Wine Rack

 Weather is getting warmer and I will apologize in advance for lack of posts.  I have no idea why we even own a house in the summer months because we are never in it.  I make chips and salsa for supper 3 days a week and for a special night we get pizza..... yes I know that's not good but when our days get longer we try to squeeze so much into them that eating and cooking has no room in our schedule.  

Painting does fit into my schedule but taking the pictures.... not so much.  So again I will do my best to keep this blog current with some items to show you what I'm up to.  

However there will be lots that you won't see until July when my sister-in-law and I have our annual Jazzed Up Junk Sale.  Somethings are just worth the wait.  

Here was the wine rack before paint.

It's painted in a great grey color with white edges.  

I am the fruit snack Grandma so of course I have a jar full of them for every visit.  This is a jar I showed from my weekly finds and the trivet it's sitting on is also a weekly find.  

The wine rack is distressed because I am a distress lover..... everything needs to be distressed in my world.  

Oh you noticed the empty wine bottles..... yeah I don't drink wine so finding bottles to fill this rack was a bit difficult and all I had was empty bottles.  

And the full ones...... them is OLD..... and were probably given to us.  

The edges of the wine rack are painted in white.  I am loving grey and white together and for this item it just worked.  

Did you need another before and after?  

Okay here it is.  

Later....

Weekly Finds 4-17-16

We just had a fantastic weekend with unbelievable warm temperatures for April.  We've all been waiting for these days and they are finally here.  I'm sure we will get some cool days again but we sucked up the sun as much as we could for now.  Kayaking season has begun..... and so has garage sale season.  

Let's get to the weekly finds.  This tools box was a nice size and in good shape.  

Someone took lots of time to make this divider frame for the inside.  So far I can't think of what would possibly go in those grids but the whole thing is removable in one piece.

I loved this flour container, perfect cottage look for up north.  A little cleaning and this has found a new home on my cabinet at the cottage.  

Flower hangers

A funny looking lantern.  

Wood and metal candle cup holder. 

A old liquor bottle

The label was peeled off just the way I liked it.

Perfect vase

I love these sugar jars as vases as well.  

I like them painted but until then I couldn't wait and had to put one of the daffodils in it.  

A nice frame - love, love, love all that detail.... color, not so much.

Can't you see this basket used as a planter for the patio?  

A brass bowl.

With a hammered finish

John came with Gayle and I on Saturday and he scored this tray.  Which was a great way to make him happy as we junk shopped. 

Skelton keys.

Later.....

weekly finds

A couple items from last week came home with me.  I'm not usually in the market for flower pots since I have so many already but this one caught my eye from across the store.  

Beautifully cracked WHITE paint, old pottery and in great shape.  One of my plants this summer will look stunning in this pot, and for under $1 makes it even more perfect.

My mom had polka dot glasses like these so when I seen these polka dots in drinking glasses I had to have them.  Mom's were tall and narrow at the bottom like a ice cream glass but these will make perfect vases for those summer flowers.

The dots are etched into the glass.

This wood drawer box thing was kinda fun.  

And very gross.  I'm not sure where some people have this stuff before bringing it to the store but it's kinda disgusting to think about what some of this dirt might be.  

Wash hands after touching..... kinda finds.  Hand sanitizer comes in handy for these finds.

Last I found this table.

Good solid table with someone's art project written on top.

Not to worry that mess will be gone soon.  I'm thinking some changes need to happen to the construction on the table too so Mr Hemmer will need to put his happy eyes in and come on out and help me.  

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Painted Treasures

I've painted a lot of my weekly finds but just haven't found the time to photograph them.  

Candlesticks before

Candle sticks after

Wood bowls before

Wood Bowls after

Shelf before

Shelf after

Tonight as I blog this post our hearts are heavy as God opens up his gates and lets my niece by marriage into his kingdom.  She leaves behind my nephew and their 3 young children.  Her daughter at the age of 6 says to my sister "My momma is going to be an angel" Yes honey she is, and she will be a great angel.  So as my mom is meeting her in heaven and I'm sure sewing her up a set of beautiful pink wings we comfort ourselves with memories of her laughter, her fight, her days when she wasn't sick, her love for everyone and the joy she brought her family.  It's hard to say good bye but it was harder for her to leave her family.  

Later.....

Weekly Finds - 4/3/16

Our local second hand store had an April Fools 50% off sale this Friday so I forced myself to not visit the store until Friday.  Whatever I missed during the week I was fine with, I have too many projects in the garage that I'm working on anyway.  

Well Friday came and work was crazy all week so Subway for lunch with my best girlfriends...... that's okay I can go after work...... Management decided drinks after work was neccesary due to the week we had....... so Budweiser 55 and Coors Light were in the cooler and ready to end this horrible work week.  

I still made it to the store with plenty of time to make my usual pattern down the isles.  

I've had my eye on this wine bottle holder for a few weeks, half off it was mine.

Here it is without bottles.

The gal just set these out a couple minutes before I strolled through.  

That's all I got.  Even with a few beers in me and I didn't buy much.

Then we went up north and Saturday after a burger and a few more beers I talked John into stopping at the second hand store.  

I found another lantern.....

And a metal box with some fun details.  

The painting would be good already if I liked GOLD.   I'm not a gold fan

Later.....