Dream Big

A French Market Tour



Experience the ultimate in vintage shopping in the gorgeous Northwest Coast of France!


This is one of my dreams, pretty BIG DREAM, I just love French real antiques, not reproductions.
They say BIG DREAMS DO COME TRUE IN TIME.  I can wait.

XOXO

martha

French,young and industrial

Hello:

I'm in a little vacation, for the past year and a half, I have been taking classes twice a week on a very very hard course.  Well, the day came when I graduated, however, my brain is very very tired.  Lots of reading, book reports, practice tutoring, lesson plans, and the worst were the very large volumes I had to read to finish the course.

Decorating, painting my furniture, is my passion, finding junk that I can transform, gives me such
pleasure, working with clay is so fun, and making people happy is extremely rewarding.

So, I'm taking a vacation, form "school", I have to
rest my mind and brain, because I truly need it.

On the bright side, I found a new style that is "young", "industrial",  (I love industrial) mix with
vintage.  I wanted to share some inspiration from France.

This corner has a lot of pieces that we all have.  First of all, I have two old tennis rackets, an old clock, yes easy, the hard parts are the old locker, love, and the industrial lamp.  I'm looking into making one, cheap.

love this arrangement, take an old vintage table, we all have them, arrange a lamp, industrial, a book, and voila!  young, industrial, vintage, so so cute. Take a look at this arrangement:  its full of pretty things, starting with the cage industrial lamp, you can get this at HD or on line, and use the IKEA cord like I did on my mason jars lamps.  I sold both, I need to make some more, I don't have mine and I miss it, I sold them very fast. It takes about two weeks to make it because I love the added sea rope I do on mine.
This bundle of books without the spine wrapped with twine, I use this a lot, on my tables, I love the look.   The lamp with the corks an old trick. The cages, just painting white voila,  the old clock, easy to find  Target has them cheap.

The letters, TJMax for 4.00 on the clearance part of the store, spray paint them and voila, I found three gold ones and painted them black at a sale for .25 each, one was gold.
The shade is at IKEA catalog or at the store. 




Great cheap industrial lamps, you can get these at garage sales, or new at the hardware store, or IKEA, Target, Home Depot.
Love the industrial look, and the drafting table in front of the fireplace, so unique and young!!!!


These is so vintage/industrial mix, love the chairs and the lamps.  Easy to make (lamps)  chairs they have them at IKEA, target, and other stores.


Junking List:
French dish towels are "in" you can find these and others at the"dollar store"  I got several for just $1.00  they look and wash great.
shoe forms, you can find them at garage sales, they are great for "coat racks".


Bingo cards, chips and dominoes are so "in", you can do a lot with them.

Old or new books with or without the spine, garage sales, antique malls, salvation army, great find, just tie them with twine, and this is a great decoration.


  Love the dress forms,
I have seen these on the curb, people and stores throw them away, they add to a corner, very frenchy. I'm on the look out for one, I found one last week on the street, but missed it, someone in front of me grabbed it first, oh well.

 Love the industrial lamps, again IKEA cords and porcelain sockets, vintage reproduction cords, voila you got yourself a do it yourself lamp, or you can find them at my shop or others on Etsy.

Hope you enjoy and got inspired today,

Happy Sunday


Martha

Great Stylists

How to display our collections:

We are lovers of antiques, used books, brown paper, scissors, bottles, frames, spools, twine,
pictures, old candelabras, antique pictures, tools, old rusty scissors, old suitcases, quilts, french chairs, stools, handmade pillows, flour sacks,coffee sacks, cameras, and more, more, more.
Have you ever called a "hoarder", or maybe borderline, oh yes, I've called that and worst. But
relax, there is hope, we can keep our treasures
in a way that we can enjoy looking at them, and
we don't give the appearance of a "hoarder".

Pay attention to these shelves, its a lot of small but beautiful treasures.

I love my "stuff", but I hide a lot of things when company arrives, because of the "hoarder stigma"
Too bad, my home is my only refuge and I like to 'look at my painted furniture and my treasures.

A great NY Stylist tells us how she deals with this
subject. 



Eccentric??  oh yes, how many people you know that hang old feathers on their walls, LOL

She style and designed the famous hotel "

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THIS IS HER KITCHEN VERY WELL EQUIPPED!!!!
(SOME PEOPLE WOULD SAY ITS CLUTTERED)

This is the entrance to her store in Sydney.

Love the books, and some people would call
 these wall "clutter"  Beautiful


Sybella Court is the author of a wonderful book "Etcetera"  gorgeous rooms with
style.  and she wrote another book "The stylist guide to NYC"  it comes out in August, a little preview:





This is the most beautiful shop I have ever been, she changes her theme every few months, and
its so so well done, you just want to live there and stay, not only shop.





This is a combination bedroom/living room/library.

Her bedroom


















Clutter ???? or beautiful collection????

Hope you enjoyed these talented stylist shop and home, and don't be afraid to collect treasures, life
is beautiful when every item in your home has a little history and character,

Martha

NEW TRENDS

Good Morning:

Today I was inspired by some new trends on Etsy.
Love the new furniture pieces and other architectural, vintage, organization, new trends.  I'm sharing with you my favorites, you can find them all on Etsy, and I hope you enjoy it. 

Trends:  lights  (like mine with the insulators, jars, and I'm working on two more, since they sold so fast.

crates, I have a lot of them in my shop, love them.

jars:  for storage, I use them for everything.

and of course, the furniture, just so unique.

 These pieces are both from Not Too Shabby,  this girl can paint, look at the hand painted table, just beautiful, visit her shop.





These is ART FOR YOUR HOME.  I want this chair so bad, I'm shaking, its just awesome, $5500.00
just great go to "Vintage Renewal on Etsy"  she has beautiful art chairs, and lampshades.  Love them!!!

  A great handmade chair with the New Yorker magazine adds,
so so cool, a truly conversation piece.

  Awesome!!!! still in trend.

 Victorian folding chair with a fabric seat, from "old new house" on Etsy.

Herman Miller 1st. production rope chairs, just to die for, very very expensive but oh so much character and beauty,  from "oldnewhouse on Etsy"

 This chair is called the "Paw" 1950 Zenith HM swivel chair.  just gorgeous and pricey$5500.00  (you have to paint and sell a lot of bureaus and
tables to afford this  LOL).
These are beautiful, you can find a similar one in my shop and I'm making three other styles, they are so cool!!!!,  go to my shop katecreativesalvage@etsy.

Of course all kinds of signs are still trendy, just very rustic and organic, distress, and oh so vintage.

I hope you got so inspired that you are already imagining your next vintage trendy project,

Have a wonderful day,

martha

Homemade Chalk Paint

I found these great recipe on how to make your own chalk paint and save lots of money.  It does a beautiful job for pennies.

Elizabeth & Co took her Annie Sloan color chart and they match the color exactly. I had them match my Loui Blue and they made it into a paint so exactly that I was surprised, just $3.99 against
$38.00 plus shipping a quart.

She uses an easy recipe:
Plaster of Paris and paint.
You do not have to measure precisely and here's an easy way to do it. Mark four equal lines on a clear plastic container. Add Plaster of Paris to reach the very first line. Then mix in about a tablespoon of water at a time until the Plaster of Paris is nice and smooth. You don't want any lumps. Then fill to the top line with paint and stir well. Super easy! I've found that if you don't mix the water into the Plaster of Paris first, the paint sometimes ends up gritty and no matter how much water you add at that point, you just can't get rid of the grit. And different brands of paint are thicker than others, so just adjust as needed. And just like regular chalk paint, the homemade version will thicken as it sits, so just add more water as needed.


Look at the dresser, just beautiful and much much cheap, you don't have to prime just make the paint
and go for it.  Just gorgeous.  This color is Behr "Lotus Blue"  like the "Oak Duck Blue" difference in price.  She has been making her own paint and colors for months now.
Let's all try it and compare.





Liz Marie found these dresser on the trash and look what she did, a gorgeous job for pennies.
Chalk paint from Annie Sloan is very expensive this is the same thing and you can make your own colors with the acrylic paint.

Okay girls here are two of the easiest recipes I found.  Enjoy,

Martha