Ode To A Cabinet

Last month I sold my antique chippy green and white cabinet!

@ Pole Barn Primitives

I bought the cabinet from Lisa at Pole Barn Primitives~when she was selling out of her garage a few times a year. Now she has her own shop and is open 4 days a week! I knew instantly it would look great in our space and was the first
substantial and really really old piece we had bought. In fact I loved
it so much I put the dreaded NFS on it! A no no in retail I know but I
needed one strong piece to use as a place to display things, a piece I didn't have to stress about it being gone at a moments notice.


At that time I had more partners and we had a lot more "smalls" we had to find a place for. It got to be a bit of a headache finding room to put things when a piece sold and there wasn't one to go in it's place. Hence the hunt for a shelf or other large permanent piece.






This is the day we brought it in and set it up. We immediately had interest but I was stubborn and said NOT for sale! Eventually I did put a price on it, one so high I thought for sure no one would bite!

Over the last 2 years she got gussied up and decorated for the seasons...

Held all sorts of treasures, come and gone...

Seen other pieces of furniture move in and move out...

Until a few weeks ago when I got the call that I had an offer. I paused for only a few seconds and thought, "You know what? I'm ready to let it go." So within days, she was gone. And I survived! Now I look forward to hunting down that next piece I can fall in love with and put another NFS tag on it, hee hee hee! Farewell chippy shabby CABINET, it was great to have had you at All That Jazz!

Miss Mustard Seed's Milk Paint

Mustard Seed Yellow

I took the plunge and ordered a few different colors from Miss Mustard Seed's new Milk Paint Line!
I just love her sense of style and the way she was with furniture. I think she's a real inspiration. I must admit to "borrowing" the look of one of her pieces from time to time! Thank you Marion!

I narrowed it down to three colors, the Mustard Seed Yellow above, it's such a cheerful color...

Typewriter

I really like this black, it is more of a charcoal color, not so harsh as a black black.

Lucketts Green

and my favorite, Lucketts Green. I have been playing with mixing a similar color to this with my ASCP on a few pieces. Now I'm anxious to try this color. I am also a bit nervous to try the milk paint since I have never used it before. It will take a few weeks though since the paint doesn't actually ship out until mid/late August. It will be just like Christmas when it arrives!

A Treat For Me!

I splurged last week and bought myself a little shoulder bag from Katie's Rose Cottage. I've been watching Lori's blog and website for new ones to come up for sale but I always missed them! By the time I would see one I wanted it had already sold. Finally last week I lucked out and found one I loved and it was available. Whoopee! I'm planning to use it this weekend when we have our antique festival. While I'm manning the booth I'll use it to carry any "must have one me at all times items".

BTW~Katies Rose Cottage Designs was great to work with. I was quickly given updates on the bags status and I ordered it on a Friday, it was shipped out on Saturday and arrived on a Monday. I would highly recommend ordering from Lori and Kristin, their things are beautiful to boot!

I've been busy the past few weeks with things for All That Jazz and our annual Antique Festival we have downtown. Wanna see pictures? I knew you did!

Lots of chalkboards for the taking.

I've been working with some techniques Rosemary from Villabarnes uses and was kind enough to share with her readers. You use gesso over gray paint to get the whitewashed effect. I'm not sure if I am liking it or not. Rosemary's pieces look so much better than mine! She is a master!

This pair was originally a gold/bronze color.

This sign was U.G.L.Y. Green with yellow, brown and pink flowers.

ASCP~ Old White and Coco

Furniture is always a must. It seems I am painting one piece after another right now. I am still using Annie Sloan Chalk Paint mostly. It is rather spendy but I just love it and you can whip out the pieces so much faster than with latex paint.  I've been having fun mixing colors and have painted pieces in a pink, lavender, antique green and beachy green~colors that ASCP don't offer. I still need to get brave and try some color washes and mixing color into the wax.

I am wanting to try a few other paints I've been reading about, the Cece Caldwell line which is completely natural and non toxic and I'm dying to use Marion of Miss Mustard Seeds' new line of Milk Paint she has coming out next month. I've also been seeing a paint line called La Craie. It seems to be a lot less well known but they have absolutely beautiful colors. I have had a bit of a hard time finding an online site to order from that is easy to navigate though.

Provance with gilding  accents.

The beachy green color I custom mixed.

Old white and Coco.

Hope you are all well and having a wonderful week!