Blooming Seats

Laurel and I are setting up a space at a arts and craft festival this weekend in Tuscaloosa and I have been busy working on a few new items.

I just finished two Windsor chairs with an appliqué technique of a flower on the seat. One is white with a purple flower on vintage fabric and the other is a cheerful yellow chair with two flowers on a madris plaid base. These are perfect accent chairs that will be a conversation piece in any room. Contact me for further information.

The Storm Before the Calm

Well I always seem to do things a bit backwards. So why would it be any different with my many projects. I showed you a few days ago some pictures of the pieces of furniture Laurel and I got to refinish. I have been busy working on them this week and of course I have picked one of the coldest weeks of the year to occupy my garage and not be able to park my car in it for those cold mornings! Almost finished and then we will move on to the next project. As you can see there is a pile of wood scraps Aaron is waiting for some room to be able to create a few new pieces of upcycled furniture pieces for us. Thanks babe!!!

Vintage Style "Facinator"

Laurel and I went to NC this weekend to visit our mom and HAD to do some "junking" along the way! We stopped at an auction and a few antiques shops and thrift stores. We came home with a few new "project" items.

In all the fun I snapped a shot of Laurel in her new look that might make the Royals jealous!

Teal Blue Dresser

I have another furniture redo to share with you. I know I definitely need to start taking before pictures! I get so excited I just jump right in and forget about the camera, sorry.

This is a small side table type dresser. I painted and distressed it a beautiful teal blue color and covered it in vintage Good Housekeeping and Saturday Evening Post magazine ads. This is the perfect size bedside table or powder room table. The size is 25 1/2" tall, 25 1/2" wide and 14" deep with three drawer, selling for $80. Email me at junkersdaughters@yahoo.com for more information.

Orange Upcycled Dresser

I found this nice dresser at an estate sale but the top was very damaged, it had several drink ring stains on the top so I decided to refinish it "Junker's Style". I painted it s burnt orange color and decoupages vintage music sheets on the top then covered in polyurethane for protection. Now it is like new and ready for a new home. The dimensions are 40" wide by 19 3/4" deep by 31" tall and has dovetailed drawers. Email me if you are interested in this dresser for your home. Junkersdaughters@yahoo.com

Furniture Upcycle

I recently refinished a dresser for a friend of mine. She had a brown dresser and wanted to "perk" it up a bit so I painted the outside a creamy yellow color and the drawer fronts a burnt orange color. Once the paint was dry I took the sander to it and distressed it a bit. The color was not vintage enough for me so I took some brown paint and rubbed it over it to give it more depth. Once the paint was dry I glued vintage music sheets to the top and outside. I put poly all over the piece to finish it up. I love it and more importantly my friend loves her new dresser too!! Thanks Lynn for giving me a fun new project, keep'm comin!!

Queen Of Hearts

Junkers Daughters has a store you can see all of our vintage finds and creations everyday! We are located at Queen Of Hearts in Buford Georgia. Every week we bring in new items for you to see so visit us often so see the new things we find.

Shells Galore!

This summer we too a trip to visit our cousins in Clearwater, FL. It was so much fun with the boys getting to spend time with their cousins like we used to when we were kids, building tents with blankets and sheets over the dining room table. Having their secret fort made everything so exciting, from eating meals under there and briefly spending the night under there (although that didn't last as it got "too scary!")

We spend a few days on the beach and there were a few seashells but finally, on our last overcast day we took the boat out to Caladesi Island and found tons of amazing seashells. The boys cast their nets and found many live creatures, fish, starfish, crabs. It was the best day at the beach ever!

Since I had hit the mother load of seashells and had no time to clean them all properly before we went home, I had to figure out a way to take them home without us passing out from the stench of a rotting, fishy smell because a seven hour trip home in the middle of summer closed up in the car would surely be a recipe for disaster. So I double sealed them in black trash bags and took my precious shells home (I had 3 garbage bags FULL!). It worked the ride home was successful and I moved on to properly cleaning them. I rinsed them in bleach water and layed them out on the back deck to dry for about a week (the cat was so curious about it all and was very perplexed why there was this scrumptious fish smell without anything to taste).

So, from the story you can tell that was about 6 months ago and I have just gotten around to doing something with all those shells.

I started by sorting them into types of shells (oh my aching back!)

Then I took this bust I had gotten a couple years ago that was covered in these ugly corn husks and began gluing. Oh the wonderful things a hot glue gun can do!! It took several days but it is finally finished and I LOVE it!!

Although this took alot of shells I have plenty left, what do you think I should do next? I am thinking furniture or something big and bold, let me know what you think!