finally!

Finally is the word! Finally finished my vanity. Or I should say Mark did. He kind of takes over my projects and I really need to say something about that. Anyway, I went to the Coburg antique fair this last weekend and it was so much better than the packwood flea market and I only had to drive 20 miles!! While traipsing around i found a roll of awesome wall paper and it was "BOOM" this is it!
The finishing touch on my vanity.
I bought the roll and cut out the size i needed. I was the perfect fit length wise so I knew this was the right stuff. I then painted the wall paper a bronze color. Mark made little frames and I glues the wallpaper on the frames and we popped them in the holes where the drawers should be! I am so excited and can hardly stop looking at it! I love it.
I almost have my cupboards done so I can move on to other projects. I have the newly purchased antique dresser and night stand to do. I am pretty excited. I've been reading several blogs learning how to do all this. Miss Mustard seed is one of them. Love her blog!  My Desert Cottage and Miss Gracies are also a couple of my favorites. Of course, I cannot forget Colby Cottage right here out of Springfield. Love her shop! and her blog.
I was in an antique shop in Coburg and couldnt drag myself away from one section that I absalutally loved and low and behold it was a Colby Cottage booth. I could just live in there all day.

Well, i better get bookin on getting ready to go camping! Going to Coos Bay Boy Scout camping and crabbing and to see my brother. Pretty sure there are some antique stores there too!!

flea market

Took me this long to post about the flea market we went to because i was so disappointed in  it. We drove all the way to packwood, washington for this flea market and it has become so commercialized!
lots of sunglasses, blankets, hats, leather stuff. There were some good antique booths, but far and few.

We did pick up a few sets of salt and pepper shakers and some enamel ware. The most fun we had i believe was garage-sale-ing our way there. I picked up a beautiful vintage dresser for $35 and a small nighstand (which fell apart) for $7. The nightstand is now being glued back togethor with a stack of about 30 encyclopedias sitting on top of it.  I plan on painting both of these items white. I have to finish my other projects first. I'm gonna make a few more of my bags with some differant material and see if i can sell them at some craft shows.

My friend Amy and I are going to drive to Portland on saturday for the Monticello Antique malls fall opening. Then on sunday we are going to the Coburg antique fair. So it will be a busy weekend!

cute little bag

heres my cute little bag, havent found any bling for it yet!

heres the pics!

 yummy treasures!

 pardon the shoes!

the mirror on the vanity will actually be hung on the wall above the vanity. I so love it!!

fun finds!

Last night I was kinda bored with the usual stuff i'd been doing. Had seen the cutest bag on a favorite blog and decided to create my own.  This morning while looking for a button or something to use for a hook and loop I found these bags of wonderful things i had forgotten i had. None of them really worked as all the earings are clip on and sewing or gluing isnt gonna work. It was so much fun going thru this! Even my 22 yr old son came in and played with them for awhile. Course, all he could think of was trying to sell some and make money! My husband and I found these yrs ago in an old barn sale. He dug the bags out and said "oh i know you want this".  needless, to say we came home with about $500 worth of stuff for about $13. Now, i have to figure out what to do with them.
Also, decided to post my almost finished old buffet/vanity transformation. I love it! Just need to finish the drawer peices. Gonna do some punched copper or tin there. I bought some stuff to do that then thought, what if i find something at the packwood flea market or the coburg flea market. So I am going to wait a few more weeks to finish it. Cannot wait to go to packwood washington this weekend! I will take lots of pics.