Thought I'd throw in some photos from my booth at Urban Mining Homewares. Some weekend when I get a chance I'll put together a nice compilation of the booth photos, but for now here's just a glimpse of the projects I've done and pieces I've sold.
This was such a cute little old dresser/cabinet. I left the peeling paint for the shabbiness quality, sanded a little and painted the top a salmony pink. I put wheels on it to make it easier to move around. Picked it up for $10 and sold it for about $55. Wished I could have kept it but you know how that goes. You start keeping your favorites and your home space gets smaller and smaller until you just have a path throughout the rooms. I have a hard time parting with my pieces but am getting better and better.
The playground Duck-on-a-Spring ride was a painting I had done years and years ago in my early college days. I finally decided I could part with it. I had it in the booth for 3 months and hmmmm..... no interest was shown. I guess it stays with me. The cute shabby chair sold though.
A freebie ice cream parlor chair that my dad had dropped off in my garage.... I spray painted it with a brown textured paint that made it look like rust and then reupholstered it with an old curtain scrap of fabric. I've seen this same fabric in someone's blog just recently and absolutely love that fabric. I'm hoping someday I'll come across it again. I think this chair is the cutest.
This little cupboard was given to me by a friend that didn't have room for it anymore. It used to be a pink. I repainted it and shabbied it up a bit. It sold FAST! It's another that I wished I could have kept.
The wall hangings were made from repurposed screenprinting screens, leather belts for the straps that are riveted onto the pool cue sticks. I thought these would be fun in a teen's room.
This last photo could be used as a partition. I created it from old placemats that my mom had. I punched holes in each one. Using multi-colored rivets that had been stored in an old children's vitamin bottle, I clamped all the rivets into the holes. The only thing I spent money on were the 2 packages of keychain rings. Those were the darndest things to try to thread through those rivets.... but I finally got 'em all. The images are all of Wyoming except one Oklahoma pic.
Looking back on the 2009 year and the projects I've done, I realize how much I love this JuNk!
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