Retakes

Hoping new photography will help in this most disastrous of slow summer sales, so dragging everything back out of the cupboards I just put them in and trying a fresh new look.

Baby Steps

The house continues as a disaster zone, but a few little things here and there are slowly transforming it.

My craft room was the color of a dreamsicle and had a big old fluorescent shop light for a fixture. Now it has Belle yellow walls and Cinderella blue ceiling with a ceiling medallion and brass chandelier, plus a stained glass window instead of curtains. Big improvement!

The parlor got its ceiling medallion, new switches and switchplates(the brass is the old one, wood is the new) and one of the paintings is up!

More Things I was Saving for a Prim Kitchen that Will Not Be

My dream kitchen was going to be no fitted cabinets, just antique tables and cupboards, lots of primitives...Reality of my new house is that it needs to be a blue and white kitchen with early blue transferware china as its focal point, so will be selling the goods I was saving for the prim kitchen. Most tea tins will be $48 to $58, the stack of shooflys is $400, the early large lady cookie cutter is $50, pantry box $100

Climbing Over Boxes

I've got a few things sorted out, mountains left to go. I am going to sell some of the primitives I used myself, as they don't quite go with the house, should have them up on ebay soon. I found a box filled with gorgeous white cotton baby dresses and little doll patchwork quilts that will be sold as soon as I have time for photographs. Of course, if ebay doesn't pick up soon, it will all be for naught--I do hate these dry spells, but it was convenient not to have to ship last week, I must admit! I am selling most of these for what I paid for them, but I was shopping at high end shops...

Done Moving---Almost

Well, everything is officially out of the old house, but not all is cozy and livable at the new house yet. This illustrates where we about lost hope at 2 am on the last night we had to get everything out:

We just started leaving things on the porch, too tired to get them inside.

Most of the rooms look just like this:

The music room is the least damaged, but still had to pile things up in there too.

I have decided to just look out the kitchen window instead, much prettier outside! Anna and James made the teapot chimes, I had him hang them so I see them while I'm in the kitchen working--love my view!

Just Because I Should Be Packing...

I needed to take photos of a couple giant tins to sell and then I was going to pack up the storage room, but decided to re-take photos of things already listed, sure I will curse myself later when I am up until the wee hours doing what I should have been doing right now...

One Room ALMOST Done

Do you remember the grass cloth parlor, all brown and sad and depressing?

It only took 18 days of non stop hard labor work, but it is now the blue music room--Ta-da!

There is still about a week's left of work to do, lots of little details that just take forever, but oh, is this pretty so far! I'll be back with the completely finished product by next week if all goes according to plan, which of course it never does...