SpRiNg PeDdLeR's MaRkET. (Where all the cool kids hang out). :) Including YOU!

For those of you who over the years have requested a tag sale during the summer months, look no further...

Tomorrow is the big day! 

You're not gonna want to miss it. Rain or Shine, we'll be there with 29 other vendors hawking our wares. 

Look for my Room For Change tent on the west side of Church St. (Booth 23)

I'll be up at the crack of Christy, loading trucks, cars and vans with all kinds of goodies to transport to the site.  We've been working on this for weeks and we'd love to have you feel the zeel with us downtown Zeeland for our town's  first (hopefully annual) Spring (?) Peddler's Market.

Put on your winter parka and shop 'til you drop!

Here's a sneak peek at a small sampling of the goods:

Seriously Champs, if you've ever shopped my booth at Not So Shabby, you ain't seen nothing. This is my booth on steroids tomorrow. 

Signs galore

 Planked Pallet boards and metal letters:

 Selling my own personal  "Candle-lier" From my dining room to yours!

 Pillows, baskets, accent tables...

Metal Tubs and Garden Decor

Re purposed Lamps and custom built furniture

"Found Treasures"-these will be filled with spring greens

 Topiaries and Seasonal Decor

 Vintage Treasures and Cottage Style Furniture and Accessories

 I can't believe I'm ready to part with this. I've had it since my girls were little. Antique chair with vintage chenille slipcover.

 These were those unfinished prints I blogged about on Monday. Something about the pics, I just love.

Headboard and Footboard made into a bench-Go husband!

Vintage Windows and Doors

 Lots of unique Cottage Style Accessories

 
 Doors with ledges-Perfect for a make-up counter/ledge or mudroom drop spot. (First come, first served...we only have four).

Downtown Zeeland-tomorrow from 9-3.
We don't even have to try. It's always a good time!! :)

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Spring Has Sprung=Garage Sales!

Update on my kitchen flooring flood.

We are living on sub floor right now in the heart of the kitchen and will be for about the next month, but at least I'm off the hook for sweeping and mopping. Trying to stay positive here. :)

I made a shotgun decision to go with an engineered hardwood flooring that is super similar to the original bamboo that I chose.  It's a bit wider, and a lot less red, which is a plus. It's still really scratch-able which is obviously a minus, but worth it for the look that I want. 

I'm excited to piece this kitchen back together, but will use this wait time to re paint my kitchen walls and freshen up the trim which is looking pretty scarfed up.

 Here's the new flooring sample next to the old (well, really still very new bamboo). Boo Hoo.

 

 It has a lot of gray in it, which I think I will really like.  

Enough with the pity party,  now, onto the fun stuff....like spring garage sale-ing! 

Ken and I saw in the local paper that the city of Ferrysburg (20 min. north of us) was hosting city-wide garage sales. We had made the rounds last year in the rain and this past Saturday started out to be a repeat performance.  It was dark, gloomy and cold but that didn't squelch our optimism. 

"Room for Change" law (or better known to some of you, as "Murphy's Law" states that if you set out with an empty mini van and a wallet full of cash, you are bound to find NOT ONE THING. 

Well, we ended up proving that theory wrong that morning with our optimism , and filled the old grocery-getter to the top!  It also didn't hurt that the last sale we visited gave us free pallets to re purpose into signs.

 This was the best score of the day: an antique desk-of which I can't divulge the price. I will tell you though that I felt guilty for how little I paid for it! I didn't even talk them down. Gave them what they asked for it, but it was still so cheap!
This I have already painted and will bringing to the Antique Peddler's Market this Saturday, so come over-pay for it there! :) Kidding! Kind of.

Before it got it's new life of robin's egg blue and cream paint. But that's a blog post for next time.

 
We scored a primitive chicken crate to be made into a rustic coffee table. Only need to clean it up and add casters.

 Odds and ends in the van:

 Odds and Ends displayed:

Work-out dvds and my fitness guru Jillian's book. YES!!

 Vintage looking tins to store..pretty much anything.

Quirky Christmas Candle Holder just in case I have a Holiday tag sale this year:

Canvas bag for my teens:

Interesting striped kitchen accessory. So cute. Loved the color too.

 Halloween pots for candy:

Loved this metal deer.

 Scrabble game to use the pieces/parts. Brand new domino game for our rousing family competitions of "Mexican Train Dominoes". 

 At first I passed on these prints, but something about them spoke to me and I grabbed them. Glad I did because after I painted the frames creamy white, they'd make great cottage/beach decor for a summer home.

 More Peddler's Market wares:  They're candle holders for votives.

 This one I debated about as well-wasn't digging the tulip design on the edge of the fabric, but once I got home, dismantled it all, washed the cotton fabric and cut off the design, I'm in love.  You'll see that at the market too!  
 

 Think outside the box, people!

I love things that tell a story, and only if walls could speak, these tools have heard it all.

I asked Ken to cut the handles down after they're cleaned up and mount them to a rustic barn board to hang jewelry or scarves.  I know, I know...I better clean 'em good.

 Mini burlap boxes for earrings or to use as gift boxes.

 Loved this mini boxwood wreath. Look for it at the market.

 Nabbed these lime green softballs to make those 'baseball flowers' I've showcased on the blog before. I'm planning to mount these to pallet boards for a rustic spin on the idea. 

 
Can't wait to show you the transformation of this headboard/footboard bench Ken made. I mixed up a blue/green paint and then waxed it for an aged look. This will be at the market too. Along with all kinds of other goodies I'll be showcasing mid-week. Meet you back here  Wednesday or Thursday. Don't miss it! In the meantime, mark your calendars...Short countdown to Saturday already!

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From "kids' to classic" bath remodel

So incredibly frustrating! I cannot find the 'before' pics of this bathroom remodel. 

It was such a good example of a little change going a long way...the mantra and tag line that I live by in my own little world of design.

This is Lisa B's upstairs kids' bathroom. Well, that's not completely accurate.  It is upstairs, and it once accommodated her kids, but sadly now, they are all grown and gone and this somewhat outdated space had some room for change.

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You can't get the impact without seeing the befores, and I'm so sorry, but let me tell you the small changes we made. Which, I'm not gonna lie. Add up to some big $ but well worth it for the look we ended up with and later on for re-sale.

My go-to handyman and all around talented contractor, Dave Hamilton rebuilt Lisa's cabinet doors, taking them from a raised panel thermafoil to a shaker style full overlay recessed wood panel. Totally cleaned up the look of the vanity.

We had everything painted "White Dove" by Ben Moore.

 We switched out the cheap linoleum, which served it's purpose, but dated the space-replacing it with a faux wood vinyl planked flooring. Love this stuff! My carpet guy, Carey from Carpet Direct just showed me some great Shaw products in this look and it's wonderful. Durable, warm, water and stain resistant, etc. We actually found this flooring below at our local flooring center, Carpet Bonanza. 

Yes, that's really vinyl!

 To dress up the vanity a bit, we had Dave frame the original mirror and mount new lights higher than the trim which made the room feel larger even though we made the mirror a bit smaller. 

 We replaced the hardware, finding this new brushed nickel set at Menard's. Sinks and faucets were purchased at Lowe's.

 Here's a closer look at the newly constructed doors. Existing vanity wasn't replaced but it was raised.

 A new spunky laminate countertop was installed to replace the previous white one.

Just for kicks, :) we had Dave trim out a new kick plate near the floor to make it appear as if the vanity were a free standing furniture piece.

 Below is a fun white ruffle shower curtain Lisa found at Target to complete the spa-like look.

Wall color is Restoration Hardware's Silver Sage which isn't show up as pretty on this monitor as it is in real life.

Next up...my garage sale finds from this past weekend! I bet you can hardly wait!

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