2nd Time Around: Vintage Cross Stitch

 

 

 

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I’m always attracted to vintage cross stitch pictures when shopping estate sales, garage sales, etc. This one in this photo was really cheap…and even though I don’t have a chicken theme in my home, I bought it for one of my antique booths. I think I may actually have the book with the directions for this piece somewhere! I loved doing cross stitch at one time, and hopefully these vintage cross stitch pictures will one day be appreciated again! This one is still at the antique mall among other ‘chicken’ related items waiting for just the right person to come along! One thing I’ve learned through all this is that you never know what someone else will like, and just when you’ve about given up on something it sells, so even though it hasn’t sold yet, I still have hope that it will!

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2nd Time Around: Thanksgiving

 

 

 

 

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Hope all of you will have a wonderful Thanksgiving! We celebrated early with my family at my aunts house, and will have a simple Thanksgiving at home with a few family members on Thursday. I went by my booth at the Flea Market and Antiques today and was going to get the turkey platter you see in this photo to bring home and use this year. But when I got there it had sold! No complaints….I have plenty of more serving dishes, and I made a great profit on it. LOL

The turkey pillow was one of a pair, so one of them has sold. I wonder if anyone will buy the salt and pepper shakers or the wooden turkey? Guess I’ll find out after Thanksgiving!

I have been selling lots of serving type dishes this time of the year! Do any of you have new serving dishes? Hope you all have a wonderful holiday!

 

2nd Time Around: New to Me Shelf

 

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I purchased this shelf from a vendor that has a booth near me at the Flea Market. She bought it on the Longest Yard Sale back in August. She let me bring it home to see if it would fit above my range in the kitchen, but it didn’t. I liked it too much to take it back to her, so now it’s in the dining room. Not really sure what I’ll end up doing with it, and it may stay right there, but either way I really like it!

 

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2nd Time Around: New Paint for a Plain China Cabinet

 

 

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This  cabinet once belonged to a friends mother, and after she passed away was unwanted by the family members. It was an ugly French Provincial style from the sixties or seventies, and was nothing to look at.

The china cabinet has been given a new lease on life with a coat of black paint, and unique hardware made of vintage jewelry and jute! The cabinet is in the home my friend’s daughter, and is a beautiful focal point in their family room.  I love how the black paint makes her bright pieces of pottery pop!

Close up of the ‘new’ hardware!

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2nd Time Around: Mantel Mirror

 

 

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Thought I would share with all of you an early Christmas present I bought my daughter at the antique mall where I have a booth. This is part of an old mantel that has been painted and distressed. It looks great above her mantel against the stone fireplace. She decorated it for fall Saturday when we put it up there, but soon it will be ready to decorate for Christmas! Maybe I’ll feature it again then. Later, it will need to have a wire across the back so it can be hung, and not have to lean against the wall, but we were anxious to get it in place! 

 

 

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