My Home

I had to take pics of my stuff for a show application today so I thought I would share a few pics of my home today. They are still a work in progress but I just redid a few of the pieces and love the new paint and colors.

This is in my living Room~ I just repainted the little desk and got the little house from my Mom and the little metal chair is actually going to the next show we do (Fancy Flea in Lakeland, FL)

I love this rack that's in my Dining Room. It sits over a great table but it was not in any condition to be photographed today! I'm still working on what I put on the shelves but I love the little Austrian Saint on the right side above the sweet French Mary.

I tried and tried to get a better pic but the sun kept bleaching out the side of the photo so this is the best I could do! This is my newest dining room addition and it is so wonderful in person. I'm off to go paint more furniture and prepare for upcoming shows and getting the shop ready to open :)

Have a wonderful night.

Aspen

Oh, To Love a Chair

I love a chair like Carrie Bradshaw loves a pair of shoes, wonderful French chairs with great bones showing through and simple fabrics and of course the chair's slightly more dramatic cousin, the settee. I will hang onto a chair frame for the simple reason that it's beautiful or could be beautiful or should be beautiful at least once in its' life.

We recently went to NYC and I made my husband go to Hell's Kitchen Flea Market to find treasure and lo and behold there were two amazingly beautiful French Gilt chairs with tufted red velvet....they were perfect in everything but size...I had absolutely no way to bring them back or ship them back.

I ran thru every possible scenario...could I stuff them in a taxi?...could they be dismantled and reassembled? shrunk perhaps? Since all possibilities were unpractical or unrealistic I settled on purchasing a 30lb metal birdfeeder and made my hubsand lug it around all day secretly angry at the individual that would end up with MY beautiful chairs in their NYC apartment. It was a painful goodbye but I would take any one of these beauties to ease the pain.