Market and a Nightstand

Well its been another great day at the Alderney Market! I set up my furniture and some painted signs right by the water today, and what a view that was all day. It couldn't have been better weather, and there were soooo many people around since it's the Tall Ships Festival this weekend. I met alot of really nice people and there was a lot of interest in my stuff. I even sold one of my Chair Planters! You can kind of see it in the picture.

I just finished another project, this time a really interesting nightstand. I found it at Value Village for $14.99; it was quite dated, but I knew all it would take is a little paint and antiquing! Heres the before picture:

After painting it blue and white, I distressed it with 150 grit sand paper and then used dark paste wax to give it that nice aged look. The top needed something, so I stenciled a blue border using painters tape. I think it gave it just that little extra touch of interest!

I've got a great collection of furniture projects to keep me nice and busy this week. My chair planter was popular at the market so I think I'm going to try getting more of those finished. A friend from work has already placed an order! My mom also scored a really awesome dresser at Homesense for $50, it was marked down from $250 since a leg had fallen off! Also, Jen and Jackie found a really great cedar chest for my at a yard sale. I'm so excited to dive right into painting this week, I just wish I didn't have to work! haha.

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Funky Junk Bench

This week I want to try and get a couple more furniture items finished so I can bring them this weekend, so it will be a busy one for sure. Here’s my latest project which will be at the market on Saturday. It a great bench my aunts found on the curb, and me and mom went to pick up. Someone must have tried to reupholster it before, and man did they ever do a terrible job haha! They used this really dated flower fabric and instead of using a staple gun, they used a million tiny nails. Not only that, but they chose to paint the bench AFTER they upholstered it, so of course there was white paint all over the fabric. All of this added to up a very tough job getting all the old fabric off the bench.

This bench really represents the term “up-cycling”. Not only did I save this from being trashed, but the fabric I used was actually an old curtain that I found at the Salvation Army for $2.99! I loved the print and colours of the curtain, but I had a rip in it and there was only one. I knew I could use it for something so I bought it and tucked it away. The paint was also somewhat recycled. I found it on the mistint table at Kent, so it was only $5 as opposed to $20!

After painting the frame Black, I upholstered the bench seat and two front cushion panels. I ran out of fabric for the back, so I bought this great black material for the two back cushion panels. After that I finished it off by gluing on a red decorative trim to hide the staples.

Success!

The Alderney Farmers Market this weekend went so great! I brought 5 items along with me to introduce Oliver Treasures and to gain interest, and I sold one! I didn’t expect to sell anything, because lets face it, most people who go to a market don’t usually plan on spending $100+ on furniture. I ended up selling my Mexican inspired blue coffee table, which was the first piece of furniture I flipped after starting this. Besides that, I gave out a ton of business cards and talked to a lot of people who stopped to check out my booth! I got so much positive feed back from customers and other market vendors (everyone there is so nice!). Of course I forgot my camera (Ugh!), so I don’t have any pictures to share, but I’ll definitely be taking some this weekend!

Alderny Farmers Market!

It's official! This saturday I'll be at the Alderny Farmers Market! Located right downtown Dartmouth, this market is a perfect way to get people interested and aware of my little furniture business : ) I plan on having about 6-7 pieces of furniture for sale, but really I'm just trying to get my name out there, I don't imagine I'll sell much this weekend but thats ok!

I feel like I have so much to do now: I have the bench to finish, tags to make, sun catchers to put together, not to mention I have to get everything down to the market! Thank god for Mom's truck haha. I'll post pictures of the market on Sunday!

Meet Jack!

I'm back from Quebec and WOW, what a trip! It was so much fun but I'm really happy to be home and working on furniture again, plus I have so much catching up to do! My furniture is going to be featured at the Alderny Farmers Market this weekend which I'm so excited about, but I feel like I'm not ready. I found out that instead of being inside at the market, Ive been given a small barn where I can decorate it however I want and use to display all my things. I don't really expect to sell a lot this week, it's more of a way to show people what I can do. I have today off work, so I'm going to be working all day on getting ready for the market!

Here's a table i have recently finished. This is the before picture.

And here's the after!