The boho the better - says this DaVintage Diva

Embrace the rainbow!!!!

 

Okay time is fast approaching to the DaVintage Diva's Fall Sale out at Country Chic on Saturday, October 27th.   I have been furiously pushing my design buttons in all directions.  I'm also hopping over furniture and to-do projects.  This if course is pushing the limits of my able to stand a mess and disorder button to the red zone.  LOL  - Deep breaths .... Miss Clean doesn't like Clutter is forcing herself to live in an environment of exactly that.  Well you can'\t be making what I'm making and not make a mess.  Kind-of-like baking, need to break a few eggs .... geesh that would drive me nuts. 

Well I don't know what new or exciting surprises I can actually bring to the sale - so grateful that everyone loves them and they keep selling before the end of this month.  Well at least I have pictures.  I'm going to put my favourite chair to date which I had visions of it welcoming everyone on the porch - hhaaa. 

 

By the way - this is the before picture - was always a pretty chair - just needed a chair that could take a dramatic make-over because of it's size and architecture. 

 

 

 

A cannister by any other name ....

 First time ever picked up these cannisters at a garage sale - hoping that divine inspiration would come later - phewwww it did!

I have to devote a section to a happy accident.  My love of picking up old cannisters and transforming them into cannisters - a big-time makeover!  Happily they are gone almost as quickly as I can make them.  Who knew that they would be popular. 


I think sometimes the pictures do the talking and I can hardly wait to find more diamonds in the rough.

Wave a Banner

 

I learned something new from a friend of mine in England, she explained that my Union Jack Banner was called a bunting flag :)

I was pretty happy to make this for a good friend.  Maritime lighthouses for her!  I kept the vintage style of all my banners but incorporated images that were from out East!

 

 

Bunting flags or banners - they are a lot of fun to create.  Pick a theme and run with it.  They are a pretty way to decorate a wall, strung along a hutch, draped along a curtain rod or strung across a mantle!

Trolling for Treasure

I brake for junk :)

 


The fun is all in the hunt!!! Ohhh how much fun it is to go trolling for treasure and nothing says it better than a bunch of pictures showing all the great finds and furniture waiting for their "rebirth".

sign, sign, everywhere a sign ..they are my favourite art projects

 a California Job Press Case

  a mismass of pews

never quite know what you are going to find - but it's always interesting and it's almost always a lot of work

Ohh my - I've been lucky recently with some great pieces - they are gonna hurt saying good bye to when I finish them so I promised myself I'd keep a few.  Decisions ... decisions :(

 

the head and foot board are beautiful

what a surprise when the drawer fell open :))))

 

Being able to see something's potential happens when your mind is open to possibilities.  When I feel like going out and exploring, I go out and explore.  That is when I know I have an open mind and the energy to look beyond what is there and see what could be. 

 

October 2012 is going to be a busy month.  Many pieces of furniture all collected for transformations.  Some to be presented at my first collaberative efforts with a bunch of talented ladies at our Da Vintage Divas Harvest Sale October 31, 2012.  Here are some of the items that I'm trying to transform in three weeks.

 

this mirror has lovely detailing and will really pop with some colour

I am seriously going to need to either clone myself or hire elves and unearth fairy dust ...

I'm am just about filled to the rafters with projects but how can you resist some of these great picking finds.  I try being restrained and go in with a budget.  Sometimes I have to put stuff back to get the piece I'm really after and other times can squeeze in everything.   Today's funny adventure was filled with a chipmunk that looked like a ferret came out to say hello to me.   Just kept coming closer and closer to me until I started to say noooo little chipmunk stay away - of course at the same time a guy was in there with a dog who heard chipmunk - lolol.  My worse fear is opening something and a mouse or spider popping out!

The Dark Side - Gothic, Skulls, Spooky and Strange

this mirror turned out better than I expected - lots of hard work involved and patience

 

 

Full swing into October and the richer, deeper colours have been a part of many projects.  Thanksgiving just passed and Halloween is around the corner.  My gothic inspired pieces are in full swing.  I love grey as an all around colour and with punches of bold accent colours like red or purple with some silvers and golds, it is an elegant combination.  When offset with whites it's beautiful and calm.

completely unstaged - my cats love mirrors

Upcycling gone mad - a vintage bread box turned into a sugar skull storage box!



Everyone once in a while I love the macabre, the strange, quirky ... I also love gothic inspired furnishings and decor - not too over-the-top but just enough to stop the press.

My sea serpent "Nessie" - I have to admit it's fun to dress her up - this was a picture from Valentine's (Feb 2011), crystal hearts and a magenta feather boa, red rose in her mouth :))

 

owls, owls - love OWLS!!

 

 

Alice in Wonderland quotes with a bit of Poe!

Gold antique mirror getting a gothic makeover

Stage #2:  lots of BLACK!

 

Glazes and highlights - so cool Percy checking out the mirror - oooh spooky :))

 

 I see a bad moon arising - CCR was quite inspiring - the song helped me design this spooky moonshine lantern cover out of an old grain feeder