vintage chic...

Have you been picking up on my hints this week?  Like how I have been busy as a bee ~ and how I have been treasure hunting to feather my booth after it is made over?  Well, my patience with my fisherman has paid off.  Last Friday we picked up 7 vintage doors for two of the walls of my booth!  I am going to start with 2 and see how it looks...the other wall, which is old wood might just get a white wash and shelves added here and there.  Here is a look at what I have been up to...

I was lucky to find these two old beauties that went together ~ I plan on using these as the back wall.  I gave them a quick coat of primer...

I did not want them to look perfect at all and am loving the texture of the old varnish coming through...

Then I gave them a shabby coat of Behr's Bleached Linen...

I am very happy with the results!!  On to the next two...

I love the panels on these doors as well as the hardware...

Glad I remembered to flip the door before I did this...

I left the first two doors as is but wanted to add a vintage chic touch to the others...

I found this old sheet music a few weeks ago with this project in mind.  Some panels came out smooth, others did not, but I like it anyway...

I will be hanging treasures on these doors in my booth which will probably cover most of the panels but I figure some of it will peek out now and then and there will be something to look at when an item sells...

And speaking of selling items, I have been working on some new pieces for my new space...

I would like to either have a wall of words or mix them in among some vintage mirrors.  I am also working on some ornaments for the Vintage Holiday Sale at the shop...

I had boxes of these purple ornaments that I used to put in glass bowls in my bedroom before the Paris Hotel Suite makeover.  I found an old Italian~English dictionary at the shop and have been using the pages to decoupage them...

Now for the winner of my giveaway that started on...

I have been hinting a bit during this post.  It is the lovely and very creative Julie of A Vintage Chic!!  Congratulations!!  Big thanks to everyone who entered and to all of you who follow along, read my little musings and make blogging so much fun!!  I almost forgot ~ it is White Wednesday too ~ thank you Kathleen for hosting!!  Have a nice day!!

vintage inspiration friday...

I do not know about you but this week went by way too fast for me ~ I did not get a chance to get everything done that I wanted to!! However, I am glad it is Friday ~ Vintage Inspiration Friday that is hosted by the lovely Debra over at Common Ground. I "met" Debra early in my blog adventure and I am amazed and inspired by her every day (thank you Debra!). Now, as I mentioned before I am starting my Fall "to do" list. My nest needed a good cleaning before I can bring a bit of Autumn indoors. Of course, my good intentions of cleaning the whole house before I did any feathering went by the wayside very quickly. I started a new vignette on the ledge above my new white couch (still love saying that!). While it is not quite ready for a reveal I thought I could share with you the inspiration for it. Remember when I showed you my only cabinet card of my Nana? Well I made a copy of her and put her in this sweet old frame... I want to warm up the room for the fall and am hoping I am off to a good start. I love all the rich colors in her photos. Do you like the paper I put with it... I picked this up at AC Moore yesterday and started thinking this might work out well for the upper part of the walls in my booth makeover! What do you think? I am sure you have all visited Tammy over at Tattered and Timeless. Her new space is the inspiration for my booth makeover (thanks Tammy!). Before I go soak up some inspiration over at Common Ground, I just wanted to say thanks for all the sweet comments on my Cinderella moment post the other day. Jim did not bring home all my "stuff" to get started but there is always next week! Enjoy your weekend and thank you for visiting!!!