It's been a few days since I've checked in...I've been busy sanding, painting, waxing, and taking things to the booth.
I think we have done pretty well so far...things are selling and I know that we have at least made enough to cover the rent for March! Pretty good since it's only been open for 2 weeks.
I'm not going to bore you by posting pictures of everything I make or refinish but I will show you the things I think are different or unique like this coffee table I finished today....
In the pictures the design on the top of the table looks a little blue, but it is actually gray.
I kind of wish I could keep this table, but we have a big leather ottoman/coffee table that is really comfy to put your feet on....plus, the point is to make $$$ right?
FYI: The lamp that John thought I was crazy for painting bright pink sold! :)
Finished this dresser last night.
Sorry, no before pictures, but I have a good reason for that....One night last week John was getting on my nerves and I needed him to go do something. Not thinking that he would, I asked him to go downstairs and sand the dresser for me...and he did!! So I didn't get a chance to take before pictures, but I'm not complaining!
Thanks Sweetie!
Here's the pictures of the doors and cabinets John and I purchased from the Habitat Re-Store and Craigs List to make my flea market booth.
A couple of the doors were beautiful, heavy solid wood doors. No scratches or anything and they were only $15 dollars. I sort of hated messing them up!
I painted a wood shelf to add to this door with a window...
There were a total of 5 large doors that we used for the walls along with 2 of these cabinets...
So here is a picture of the booth space before we started putting up our walls...
And here it is after we (with help from Lisa and Ty) put up the walls...
The name of my booth is "E-Six Flea Market Style".
We bought this little table from the Re-Store, I painted it and John topped it with pallet wood.
And I built the bookcase sitting at the back of the booth all by myself using 2 narrow doors we bought, scrap wood we had laying around and wood from pallets! I was pretty pleased with myself! :)
I had just finished building it when Lisa and Ty showed up to help us haul all the stuff to the flea market so I didn't get a chance to paint the front and shelves. So I plan on finishing that soon. Going to leave the wood on the back unfinished.
So that is it..."E-Six Flea Market Style" is open for business! It's small, but you have to start somewhere!
Now that the booth is done I have started to refinish furniture to sell in the booth...working on a dresser right now.
I've never painted anything using "Crackle". I've always wanted to but just never did it...until now!
These candle holders are in serious need of a face lift...hearts are out, even in country decorating!
I decided to cover up the hearts with these wood appliques...
I used a taupe/tan paint for my base color...
After the base coat dries you apply the crackle and let that dry...
Then you paint your main color...in this case, gray...and it magically starts to crack!
It was pretty simple so I think I'll do this again sometime.
Hi! Did you miss me!?!
Well, I have news! John talked me into renting booth space at a local indoor flea market...only about 10 minutes from our house. Because we've rented the space I've been spending all my time looking for something to make my booth walls and shelves out of...thank goodness for the Habitat ReStore and Craigs List!!
We bought a total of 8 doors including 2 of these beautiful solid wood doors from the ReStore for only $15....it's a shame what I'm doing to them!
Half of the doors we bought were only $5 each.
Then we got 2 of these old cabinets off Craigs List for $35 for the pair...they didn't look so hot and were missing the shelves, but they are very sturdy and strong. They are going to take on a whole new look too!
Hopefully I'll be able to show you all these finished soon....I'm almost done with them now.
In the middle of all this, I've had about 5 craft projects going at once and didn't have things I needed to finish any of them, so it's been taking me a while to complete them, but now I have a couple of them done.
This is an old lamp I've had for years and replaced it with something new a few months ago.
So I decided to give it a new face lift...
Picked up the new shades and they ended up being too small, so I had to add the fringe around the bottom and I like it much better with it.
This will go for sale in my booth. I think it would look nice in a little girls bedroom.
I purchased these frames on clearance for $1.99 each...
Painted some Sand Dollars and added some scrap-booking paper and ended up with these:
Well, that's all I have to show you at the moment. I'll post more soon...I hope!
