A Senior Moment, Some Misc. Pictures & A Fabulous Find

Ok…remember when I said I wasn’t able to download any pictures because I couldn’t find the cord that connects my camera to my computer? Well, this is my camera case…See that little zippered pocket in the front? Well apparently…I am much more organized that I thought I was since that’s where the cord was! Major senior moment!

So today was a “Me day”…I left here this morning to get away from everything and everyone for a few hours. Something I haven’t done in forever. My first stop was to buy myself a little slice of heaven. Ahhh…My Starbucks White Chocolate Mocha. My butt hates them, but the rest of me just can’t resist! I’m so addicted! Seriously… Is there a Starbucks anonymous? Hello, my name is Debra… :)

From there, I headed to an Antique Co-op about 20 minutes away…Here is the first thing I picked up…Apparently there were two sconces at one point since the tag listed a price for the pair or for just a single one…I wasn’t able to find it’s mate though…but it’s all good.

Haven’t decided where to hang it yet. Would have looked great with two of them flanking my picture of George over my fireplace though.

Oh well…then I just picked up a grubby, battery operated candle for my corner candle shelf.

Then…drum roll please…My fabulous find of the day! I was looking through a bottom drawer full of antique linens in a booth that was having a 30% off sale…I couldn’t believe my eyes when I found this! OMG…Be still my heart!

An antique sampler! It was so hard to get a good picture of it as the thread is a very light color….Here are a few more pictures. I had Emma hold it up against the window to try and get a better view of it.

(BTW…There is my barn quilt on my barn in the background! I meant to take pictures and post the finished project months ago! At least I finished that project! Someday I’ll take better pictures and post them.)

Back to the sampler…Here it is in two sections.

It was added to at one point as you can see the seam. Practice makes perfect!

It measures 11 1/4” wide by approx. 28” & 28 3/4 as it is not perfectly rectangular by any means.

It begins with:

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP

****************************

QRSTUVWXYZ & W

MARY * ANN * W

ORK * IN * THE * 10

TH * YEAR * OF * MY * AGE

ABCDEFGHIJ

KLMNOPQRST

UVWXYZ & W

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 *

S x R * S

MARY * ANN * WORK *

A B C D E F G

H I J K L M N

O P Q R S T U V

W X Y Z   (2 hearts)

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q

r s t u v w x y z * 1 2 3 4 *

I absolutely love it! But…I also loved the price…Now remember I mentioned that this particular vendor was having a 30% off sale and since this sampler was marked $1…Yes, One dollar…I got it for .70! Yes, 70 cents! Woo Hoo!

Imagine the hours and hours little Mary put into this…I’ll cherish it for her…since for some reason someone didn’t. Not sure where I will put it…I will probably have it framed.

Do you remember this? The $40 harvest table I found on Craigslist? With the ugly green legs and cherry stained top? Very Christmassy!

Well, here she is now…I took about 1’ off the width of the table top, as there are two drawers that were not even visible with that overbearing top. You’d have to bend over and look underneath to even see them, plus it was too large for my dining room at it’s original width…so she needed to be slenderized.

I then completely sanded her down, painted her base black and did the top in a combo of stains…Can’t even really remember what colors really…Just kept applying different ones, Special walnut, provincial etc…until I got the results I wanted…Then just used paste wax on top of that…Here she is now.

I left the drawer pulls the same natural stain as the top so you would notice that it even has drawers. You can barely see them in this picture but they’re there. Much easier to see them now than before though.

What a difference busting your butt makes huh? I knew it had amazing potential though and I was right…I think she turned out beautiful and I am so happy with her now. I also picked up the large antique basket for $4 recently…Score! I love her too!

Finally…if anyone is still with me here…My new couch.

(No, I still have not painted my coffee table…I know, I know…it’s kind of growing on me now though!)

It’s a JB Chippendale sofa done in a fabric called Rose Garland…I love the height of it as this room has 16’ ceilings. I have not changed the blown light bulbs in my ceiling fan in years! :) I’d need scaffolding!

See just to the right in that last picture…what looks like a large roll of canvas? It’s been there for months waiting for Richard and I to make some floor cloths out of it…We just never have any time when the both of us aren’t exhausted or feel like using our brains lately! Someday soon hopefully…My floors are just screaming for floor cloths! Too busy right now to even research what I’d like though.

Thanks to all of you that stuck with me through this very long post and my recent break from blogging…I truly missed you all!

Have a great day…and a better tomorrow.

Sincerely,

Debra