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 ....to Thomas!

Wallace: "Would you like a drink 'ol chap?"

Thomas: "Yes sir, I don't mind if I do."

Ahhhh yes, the 'good ole days' when furniture was made well and had class.

If you don't know who Wallace is, he would be the little table on the left who is offering his glass to Mr. Thomas, just like old friends do. If you've been around awhile, you'll remember Wallace was a piece I completed from way back in May of last year. For some reason he never sold and my husband swooned (if guys actually do that...) over him forever and a day, so Wallace became a permanent furnishing to our home much to the delight of my husband.

Wallace is named after my maternal Grandfather, so how fitting was it to name this antique chair Thomas after my Hub's paternal Grandfather. At first the goal was this 100+ year old chair would be cleaned up and sold, but again the Hub's swooned over it (I guess guys DO do that). As much as I played it off like "I just coooouldn't keep it.. it'd be worth too much to clean up and sell"... little did he know that for hours I toiled over cleaning and oiling the wood and gears, plus bees-waxing the rest just to surprise him on his birthday with his new desk chair.

So now good 'ol Mr. Wallace and Mr. Thomas can stay together and share a drink and a cigar and reminisce of the days of yore when things were simpler.

:)

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...to just 1/4 of another vintage 1930's dining set I am doing for another great customer! This next set has this mini-buffet, a full size buffet, a large table and all the chairs to match. I honestly can't complain about working on these vintage pieces, they are fabulous with their leggy legs and great detail. 

Ms. L is in the middle of a marvelous kitchen makeover/room addition at her house in God's country. Her plan was to get a new dining set to compliment the interior face-lift her house was receiving. She had already ordered her cream colored kitchen cabinets and thought, wouldn't it be grand to have something that matched it all? Insert me here. So she found the perfect dining set, I picked it up for her, we pow-wowed for a min and then the adventure began. Ms. L is quite fond of the natural top look. After finishing this pretty little lady up with paint, I left the top original and wiped her down well with Murphy's Oil Soap to get the grungy stuff off. Then I gave her a good waxing on and off with a layer of  Johnson's Paste Wax. I delivered her just in time for Ms. L's daughters baby shower the next day. She used it as a centerpiece for her decor and it was a big hit with the ladies! Yes!!!

*fist pump*

Hope you guys enjoyed this little restyle!

I'm really busy here in the lab so stay tuned to the blog, more pieces will be poppin' out like a frying pan full of popcorn!!

XO,

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You know what I love about babies? 

1. They are uuuuber cute.

2. I can love on them like crazy and then hand them back to their parents.

3. I love how babies have the most stylish nurseries now a days!

4. I love creating furniture for aforementioned chic nurseries.

So when my friend Ms. T came to me and said, "Susan, you know I need you to make something cool for my bean." Well, of course I said HECK YEAH I'm game. So T found this pretty boring, yet seeping with potential, wardrobe on CraigsList for a really good price. She loved the robin's egg blue I used on Thelma and Louise, and granted I had like a ton of paint left over, so all systems were a go and this baby got a makeover.

And let me tell you this...

Little sweet Tallulah is going to love her new wardrobe when she makes her debut in 8 weeks.

I'm soooo excited to see her when she arrives!!!

:)