Here's what I've been up to! (beside getting rained on!!!)

Last week I went to buy a nice sofa table from Craig's list. Well the couple selling it were moving to Florida so they had several things to get rid of. Needless to say I got some great bargains! I have to say that I have met the coolest people on CL! We ended up with this awesome antique French bedroom set.  It has an huge armoire, dresser with mirror, 2 nightstands and full size bed. We're not sure how to sell it, leave it as is or paint it. These pictures were taken in my seller's home which was awesome too!

Still hard at work ~ A few finished pieces!

I love how this cottage style dresser turned out! It was painted black but a terrible paint job. I sanded and re-painted it with some behr paint & primer in a dark brown then dry brushed the dark teal color over it. I then "roughed it up" real good and viola!

 We now have some room in the garage for finished pieces! The plan is to have some back up stock!

We call this piece "big red". I have had it for almost 3 years in the garage. It need some work and to be sanded and painted. Of course someone had painted it an awful red color- again a horrible paint job! Now it looks pretty good, its made by Drexel and has a beautiful curved glass door and 2 shelves inside.

I got this table at a friends yard sale for $50! Its solid oak and very heavy! I decided to leave the top unpainted since it was in such good shape. I love the look!

Projects that I'll be working on

I have so many things to work on and keep finding new things. I didn't have time to take pictures of the stuff we just picked up at some estate sales this weekend but I will as asap. I'm planning a big vintage tag sale hopefull in a couple of weeks to get rid of some of the things I'll never get around to.

Yes that's my garage back there full as ever! Thats why we want to have a sale!

Lots of new finds again this weekend!

I love summer! Yard sales galore, free stuff in peoples front yards, estate sales....I could go on and on! I have found so many great things I'm bursting at the seams! No time to even paint but I will find time for that as most of my finds are project pieces.

This is an old Amoco oil display shelf thats pretty rough but I plan to clean it as best as I can then put some clear sealer on it. Its cool rusty metal.

This great old red workbench is in great shape and the top is cool too. There are nails, screws and other implements that have been pounded into the top, it adds to its rustic industrial look. It would make a great table.

This is an old metal medical cabinet that I found at a yard sale. It needs to be sanded and repainted since whoever painted it had globs of paint dripping all over the place. Thats why we get these pieces so cheap!

This is a really awesome shelf {?} made from old crates. It could be a bar, store display or counter. I have to paint it, can't stand the horrible dark green on the top! I recently picked up a boatload of these crates from a client's basement. Most are attached to make wall cubbies? Anyway some have old labels on them so I'll try to get them apart and keep some as shelves and cubbies.

I scored 2 of these awesome little red folding chairs from a yard sale. The lady told me that someone had bought them but forgot to take them so I left her my card in case the person didn't come back, well I got a call that night that I could pick them up in the morning! Yeah!

Here's one big stack of the crate-cubbies. They'd make a great store display!