The Market-December 2012

 

 

I just wanted to share a few pictures of what kind of things that are sold at the market. There are different items all the time, but this is what it looks like for the month of December. I will post pictures every month showing all the new items!!!

 

 

 

 

 

Christmas Proud

If you have ever watched the Nate Berkus show you know that he does House Proud, well I am doing Christmas Proud. Christmas is my FAVORITE holiday, I love to decorate for Christmas. Over the years I have had pretty much hand me down decorations from my grandma and my mom. Now that  I am older I have found my own Christmas style. I have been collecting Christmas ornaments since pretty much after high school. Mostly the European ornaments. I have recently have really gotten into vintage Christmas decorations, like the 50-70s, the plastic Santa's and painted little nicknacks. Here is some of my decor...

  This year with Miss Bailey around we have brand new shatter proof ones on our tree (see the picture on the right, with that little hand...). I am sad I am not putting up my ornaments that I have collected over the years, but I rather not have them broken...lol.

I tried to find the most "vintage" looking ornaments. I got them from one of my favorite stores Target!
The tree topper is from my great grandma Schroeder, my grandma had it and gave it to me. She gave it to me in the original box, I thought that was pretty cool!!!

 

 

We don't have a fireplace to put our stockings on, So I hang them from something to be honest I have no idea what it is, maybe an old lawnmower handle...no clue. I got it one year at cranberry fest.

I got this really cool vintage Santa. I am not sure how old it is, but I got it at the thrift sale that my mom and I found those 5 dressers. I was so excited to find a score like that, I only paid $1 for him!!!

 

There was one more thing that I wanted to put up with the display. I looked at it for about 20 min and it came to me, an old Christmas card and put it in a frame! I always keep my old Xmas cards. I rip off the front of the card if there is no writing on it and keep it for name tags. So I had a bunch to choose from. I like how this one looks old.

 

All the trees and the picture are hand me downs from my mom and grandma. The Santa is wrapped in tinfoil and painted, it was something I haven't seen before so I really liked it. My mom got it for me one year during the "deer hunter widow" shopping.

 

I have this display in my kitchen. I have a little bit of everything on here. I think I am more into Santa's then snowmen looking at my decorations...lol

 

My favorite two things in this display are in the bottom right hand corner. You can't see it very well, but it is a tin candle with Santa on it. It was a gift from my son, Korbin. They have a Christmas store every year at his school. Parents donate new or gently used items and the kids can bring two dollars and get presents for people (each item is a dollar).  I just LOVE it, it is so special to me! The other thing is a homemade decoration from Korbin, it is a present with his picture in it. He made it when he was in preschool. I LOVE, LOVE getting things like that from him. I have a bunch of Christmas stuff he has made over the years up around the house.

The matching snowmen are from my mom. Remember when there were ceramics and you painted them, yup those are it. I think they are so fun and they remind me of my childhood, I will always keep those! The little pink tree, I found at a thrift sale for 10 cents!!! Can't beat a deal like that!

 

I have always wanted a real Christmas wreath! When we got our tree tonight, I told my husband that I wanted a wreath. I said ask the guy if he will throw in a wreath with the tree. My husband is all about a deal so of course he asked and well we got the wreath!!! I just love it, when you open the door and walk in you can smell the fresh pine!!! I hope you enjoyed the Christmas decorations and got some fun ideas!

 

I hope you all have a Happy Holiday and God Bless!!!

 

 

Vintage Junkies~

Turquoise Tables

 I love this turquoise color!  I think painting a small piece of furniture is very fun way to give some color to a room without overdoing it. I think these tables would look so cute in a living room. After we got these tables done, my mom got her Home and Garden magazine in the mail and guess what was on the cover??? Two side tables in this color that were very similar...lol.

So I guess this color is a popular one right now.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is a custom frame we did. One of my former co-workers wanted something to display her cards that she makes. She is a scrap booking/card making demonstrator. She wanted a picture frame painted in a turquoise color with a distressed look that had chicken wire behind it to hang the cards. I like this so much I think I want to make one for myself to hang in my kitchen to put all my misc papers on.

 

 

 

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The Market- Eau Claire

We will be selling our furniture at a store!!! We are very excited to announce that we will be selling our furniture at The Market in Eau Claire. We are beyond excited, we can't believe this is happening, somebody pinch us!!! We will be also selling little decorative things besides our furniture. I will have to post some pictures when we have everything in. The Market has some awesome things, from unique lamp shades, unique furniture, to one of a kind throw pillows. They have everything to decorate your home to make it one of a kind. For those of you who are local, it is located in Banbury Place off of Galloway Street. They are open one Saturday a month and on special occasions like the Christmas season they are open more often.
You can check them out on Face Book,

 The Market- Eau-Claire.

We will have our furniture this Saturday so come check it out.

 

This is the latest piece we got done just in time for Saturday. This piece when I found it needed some TLC. My mom did a great job of making it beautiful again.

 

 

 

The crackle or chip look you see on the drawers is all natural. We painted it and it did that all on its own,

I think it is just beautiful!

 

vintage junkies~

 

 

White Distressed Table

We found this table on craigslist. Funny thing is that my mom and I emailed on this table and didn't tell each other, so they lady said to my mom when she called back, you are second in line, because a girl named Holly is interested, my mom realized it was me! Great minds think a like! We both love the detail on this table. We painted it white, for a classic look and distressed it to bring out all the details on it. 

 

 

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Chalkboard Desk

This is a desk that I found at a thrift sale. I thought it was so cool, I saw the potential right away! Of course I don't have a before picture, but it looked like your typical school desk. We sanded the whole desk including the top so the paint would stick better. We used chalkboard paint for the top and spray painted the rest of the desk and the stool with spray paint, I think the color was candy apple. I think the chalkboard top is cute and would be fun in a kids play room or a craft room.

 

 

 

 

 

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First Furniture Redo

My friend Jenni wanted a table in her living room redone. She has a couch table and that is the first thing you see when you look in her living room. Her house is an open concept, so she wanted to tie her kitchen and living room together. To check out to see what her rooms look like you can visit her blog diydomesticdivaintraining

 She just moved into her house about 6 months ago and she has before and after pictures of her house. She has a beautiful home and some really neat decorating ideas.

This is her living room and what the table looked like before.

                                      

And this is her kitchen, we used the color of her kitchen as the inspiration for her table. So it would tie in the kitchen and the living room.

We painted it a mustard yellow color and distressed it just a little bit. It's amazing how different the table looks to me just by painting it. I hope Jenni likes it.

Green Table

 

Here is a little table we redid. It was one I got at a thrift sale. We wanted to do some fun colors that were a little more loud, and this is what we came up with. I am totally in love with this green! I hope to find some more fun pieces to redo in this color. We left the drawer wood to give a little bit of a contrast and left the original draw pull.

 

 Never be too afraid to go for it and paint something a color you normally wouldn't do. It will give your room a pop of color without over doing it. Plus if you really hate it, you can always repaint it, that is the joy of painting something!

 

 

We worked on a few pieces tonight in pink, can't wait to show all of you when they are done!

 

Vintage Junkies~

 

White Coffee and End Table

 

These tables were our first craigslist find. My mom and I drove about an hour to get these. It was the first snow fall of the year (and might be our last, the way this Wisconsin weather is going) and we found Christmas music on the radio, it was a perfect mini road trip! We also had my 13 month old daughter along, Bailey, that poor girl goes bumming with us all the time. She is always the one that gets stuck with the furniture in the back seat with her. I would love to know what she is thinking when she gets taken on these crazy car rides. 

 

 

 

My mom saw these and knew right away she could make these look beautiful! She painted them white...I think my mom chose from about 10 different colors of white. To me white is white, but not my mom (the woman who owns about 30 different white T-shirts...lol) there are different kinds of white. Well she must have picked the perfect "white" because they look beautiful!

If I had room for these tables I would want to keep them!

 

It took us about an hour to figure out what knobs to get for these pieces, after long, long discussions these are the ones we decided on.

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Shabby Chic

 

 

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the shabby chic look. I probably would decorate my whole house in it if I didn't like a billion other things. So we had to do a shabby chic piece! We painted it mint green and a soft pink. We also gave it that distressed look of course, that goes hand in hand with shabby chic.  I don't remember where we got the piece, we are getting so many it is getting hard to remember. It originally had a wooden knob for it so we changed that out to a cute flower knob, my mom wasn't sold on the knob, but I loved it and said it had to stay. I think it makes the night stand.

 

 

 

 

 

My best friend, Jenni bought this piece for her little girl's room, Ellie. It looks really cute in there with her floral quilt that my mom made for her.

Plus Jenni always does a great job decorating so it fit right in her decor she had for Ellie's room.

 

 

 

Vintage Junkies~