Buried Treasure

 

*there is some rust on this super cool folding music dept desk but a little sanding and oiling of the wood and some touching up of the paint will do wonders!

 *omg, i got this vintage mid-mod stool for $6! i would have paid that just for the legs with the brass caps. i'm debating on possibly recovering but the brown is actually better in person than in the pic.

 *i love this little card catalog turned side table with the hairpin legs. i have great plans for this one - painting the wood a high gloss white, giving the brass pulls a good scrubbing but leaving them just as they are and painting the legs white as well but maybe dipping the bottom 1/4 of the legs in a cherry red paint or kelly green. rad.

 *this was the first vintage piece i bought {i think}. it's in great condition with the original glass sliding doors. definitely needs some light sanding, a good cleaning and polishing but maybe a vintage wallpaper for the back panel behind the shelves. hhhmmm...

*a vintage cosco cart on casters - the paint is actually in really good condition except for the rust spot you can see on the bottom shelf but I'm sure it will likely be covered with something - maybe a cool homemade band-aid.


In the past few months, I've been collecting {ok shopping} for vintage pieces that will one day make their new home in the mid-century modern house that I'm patiently searching for. I must find just the right mid-mod to evoke the feeling of cool, vintage, clean, homey, and modern {what a list}, but it's all the things that I think of and want to feel in my new old home.

Anyway, after picking up a few more pieces this weekend around the shabby-chic shops in town, I thought I'd post a listing of my finds. Most are in great shape but certainly need some cleaning and a little work but they are diamonds in the rough for sure. I love digging around for these old finds...they just don't make 'em like this anymore!

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528 Square Feet...What Was I Thinking?

It was plowing day today - oh what fun! It finally dried up enough here to plow the garden without having a mud cake mess. Nothing like having a good ol' country boy driving a John Deere tractor around your yard tilling half way to China. I love having a garden space where you are forced to wear tall boots to work in it...step into the garden and dirt comes 9" up your leg {I LOVE DIRT}! After the plowing was done, I had the wonderful privilege of hauling 320 lbs. of bagged compost to be spread in the garden along with a good helping of cow manure and chicken poop...it was smelling RIPE in the backyard today!

As you can see in the pic, there is one lonely garlic bed hoping to have some friends soon. I did actually threaten the good ol' country boy to not hit the garlic bed...I've been nursing that garlic for months now and so far so good! I went to {beautiful} Reynolda Gardens yesterday to check on their garlic to do a little comparison. I fully expected to be so disappointed and unworthy when comparing their professionally grown garlic to mine but luck was on my side and looked very similar in size, color, leaves, etc. So all is well in my garlic world.

Anyway, more work on the 528 square foot garden tomorrow - corn and potatoes going in. Earlier this week, Coco planted a small strawberry patch and when I checked on it this morning, a pesky ground squirrel had dug under one of the plants so I had to do a bit of repair work - if it happens again, I guess I'll have to sleep out there for the next two months to make sure those little varmints don't tear it up! Also, we are waiting on pole beans and lima beans to sprout - so exciting! Yep, I'm not joking around here...my goal is to grow 90% of the produce my family eats. On second thought - what was I thinking?!?

P.S. On the agenda for the next several months - weeding, weeding, weeding, and more weeding. Like every day...for real.

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