~BOOTH SPACE in the MAKING~

Oops... 

I've been soooo busy getting things for my new booth space ready I forgot to tell you I am going to be away for a few days finishing up all the behind-the-scenes work!  I'll be ducking in and out this week as I have lots and lots still left to do!

I never KNEW I had so much STUFF!

UGH!

See this pile of wood?  Well this is the framework of my new booth!  It's going to be done with a pergola style awning and I'm pretty excited about it!  It's all re-claimed wood from past house projects and also a bit from a space I had a couple of years ago.  All it needed was a little fresh paint!  My Mr. AGPMan is putting it up either tomorrow or Wednesday and once it's assembled I'll be working to fill up my wee little area!

Not much time to junk this weekend with Mother's Day and all.  I did have a wonderful time with my children and enjoyed spending time with my mother as well.  I hope your day was blessed!!!

I did find this old cake cover hiding out in my storage shed and I think she looks fabulously SWEET painted up in my favorite not-quite-white paint before being gently distressed.  No roses on this one...I'm saving those for the pink cover!

I don't know HOW LONG the thing has been in storage...a long time though!  Long enough for me to have forgotten I had it!  If I had room it would be a keeper...

I'll be back soon with pictures of just WHAT I'm doing.  Truthfully I think I've kinda 

LOST MY HEAD

taking this on and all...

BUT

I'm doing it just the same!

(There are no mistakes in life~only lessons!  Right?)

Linking up with:
Kathleen from Faded Charm for
WHITE WEDNESDAY

Hope your week is fab.

Love to you...

IT'S LINDA'S FAULT

Let me explain.

The junkin'-gene has always been alive and well inside me, but lately it's been in turbo-manic-mode.

I believe it's a brilliant madness, this tag-sale addiction of mine!

Truly!!!

I was doing great until my sister Linda and I each hopped a plane to the West Coast last month for our brother's birthday.  We ended up dragging him all over Southern Cal  while begging to stop at every thrift store, swap-meet, resale shop and antique mall we passed by.  While Bill rolled his eyes, we, his two older (and wiser) sisters, swooned with dizzying delight.

We unabashedly love JUNQUE!

I had NO PLANS on going anywhere yesterday except for ducking into my nail salon for a quick mani-pedi combo.  I'm trying to get my new booth space ready and that means I have a lot of tagging and pricing to do.  Plus~ I'm wanting to make up some fresh white cotton pillows for sale and they take time...

But then while my nails were drying my cell phone rang and...and...and...well...

"Beck!

It's Linda!

Guess what I found today......................................?"

My big sister began to brag her head off tell me about all the fabulous things she snagged at a local thrift store and for the next ten minutes, I promise you, that sibling of mine never once drew a breath!  Now I'm just going to state for the record that Oklahoma has some great places to shop but I've NEVER seen better great junk than what's offered in the state of Tennessee.  I think all those aging country music singers have so much money that when they redecorate they toss out their fabulous old stuff and then my sister sneaks in and buys it all up.

 Anyway...after hearing about Linda's haul I told her how excited I was over all she had found.  Especially the

***FIVE MANNEQUINS***

she STOLE for $5 each!

(she's going to use them for display in her own shoppe...more about this soon!)

Who gives AWAY FIVE MANNEQUINS anyway????

After we said our good[buys] Linda's great finds kept jumping through my head.  Even so, I decided to forgo a thrift store visit opting instead to just return home to start on those white pillows I told you about earlier...

Now...I promise you, I don't know HOW this happened

(I WAS feeling a bit dizzy),

but my car, all on it's own, started driving in the opposite direction of my home and without even realizing it the thing drove straight away to my favorite second-hand store and deposited me right by the front door!

(Tis true!)

  Want to know what was waiting there for me to find?  Just waiting to be rescued and transformed for my brand new booth space????

 Six vintage rockin'-out French Dining Room chairs for an itty-bitty price!  I've shown you pictures of them...five are standard chairs and one has arms!  They probably hail from the early 70's, but who knows?  Not sure what kind of fabric I'm going to use on the seats, but I'm drawn to the plain linen...  I might even make white cotton skirts for them...we'll see!

Anyway...

NOT TO BE OUTDONE or anything by my parent's

favorite oldest child...

And so I immediately dialed my sister's cell phone....

"Linda!

It's Beck!

Guess what I found today..................................?"

(I just love to brag!!!)

So who cares???  My newly found chairs MAY NOT be as good as Linda's FIVE MANNEQUINS~but, hey...they will surely sell and that means money in my piggy bank for my new kitchen remodel!!!

(I'm just sayin'....)

Now...see that white fencie/cabinet looking thingy above?  Well...my Mr. AGPMan built it for me sometime back and I have yet to use it.  It's also going into my new booth space and used for display.  

Pretty cool, huh?  I love it's shabby-chic-ness! :)

Hope your day is wonderful!  I'm off to glue and clamp (yep, the hubster taught me to do that!) and then sand and paint!  Busy day ahead!

Love to you...

 

~MORE OF OUR ROMANTIC WHITE COTTAGE~

 Today I'm showing you a little more of my La Chaumière de Briarwood now that we have some of our remodeling work completed!

We've finally finished a big chunk of our home makeover and now that the wall we opened up has been trimmed out and painted I thought you might like to see it all together instead of bits and pieces!  Before the wall (on the right) was removed there was nothing to see except a big over-sized TV cabinet and a lot of closed-in space!  I LOVE LOVE LOVE this wall opened up and so glad we actually thought about it and planned it out before installing the wood flooring!  Since it was load bearing it took a little bit more time to finish, but well worth the effort.  We now get the north and south sun streaming directly through the windows and so the entire house is lighter and brighter!

One thing you MIGHT find interesting is this...

Almost everything in our home was purchased USED.  

It's true!

Almost everything!

Oh there are new things like ceramic white dishes, candles, lampshades, freshly made pillows, linens, etc., but nearly all the furniture, lamps and complements were purchased second-hand or were pre-owned like in CARS!  In the downstairs area of our home, with the exception of our formal dining table set and the occasional chairs in my den, nearly everything you see was purchased either at tag sales, estate sales, garage sales, auctions or Craig's List.

When my Mr. AGPMan installed the vintage French Doors directly off our entry a couple of years ago I never dreamed one day they'd be visible from the family room.  When the wall was closed up it made for some pretty decorating on the dining room side, but it was very crowded when all my family was over!  Now with the wall removed we have lots of room to move about on both sides!

I took some new shots of the downstairs CAREFULLY omitting our ripped out kitchen (you'd faint if you saw it!).  You can't tell it in the photo above, but I'm standing just outside of our torn-out kitchen.  It's functional, barely tho!  My stove is in place and so is the sink and fridge...but nearly everything else looks like, well...kinda like a war-zone!!!  Even the ceiling is out and the original studs are showing!  It's making me crazy, but we have to live with it like that for now.  Still lots to tear out and when you are do-it-yourselfers you work when you can and then leave the rest until another day.

Lots of another days lately!

Lots more coming, too!  We hope by next year at this time we'll be done!

For Friday, May 11th, I'm linking up with Kerryanne at
Shabby Art Boutique 
for the very first
Shabbilicious Friday!!!
Hop on over there to get some great ideas!  We are sure to be totally inspired!

Hope your day is fab!  I'm off to work!

Love to you...