pickin' and grinnin'- the best of this weekend's vintage shopping

It's been a while since I have posted some of my great picks... but "good" shopping has been light on the ground lately. This week was different and awesome! It is mostly headed to my Etsy pop-up shop at Hanna Antiques! More images on that to come from the shop!

From this week's shopping, I found, this fantastic unsigned painting- looks like Chinatown, maybe? Love the more you look, the more you see. It is on natural linen and looks quite old and more vibrant in person. I think I may live with this one for a bit while I do some more research.

Some fantastic house details from one of the sales this weekend. Really lovely home built in 1905 with period lighting and original tile coal fireplaces.

side door to the screened in porch

Wowza of an art deco half tester bed

I'd buy the house for this tile work alone!

And possibly for the fantastic brass sconces!

This image is from the Multiple Listings for the house- which I understand is sold.*

This is the other end of that glorious staircase! *

Front of the house... I think a porte cochere, on the right, would balance this view nicely. *

*I do not own these images that contain the copyright of RealtySouth. All rights belong to RealtySouth.

Picking this weekend- the big art show

There were so many good sales this weekend with great art. The sale I purchased the most from was the Estate of Barbara Evans. I have known of her work for many years and from the article in the Birmingham News in 2008, she lived a life as colorful as her art. These paintings span her trips to Europe and the High Sierras.

I am excited to own this collection! I think I might keep at least one of the six pieces I purchased... but how to pick just one!

The Furniture Flipper- my new moniker

I have decided to take on a sobriquet... a moniker for the pedantic. Though admittedly sobriquet does sounds fancier. I will be known as the Furniture Flipper! To be used in a sentence like, "The Furniture Flipper strikes again!" referring to a recent jaunt to a thrifty shop, estate sale, of when presented with a particularly good refinish furniture piece, which I refinished!

This has been a Furniture Flipping weekend! Here are some previous finds and some "in process" pieces. Um, yeah. I like chairs! What can I say... they fit in my car easily!

This guy will be re-upholstered in to a peacock of a chair.

This vintage lovely is for a client, it will be living in the pink and orange condo!

This one will need some special love, however,I realized while editing the images that is has the same lines on the turned wood pieces as the set of dining room chairs I am working on. (see below)

 

 Before chair, during chair and some details. ( I will be blogging on the project on Monday with all the details!)

 

Etsy Team: Gallery EMW

One of the great things about etsy, beside the ability to run your own online and international business and all that entails, is things like "teams". I am on a few teams, one of the most active is the Alabama Accents. We are currently promoting each other businesses each day.

Today, we are celebrating www.galleryEMW.etsy.com! Melissa creates great personal accessories  and artwork. You can click HERE to find her shop.

Here is a collection of her art!

Chandelier project

My Sunday project this week was a chandelier shipped with the wrong finish. Below is a before and after of the finish. The chandelier needed a creamy white finish with just a little rust showing through. It came with a lot of rust and a little white showing.
So with liquitex in white, yellow orche and phthalo blue
liquitex medium
water
a wide brush
a  few sea sponges
This finish was created!

I started by mixing the white and blue and medium in a 1:1:1 ratio and lightly sponging the chandelier in about 30 spots generally over the surface
Then I mixed white, yellow ochre and medium in a 10:1:10 ratio (in otherword very little ochre) to slightly tint the white to a warm white. This I thinned with water and sponged the entire surface intentionally leaving some of the rust in the veining and on the bottoms on the curves- where water would normally stay longer.
Lastly, I mixed the white and the medium in a 1:1 ratio and lighting went back over the peice to add some highlights.
The project took about 2 hours to do, 2 hours in my head for planning!

Here is the before and after... what I'm not showing is my manicure- that is a sad tale which will end in polish remover and more polish. There is no recovery when acrylic paint meets nail polish!