If you have Instagram and like Vintage textiles follow my Instagram shop @woollypetalsvintage. I am having my first sale Friday Night, April 19th at 7:30pm.
Oh and don’t forget to check out my Dinosaur Tutorial and leave a comment for the giveaway! I will be announcing a winner this weekend.
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It’s been pretty sparse around here lately. The blog that is. I feel like I have been working my butt off on projects though. Stuff I am not ready to share yet as most of it needs tweeking and finishing.
But I walked around the house taking stock after Luke went down for his nap and thought I would share a couple snips of what I have been working on/ prepping for.
Prepping for a Vintage Trunk Pop up Holiday Shop! Details coming soon.
Part of our advent calendar display.
Prepping layout for Luke’s floor train table.
Working on making my shipping/wrapping area extra fun and nice since it’s in my dark basement laundry/storage room.
Making a seed stitch cowl, one skein down, two more to go.
We bit the bullet and bought a closet system from IKEA for our bedroom that has seriously inadequate closet space. Still have to trim them out so they look built in. Oh yeah and that’s my rarely made bed in the background. ;)
Lastly I FINALLY found the perfect fabrics for the Living room that where in stock and on sale. Jackpot. I can’t wait to get these and get started.
Yep, so lots of stuff happening along with the other day to day schedule. You know feeding Luke and such. ;)
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It’s Friday and I am actually on time and joining in the Instagram fun. It has been a long couple of weeks and I am tired. In a good way. I have just had a lot of projects that are not share worthy, at least yet. But enough about that. Here’s a little of what we’ve been up to lately.
bath time is always fun for this guy /thrifting luck / sick boy
custom owls/ daddy and chicken luke / Construction Luke – he calls himself Thomas when he puts on that hat
falling backwards on the sofa is too fun / posing? future model? lol / building with daddy
finished the base for my December daily album – I will finish it this year / Luke’s b-day gift came, he wanted to open it /silly boy
Luke got a new coat / riding the escalator with daddy / I finished one dining room chair makeover
“washing dishes” / my new bulldog earrings, LOVE / Eskimo Luke
Linking up with Jeanett from Life Rearranged for her InstaFriday. Check out all the other lovely ladies.
The Dinosaur Tutorial is coming up this weekend. Sorry it’s taking longer than expected to edit. :)
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A couple weekends ago I painted my living room white.
The below photo is the best before picture I could find. This gray/beige is Toasty Gray by Glidden.
And back to some white…
It all started when I did my picture wall. I loved the white, the contrast, the brightness. I also noticed most of the rooms I have been pinning to pinterest have white walls. Don’t get me wrong, I like the previous color. I was just ready for a change and paint is the cheapest thing to do and change back if I hated it. But I don’t, I love it. :)
I made this large 3 painting by painting right over a thrifted canvas. I also made the garland for A Beautiful Mess tutorial from a couple years ago.
This is my shelving unit I made to look similar to this Restoration Hardware one. It houses my vintage brownie camera collection, some of my globes, and Luke’s toys among other thing.
I hung some vintage wire shade frames and installed a frosted globe pendant in the large one in the center that is hooked to the light switch for extra light. I also brought in this old ladder since I painted to hang quilts on or maybe Christmas stockings. The chair was found at goodwill and I started to take it apart to attempt a reupholster myself. But I think we are just going to have it done. I am on the hunt for the perfect fabric.
This picture is taken with me sitting on the back of the gold chair under the lampshades. The beige wall I haven’t painted yet because it goes all the way up the stairs and the ceiling is high up there. I am now contemplating making that a wood wall like the picture wall. I would probably have someone else do it though. And then you can see into the dining room from here too. Our floor plan is basically a traditional foursquare.
My favorite seat in the house. I found this seatee for $60 at an estate sale about 7 years ago and it has held up beautifully. That wall above the sofa still need something, I am not really feeling the picture we had up there before the paint.
The sofa is getting slipcovered in charcoal gray, I found the sofa on craigslist and purchased it knowing it would be slipcovered. I have the fabric swatch that I think is perfect, I just need to launder it to see how it holds up. I am also going to slipcover the mini wingback chair my mom found for Luke. So yeah it’s not perfect, and I don’t think we have bought anything new in here. But Sarah from Handbags*N*Pigtails encouraged me to share it now, before I felt it was “finished”. :)
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So… Yes, I had a Flea Market Booth and I sold lots of stuff. But I also bought a few things! ;) So I thought I would share with you guys!
I found some truly fantastic stuff! Several feed sacks, some of which are bright yellow (already working on a project with these), a lovely vintage quilt top for $10 (It is in rough shape so I will be cutting it up), some fun quilt blocks, an awesome suitcase, some mini glass ornaments, a giant world map, new england ginger ale label, a playskool wooden mailbox, the cool canvas is hand written and I LOVE it, a and can you even handle the christmas tin? I couldn’t and for $1 I HAD to buy it.
Yes, I may have too much fun at Flea Markets! My favorite score to date is a vintage USA pull down map in the yummiest of colors. You may have caught a glimpse of it in various home pictures. It cost me a whopping $6. Have you ever scored big or found one of your favorite treasures at a flea market?
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My Mom and I participated in our first Flea Market this weekend! It was awesome. This is our booth. Vintage Trunk, my mom came up with the name. We had such a blast, preparing and setting up the booth. It is so much fun to be validated by selling vintage you find to someone else. LOVE IT. I will hopefully be doing a little etsy sale of some vintage in my currently closed woollypetalsvintage. So stayed tuned. In the meantime take a walk around our booth.
The check out area. I sketched our logo I designed onto a chalkboard for a booth sign.
Some furniture and toys.
This was a fun display of linens and kitchen utensils.
The school and travel stuff. Every one of those globes sold. And some of the luggage too.
Christmas, not as popular as we expected but we’ve still got a bit of time before the Season starts.
Some trays, lampshades, art, and fun mid century lamp, and some embroidery I did.
Some embroidery pieces will be making there way into the shop.
Lots of dishes and randoms things.
Graters, sifters, and games. Oh My!
Thermos’ and bundt tins.
Some vintage fabric garlands.
And back to the sign and the checkout spot.
We participated in The Pec Thing in Pecatonica, IL. It is a good sized show and had record attendance this weekend. If you are ever in or around Rockford (closest big city) in September or May you must attend.
We have a lot to learn, but we had a blast and did super well. I can NOT wait for the spring show. Now I get to shop some more. ;)
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This week and last week I have been prepping for my first Flea Market.I have a booth with my mom. I am excited, nervous, and I am sure will be exhausted after the weekend.
So this week may be a little light on posts, but I will be sure to post pictures of our booth next week. I will be taking some handmade items too, and I am contemplating a pop up shop for left over vintage after the flea.
In the meantime, here’s a bunch of the stuff before pricing. Pardon the blurry pictures these are all taken with my phone.
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So I finally jumped in and tackled my gallery wall! I am rather smitten. It turned out better than I expected and was really quite simple, at least thanks to Sausha from Sweet Pickins post about how she tackled a wood wall in her kitchen.
Okay let’s start at the beginning. My old wall, missing a couple pictures. I knew I wanted a change, not to mention we needed to add new pictures of Luke and other family. I had been tossing around the idea of a white plank wall for awhile but thought it would be to expensive, and typical pine wood planks are almost an 1″ thick which I didn’t like. But once I saw Sausha’s post I set out to tackle this wall.
A few in process pictures. I had a helper picking up my wood. I had Home Depot cut my 8′ x 4′ strips into 2′ x 8′ strips. My husband and I then use a table saw to slice them down to just under 6″. They are by no means perfect, but I think that you probably can’t tell and if so it adds to the charm. Then I just attached them to the wall with my non compressor battery operated nail gun. I admittedly had to use a hammer to help some of the nail gun nails in.
Hanging the frames….
I had all the frames as seen in the before picture. But I have been looking at thrift stores and found the three washed wood, and then painted a third teal one. I just put pictures in the frames based on size of picture matched to frame size, but not there orientation on the wall.
I don’t have any in process pictures of hanging the pictures, but I basically do a rough layout in front of the wall, and then start in the middle and work my way out in a spiral. I judge everything from eyesight only, but I have done walls for clients in the past where I am more precise and measure everything out. I like this way a tiny bit better for my own home, plus it’s easier, which is good.
I cut the arrows out several weeks ago with my jigsaw not knowing where I would hang them. But once I started the wall project I knew they would fit in perfectly, they are painted a neon yellow with grey on top, then sanded down so the yellow pops through.
I stitched up this little smile embroidery and covered the hoop with vintage fabric, to add a little whimsy to the wall.
Like I said, I am smitten!
Have you ever done a wood wall or gallery wall? I would love to see it if you have.
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Sharing my instagrams with you all today and linking up with Jeanett from liferearranged. Stop by her blog to check out all the fun blogs.
Luke is taken with putting his hands in his pockets lately / Watching a Choo Choo at the park / Cooking his apple?!?!
Finished Superhero Capes to be listed in the shop this weekend / Swing / Lukes $1.99 cozy coupe from Goodwill
Working on some crinkle owls for the shop, this guy made me laugh / Splash park / Snack time – popcorn
He is learning to climb more at the park, yikes! / run-walk with a couple park breaks / I finally lowered his crib the last notch, then we played catch with his animals
I found something with my name spelled correctly. I have no clue what I will do with it but I had to buy it. / Me and my boy this week / Um yeah, it’s been a Fantastic thrifting week, all this plus more including about 8 yards of vintage fabric for $4 – I’m feeling lucky! ;)
I am woollypetals on Instagram if you want to find me. :) This is basically what I share, and how I document our days. It’s fun!
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Welcome to my Family room and sewing space. It’s been coming along slowly but surely. I had a painting party in it last night with some lovely ladies and so it was super cleaned up and I thought this would be the perfect time to share it in it’s current state.
The above picture is peeking over the stairwell coming down. If you where to go to the right at the bottom you would hit the play area as I posted about awhile back. Also the laundry room which I will not be sharing is that direction too. :)
This is the living space. I recently acquired these amazing yellow chairs for $10 each at my local Goodwill. Some of you may have seen them before on Instagram when I totally geeked out about finding and buying them. They work so perfectly down here. I wasn’t sure the yellow would work since it’s bright, but it does and if I ever decide I can have them reupholstered in the future. Did you notice the AWESOME rug I found at Homegoods the other day? I Love it so much, and bam it was only $50.
We have a Ginormous tv down here on “loan” from some amazing friends. Its our movie tv, I am hoping to find a cool old dresser to put it on so I can have more hidden storage. :) The above view is looking from my desk the stairs are up to the right.
My slowly growing stack of suitcase. Yes I do store things in them. Our house was built in the 50′s with very few closets, so I have to get creative with storage. :)
This is looking back at the stairs and the play area beyond. The sofa is the the right with the sewing room behind. You may notice my snap frame got moved down here from upstairs. It matches the chairs perfectly.
Okay swinging back around to see the sofa in it’s half slip covered state. (need to buy more fabric) You can look back to see my whole sewing space. That door leads to an outdoor stairwell.
The view straight back from the tv. We are contemplating hanging curtains behind the sofa so we can close off the sewing room space when it’s messy, which is 90% of the time. :)
My sewing space. It is so much better than my weirdly shaped bedroom (which is currently Lukes room) which works so much better as a bedroom rather than a sewing space. I found this china hutch to use as storage. I would like to paint it but it’s heavy and huge, so not sure that’s going to happen anytime soon. The table has leaves that drop down if I need them to. The white table to the right is one I made for my old sewing space and transfered here. My sewing machines live here. If you turn to the right of the table above you hit this shelf and closet below.
The closet has lots of not super pretty craft supplies in it, and the shelves hold lots of books, magazines, and treasures.
If you stand in the corner by the closet you can look out onto the whole space. These short bookcases back the sofa and hold scrap baskets and all my current projects in baskets. I was setting up for my paint party before these photos so that is whats on the table. I will be sharing the fun party soon. Also do you see that gloriously beautiful sewing machine on the white table on the left? It’s my birthday/Christmas2012 present. I will be posting about it soon too. But I just got it last week on my birthday and it is AMAZING!
This is my little desk are where all the blogging happens, or lack there of. ;) I found that desk in the trash. Yep, and it’s awesome. Little hutch and all. My little collection of chairs hangs above my desk, they make me happy.
So that’s it, basically. There are lots of things I see and want to change, but I am trying to go slower, so I can save money and make sure it is what I want instead of jumping in and not 100% loving it. If you want to know any details just ask. I am more than happy to oblige. Oh and if your ever in my area let me know I would love to have you over to craft.
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