The Sale

It’s O-fficial….

One month from today, if you live in the Nashville area, you have somewhere to be!

If you don’t know who my partners in crime are, you must check them out…

Acorn and Archer  Beautiful organic modern handmade jewelry.

Me, You and a Wiener  Vintage Modern maven with a flair for illustrating the cray cray.

My Interior Life  Super stylish siren who loves a little vintage chinoiserie as much as I do!

SquirrelPearl  The creativity behind Acorn and Archer also sells mixed media artwork, so naturally, she designed our little flyer above!

Joining forces with these creative chickas is going to make for one seriously fun day….I hope you can join us for funsies and pick up some goodies for your pad and bod!

I’ll preview a few items that will be for sale as we get closer to the date.  I moved out of Booth 50 (sad) this week, so some of those items will at the sale, along with several new items…so stay tuned…

DIY Art Project

I recently saw these projects, which are all several months old, and I liked the concept a lot.  I’m thinking different shapes and either the frameless route or more modern framing.  All are from Signed by Tina with her tutorial here. Use Google Translate if you can’t read Swedish!

 

 

images via Signed by Tina

 

Basically she makes a grid on canvas and glues vinyl shapes to the grid for uniformity.  So simple, yet what an impact on a budget.  The matte black looks great in her house.

Friday Flea

Another sweaty flea, but a good day.

This lamp was a dreamboat…but too pricey.

I’d love to see who brings this home…..frat house?

OK…can we discuss these?  I’ve never seen these in “caucasian.”  Blackamoor figurines are controversial and widely considered racist, so which scenario do we find more offensive…owning them as they were made so many years ago, or painting them white?!  Discuss amongst yourselves.

Homecrest!

So what did I get?  Smalls today….pics taken down in the garage dungeon…so, not the best light.

 

More birdies that are exactly the same as the ones in my dining room.

The CC thinks I’ve lost it with these guys…

Most of these items will not be staying with me, but will be sold at the blogger tag sale on October 1st.  Details to come very soon.  Have a great weekend!

Estate Sale + Binge

I’ve been having some tech problems lately…so posting has been a bit like this….

Via Market Like a Chick

 

To quote my new best friend Lance at the Genius Bar, I need a “bigger house” since I’ve outgrown mine.  New hard drive and RAM are on the way and, fingers crossed, I should be back in bidness.

As I was feeling very frustrated, and a tiny bit sad that summer is over, I did what all normal people do.  Excercise, Mediate, Garden Fry up something that will likely kill me.  Isn’t that how everyone rolls?  No?!  Hunh.

It’s probably been 5 years since I ate one of these things, but when you get that wild haired craving, sometimes you just have to give in.

We made a freaking onion blossom….and it was delicious in all its greasy glory.

We followed this recipe pretty closely and it came out great. We opted for a chipotle sauce rather than a ranch style one.  The Things, who are normally onion averse, loved it and demanded we make it more often.  The old batter and fry trick works every time.

After recovering from greasapalooza, I hit an estate sale and found this little bit of fun….

 

I’m trying to decide what to name it…Crazy Clara (clarinet), or perhaps (H)oboe?  This abstract reed instrument seems to need a name….we must think….

 

To Do: Chickens?

I know….some of you can excuse yourselves to go throw up while I discuss my metamorphosis into a Trendy Mindy.  Don’t forget to brush your teeth.

Still here?  OK, well last year’s CSA gave us fresh eggs on a weekly basis, and we desperately miss them.  We opted against the CSA this year after our 9th week in a row of zucchini exclusive boxes brought the entire family to tears.  The Things were begging for it to STOP.  “Can’t we just compost them?  I can’t eat them anymore!!!  I’m even sick of the fritters!!”  I digress….

Eggs. We can go to the farmers market and get them, but some weeks I just can’t get there.  We’ve got a few friends who have been keeping them and we are fascinated.  Replacing our beloved pooch doesn’t seem likely, and a pet with such a tasty habit might be nice?

My Pinterest followers will recognize some of these images from my growing collection of coop inspiration.

 

So many beautifully designed coops out there!  If money were no object and we weren’t planning to build it ourselves…then these might dot our landscape.

Via Dwell

via Nogg.co

This is one of my faves…and we could probably make something similar, but I think we might like a walk-in coop?  Dunno..details, details.

via gastronomista

So, if we are to build said structure, would it look more like these?

via my pet chickens

via star apple

via backyard poulty mag

And we have all loved and admired this couple’s super coop….

via Dwell

So why am I talking about chickens anyway?!  Don’t I have the interior of a treehouse to paint now that the temps are cooling?  Why, yes.  But finishing up pesky details isn’t nearly as much fun as planning something new, that may, or may not, ever happen.

 

August 24 UPDATE:  Oh my GAWD..I just saw Karen’s coop over at The Art of Doing Stuff…and that is the mac damn daddy of all coops…..go check it here!

Chalkboard Paper Shout Out

Megan at Shelterrific was diggin’ on the chalkboard contact paper from the basil vinaigrette post over here, so I figured it might be helpful to expand a little further…

 

I bought the paper here this Spring because I was sick and tired of scraping labels when I decided to change pantry items and receptacles.  To keep it uniform, I used a gift tag punch, and now I keep a little stack of labels on the ready.

Beacuse I have a memory like a sieve, I also find it helpful to write the ratios for cooking on these little guys…like so…

It’s the little things like this that make me happy to be a super-dork.