Vintage Sweets

What Did I Buy This Weekend?

On Saturday I went to Hobby Lobby on a mission, to look for display pieces for my antique booth. Well.........I found a few things, but I also bought goodies to use in the house as well. I did stay out of the bead aisle, aren't you proud of me.
A garden ball, for the living room coffee table.

 a mini bird bath for the antique booth, I will fill it with little things, keys ,glass prisms, cracker jack charms, dice, marbles or something else small. I'm always looking for containers to put things in that add to the look of the display.  I also bought a couple of wire baskets to hold brass numbers and wooden blocks. All of their metal was on sale.

On Sunday Sue and I went antiquing, and I bought a few more things to sell, keep and for display.
keys, to keep.

Spools, to sell.

A faded lovely purple velvet photo album, to use for display.

A beautiful silverplate mug engraved with the name "Amy" definitely to keep.

2 tins, undecided. Do I keep or sell?

and my buy of the day the Saucy Squirrel book. Sell,sell sell. The black velvet pillow is also for display.

I bought a few other things but ran out of sunny daylight to photograph in. A couple of sewing drawers, a mourning pin, a brass buckle, just to name a few.

What have you found lately?

 

 

Traveling Bead Box and a Bracelet

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Hey and while we're on the subject of beads. Last night I tried something new, I made a bracelet with a pattern by Deborah Farrand of Bead Haven in Frankenmuth. I bought the pattern a couple of weeks ago at the bead show in Southfield. I've never stitched/woven any jewelry before so this was new to me, as well as using seed beads. I started the bracelet at 10:00pm and finished it about 12:30.
I think I may be hooked. This was relaxing to do while watching television.

Repair Job

A couple of weekends ago I went to an estate sale and bought a few things that I already posted. I also bought a old, very damaged oil painting in a beautiful gold frame. It was half off day so I ended up paying 10.00. My friend Judy talked me into it, she told me that the frame alone was worth the 10.00 and I might be able to fix it although it was pretty damaged. Last summer I fixed a painting and it turned out pretty good, but it only had a couple of small cuts.  This painting had a 2"x4" hole, the canvas was still there it was just ripped in many directions.

1. First I took it out of the frame.

2. Lay upside down on a flat, clean surface with wax paper under the painting.

3. Cut a piece of canvas larger than the tear.

4. Coat the surface of the canvas with Tacky Glue.

5. Patch the back of the tear with the canvas piece with glue.

6. Smooth patch with a old credit card

7. turn over painting and clean excess glue that may have oozed out of the damaged area.

8. Turn flat again and lay heavy object overnight or until glue dries.

9. Once glue is dry, turn painting over and touch up area of painting where repair was done.

and Wa la
Beautiful painting that is now hung on my wall.

If it had been a valuble painting or famous artist I would have had it professionally restored. But this looks good and was affordable for me.

Can you guess where It was fixed?