October Flea Items

Since I started this Neighborhood Flea vendor thing, I have been a terrible blogger.  I had big dreams of having a bunch of individual posts about the items that I made for the Fleas but alas that is not materializing. So I decided to just show you everything in one post and hope you still find me attractive to visit!

Black and white linen look dresser

Child's Drafting table turned faux inlaid wood serving table

record stand turned kitchen storage or…..

mini bar!

 Old window idea! Fireplace screen with changeable picture via chalkboard paint

I thought marshmallows would be fun to add but it sure takes forever for them to roast….

My corally pink chair in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month. I need to get my mammogram!

Ridiculously large storage trunk, it just needed a REALLY good scrubbing to remove the glue or some kind of adhesive that had spilled all over it. Then I used olive oil to give it a nice shine. The stuff works great for this type of thing!

Another faux inlaid wood folding card table

Remember this used to be blue???? White is what got it sold!

OK more old window ideas…. make one pane chalkboard paint, one cork board and paint on the BACK of the third for a white board. These sold out fast!

Industrial bicycle wheel photo display

And I couldn't help but leave you with my Tessa and her cute modeling grin! Can you tell Jake was not into modeling this day?

So there you have it. 

I am currently trying to get some pics together of the before of the shop so you can admire all of it's paneled goodness! 

Oh, also, anyone have any ideas why my camera might be taking worse and worse photos? I have Canon Power shot SX20 IS and it just seems to need more natural light and more natural light to take an ok picture. It is about 5 years old so maybe I just need a new camera…..

Always being renewed,

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Do you feel a draft?

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As we have been cleaning out the house we bought to flip, we have been blessed with loads of goodies. The house was left pretty packed full. I nabbed this child's drafting table and decided to give it a new life as an occasional table. 

Now before I came up with this idea I thought it would be all cool to do this…

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Not sure I'm loving the gold....yes or no

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until saw the error of my ways…fatal mistakes we do make on occasion. 

Can you say bad Chinese art??? 

Back to the drawing board.

So after I gave it another even more vigorous sanding I

 taped off my lines where I wanted to stain. I was going for a faux inlaid wood look.  Now I am going to let you in on a little secret about how to get this look with stain. You need to use an X-Acto knife and score along the taped edge and then use a credit card to really seal the edge. When you think it is sealed well, do it again just to be sure. 

Use wood conditioner on the areas to be stained and then stain it the colors that you want.

Once dry I gave it two coats of Polycrylic and off to the Flea she went.  The nice thing about drafting tables is they fold up so compact as you can see in the above photos. So you can pull it out when you need it for extra serving space or a little backyard bistro table and then it stores in only about 5 inches of space and looks pretty while doing it! Plus I love that it has a little industrial edge to it. You know I likes me a cocktail of wood and metal!

I am happy to say it found a home pretty quick and now I am slightly addicted to these folding tables!

I found another folding table, not a drafting but still awesome, at the thrift store and am working on another faux inlaid look for ya'!

Would you use a drafting table as anything other than to draft?

What kind of tables do you use to add extra space when needed?

Please tell, I might need to gets me some!

Always being renewed,

Please see the link party page to see where I link arms with those blissfully beautiful bloggers that host every week. So gracious they are along with these other sweet ladies!

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