact, our own Ms. R. is the Queen of change!  She’s always editing her look.  This recently worked to my advantage in a big way.  A chair which she had only recently acquired was ready for a new home.  MY home!

I’ve loved this beautiful flocked damask for some time.  Sadly, by the time I decided I just HAD to have it, the fabric was discontinued. I bought this gorgeous vintage chair from Ms. R. and I am one happy girl!

Even the woodwork is perfection.  I am so excited.  Of course this started a flurry of redecorating. 

 

I centered my Chevron patterned chest on the wall and stacked my vintage trunk and wicker.

I finally painted the twig desk top A.S. Paris Gray

This cute owl from T.J. Maxx decided he wanted to roost in the living room

Other décor.

 

This milk glass cake stand was my mother’s day present. Love love it!

Lots more to come in later posts!

Have a lovely weekend

Denise