A flowery guest, some flowers I painted, and second thoughts
antiques/junking, Books, Etsy Goodies, paintings
I hope everyone had a lovely Labor Day weekend? We spent a lot of it boating, and I just had to show you this fashionable young guest, Katie, who came along today for her first boat ride.
Everyone brought great food for a pitch in picnic and the lake water temperature was perfect. I spent a lazy afternoon floating around and stuffing chocolate cake and pasta salad in my mouth.
Why does food taste so much better outdoors???
Before boating, I did manage to get some work in. I packed up goods that sold in Etsy and have them ready to mail, then painted a lot of white base coats on things I had lying around waiting to be spruced up.
This was a too shiny brass piece, isn’t the paint and umber glaze an improvement?
I also painted two of these buckets that I bought at Goodwill. They were plain galvanized tin, with the embossed hearts, I painted them white after priming them and adding a crackle spray coat.
After adding the hand painted roses, I glazed over the buckets with umber glaze. When it was wiped off, the crackled areas showed up pretty.
This isn’t a project I did today, but I found it today! It was packed away and I forgot I had it. This is a mirror that I sanded the back off of in a spot, and added some vintage rose paper to, so that it peeks through the hole. I added a wired ribbon and one of my vast collection of millinery flowers, and its done.
While I was painting roses on buckets, I decided to paint more wallpaper medallions.
The rest of the day involved cooking and cleaning, not nearly as much fun as creating or boating.
I did take some time to look through this book that I purchased at the flea market this week.
I bought it because the font was pretty, the words were French and the pages were old. I want to use it as wall paper on the wall behind my couch.
I thought I could frame the illustrations, and glue the text to the wall.
But after examining it, I think it just might be too nice to tear up. What do you think? The only date I could find in it is an inscription in the front that says
"Edward Breck With love to Papa Chele from Nell. Christmas 1928"
It is a soft cover book and the front is torn loose a bit.
The illustrations are on a tissue paper and are simply laying in the book, not glued down. They are wonderful, but I keep going back and forth about my original plan, I wonder if I should just salvage the lovely pictures and make use of the rest of the book, or is this book worth something? I paid $20 for it myself.
Does anyone know about old books and have any advice?
