First of all, thank you so much for the amazing feedback on our latest video project!  Just like the “yellow dress and the dresser” video, it literally popped in my head and then happened so organically.  I am very much someone who does their best work out of inspiration, not on demand!  I imagine most of us are that way and we don’t feel as proud of things we created just because necessity or obligation dictated. Anyway, as I shared yesterday, I needed a piece of furniture to paint for the video.  For the first time in a really long time, I was fresh out. So, my mom and I went to a few local antique and used furniture stores to find a piece. We found this pretty little dresser.  It really was gorgeous and not one I would usually buy to paint, but I was on a time crunch,

I think that owning stuff you love is underrated. Do you get what I mean by that? I think we often times settle for something we don’t really love, just because it’s utilitarian.  And, sometimes there is just no getting around that. But, sometimes you can have something that checks the box in both the beauty and function categories. When I spotted this dustpan in an antique store, it was like a win-win.  I love the look and I love the size of it and the “cover” on the top that keeps fluff from floating away. Yeah, it’s just a dustpan, but why shouldn’t a dust pan bring a little smile to your face when you use it? In the same shopping trip, I also bought this sweet little whisk broom… Something, like this little broom, that was utilitarian, but is pretty enough to use for decoration. At Lucketts, I picked

I have received a bunch of e-mails and comments asking about the fate of the leftovers from Lucketts.  As we did last year, we will list them all in the online shop, so readers who aren’t local and have a crack at purchasing some of the pieces I’ve shared on my blog over the past few weeks. So, what’s left?  I took the week off, but I did sneak over to the studio this weekend to get some pictures of the leftovers. There are a few pieces of furniture left, including the hemp oiled antique dresser… …the stepback hutch… …the counter height farm table, “legless buffet“, and some other smaller pieces of furniture like the cane high chair, stools, etc. And we actually still have a nice amount of ironstone, antique flatware… …jars, cloches, bowls, rag balls, linens, spools of baker’s twine and braided jute trim, brushes, jelly jars, mason