Saturday evening, we packed up our remaining merchandise and headed home after a long three days at Junk Bonanza.  We were pretty much cleared out by the end of the event, which is always a victory.  Our little crew of three painted and finished a dresser, talked a lot about MMS Milk Paint, our finishes, and furniture painting in general.  We chatted with customers and other vendors, delivered purchased furniture to the loading dock, ate hot mini-doughnuts, and, of course, did some shopping ourselves. It was slow at times, thanks to the poor weather and snow, and tiring, but it was a wonderful weekend and a successful show.  We also had a strong turnout for all three of the milk paint demos. I showed our booth in THIS POST, but I wanted to share pictures from some of the other booths because there was a lot of amazing stuff. One

I meant to write a post last night, but I just couldn’t.  It was taking forever to upload my pictures and I was tired and I knew I had three long days in front of me.  I just needed to get to sleep, so I did just that.  I have survived day one, though, and I have just enough in me to check in and give you an update. When I arrived yesterday (Wednesday morning) to set up, the roads were dry and the weather forecast looked promising.  The snow totals had been dramatically downgraded from 9-18″ to about 2″ and some rain and ice.  But, then it started snowing and the totals were bumped up to 12″ again and it has been a sloppy, snowy, icy, windy couple of days. We’ve been dry and toasty inside, though, working at the event. Late Wednesday morning, our space looked like this… Chris

I sold a lot of pieces before we moved halfway across the country from PA to MN.  I knew that some of them just weren’t going to work in what would most likely be our new house.  And I don’t regret selling any of the pieces I sold.  There were a few things, though, that I didn’t know where I would put them or how they would work, but I just wasn’t ready to let them go. This step-back cupboard was one of those pieces. It’s been one of my favorite finds from the moment I found it lined up in a row of dusty furniture in a second-hand shop. It had a few different homes in my last house and I loved how versatile it was.  The base cabinet housed exercise weights, craft supplies, office supplies, and Legos at various times.  The top almost always showcased ironstone. But in