Hello June!

Summer is just around the corner! We've had some beautiful sunny days and just enough rain to keep my flowers happy.
This past weekend I took a break from designing new jewelry for an upcoming venture (hint….it rhymes with Betsy!!) to work on a new project.
Ben and I have been hunting for a desk, table, any piece of furniture that would work well as a vanity for me. We were looking for something with character and we found it this past weekend while antiquing in Anacortes.
While browsing a little "new to us" spot off the main road we found this sad looking poorly painted black desk. By the looks of it, it had been sitting there a while and lucky us the shop owner was more than ready to let it go, so we got it 50% off! Wahoo! I love when that happens.
I guess most people are looking for a set, a desk chair and mirror. We already had the chair and mirror ($5 score from our last adventure) so it work out well for all of us.
We loaded it up and as we were driving home Ben asked what color I'd like to paint it. I thought about it for 1.5 seconds and quickly answered with, mint green!!
I like happy bright colors. I think in this life its just as important to surround yourself with joyful colors as it is people. So my work desk is bright yellow and now my vanity is mint green and I love it! Every time I walk in the room it makes me smile.
Here are a few photos we took during the process of giving this once sad desk a happy new life!!

Some of us got a little carried away with the hose while cleaning brushes...

After it dried we carried it in and I began thinking of how I wanted to decorate and make use of this new space. 

It's a mix of new and vintage. 

Vintage German silver plated tea saucer holds my rings and things. I'm loving my new burlap necklace bust to display my new designs. 

Two vintage ceramic pieces ( I love the periwinkle with mint green) 

New wood and glass mini tray for perfume and lotion.

Vintage vanity tray with all my favorite things. 

And most recently I've added this fun white and gray chevron drawer liner to bring it all together.

Now back to work designing new jewelry! 

Xo

Two weeks in

We've been in our new place for two weeks now.

It's been nice relaxing and taking the time to settle in, figuring out who we are in our new place, in this new state. 

We've both discovered we love antiquing, it's something fun we do together. 

When we were on the road we began collecting things from around the country.  For me it was mostly gems, beads and other things that I'm now turning into jewelry, for Ben it's been patches and coffee. 

I imagined a space in our new home for me to craft and one for Ben to have a coffee bar. When we were looking at places I shared the idea with Ben and of course he loved it. 

We've found the perfect spot for this coffee/tea/chocolate bar and it's been fun to build and decorate together. 

It's still a work in progress. So far Ben has built the wall hanging and shelf from an old pallet. The iron S he made a few years back at a black smithing class in DE. The mat is an AR-15 tekmat that we found at a gun show and the other shelves are ammo boxes I found at an antique shop.

Another fun thing we've been collecting are old wooden chairs. The weirder the better! We wanted to find at least four different chairs and we ended up with seven (so far). The chairs are all different colors from local antique shops. My original plan was to repaint them all the same color, but I think I'll keep them as is for now. 

More to come..