Time for our own Yard Sale!

We have been going to yard sales now for almost a year and of course not everything we buy sells...unfortunately.  We decided that we would have a yard sale this week with one of our neighbors who also refinishes furniture.  We both had just STUFF to get rid of!!  I feel so good because we only had to haul 3 pieces back to the garage.  I wanted to share with you some of the interesting stuff that sold.  The first sale was at 6:05am...it was still dark...the guy was seriously shopping with a flashlight!  Here is what he bought...

Yep! That's an antique pump organ...who would have thought it would be the first to go. But, let me tell you I am glad it did!  Here are some of the other pieces that sold...

Cute Ivory Side Table

Antique Vanity with Trifold Mirror(mirror is detached)

All in all it was a very succesful day of selling!  With the busy week I had I was only able to complete one project for someone who has purchased from me before.  She bought the turquoise dresser and has been looking for matching nightstands and I finally found them.  Here is the dresser and before and after pics of the nightstands.

Before

After

Now that I am down to only a few projects I should be able to finish stuff quicker, I have a habit of working a little bit on everything which slows me down.  Until next week!



The Final Touch!

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about that princess dresser that I loved so much I decided to keep.  The only problem was that now we had two beautiful dressers in our room but one very ugly nightstand.  It was Ikea and I tried painting and doing something different with it but it looked BAD!  Lucky for us we had a beautiful nightstand that had been sitting in our garage for weeks.  It was in really bad condition so it was one of the projects that kept being pushed aside.  Here is what it looked like when we started.

Let me tell you that paint must have been on there for decades...and there were a couple of coats of black paint under it.  It was a pain, but the hubby stuck with it and got into great condition for me to paint and here is what we have now.

Love, love, love it! (I still need to figure out what to put in front of that outlet!)  Here is what it looks like sitting next to the dresser.

Would you believe that these 2 pieces cost $60 together...with a little time and love we have transformed our bedroom!

Cute little dresser!

Today was very productive and I have another piece to share!!  I get so excited when I have pieces to blog about especially when there is more than 1 in a day!!

Okay, so when my hubby picked up this dresser I didn't love it at first.  This unfortunately for him is a common occurence in our yard sale excursions.  9 times out of 10 he ends up selling what he buys but I still wonder what he is thinking sometimes.  Here is the dresser before.

Now here is what it looks like!!!  I love it, its too bad it wouldn't fit in the little one's room but, I already have a buyer!!

Such a cute little dresser!!!  I am really loving the black hardware on the white furniture right now.  Until next week!  I have another piece that I kept to share...yay!



Change, Change, Change, Sold!

This title refers to a piece that I have blogged about before.  Do you remember this dresser?

Then it became this...

We changed the paint to a darker pink and the hardware to an bronze color...

Then we tried black hardware...

And when it still didn't sell my husband wanted to try a glaze technique to see what would happen and this is what we got....

And it sold!!!  When we first finished this my initial thought was, teenage girl.  That's exactly who it was bought for.  I hope she is enjoying her one of a kind dresser!  More to come after the weekend!

Vintage Look & Vintage Finds

This weekend was somewhat slow when in came to finding new pieces to work on, but lucky for my husband and I we have plenty of stuff that needs work in the garage.  I just finished this piece this morning and was so excited about it I wanted to get it on the blog right away.  It was quite a transformation.  Here is the before picture.

Very cute as it was but we did a complete transformation and here is what it looks like now!!

$75

I love this little side table...the decoration on the legs stands out so much more now.

We also love to pick up vintage items, not just furniture and found these this week which were really neat!

These are for sale too! $25 each

They would be great decoration for a room or better yet it would be a great photography prop!





It's a Keeper!

Last week I left you with a picture of a beautiful princess dresser with mirror that was bare wood and in need of a real makeover.  Here is a reminder of what it looked like...

Well, its done and I love it!  I love it so much that my husband and I decided to keep it!!!!  Here it is...

I have a friend that wanted to buy of but this piece was just too good to sell!!!!  I love that the furniture in our room is something we created!!!