Weekend Treasures

Hey kids!  It is hot... very hot!  I love living in the South, but if we do ever relocate it will be much closer to water.   Due to the heat, I have been only getting in minimal vintage trouble.  We went out to the booth on Friday to fill and fluff just in case we don't get out there this week.... have I mentioned a party... maybe a few hundred times.  So here are a few fluffing photos....

We took out the Collette buffet... I already miss seeing her prettiness....

I did a restyle on these nesting tables... no before photos, but they were dark brown lacquer...

I glammed up this once gold mirror with what is becoming my signature blue (that sounds kind of snobby, but I do use it a lot!) and some silver leaf in the corners....now I am thinking that maybe I should have kept it... it would be pretty in my doily inspired powder room....

 And I managed to finish this lamp with a burlap shade just in time to replace a hanging shade that sold.

Then, on Saturday, we went to a yard sale that we had been stalking all week....she had some great stuff! I found another medicine chest to restyle for the booth but here is the main reason I went....

She had put a photo of these vintage mercury glass like sconces on Craigslist and I made us all get up pretty early to get to this sale.  Well, when we drove up people were swarming around her house and I just knew they would be sold.  Well, I saw them on a table and snatched them immediately with my cat like reflexes.  How could anyone pass these up?  They will be on our bedroom wall very, very soon!

Then, we went to an antique store that we rarely go to (it has a weird, funky smell) and I found this little gem...

Isn't it adorable?  It will most likely go in baby hughes' pirate bathroom.  Mr. Hughes is going to find a way for it to stand up.  I would put it in his bedroom, but the monster wants to play with the "booot" and the sails are pretty old and kind dusty. Maybe it won't be as tempting if it is in his bathroom.

Both of these finds are mine all mine!

Well, I am off to work where I will inevitably be wondering all day if I need to rush home and make some more pom poms... these things may have to go up early so I can get a scope of how many I have...

bye for now!

Dearest Mr. Hughes,  I would like to give you proper credit for snatching up the mercury glass sconces with YOUR cat like reflexes.  And, I would also like to thank you for listening well enough to know that they were the ONE thing I had to have from that sale.  You are perfection in a bowl.