July Events: Birthdays, Antique Malls, and Dumpster Diving.

How frigging embarrassing.......EMBARRASSING!!!!!!! I haven't blogged since July 7th???????? JULY 7TH???????  No way!!
Well that just tells you how much free time I've had lately.......
Okay........let's see, here's what's been going on in my world....

I had another one of those birthdays. Yep, 56 this year. My friend, Heather who just turned 40, and I were treated to a lovely champagne brunch at the Hotel Jefferson by our friend, Harry.  Here we are after a few glasses of the bubbly.

Then I hosted a cookout/birthday party at my Mom's who turned 83...
Here she is opening her presents...
She's the cute little thing on the left, and the other cute little thing is her wonderful neighbor, Shirley, on the right. Aren't they sweet? Must be all that good country air.

We had a nice turn out of friends and neighbors and it was actually cool enough to eat outdoors.  I love Greenwood, Virginia!!! The event gave me a great excuse to pull out all my vintage tablecloths.

My sister had back surgery on Monday (here she is above on the left with our dear friend, Doris), and I cleaned her house and fixed a nice dinner for her the night before she left for the hospital. Then I came back to Richmond because this weekend I moved into my space at an antique mall!!!! Yay!
My dear friend, Patty Anne, helped me move stuff (thank you, friend!) and we hauled two truckloads of stuff to my little booth - Space 14 - at West End Antiques here in Richmond.   It's small, but it's mine.  Here it is......

This required me to finally finish up a bunch of half-completed projects.....like this pair of french cane back chairs that I just revamped.........

 And this silly little end table I painted in a folk artsy style......

(I still have 16+ chairs in my garage to redo, but, well, that will have to wait for another day.)

I just finished this HUGE window seat cushion, bolsters and pillows for my client, Roz.  I'm not kidding, this cushion was longer than the width of my dining room!!!!!!!!!!

Then, there's the typical dumpster diving revamps that I'm always tackling cuz I walk every morning through the alleys of the city and am always finding incredible stuff that I just can't leave behind... Like these awesome fold up chairs...


I painted them in Annie Sloan Chalk Paint (ASCP...you'll see that abbreviation a lot in my blogs!!), one in Greek Blue, the other in Provence........and they are already in my booth!

I'm working on a kitchen revamp for my client, Daisey, who needed a kitchen island......I spotted this maple console table at a local thrift shop...

With a little sanding, staining of the top, and painting the legs and base in ASCP Old White and Duck Egg Blue, here is what it looked like:

 It's going to provide lots of additional storage with baskets on that bottom shelf.  It's already been delivered and now lives in Daisey's kitchen!...which is good because of late, it's been really difficult to walk in my house.

Next up, I found this great old maple vintage chair at a Goodwill.  I love chairs like this because they are easy to recover, and because the wide arms are so user friendly........

I painted the base in ASCP Old White, and reupholstered the cushions in this wonderful bird cage print in chartreuse and fuscia I purchased at UFab....

I LOVE THIS CHAIR......but I think it's going to be for sale soon at my booth!!!!!! As soon as there's space for it. (If you're interested in purchasing it, let me know. it's $325.)

 And here's a chair a client wanted reinvented................

I gave the frame a two tone paint job with lots of sanding and a stain overlay, and rebuilt and covered the seat in this awesome linen fabric with sealife motifs.......

I added a little starfish on the chair back..........

 Love these curley-cue arms............

Next up, Ladies and gentlemen, is this wonderful old coffee table I'm getting ready to reinvent........

Stay tuned for a reveal!!!!!!!!!!!
So in case you're wondering, THAT'S where I've been.
(How does Miss Mustard Seed do all this and still blog every day????)

Thanks for reading!!!!!!!!!!!!