. . . . and the last traces of glitter on the carpet have been vacuumed up. A few little things that I made last minute have been added.
I’m ready for tomorrow sale! Hope to see you. Sale starts at noon! Located very close to Tanasborne shopping area in Rock Creek. Stop by for a ‘sanity break’ while you are out shopping at the big stores tomorrow.
And as always, everything in MY booth is 50% off during the sale. Sale % in other booths will vary; look for the sign in each booth. Here’s a quick peek at my two booths.
Grey, white and faux galvanized pumpkins in assorted sizes. Apothecary jars with faux galvanized lids and faux galvanized cake stands.
As always, my bog booth is jam packed with goods!!
Dishes. Dishes and MORE dishes! Vintage white Ironstone. Vintage Milk glass. Vintage Taylor, Smith & Taylor, ‘Ever Yours Boutonniere’. Vintage China and crystal too. Gravy boats, platters and serving bowls if you need extra for your upcoming holiday meals.
Both Stars stores are open 11am – 6pm, 7 days a week.
Seems like it’s been forever since I’ve posted pictures from the other booths at Stars. With the upcoming store-wide sale, it seemed like a good time to do so.
SO MUCH great stuff is all the booths! I’m going to let the pictures do all the talking.
And now for a quick peek at my two booths; for which, as always, EVERYTHING is 50% off during the sale. I just added a bunch of new inventory too!
My ‘big’ booth.
Vintage and reproduction little milk bottles are perfect for serving beverages in at your summer party.
Pretty vintage gold dishes.
Vintage suitcases, hat boxes and picnic baskets.
My very favorite style of vintage dishware; white Ironstone with scalloped edges. I have a collection of vintage Johnson Brothers English Ironstone at home that I use. The ones I have stocked at Stars are from various manufacturers, some from England and some with no maker’s mark. There are over EIGHTY of the little ‘dessert’ size plates. I got a GREAT deal on them, and as I am in the habit of doing, I’ve passed my savings along to the buyer in my pricing. Regular price on the dessert plates (no maker’s marks) is $2.00 each. Get them for just $1.00 each during the sale!!
I’ve decided to part with some of my personal collections. My ceramic hand collection and my Ironstone Lion’s head soup tureens (two sizes) and ramekins (two sizes). The lion’s head ramekins are TOO cute!
Yes, my big booth IS jam-packed!
It’s “EVERY HUSBAND’S NIGHTMARE” show time!!
Washington County Fairgrounds.
April 18 -22, 2017 ~ Weekdays 10am – 8pm; Saturday 10am-5pm
(take advantage of the evening shopping hours if you want to avoid the crowds!)
I stopped back by the show to take photos after I had stocked my booth at Stars. I wasn’t able to take as many photos at the show as I’d hoped to because I ran out of memory!
I brought plenty of signs!
And my ‘new favorite’ thing to make . . . . .
CROWNS!
Lots of different sizes and styles.
~ Vintage sheet music ~ Glitter ~ tea stained lace ~ with all kinds of adornments!
Something for everyone!
Look for my mermaid style crowns in the beach display.
Grubby candles! I found a stash of grubby candles leftover from when we had our store! They STILL smell amazing! In fact, you will probably smell them before you see them. This is the last of them, so grab them up while you can. I won’t be producing them anymore.
I brought lots of ‘bits & bobs’ for the crafters and scrap bookers. Vintage Bingo cards. Vintage paper doilies. Little notebooks and journals.
All kinds of fun little stuff in these jars too!
On to the rest of the show!
Americana and vintage; quilts, Pyrex and silver.
So much more than I was able to take pictures of!!!
Cream and black and white goes with everything!
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Mother’s Day is just around the corner!
FREE parking & FREE admission.
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A little DRAWER in a step stool?!?!? I love that!
This sweet little stool really didn’t ‘need’ to be made over at all . . . it was in perfect condition; but you know me!!! I can never leave well enough alone!
I removed the drawer knob and gave the whole thing a good sanding.
Some aqua paint and more sanding to distress. Another ‘perfect piece’ to use one of my little aqua ceramic rose knobs on!!
And off to my booth at Stars it goes!
Great little piece for adding height to displays in my booth (while it lasts!)
Here’s a little peek at some of the other new stuff in my booth:
Ceramic and stoneware bunny dishes.
Covered duck tureens and a tiny duck pitcher.
Vintage metal plant stand set up as a serving station.
One of my ‘yard wreaths’ (hand crafted using twigs, bark and moss collected from my yard)
A new batch of small frames; some with glass and backings, some without.
A couple more vintage crystal lamps with NEW Paris script shades.
How adorable is this box of vintage cocktail forks!?!?! (Sorry about the glare! I had to wrap the box in plastic wrap to be sure none of the forks ‘went missing’)
Stop on by if you haven’t been at Stars in a while. LOTS of new stuff in my booth . . . and throughout the entire mall!
Rarely do I find big furniture pieces at Goodwill; OR they are TOO big to fit in the back of my car and too heavy for me to unload by myself. This eight drawer dresser was ‘just right’!
I always keep a few old sheets in my car to cover furniture with AND to protect my car bumper when loading/unloading big items. It’s difficult for me to LIFT the items like this to put in my car; so here’s my ‘bad back method’ for loading big stuff in the car.
Well, first of all you have to have the right kind of car; a hatch that lifts UP and a LOW back end. (and trust me, the PT Cruiser sits LOW! Sometimes TOO low!! I’ve had to ‘train myself’ to not pull all the way into parking spaces that have the concrete stops, because my front bumper will catch and scrape on it!!)
I lay a folded over sheet from the back of the car draping over the bumper. This particular dresser needed to be turned on it’s side first. Once on it’s side and scooted up to the bumper, I tip it over onto the sheet and then just give it a good shove (using my knees for extra push, if needed). Gotta LOVE leverage!
This dresser was pretty heavy, so the gal at pickup helped me ‘shove it’. So I knew it was too heavy for me to re-load to take to Stars, after I refinished it. Here’s how I handle that problem. I leave the drawers out!! Load the dresser frame, cover with a sheet, them the drawers on top of that. For unloading at Stars, I take the drawers in first. (I use my little wheely cart for loading EVERYTHING at Stars!) Then the empty dresser, then put the drawers in once I have it in the spot I want it to be.
This is a good way to move heavy dressers around the house too. Take the filled drawers out and it’s it’s easy to move the frame.
Okay, back to the dresser at hand!
Very clean drawer innards!! Very UGLY metal knobs painted white. Originally I was thinking of JUST distressing the existing white paint, adding new knobs and calling it done. Alas, someone had spray painted it RED before it was painted white, so I HAD to repaint it.
I added some vintage style paper to line the drawers with, even though they didn’t really NEED to be lined; it’s a nice touch on a bigger, pricier item. I really struggled with finding the right replacement for the ugly knobs. The knobs it had are the kind that have a couple of BARBS on the back to better hold them in place; but whomever attached the knobs LET them spin around while being screwed on, which gouged a ‘moat’ around the hole for the knobs. Which meant I had to find replacement knobs that covered the moats! sigh. I went shopping for new ones and left empty handed. LOTS of really pretty knobs out there IT I wanted to double the selling price of the dresser to afford them! Especially since I needed 16 of them! sheesh! I settled upon these cast iron ones I had ‘in stock’.
A bit more ‘simply’ styled than I had originally envisioned it with some new knobs, but knobs are easy to replace, so I’ll leave that to the new owner.
Available for purchase in my booth at Stars for $149.00
I did the ‘backgrounds’ on these a while ago, along with several others. Set them aside for a while until I decided what MORE to do with them.
Assorted scrap papers, book pages, sheet music and pattern tissue papers. No real ‘method’; just layer upon layer upon layer until it ‘feels’ right.
This is what the easels looked like when I bought them at Dollar Tree several years ago.
I decided they would make cute backgrounds for the Fimo fauxzen Charlotte’s that I make. It’s really handy having the attached easel.
This first one I added just a ‘bust’; with kraft cardboard wings and cut one of my mini sheet music crowns in half to glue the flat side to the backing.
Some Monarch butterfly wings and a paper crown on this one.
Monarch butterfly wings #2; the other half of the previous sheet music crown and letters cut from a book.
I’ve only taken this one to Stars; saving the rest for ?????
Found this grubby black metal shelf in another booth at Stars.
Nice and big with lots of room for ‘stuff’, but it was very lightweight.
You can’t really see it in this photo, but the black paint was chipping off quite a bit here and there; and I didn’t want to completely hide all that naturally occurring distressing with the new paint. I opted to ‘dry brush’ paint it.
The dry brush technique doesn’t completely cover the original finish; and it’s such a ‘light finish’ that the areas that had begun shedding the black paint, will more easily continue to do so naturally, over the course of time.
Dry brush painting is pretty ‘fast and easy’ too!
Perfect size for the crowns in my booth at Stars.
And lightweight enough to easily place on top of another shelf to get the crowns at ‘eye level’.
Recently had Michael build a few wood shelves for me.
I decided I wanted to do ‘something more’ than just paint them this time.
But of course I still had to paint it first! This is a low and deep shelf, so I decided to ‘raise it up’ a bit.
I grabbed some boards from my sign board stash and constructed and painted this base. Then glued and nailed the two together.
Decided it still needed a tad more ‘oomph’ so I added this braided trim. (I have a stash of trims; purchased at craft store.)
Ta~Da!
It has gone to my booth at Stars.
And the BEST part is that it was the prefect size to top with this metal shelf; which made the perfect display for my crowns!
I just noticed that when I post pictures of my booth at Stars, that I tend to mostly take pictures of the BIG stuff, and groupings of stuff.
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Vintage tea pots, cookie jar; creamer and salt and pepper shaker.
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Rusty metal cloches and birds and nests.
Big nest with vintage lamp shade cloche.
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And a few ‘big’ pictures!
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