The Chair is Home…

Steve and I drove to Trussville and picked up my chair a couple of weeks ago and I really really love it as much as I thought I would….it is a very well made chair….love the pattern and colors and it is SO comfortable!

Now, ya’ll remember when I covered this ottoman before….and I don’t think it looks bad with the chair….but…

Then I found this fabric  on the internet….Warehousefabric.com…

LOVED it!

So… I think this looks better…

These pictures were taken in the morning, so there isn’t the greatest light….but the colors in this fabric match the colors in my chair to a “t”…I am  also going to make pillows for the sofa out of this fabric….

Bad light, but you can get the gist of the room….(Sadie is watching the birds)…

The secretary in the back is going to get a coat of cream paint….I have been putting it off, but I am fixing to get cracking on that….it will show up SO much better I think….

I made a runner for the coffee table…then cut out the lace from a tieback that I had as an overlay….

And Sissie is “chillin”…I am going to change the vignette on the coffee table too…I have somewhere else I want to use that silver tray…

Just a few small changes going on around the casa…let me know what you think!  Thank you so much for stopping by!

I will be linking up to Feathered Nest Friday at French Country Cottage and Potpourri Friday at 2805….

Lou Cinda :)

 

It Takes a Village…

Okay….FINALLY I have taken some photos…granted they are not great….one day it was too sunny….one day not sunny enough….but I digress and I just took some flippin pictures so ya’ll will know that I am not just sitting around eating bon bons and watching soap operas all day…..(I wish)…

Dining room chairs and rug before…dark’ish…when I was covering these seats in my upholstery class, my instructor, Gary, whom I do love and adore, looked at this fabric and said, “I hate that fabric.”  The man does not mince words….I think he would like them better now….

After…

loved both of these fabrics….so I did two chairs in each one…

I think they look perfect with the runner I made…

Springified the centerpiece…..

of course, now I am thinking I need to cover the shades on my chandie….

does it EVER end?

this is what my son, Seth got me for my birthday….I SO love her…

she is all chippy and worn….the stories she could tell..

She has a broken wing….much like myself….imperfect…

aren’t we all?  Thank you Lord for your Son and my Salvation….

And thank you for blessing me with my Seth….

I have more photos to put in another post….I’m on a roll! lol  Thank you so much for stopping by!!

Lou Cinda :)

Thrifting…..Part II

Hopefully, this weekend I will be able to get some pictures…it is supposed to be sunny and maybe I can get some decent pictures.  I did go back and pick up my chair and I also got another rug for the dining room.  So I have actually gotten something done…it takes a village…

I wanted to share some additional pictures I took on our jaunt a couple of weeks ago.  Funny thing…I went back to Trussville Antique Mall last week and was going to get some of the things that were in my photos….they.were.gone!!  The basket was gone….one of the chairs was gone….the little chair was gone….  I know better than to wait….

Love this chair…..of course I do….it is checked…

Industrial…

I like the chippy shutter…

Love the red and black…

I did a u-turn in the street yesterday because I saw a rusty chippy red radio flyer wagon sitting outside at a yard sale when I was on my way back from lunch…

This one that I saw in a booth was $180.00…see it under the table there? Onehundredeightydollars!!! I ain’t even lyin’…

Got mine for $15….and I swear it looks just like this one….hmmmmmm…also found a cute cute cute vanity stool for $20.  I have been looking for one to put at my vanity….I will take pictures of it this weekend too..

Also, do you see the croquet mallets in the above photo?  $10 each.  a few weeks ago I saw a WHOLE SET of mallets PLUS the balls….they were all old and faded and chippy…..$5.00.  Yeah, FIVEDOLLARS!!  Did I get them?  No, I did not.  Why didn’t I"?  Go ahead…ask me, “Lou Cinda, why didn’t you buy those croquet mallets and balls for $5.00?”  BECAUSE I AM AN IDIOT!!!  I must have been smokin’ crack!!  I have kicked myself a million times over THAT one!!

Thank you so much for stopping by!  Have a great weekend!

Lou Cinda ;)

Thrifting….

I have been amiss lately and I do apologize, however, I just sometimes feel that I haven’t done anything that is “blog worthy”.  While it is a triumph when Steve picks up all of the 44 zillion pine cones in the yard, I don’t necessarily feel that it would be a before and after that you would garner any knowledge or know how from whatsoever…then there is the BIG screen that we purchased and then I got motion sickness while watching it….yeah….not so blog worthy…that, however, is another story for another day.  :\

Sharon and I did head out Saturday to places that we have come to know and love and felt the need to check out again lest they get in a treasure that we desperately needed, whether we knew it or not :)

We first headed to Trussville, Alabama…home of The Sassy Sofa and The Trussville Antique Mall, which are places we both love and adore…

The Sassy Sofa had some really cute stuff….more notably this chair which I have been eyeballing for WEEKS!

I had decided waaaaay back in the recesses of my mind that if this chair was still there, then I was getting it!

It was….and I did!  It looks like a salmon color here, but it is red, green and gold, which are my colors and I  SO love it!  Whoever upholstered this did an AWESOME job!  (having taken ONE upholstery class for ONE semester….I feel that I am an expert on such things)….HA!

Look at the way the stripes match up…..you can’t see the back here, but it is pleated all the way down….love it!

Then on to the Trussville Antique Mall…

old chippy worn books…..which we love…

This chair was $35 and HEAVY!  There were two of them….I loved these!  It was in our FAVORITE dealer’s room….she has three here now….loved the fabric….

Loved this little Adirondack chair…..wish I had gotten it!  I have a “thing” for small chairs too….

These brackets are cute….Steve could make these and dress them up a bit for me…

Wish I had gotten this basket too…$15…may have to go back for this…

I have more photos that I will post later in the week.  I have to go and pick up my chair as we were not able to load it in the trunk of the car and get it home Saturday…..and after having Steve “get that rug out of the attic for me” so I could switch them out in the dining room…..I realized that is the wrong rug and the one I wanted to put in the dining room is now is Seth’s room…..OOPS!  Trip to Lowes for an inexpensive rug is on the agenda for today….and I have recovered the dining room chairs and will show those to you as well.  Thank you all so much for stopping by! 

Hope you are having a great week!

Lou Cinda

Vintage Marketplace~Nashville

Sharon and I headed out last Thursday afternoon bound for Nashville, home of Country Music and the Vintage Market…We had been planning to go to this event since we first learned of it months ago…and lucky me won 2 tickets from the most awesome Theresa at Time Worn Interiors.  Her booth was total eye candy!  Beautiful! 

Pictures?  You want pictures?  Well, I got a little story about that….we got into the door of the show, I whip out my new and improved camera with the 30x zoom…bring it up to eye level…turn it on….and BAM!  Dead batteries!  I could have seriously bawled my eyes out!  So you will just have to visit Theresa’s blog and see the photos she took!  It was truly a great show!

We saw Molly of Barn Trash who we met at The Country Living Fair in Atlanta.  She is just awesome!  A hoot!  Loved seeing her and her sweet husband and their adorable baby girl…I borrowed these photos of their awesome talent from their facebook page…

We met Sue Whitney of Junk Market Style fame, and she was also totally awesome!  SO NICE!!!  I had one of her books, and bought the other one….love her!  Love her books!  She is brilliant!

After we left the Vintage Marketplace we decide to go to Franklin, TN, which if you have never been, is AWESOME as well!  It was 40 minutes from where we were to where we were going and thank God for the TomTom.  Sharon was telling me where to be and what lane to be in and when to turn and it was a zillion lanes of traffic and we were all going 100 mph with lanes merging in on all sides.  I was a HOT mess!  Some guy in a Nissan was trying to merge over and I had nowhere to go and he was MOST distressed with me!  After he got over  I could just see his mouth going in his side mirror…I started laughing and he gave us the bird!  Like, not a small bird…not a little flip off….noooooooo…  He stuck his arm out the window and up in the air as far as he could and gave us a big old gesture!  I laughed harder and he shot us another one!  Sharon looked at me and said, “I don’t think anyone has ever shot me a bird before on the highway.”  I said, “Really???  Happens to me all the time"!” LOL

We did make it to Franklin unscathed and had a blast there.  There are blocks and blocks of wonderful shops!  We are planning a trip back there because we did not get to see a fraction of what we wanted to.

A few shots of some things I got….you know me and the “smalls”….

this bundle of letters….

some dominos…and the little red game pieces…got these from Theresa…

 

I got the key holder from Theresa too…leathery and worn…love it!

 

I have more….I just have to take photos….

ALSO….before I sign off….I am a BAD blogger!!  BAD!  Kathy from Creative Home Expressions sent me these adorable Fitz and Floyd creamer and sugar rabbits….just because she is SO sweet like that…she knows about my love of “the rabbit”…

Aren’t they adorable!  I have them in the cabinet in my kitchen so I can look at, admire, and think about the wonderful blog friends I have….Thank you so much Kathy!!

…looking up there at that last photo makes me think….I need to paint that shelf!

It truly is a sickness….

Thank you for stopping by!

Lou Cinda