Our busiest Spring sale ever!

This is my 3rd year at our sweet little barn at On A Whim. I love our big sales, we have 3 every year but the Spring one is my favorite! Everyone is looking for awesome furniture to decorate or re-decorate their homes and beach houses. I have been very busy finding, scrubbing, painting and loading up not one but both our trailers!

We went to the shop on Wednesday to drop off one trailer and Friday to bring more in the other one. We were met with a whole lot of purchases by one customer that had to be delivered so.....we filled up one, took it home and Sunday filled up the other for her!

Well needless to say both trailers are now empty and so is our barn! I'm back to looking for more stuff to paint. Our garage is getting pretty empty too.

Ok, this is my back yard!!!!

That's the big tent from Home Dept we paint in. We're getting ready for a trip to the shop.

I brush painted this little chest with Annie Sloan's Old White then waxed it.  This was the first finished piece using the paint and wax from Annie Sloan. It turned out really nice but I had forgotten how time consuming brush painting was! {I'm a sprayer}
 

That's our big, full garage in the background.

 Ok this is a before and after shoot. This awesome 2 piece cabinet looked like this when I got it.

 And like this when finished! The doors on the top had awful plastic panels which I replaced with chicken wire, sanded and primed then painted with a light blue Oops paint from Home Depot then distressed. I'm not great at taking close up pictures but it turned out great!

Here's what I've been doing!

Sweet little burlap sacks with numbers stamped onto small rings filled with awesome silk florals.

These are so cute for Spring. All of these are at Bay Country Crafters in Millersville Md. Located in the historic Baldwin Hall building. The show will be running through Sunday.

These bags have a piece of osnaburg stitched on the front with a sweet little birdie stamped on.

I found these stamps at AC Moore, they're the clear ones that you stick onto a clear block. I also used a staz on permanent stamp pad. They're nice and dark and permanent.

I took the glass out of some of my old window panes and painted them aqua then added a twiggy wreath with a small amount of florals.

The picture doesn't do justice for this little sign! I took an old cupboard door insert and dry brushed it white, rubbed some candle wax here and there, painted it aqua then scrapped it with a plastic paint scrapper to reveal the colors underneath. I then stamped beach cottage with the same type of clear stamps. I think the size is 2" but not sure.

My newest finds for the shop

 This secret compartment desk/table turned out great, a very light spring green, it had been an ugly tan antiqued color from the 70's!

 This dresser is a solid heavy maple chest on chest that I primed white then my favorite, aqua color.

I found this little mahogany nightstand at my thrift store, gave it a couple of coats of creamy white and voila!

 I got this little gem at an estate sale last weekend! No paint needed here!