Please Join Me

Happy Saturday!  I don't normally get a chance to post on Saturdays, but we are having a pretty lazy Saturday here at the Hughes Casa.  I baked a pie ( I am going to try to keep my hands off!)  I wanted to let you guys in on a fun little blog series that Heather at Blessed Little Nest is hosting next week.  She has invited me and a bunch of talented bloggers to contribute posts and some giveaways... I will be doing both!  So scoot on over there and sign up for the giveaway that she is doing now to kickoff the week long festivities.

Oh, and there is still time to enter my giveaway here.  

bye for now... enjoy your weekend!

Open for Business at The Roost + a Giveaway

Well ladies and a few gentleman, Vintage Junky is open for business!  My tiny little booth in The Roost is jammed full of stuff!  We crammed my mom's SUV full. And, unbelievably, I only came home with one small box of stuff that didn't fit.  We worked for a few hours to get everything just right.  I actually made sales of a few cuckoo clocks while I was unpacking.  Everything went pretty smoothly, with the exception of a few things... I broke another vendor's vase (I paid for it) a light bulb fell out and smashed on the floor, and Mr. Hughes had a swell time trying to get the shelf out of the top of the closet the booth is in.  We came prepared with a plan and a toolbox and everything priced beforehand.  So, without further ado... here is my booth!

I told you it was tiny.... and FULL!  Mr. Hughes made my sign.

My little display cabinet has already sold :(  I really loved it! Oh well, I can't keep it all...

This little medicine cabinet sold as well... this is something that I got a lot of response from when I made one for our laundry room, so I decided to make one for the booth.  And, in the background, the Jacqueline (named after my mom) 3 drawer chest that I worked on... I love the way it turned out.  I wish I had a photo of it by itself.

A Louis  (the Lulu!) chair with some stenciled pillows

The booth needed some light so I covered a naked lampshade with a coffee sack slipcover shade.

Some vintage flower pins

This is one of the items that I have been wanting to do for awhile.  Mr. Hughes helped, of course.  The little shield shapes have pegs that are made out of vintage organ pulls.  I love them!  I need to make some for myself and for my etsy shop.  Oh, and the background is blown up pages from a 1920s French Dry Goods Catalog.

These candles make the booth smell so yummy and they are wrapped in reproduction vintage French candle labels.

I love top hats and they made the perfect display for my new screen printed towels.  I am glad that the screen I had burned about 6 months ago is finally being used!

A few of the vintage items in the booth

We found a couple of concession trays from a ballpark that make excellent shelves.

And a cute little magnet board with button magnets

And, here I am afterwards... sweaty, tired, and very excited!

That was Friday.  Then, on Saturday I went to meet with a lady who owns a shop in downtown Franklin and she is going to carry some of my pillows and bags!  So, a very exciting weekend for me.

I want to thank you all for all your support of this blog and my little shop dreams.  So, to thank you, I would like to do a little giveaway this week...

This vintage grain sack bag with a silhouette of a lady and a vintage flower pin

A cuckoo clock flour sack towel

and

A little notebook covered with vintage calling cards

All of these items will be added to my etsy shop very soon, but I thought a chance to win them before they are listed would be fun!

So, here is what you can do to win

1. Leave me a comment on this post
2. If you are a follower, be sure you let me know and I will enter you twice.
3. If you want to blog or tweet about it, let me know about that too and I will add you an extra time for each one.

I will draw the winner this Sunday and announce the winner on Monday

 Oh, and if you want to visit my booth at The Roost, here is the address

7307 Nolensville Road
Nolensville, Tennessee 37135

Be sure to visit Three French Hens next door!

Thinking Out Loud

I have so much stuff going through my mind right now.  Like, on the way to work, I decided that all of David Gray's songs have that crazy euphoric feeling of just falling in love... even the sadder ones.  He bottles up that great feeling and belts it out.  Love him!  I also love them though....

Very different, no?

And, I have been thinking about style and myself and how I really don't know exactly where I fit in.  I know what I like, but I like vastly different things. Is this a midlife design crisis?  I hope this isn't my midlife... I am only 31 and I have plans to either be a really sweet old grandma gardener or plans to be a really
mischievous one that says inappropriate things.  

Okay here is a few examples of what I am talking about:

Part of me is this... classic, neutral, still stylish.

 And, the other part of me is more like this:

Bright, fun... pair with some vintage jeans and a cute sandal.

 

 And it obviously doesn't stop there...

via Domino

This living room is perfection.... but, so is this one

  Found Here

 So fabulously vintage.  Both of them. And, here is one that I have adored for quite some time...

via Domino

here are a few others from someone who has it right: Lauren at Pure Style Home

 She graciously let me borrow some photos...

 

I am really drawn to the green, of course.  But. also how un-designerish it is.  I mean, she lives here.  And, it is pretty and functional.  With a good amount of vintage.  And, not too much stuff... so well edited.

So, to sum it up.... I like am a dripping crystal chandelier

and a Industrial Pendant

And throw in a coral chandelier as well....

I know we are all a mish mash of ideas and experiences, so I guess I will just live with my classic bohemian vintage natural style.

What are you? What are you drawn to? What style feels *home* to you?

(oh, and Mr. Hughes... if you are reading... I am not redecorating... yet)

We are setting up the booth tomorrow so I hope to be able to share some photos with you very soon.  *Super Excited*

All of you going to Farm Chicks... have a great time... wish I was there!

Recent All- Mine Finds and a Sneak Peak

We went to the Flea Market last weekend and then took a little road trip back to Bell Buckle this weekend.  So, I thought I would show you my All- Mine Finds.  I found a little chair for baby hughes so I can put a #3 on it and put it on our front porch with the mommy and the daddy chair... it is going to get a coat of black paint first though.  That quilt you see looks like it has H's all over it. It is most definitely an antique and was $15.  It is in poor shape... it got a nice long bath today and it is stained and torn... but it will make a bright fun beach/ picnic blanket.  I thought I might be able to use it in the babaroo's room, but it is too far gone.  And, do you see that big canvas bin?  Well, it is something that I have wanted for awhile now.  I saw a stack of 3 on metal stands for $30 a piece...not so bad unless you spent all your flea market money before you got halfway through the flea market.  Oh I pouted over it... then I went to the end of that row and saw this one, unpriced.  I got it for $5!!  So glad I waited.

I have picked up a few of these crown jars and this really cool Atlas one that reminds me of sea glass.  They will be perfect to use as vases for my hydrangeas. So, that is all that I found lately.  

We have been working on projects for the booth.  But, we have been having a good time doing it... I guess it is true what *they* say... If you love what you do, you will never work a day in your life... (Mr. Hughes doesn't like this quote because it is overused... He says for me to take my optimism down to the bank and see if they will cash it...) Pooey on him!!  Well, anyhow, I thought I would show you a small sneak peak of the booth stuff

An awesome violin case painted white that I am going to use for a display

and this is a whole mess of stuff that we have been working on.  Well, the rain as stopped, so I need to go see if it ruined all the stuff that I have been painting... bye for now!

Just Keep Swimming

The title seemed fitting...we are busy, busy, busy! Plus, we have been watching quite a bit of Finding Nemo lately, and Cars, of course.  We got a goldfish recently... I wish I could spell his name.  baby hughes named him.... it kind of sounds like the noise of some taking a bite out of an apple.  I call him Chomp. 

 I am keeping swimming while my head is flooded with *stuff* Booth stuff, etsy stuff, house stuff, 2nd birthday party stuff.  I have so many ideas and plans and not enough time to accomplish them all.  So, I took a break to take some pretty photos of what is happening outside my front door.  The bugs didn't take down my gardenia topiaries... and it is starting to smell like heaven outside my front door (my heaven smells like gardenias and waffle cones and baby with sunscreen with a splash of grapefruit... what does yours smell like?) 

We have been busy this week painting and screenprinting and stenciling stuff for the booth.  I still have to get my big piece painted.... that will have to wait to tomorrow.  Thank goodness for the long weekend!  And, I need to find time to update the etsy shop with some of the new stuff that we have started making. But, that will have to wait until after next Friday.  Plus, I have all the sudden wanted to start working on birthday party stuff for my little guy, we are having a "Whooo's Twooo?" party complete with all kinds of owl stuff... I am wanting to get a the rescue society to come out with some owls, but that might just be too much for the little guy.... not baby hughes.  The owl.  He would probably want to love it to death like Lenny.

Aren't they pretty?  Usually they are pink, but one day I watered them with the same can that I fertilized the gardenias with... and it turned them kind of blue.  It was a nice surprise.  I am glad that it blew up with flowers this year so I don't feel bad for taking a few and putting them in the house.

This is seriously the only pretty part of the house.  Every surface is covered with something.  Toys, projects, the floor is crunching from all the little *accents* that baby hughes has been throwing about.  And, we have a playdate tomorrow, so I need to clean on top of it all.  But, taking a short break just seemed more fun.

Hope you all have a fantabulous weekend!  We will be here, dealing with all the *stuff* and probably have a few beers and margaritas.

Cheers!