Good JuJu

Remember the pre-lit shelving I got from Amazon for jewelry? I loved it sooooo much, I bought a second one. I have placed one on each side of the entrance to my space.  This one is used for vintage jewelry, the first one now has my hand crafted or sterling pieces in it.

This is the first one, still covered in the fabric I use between sales to prevent dust.

Both came with open backs and black metal.  I’ve painted them and added panels covered in vintage paper to the backside to prevent the inventory from slipping off.  The panels are made of the styrofoam packing that came in the box!

Recycle and reuse, right?

To keep them in place, I first tried wire, but the styrofoam simply split apart.  Now they are securely velcroed to the frame.

The height of the shelves gives me enough space to use a variety of display pieces.

But the best part is the jewelry store quality, well spaced lighting!  It makes everything I set out look better.

As always, I have a selection of my handmade mushrooms.  I was lucky to find this set of vintage mushroom stuff to compliment them.

There are more schroomies mixed in with the garden display.

I do love a pretty garden display. (Oops, I have gone all Game of Thrones blooperish, there is a water bottle in this photo)

More lucky finds? I got TWO of the stained glass windows, hoping to use them in my own home, but they didn’t work out where I’d hoped.  They sure class up my booth, though.

Another “I wish it worked my cottage” piece is this sweet granny chair covered in white cotton.

The headboard leaning against the wall actually is from my house.  At first, when it was maple toned, it was in Ryan’s room.  When we got him a new bed, this was painted for the guestroom, then Sugarwings used it for a while once the two grandfairies wanted separate rooms. There is a new color theme in that space now, I figured that the headboard was better off being sold than stuffed into the shed and left to rot away.

It’s pretty well hidden though, I hope it even gets noticed.  Next month, maybe I should hang it on the wall.

Although it would fill most of that entire wall.

Every inch of my space is pretty filled up, but I do enjoy the switcheroo and change ups when it’s time to mix it up again.

Right now, my redo skills are lacking due to a rotator cuff tear.  I have had these spring flowers up for the season and want to change them out to some white ones for summer, but overhead jobs are not exactly easy right now.

This chair up on my top shelf won’t be moving anytime soon.  Which also means that the cabinet its leg rests on needs to stay right where it is for a while.  At least until I get a few more PT sessions under my belt.  I’m doing everything I can to avoid surgery even if it means I cannot do major rearranging at Juju for a bit.  

 

Buying this LED lit shelving unit was the best purchase I’ve ever made for my booth at Good Juju. It is such an eye catcher and shows off the jewelry beautifully.

Another change I’m happy with is the transformation of this pole.  I’ve tried working around this behemoth that sucks space out of the front of my area and it has been problematic in trying to fit furniture by.  I only have an 8” clearance in front of the post, which wasn’t deep enough to do much with.

It’s a solid, metal pole, one of a series that runs down the hall as supports.  I’ve cursed it many times.  Then, I decided to make it work for me.  I added vintage wallpaper with a bit of duct tape (which is temperature sensitive and probably will only do okay in the spring) and backed that up with magnets.  Flat ones to hold the paper down and magnet hooks to display necklaces on.  

The two jewelry shelves have been separated, one at each side of my entryway.

I’ve brought back this beat up chair with a mini redo to turn it into an easel for my book page paintings.

There are a few more scattered around the booth.  I hope people agree with me that they will be good to give at Mother’s Day.  

This corner is different for me, I don’t typically use dark wood.  But this is a pretty old hutch top, and the hand carved marks in the wood show.  It’s too nice to paint.

I can’t believe I said that.  I paint everything.

Speaking of things that aren’t exactly my look, this cookie jar isn’t what I normally carry.  But I like mushrooms and elves.  And I love cookies! So why not?

Smack dab in the center is a shelf filled with mushies, crowns, and white pottery.

Each shelf is a bit different but all are themed the same.

You can never have too much white pottery, right?

Good juju is open the first Friday and Saturday of each month.  Come by and see me, it’s May 3-4, and is also my birthday weekend as well as my third anniversary at the venue.  

I have spent my last two birthdays there, both years with a headache from a serious concussion.  They have not been the best of holidays for me, I’d felt pretty bad each time.  

This year, I’m healthy, no headache to ruin the weekend for me, and I’m ready to celebrate.  I hope to see you there!

 

 

With everything going on over Christmas, I got a bit behind and didn’t get all the January First Friday pictures posted.

Better late than never I guess.

Especially since it’s a lot of work to set up!

Although to be honest, it wasn’t my favorite set up.

Besides switching out the few remaining Christmas bits for new Valentines, and moving a handful of furniture, I didn’t do much.

There just wasn’t enough time, but hey, it still was a whole new look for the weekend.

I’m afraid next month’s redo will have to be even quicker, I have a teensy window of time (ONE DAY!) to make it over before heading to Florida.

P,ease wish me luck, I’ll need it.