Shabby Chic Inspirations

I added more items to my Antique booth.  My spice jars, 3 set cake plates, Avon clock, wooden bowl on stand, grape napkin holder and the plant stand have all sold.  I have an etsy web site but I think I will need to post the items 24 hours prior to putting them in my both.  It seems that once they are on the shelf they are sold within 48 hours.  Here is what my booth looks like currently.

Shabby Chic Inspirations

I am all moved into my booth at Sugar Bear Antique Mall. A friend of mine introduced this mall to me about four years ago. I have always loved having a booth and now I am back. It's located on Julington Creek Rd. in Jacksonville, FL My booth number is #34.  

Shelving is always needed when you have an antique booth. So last week I got two folding doors so I could attach some shelving to it. Here is how these two doors turned out.

We started bringing items into the mall on Saturday. Since I have several large furniture item, I hade to make a couple of trips. We dropped off the door shelves and the black drop leaf table.

As you can see in the pictures above there is no black drop leaf table.   I went in the mall late Sunday afternoon to bring some more item and they had already sold the black drop leaf table. About a half hour after we got home from decorating the booth, I received a call from Sugar Bears letting me know that my white desk sold. WOW!!!!  

 

 Monday I brought in some more furniture to fill up the blank spot.

This is what it looks like righ now.  I have some more plans for it by the end of the week. 

I will start an etsy account shortly.

Antiques, Cottage Style

It has been a year and a half since I had my antique booth. I used my booth as a creative and decorating outlet. I enjoyed painting and refinishing furniture then setting it up in my booth. I decided last week I would open one up again in Sugar Bears Antique Mall near Julington Creek. I went out this past weekend and found some real treasures. One of them is this 1947 drop leaf table. You can also see the steps it took to complete the job. I will be at Sugar Bears on Monday setting up my booth. Once it is done I will post some pictures.

Here is my Vintage 1947 drop leaf table I refinished.

As I sanded the table it revealed four separate layers of colors. 

After I sanded it nice and smooth I painted it black.

I thought it could use one of my special touches so I painted some flowers on it.