It was one of those nights. My three year old came downstairs crying and burning up. He was up throughout the night with a crazy high fever and was delirious at times. This morning, my hubby took the sick boy to the doctor's office and we decided it would be best to get our healthy boy out of the house, which was my job. What's a girl to do when trying to get out of the house, but go hit some yard sales? (On a side note, the doctors were pretty worried about my son, but he is doing much better this afternoon We're making sure he drinks his "get better juice" and uses his "get better blanket" and he's being a real trooper.)
It just so happens that this is the weekend of Pippin Fest, a yard sale/craft show kind of event in Fairfield, PA. Most of the town sets up their yard sales on Friday, so I knew right where to go to get out of the house. I didn't hit any epic sales, but I did come home with some good things.
I was excited to find a bunch of brass butterflies...
...to transform them into some more glittered glass butterflies.
A couple of antique doorknobs, one of them in the original box.
And my find-of-the-day was this antique wooden trunk. I can tell by the construction and design that it's got some real age to it. I asked the gentleman selling it if he knew any history about this piece (a lot of families in this area have lived in the same house for generations, so they are selling their ancestors "junk" that was left in the house.) He didn't, but someone told him it was a box that was used to store printing press drawers. Does anyone know?
I thought the keyhole was amazing...
...and you just can't beat the patina of old wood. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it, yet. To paint or not to paint. Mmm.
Yesterday I hit some thrift stores and these are the finial kind of things I found. The finish on them is awful, but I think they'll look awesome with a chippy white finish.
I also found this beautiful Dresden bowl and an ironstone platter. Both of these are coming to the shop with me tomorrow.
Between a sick kid (and being under the weather myself) I managed to makeover the mirror I found yesterday.
I wanted to retain the aged look of this piece, but it was pretty rough as it was. I painted it a pretty blue and added a glaze, rubbing hard enough to remove some of the paint.
This frame has great detail...
...and the mirror is perfectly "smoked."
This will be in the shop tomorrow as well. For those who can make it, I am planning to be there from about 11:00-2:00. Hope to see some of you there!
By the way, I've had a lot of questions about shipping. Yes, I will sell through my blog and I will ship. I have learned that mirrors and some breakable items just won't make it, so I won't sell those online. Just e-mail me if you see anything that interests you.