A few purchases: Art stuff, and a new bureau...

Hello friends.

I'm still trying to catch up with some posts, so I wanted to share with you a few photos of a couple of things that I bought last week at my favorite haunt back home, SuzAnna's.

We are hoping to redo our master bedroom in "real house" and give it a little more of a farmhouse look.

I saw this dresser, snapped a photo, and

showed it to Hubby when I got home.

He liked it well enough to go back with me

and buy it. 

It was painted in a "soft" black,

which he liked.

Not yet sure how it will figure in to

my plan, but time will tell.

The best part is that I don't have to 

do a thing with it. 

Even the drawers slide quite nicely!

For an assemblage project I couldn't resist

this tote.

Can you guess what it is?

Why, a blueberry crate, of course!

So, I have since dry-brushed over the green

striping with black...

...I have a very definite project in mind for this

piece. 

I couldn't resist the timeworn blue-grey

patina on the rest of it...

For just a few bucks I also bought the below

items. A couple will be used in the piece

that I make with the blueberry crate...

Don't you just love the little

ringer on the right?

A couple of the pieces went into 

The Salvage Saloon

for the future...

I hope you find something great today!

Chippy whites, "The Salvage Saloon" and an antique bread bowl...

Good morning friends! I hope that all is going well in your lives.

Before I throw them into  "The Salvage Saloon", I wanted to share with you a few pieces of chippy whites that I bought at an antiques mall when we were up in Brevard, NC. I have been there many times before, but now that we are "getaway-home-owners"  up there, I will no doubt become a frequent visitor! A large part of the mall is allocated to salvage, where they have everything from old wooden flooring and tin ceilings (and I mean complete ones that you could use if you were restoring an old house), to door knobs, old wood doors, chippy old windows, hinges, old lighting and pretty much anything else you could hope to find. It is a true haven for anyone who loves assemblage. Or even weirds like me who use this stuff in fabric art.

A chippy white cabinet cabinet door, a piece

of trim, and a couple of doorknob plates...

...now added to The Salvage Saloon.

Yup! I decided to use that big old wire basket for

assemblage materials rather than fabrics.

I thought it was too rusty to hold fabric, and since it is so big

it would have been too hard to get the fabrics out...

I really didn't have room for the basket

in the studio, so...

...I placed it next to the armoire in the upstairs guest room.

You walk through to get to my studio.

I think that the treasures add a little interest

to the room (which still needs a little decorating)...

Our great find in the other section of the mall was this

old bread bowl.

I placed it on the bed in the guest room just so that

you could see how long it is.

When I have some time I will fill it with something and it

will be placed on our dining room table...

Thanks for stopping by, and have a great day!