Along with the new estate sale addiction comes the need for additional storage. My home office is starting to over flow with junk (uh…I mean treasures). So I have been on the lookout for fun storage pieces that will give my office space that pieced together aged look I’m after.
The chest on the left (above) is my new favorite find. It is a chest of five skinny drawers perfect for papers, photos, and even jewelry, and has a large compartment up top. I fell in love instantly with the black worn and scuffed finish. It belonged to a man who had it in his garage, so it required a good cleaning, but sometimes that is half the fun, since I also found treasures hidden inside as I cleaned. (Old receipts from the 1960′s, papers, stickers, and even live ammunition! I had the sheriff come to my house to pick up the old bullets as I wasn’t sure how to dispose of them?!?!)
The green tool box, I picked up at IVC. It sits on my center island which acts as a shipping center for me. I keep all of my stamps and labels, and other tools of the trade inside. It has really cool leather handles and an awesome green finish with years of splattered paint that could never look as good if it were artificially achieved. It was funny, as it carried it out of IVC (Irvine Valley College Flea Market), three men each said to me separately: “it looks like you’re on your way to work with that thing!”. I giggled to myself thinking that each man must of thought they were so clever saying so, not knowing that two men only steps past them would say the very same thing! :o)
This old fan was another score. It’s a perfect shade of powder blue and it still works! I was so excited to score this one, and for only $18! The little tin tool box on the right (above) holds all my tags and hardware for “gussying up” my finds for the shop. I thought it was only fitting to gussy up the box itself with a corsage of it’s own. (I bought that one, and can’t recall who from… Art Takes a Village maybe?)
The little red tool box holds my trinkets and jewels. I’ve been collecting old pins, and brooches for that perfect project, but nothing has called out to me yet to make with them. I stuck vintage French vocabulary cards in the drawers label holders. The blue champagne trug I may have shown you before, but I just love it! It’s another IVC find. It holds all my postcards for the shop. It too, has that perfect aged look that I so easily fall in love with.
It’s a mish-mash of old objects that are blending really well with the Pottery Barn pieces I have. I’ve still got a few more ideas to bring it all together, and then hopefully I can show you a wide shot of the office. (For now I just move the clutter out of the cameras view). :o)
Now on to more important business:
The winners of the three Somerset Life 2010 Calendars are:
1. Zita – http://www.mllemagpie.typepad.com/
2. Laura – http://52flea.blogspot.com/
3. Marci – http://madysunshine.blogspot.com/
Congrats ladies, please email me your mailing addresses and I will send out your calendars sometime this week! Thank you to every one who left a comment!
by Sadie Olive
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