Town Wide Tag Sale Day One

Good evening!  WOW!  Long day.  What incredible Autumn weather we are having for this tag sale.  The only thing we might find to complain about was the heavy morning dew, but who could complain about that?

  

Jennifer - smiling as usual!  

How fabulous is it, to have a friend lend you their front yard for a huge sale like this, and help me out to boot?  Pinch me!

 Jewelry off to the left, a great buffet and castle painting on the right.

 The fun table - full of vintage style toys - these are available everyday ay Everyday Elegance, 600 Main Street, Purcellville,VA. 

 A great work table of Jennifer's - filled with lots of my vintage kitchen smalls.

 A beautiful farm table of Jennifer's - with hours and hours worth of my Mom's knitting.  All of the proceeds of the knitted goods will go to Saint Mary's Church in York, PA.

 Two adorable blue and white pieces - a chest of drawers and a dresser with a mirror.

 The Man Cave area.  A cool whirligig and Red Eye sign, club chair, deer head with hoof hooks, English riding saddle, and light up fireplace logs (my fav)!

 The 'Primitive' section - a popcorn popper, wood fruit crate, a great 1930s side table, 2 sweet hand painted chairs, milk cooler (you remember - when the milkman delivered milk to your front porch?!), a cute, primitive kid's table, and lots of spindles, and bobbins from a textile mill.

The cozy Christmas area - a few chairs, a Victorian love seat, oriental runner - and of course - some Christmas decorations!
It was a busy, but fun day.  We had lots of happy customers, kids and adults alike.  

 All closed up for the evening!  We covered everything tonight - so less morning dew to deal with tomorrow.  If you get a chance - stop by and say HI tomorrow.  

We would love to see you at "The Best Tag Sale in Town".  

Our sign claims it, and our customers confirmed it!

From Drab to Fab!

Entered in MissMustardSeed's Furniture Feature Friday (http://missmustardseed.com/2012/03/furniture-feature-friday-favorites-a-link-party-7/)- to anyone coming from her blog - Welcome!!

My continuing mission to simplify my life - is resulting in a new vision for my sweet 1909 home.  Yes - this is all related to the workroom organization, etc...
I started with the Living Room and the Master Bedroom.  The major work on the Living Room is just getting my jewelry/other crafting items out of there - and up to the workroom.  Some of this has gotten done, but I have put that on hold so that I could make major changes in the Master Bedroom.  My friend Jennifer came down for a few days - and we went to work!  I love the overall look of this room - but it had been in the same basic configuration for 20 years.  I know, I know!  Some of this is because it it a small 1909 home and the room has windows/a door on three walls, and has NO closets.  First we took the two biggest pieces of furniture - the bed and the wardrobe - and moved them into place.  Then we determined that one cupboard would stay - but the two taller chest of drawers had to go. 
 I would have to find a low, 6 or 9 drawer dresser to take their place.  That meant doing a wardrobe overhaul as well (as in making some of my clothes go away - ouch!).  Luckily for me, Jennifer is one versatile girl!

Fortunately, within days of needing a new dresser - I found one at an estate sale for $25.00 (I loved that!).  Ugly - but I saw that it had potential - hence the title of this post - from Drab to Fab!    

Here it is - The top was all scratched and had paint splotches all over it - and the wood  finish was questionable.  It did, however, have dust protectors between each row of drawers, and was well built - even though it was only about 10 years old.  It also had great lines or good bones - very important!!

The 'stuff' on top is just there for now - I am still working on what will stay and go - although I an pretty sure the transferware will stay!

I removed the hardware, washed the dresser inside and out, sanded where I needed to, and then gave it a first coat of paint - I wasn't sure what color I wanted, so I started with a blue/grey.  The second coat was a cream color, ending with the top and base being painted a taupe color - a suggestion by another friend Jennifer Huffman, who sells awesome furniture and other cool stuff at the Old Lucketts Store.  I shabbied it up just a bit, and then gave it a coat of Butcher's Paste Wax.  The hardware was a really ugly color of dark/bright brass so I used a dry brush technique and hit it with the blue/grey paint, and then used the same light touch with the cream color paint.  This whole process, from beginning to end, was done over the course of three days.  So no big deal - Really!

I love the way it looks - and it was definitely worth getting rid of some clothes to trade out 2 dressers for 1!

More photos of the rest of the room soon!