Please go about your business and let's just all pretend that I've been posting projects and recipes and ideas here regularly, okay? That way I can lift my head out of the deep pit of blogger shame I am in.
Agreed? Good.
So. I've been busy going to estate sales (and not listing on etsy or posting here) but I had to share something kind of fun I found recently.
First, my little cottage was built in 1951 (and I wish Chip and JoJo could work a bit of their magic on my kitchen/bathroom/living room/etc.) and my cute (but kinda' dated) kitchen has vintage pine wood paneling along some of the walls. Why am I telling you this and what does it have to do with an estate sale? Well, we went to the cutest little cottage - and it made my house feel like a mansion - on the second day and almost every wonderful bit of vintage fun had been picked over and sold off. But the intrepid Worker Bee and I ventured into the garage which was filled with a lot of junk (as garages tend to do) but for some reason I looked down and found some cut pieces of this same gorgeous pine paneling that we have in our house. (btw, ours is painted white)
I knew I had at last found the perfect piece of wood for a project I've had in the back of my head for many years. Do you ever have something like that happen? Just all of a sudden the pieces fall in place and it's like something you'd totally forgotten about suddenly is solved!
You see, a few years ago, like maybe ten, Worker Bee and I had gone to that gorgeous town of Carmel and I had found these three milagros in a charming little shop.
I bought three of them because we are a little family of 3 (and maybe because I like odd numbers too, but the story sounds better the other way) and I knew I wanted to put them on a piece of wood, but I knew I wanted the wood to have some character to it.
You can just imagine the glee I felt when I saw this piece and how it connected to what we already had in our house and how I finally had the piece of wood that had the right character for my sweet milagros. I bought every piece they had (which was 4) and I paid $2 for all of them!
So, this weekend, along with several other projects I have in mind, we will nail these onto the board and then I will hang it in our living room!
What do you think of that? And, no, I didn't dust or clean anything off, I was just THAT excited.
So glad you've buzzed in for a visit. Hope to see you again soon.
P.S. Cute indigo washi tape from a flash steal from Decor Steals! I LOVE them!
Sweetness! When that happens to me I am like, so that is why I've held on to this idea!! I was just waiting for this to show up! lol. It is gonna be the perfect pc. for y'all.
ReplyDeleteI love that you found just the right piece to finish the project you had in mind! That is what I love about garage/estate sales, you just never know what fantastic treasure you are going to find. You ARE a good blogger, by the way. I have you on my bloglovin feed so whenever you post I see it. I have gotten over the whole idea that I have to post on some sort of schedule. It takes the fun and spontaneity out of blogging and makes it a chore, and it shouldn't be that! Forget the rules, these are our own little corners and WE make the rules here:>) Good to hear from you!
ReplyDeleteI have missed you! Those pine boards were just waiting for you to come along and do something fabulous with them!
ReplyDeletesuch great finds!!!!! Blogging is supposed to be fun. I come and go... it's a stress free zone. : ) Hope you are staying warm!
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