My Antiques Booth

It's been a long time since I've showed you around my booth at Orange Tree Antiques in Winter Park, Florida.  Excuse the pictures there is no natural light in my booth.  

OK, go ahead look around.....

Now don't mess anything up LOL, I just spent all of yesterday doing a total reset.  

Linen is my top seller

A new group of altered vintage bottles

3 times a year I pull everything out of my booth and start over. Those of you that have booths know that they end up getting cluttered, plus we get bored with how they look and redoing your booth always guarantees an increase in sales.....Watch, now a customer is going to have the nerve to come in and buy stuff and mess it all up again LOL!

Happy Creating!

Carol

Projects For The Wedding Rehearsal Dinner

Many of you have asked how the wedding plans were going, I can't believe my sons wedding is less than 4 months away!  So, I thought I would show you a couple projects I have been working on for the rehearsal dinner

The Rehearsal dinner will be at a local outdoor cafe around the corner from my house.   It's where the kids spent a lot of time when they lived in Orlando before moving to DC.  This is going to be a vintage themed, relaxed, dress for the weather, (Pretty nice weather in Orlando in November) dining under the stars, event. 

I made one of these vintage book candle holders way back in November right after the engagement.  Yep, crazy excited Mom...... I was already planning the rehearsal dinner in my head.

I was trying to think of something unique and different for table centerpieces that stayed with the vintage vibe, the full tutorial is HERE.  After I drilled out the holes for the candles and decorated the cover I added ribbon and vintage brooches.....A little shabby and a little bling!

The books will be center pieces on the large tables. For the smaller tables and scattered around the venue I made waterslide decal pictures of the love birds and put them on votives.

The waterslide decal tutorial is HERE, I printed pictures on the decals then put them on votives

I have a lot more wedding projects to show you.....Hope you don't mind a little wedding DIY between "Regular" DIY!?

Happy Creating!

Carol

Fabric Backed Shelves, From Drab To Fab

Bookcases and shelving units sell well in my booth and if I add a back to them they sell even better....And if I do something special to that back....Well, they sell even BETTER!

This time I decided to add fabric dipped in starch

I took this very average thrift store shelf

And a favorite Mary Rose fabric dunked in starch...A full "Fabric and Starch" tutorial post is HERE and should answer all of your questions.

I laid the fabric soaked in starch over a board I cut to fit the back of the shelf.  When the fabric dried I used my brad nailer and attached the board to the shelf

While I was on a fabric and starch roll I did this shelf too

I loved the yellow color, so I dug out some yellow floral fabric, then cut the backboard out of a thin board I had laying around

Dipped the fabric in starch and let it dry on the board 

Then with Billie's help (She's actually no help at all, but when you're that cute you don't need any skills) I brad nailed it to the back of the book shelf

This was a really easy way to dress up the shelves

Both are headed to my booth at Orange Tree, I haven't decided what to charge....

......But, whatever I decide it will be more than I would have charged before I gave them a backbone!

Happy Creating!

Carol

Painting Metal Frames and Google +

I wanted to pick your brains about Google + but, first I'll show you a little transformation


I love when I find these old Italian frames with the domed glass, they are always a great seller in my booth at Orange Tree

I've tried selling them just as I find them, but they don't sell

Until I give them a couple coats of Rust-Oleum Heirloom white paint and a slight sanding

The Rose prints are from a 1983 Avon calendar book

I put these in my booth at Orange Tree

And priced them at $12 for the large ovals and $6 for the small ones...I actually sold one as I walked in the door to put them in my booth.


Now, Help me out here with Google +....I have a few readers, Sue E., Claudia, Kathy, and a few others.  You leave the nicest comments and I feel so bad that there is no way I can get back to you!  When I click on your name on the comment you left I get the Google + profile............ 

Since I am not in your "Circles" there is no way to get to you or your blog and you are "Blogger no reply"


Now, there is some Google + profiles I can get to, when I click on "About" in the profile their blogs show up, I can then click on the blog title and leave a comment


If you have left a comment on my blog and I have not returned the comment (I reply to every comment unless you have a post I have already commented on) please hit my email button or  leave your blog name or email, it honestly keeps me up at night when someone has been so kind to take the time to leave a comment and I cannot get back to you or your blog


I imagine if I can't leave a comment, no one else can either?  


If anyone has any suggestions about this new Google + format, share your knowledge, we'd all appreciate it?

UPDATE- Thank you to Kathy and Claudia, here is what you have to do if you have Google +.  In your profile the "About" section, you have to input the information, that way when we go to a google + profile we can click on "About" and your blog address will appear! 

Happy Creating!

Carol

Painting A Union Jack..... The Real Story

OK, so here's the deal, some projects are so fun I can't wait to do them again and some projects.........Well, lets just say this is the last Union Jack Project you will see here!

I found this cute little stool at an estate sale and it was already blue and you can see the red peaking through.  I bought it the same weekend as the Queens Jubilee, so I was all into the Union Jack

Ok, so here is the problem, I, like many of you thought the Union Jack was just a cross with an X through it.......NO, there is some slight nuances with the X that make it difficult and tedious to paint

Click HERE for a great tutorial on drawing a Union Jack

Now, look close at the X, the red line is not centered in the white

Pretty funny, I thought every Union Jack I saw painted on blogs had messed up LOL!

Oh and this will take you a roll of painters tape...Tape, paint, wait,  tape, paint, wait, repeat ZZZZZ.   

I sanded and waxed it to bring out the undercoat of red paint then put it in my booth at Orange Tree for $28

To my UK Friends, I love you, and I love the Union Jack.....I just don't loooooove painting it!

Have a great weekend

Happy Creating!

Carol