Furniture Feature Friday – Favorites & a Link Party
Good evening FFF fans! Today was a good day. I finally found a great fabric for my French daybed, the new toilet and bathroom tile arrived (I’m sure the UPS guy loves me), some of my Hungarian fabric came in from Germany and I dealt with my sewing machine issues (operator error) and got started […]
Awkward Wall & It Never Gets Old
There’s a little piece of wall in my family room between a window and the side door. It has a light switch in a totally rational place, but it messes me up when I try to figure out what to hang there. For a couple of years, I’ve had a tall, skinny shutter there, but […]
A Lesson from Rockefeller
Today was one of those days. I had a lot that I wanted to accomplish and I was productive to a point, but then I got hung up and couldn’t work on the projects I wanted to work on, which resulted in frustration and wanting to chuck my sewing machine out the window and eat […]
Inspirational Shop Space – The Ironstone Nest
You might think that I’m super organized when it comes to my blog. That I have some fancy calendar where I schedule my posts months in advance. That would be a totally rational assumption, since it is my business, after all. That assumption would be wrong, though. I just blog on the fly. I’ve tried […]
Milk Paint on Raw Wood
I know I’ve shown a lot of the chippy goodness that can be created with Milk Paint. That’s just a look I love. Paint that held on to a piece of furniture that has been well-used and well-loved for generations. I love the character and uniqueness it gives to a piece. Chippy pieces are striking […]
Demo & More Shopping
We finally started work on our master bathroom this week. We’re doing most of the work ourselves, but brought a contractor in to help with removing the old tub and installing the new one. He’s also going to take care of the electrical stuff. The awesome thing about working with this guy is that he’s […]
Painted Bar Stool Tutorial – Part 2
Welcome to part two of the painted bar stool tutorial. In case you missed it, or just for future reference, you can find part one HERE. In part two, I’m going to share how the do the distressing and finishing to achieve the final look… We’ll also chat about the kind of sand paper I use […]
Some Favorite Finds & the Online Shop
There was an antique market this past weekend in New Oxford, a small town in PA. They close down the cross streets on the center square (it’s a circle, really) and bring in antique vendors to set up and sell their wares. My mom and I set out on Saturday morning to see if we […]