ViNtAGe Tole Curtain Tie Back...

*~ FaBuLouS ~*

 Time~Worn ChiPPy Old Paint!*!*! 

 ViNtaGe Victorian Curtain Tie Back...

This will make a FaB Re-Purposed Piece

 Adorning  - Something!*!*!

FaB Dimensional Form

 on the Flower...

On-The-Hunt 

for SHaBBies THIS WEEKEND!!!

Where will I go???   What will I find???

Jeanine

C-U In-The-Morning... ChiPPy!-SHaBBy! S*A*L*E @ Our Home!*!*!

You're InViTed!*!*!

ChiPPy!-SHaBBy! S*A*L*E

Opens at 8 a.m.

This Saturday

July 28th

Don't Miss This One!!!

I've put out some of my BeSt-Ever SHaBBies!*!*!

(visit my SideBar for Details...)

Jeanine

BeSt!*!*! ViNtaGe Tole Birdie with P*A*T*I*N*A...

I've REALLY been buying quite well lately - not only finding SHaBBies for my UpComing Shows & SaLes - but also for myself!*!*!  I REALLY think it's due to the unseasonably warm weather - encouraging people to rummage around in their GaRaGes... Basements... Attics... - with this EARLY Selling Season in mind...

 Here is yet ANOTHER Over-The-Top,

 Just FaB **KEEPER** for my personal

 ChiPPy!-SHaBBy! Collection...

** My Number One Weakness **

 in the "ChiPPy!-SHaBBy!" Category is

 ViNtage Tole with Birdies & Patina...

(click on pics to enlarge...)

 It doesn't get any better than this!*!*!  

ViNtaGe...

Toleware...

Natural time-worn PaTiNa...

Fab Color...

Great Form...

Birdie...

Cherry Motif - Reminding me of DOOR COUNTY...

Useful - Candelabra

It's a "Pair"

   ** Just Sweet **

  *****

Enjoy YOUR Weekend...

I'll be working on my "SHaBBieS"

and of course I'll squeeze a little

 "SHaBBy-ShoPPing" in between...

Jeanine

Guest Bedroom RE-DO... Work-In-Progress!*!*!

 I'm not anywhere "near-done" - but I just had to share some P*O*S*S*I*B*I*L*I*T*Y Pics with you... It ALL STARTED in January - when I picked up a Rusty-Arched Fence-Like piece of SaLVaGe from Jan of *Gracie's Cottage*...  Immediately my mind went - HEADBOARD!?!?!


•I LoVe W*H*I*T*E...
•I LoVe O*R*A*N*G*E...
•I LoVe C*H*I*P*P*Y Furniture...
•I LoVe  Things With P*A*T*I*N*A...
•AND Just Recently - am acquiring a taste for "mixing-in"  just a bit of "Darker" -woods/texture...

This table is a "Recent Find" - last weekend to be exact - 

at Grayslake, from Rhubarb Reign...

Sandy & Joe bought this - WITH ME IN MIND!*!*! 

SHaBBy-Style ViNtaGe TABLE  I love it's form & patina... 

With just about everything in the room - 

pulled away from the walls as I work, -

  BY ACCIDENT - I set the TABLE in the corner...  OMG!!! - I LoVe when stuff like this happens!!!  For the last 7 years I've had a large chippy white garden chair there...  

I knew the area now needed a light fixture - 

Sooooo I pulled this ViNtaGe Tole Chandelier from my loft upstairs...

Can't wait to get it hung!*!*!  What a GREAT Pop-Of-Orange...

 Lots of time-worn "Paint Crazing" & layers of beige/grey/white poking through...

 The ViNtaGe GaRden Chair was also in my office loft...

Soooo functional here...

Although there's some slight evidence of  "power tool sanding" -

I still LoVe It - It's a FaB Piece!!!

I found these AwEsOMe 

"Bo-Ho Style" Shams at Anthropologie...

I like using *All-White* Bed Linens,  - 

just changing out Shams Seasonally - 

yielding a QUICK/INEXPENSIVE Freshened Look...

I think these will look FaB against the **Rusty Headboard** -

really bringing it together!!!

 What a FaB Sweet Adornment!*!*!

Purchased from "Paper Patty" - at Kane last month...

 Remember this "Killer-Piece" 

- that left me weak-in-the-knees...

I think it's going to work out perfectly, on the wall, next to the bed, possibly with this chandelier...

 I have a Stash of Chandeliers to pick from - if  I need more B*L*I*N*G impact!!!

I'm considering displaying these Old Textured Wicker Suitcases

on Top of the Hutch that houses my White Matte Pottery...

 I'm currently painting slats of wood to back

 this Rusty Architectural Fragment/Headboard...   

 These Birdie cut-outs are going to get a slathering of rough plaster & paint...

Then added to the headboard area...

These are ALL P*O*S*S*I*B*I*L*I*T*I*E*S...

The "POP-OF-ORANGE,  HINT OF RUST, WICKER SUITCASES" - 

 along with *ALL-THE-WHITE*...

Have a FaB Weekend!*!*!

GoRgeOus Weather, here in the MidWest!*!*!

Jeanine

**ChiPPy!-SHaBBy!** Thinking Spring...

I know it's way tooooo early to put out "Flowering" items other than "bulbs" in my vignettes ~ but after getting about 8 inches of SNOW yesterday - the following pics are a "pick-me-up"... "THINK SpRiNg"...

ViNtaGe Garden...

Funky "50's" pink/white garden flowers...

Green Metal Sap Bucket...

ViNtaGe Garden Markers - rare find!!!

Old Metal Grate of sort...

Dried Peonies...

Made-In-Italy... "Capodimonte" RoSe Adornment...

Just Sweet!*!*!

**~**  FRESH  **~**

I just LoVe well-ironed linens!!!

   Even if a linen has a hole or stain - it can easily be camouflaged by covering it up with an object, folding it  under, or turning it toward the back...  Ironing and a bit of starch MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENCE...

I also have a weakness for Vintage Tole Chandeliers!!! They don't necessarily need to be hung or even lit for that matter...

**ChiPPy!-SHaBBy!** ViNtaGe Tole Christmas Tree!*!*!

I have one ViNtaGe Christmas Holiday Decoration that I can call "My-Most-Favortie" ~ ViNtaGe Tole Christmas Tree with berries... birdies... candles - BeSt!*!*!

 I can never get enough of vintage clip-on birds!*!*!  I love the ones with a time-worn patina and "2" wire legs...  Birdies like this stay up in our home through February...

Each year I display the tree in a different spot...

We started a traditon ~ lighting it on the table every Christmas Eve...  Soooooo beautiful!*!*!

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Wisconsin Weather Report

We did not get as much snow here as expected, but the storm took down one of our beautiful old cedar trees - blocking our driveway... Temperatures are Below Zero this morning...  Lots of Ice under the snow...  Definitely a day to wear the UGGS inside -or- Out!*!*!

Made-In-Italy - "Gilt Gold" Tole Pieces...

Let's talk "GILT-GOLD" ViNtaGe Tole & today's market...  Use to be that vintage gilt-gold tole pieces with a metal Italy tag would fly out of my booth -or- if on Ebay, would net a high dollar...  What has happened to it's attraction???

I stopped dead in my tracks when I saw this pair of Gilt-Gold Italian Sconce/Candelabras at Kane County Flea Market just a few weeks ago...  WHY were they STILL THERE hours after the Flea Market Opened???  The original white colored Flowers were even an extra +++... NO, they did not have an Italy Tag - but definitely Vintage Italian Tole, and there was a repair to one of the leaves on the backside...  These were Just Stunning Beauties!!! AND the price was soooo right for the pair!!!  I must have looked at them for over 10 minutes trying to decide to buy or not buy...   Is the current market "soft" on buying GILT-GOLD ITALIAN PIECES???  I see soooooo many other "GILT PIECES" not moving in other booths too...  

I sold this gorgeous gilt-gold wall sconce on Ebay just 2 years ago and it brought in a very good dollar for me...  

The flowers were exceptional!!! - Just like the ones on the sconces at Kane County Flea Market...

Another item I sold on Ebay for a very very good dollar!!!  - 2 years ago...  This one had porcelain roses & metal Italy tag...

Yet another "Gilt-Gold" Ebay item I sold a couple years ago...  

This is what to look for...  

Another "chippy-shabby" Gilt-Gold, Italian Tole lamp, Italy Tag, sold a couple years ago on my Ebay Site...

I'd love to hear your comments on "Today's Market" regarding 

ViNtaGe "Gilt-Gold" Italian Tole...

ThAnKs!   Jeanine