These are the two adirondack chairs my friend and I rescued from the curb. My husband made a new arm for one and I repaired the backs of both of them. We also had to reinforce one of the legs. Then I primed and painted them glossy red. They still had some years left in them. I [...]
This is the chair I got at the Madison Bouckville Antique show back in August. I had never seen one like it and when my husband and I laid eyes on it, we both sort of looked at each other and we knew right then what the other was thinking. The price was only $50 and [...]
Found this beauty on the curb a few weeks ago. Someone actually threw this away. It has absolutely nothing wrong with it except a bit of glaze flaking on the bottom and a bit of crazing which I find charming anyway. It stands about 8 inches high and about 6 inches wide. The color is bright [...]
One Wednesday, my friend, Linda and my dog, Thunder and I went for our usual daily walk. It is our effort~ so as to be able to eat what we want~ to take a walk every day. Well, another thing we love about our walks is that on Wednesday evening it is trash night. You know where [...]
Last Friday, my husband and I hit the Madison- Bouckville Antique Show. I thought it would be fun to show for VTT. It is a huge gathering with over one thousand dealers in upstate NY. It’s in the middle of corn fields surrounded by more corn fields. Really pretty. We look forward to it [...]
I have a thing for metal chairs. I think they are so practical~ able to be left out in the weather, they give an air of times gone by, and they look good red. What else could you ask for? Two weeks ago I showed some metal chairs on VTT that we had found on the [...]
Because my last post on containers caused some interest in my picnic baskets, I thought I would show them for VTT, because they are not only fun and inexpensive they are also vintage. Unfortunately they don’t last more than a season or two if you leave them out where they are in the sun and rain. Under a [...]
I didn’t have anything garden related to show for vintage thingies thursday so I thought I would share something that would spark a bit of humor in this bathing suit season. I found this picture among a box of photos that I purchased from an elderly gentleman at a neighborhood garage sale. I got a [...]
I have this box of postcards I bought at a garage sale. Among the gems I found were these postcards of flowers. They are really old, with the postmarks saying 1912. Some are written on but most are not. This one is a postcard to confirm an order placed at a nursery. Look at the price of [...]
There are stories behind both of the cupboards in my kitchen. This first one actually was in the back room of the Salon I used to work at. It was a basement shop, really nice with stone walls, very vintage. When they sold the old home that it was in I asked the owner [...]
