Re-do's

Loving the fall season this year.  The weather has been lovely and this weekend was autumn breezy with cooler temps. Still nice enough to run around in the last of your summer dresses but needing to add a light sweater or jacket.  Did a couple of re-do's over the week and took them into my booths this weekend.   I got so involved in them that I forgot to take before and after photos so all you get are my after photos. LOL

I bought this for $8.00.  A lovely wrought iron chair that had many coats of white and gold paint on it and still had the original seat pad which was a highly stained harvest yellow velvet.  I cleaned it up and spray painted it a satin black and then redid the cushion with a red/orange taffeta with a black velvet brocade pattern.  I love, love, love the way this chair turned out.   Amazing what a fresh coat of paint, pretty fabric and a heavy duty staple gun can do.

Here is a closer photo of the fabric, love the way the light changes the color of the fabric.  Taffeta is one of my favorites because of its iridescence.  I placed on the seat a wonderful "Witch's Sorting Hat" that was hand made by an artist in Northern Florida. 

More Re-do's...I find small black frames throughout the year (mostly from Goodwill at about 99 cents).  I then print out digital photos of crows and bugs and spiders and bats that I made and place them in the frames.  Priced to go at $4.00 these Halloween items sell out each year. 

 Behold, the witch's hat.  I really like the cone shape of these glass inserts for candles.  I picked a few of these up from my local Goodwill and they look great for placing tiny witch's hats under the glass.  I glue them to black plates and hide the glue with a little glitter.  These do not sit in the booth long.

One of my Halloween re-do displays. I have them throughout my main booth and a few in my Victorian booth. Please feel free to "swipe" and then build upon these re-do ideas.   I love seeing what others come up with.

My fox hat sold the weekend I put it out, so I moved the huge, velvet and hologram sequined "Mac Daddy" hat.  Neat hat for Halloween costume.

My sons always wanted over the top costumes for Halloween and my youngest (at age 17) wanted me to make him an Elmo costume for a contest he had entered.  Imagine if you will, a 6 foot Elmo or rather 7 foot once he got the huge head on. The wearer would look through the mouth.  Needless to say, he came home with the $200.00 prize.  He spent the next year visiting children in the local hospital dressed as Elmo.  They loved it when Elmo would come to visit and my son always got a kick out of the shrieks of laughter from the kids.  Both sons are grown with children of their own so it was time to send the costume on to other wearers.  

Now for a few items I found this week.  This marvelous turkey sugar shaker. He is huge and great looking and in perfect condition.  Circa 1960s.  Pretty plum colored silk mums pin for your favorite jacket or sweater.

Nice Pfaltzgraf tall coffee pot with the brown, Village pattern. 

Vintage cardboard turkey.   I found four of these when cleaning out my Victorian sideboard.  Acquired these at a mid-west auction from a school teachers estate.  You know these were on her  bulletin boards every November.  Great colors.

The honeycomb turkey to the left is from 1987 but the huge cardboard turkey was from the same estate noted above.  This bad boy is over 24 inches in length.

These two are also from the teacher's estate.  All four have colors that are true and in great condition.  All date to the late 1950 and early 1960s.

I had this turkey on my table for years but like anything, it's time for him to enjoy another's table.  From the 1980s, it is a pretty terra cotta centerpiece.  

After I got my two booths squared away, I had just walked out of the Queen and into the parking lot when I hear a man say to me, "Hey, stranger."  OMG...Jimmy.  Haven't seen you and Lyn in ages and what a delight to see two old friends from when we all had booths at Vintage Village.   Lyn was in the Queen and hoping to see me so I turned right around and went back into the store looking for my old friend.  There she was, looking as lovely as every, and we got to "gossip" a bit about our lives and our booths.  It's always so nice to meet up with friends, especially those you haven't seen in awhile.  So here's a shout out to Lyn and Jimmy...who by the way have booths in at "the Warehouse" in Monroe, GA.  They always have the prettiest items and at great prices.  I will be visiting their booth during the annual holiday walk.  I know I will come back with treasure.

The leaves are just now beginning to change on the trees in my front yard.  Still mostly green with a few patches of purple showing up, but this leaf could not wait to show off it's brilliant scarlet color.  It was the only leaf on the entire tree that dared to be so brazen so I had to snap a photo of it.

I'm knee deep in costuming for the grandchildren and I will be posting on that later in the week.  Hope everyone had a lovely weekend and...Blessings to you and those you love.  Sea Witch

Booth fluff up.

Halloween items are moving briskly so I had to bring in more to fill in the holes from items that were sold. 

Acquired this slightly ovoid shaped, antique stoneware jug last weekend.  Jug still has an old cork in it.

All of the gourds have sold so I brought in this marvelous 1900s antique beer tray.  Pretty lady dressed in a kimono. Brewery unknown.

Pretty shabby cottage decorative cabinet shelf is perfect for holding favorite items.  Pair of spooky, faux headstone markers molded from 18th century headstones. Picked these up at the Crabtree Festival last Saturday.

I love the look of these.  I have already sold half of them.

A better photo of the pretty shelf.  This is one of those items that I like better each time I see it.

Nice soft and oh so warm fur Fox hat from the 1960s.

The fox hat looks great next to the Orvis knitted wool sportsmans sweater.  This sweater is a rich pine green. 

Lots of things to do this coming weekend. I hope I can get most of them accomplished.  Blessings to you and those you love. Sea Witch

Can it get any weirder?

  My honey and I were tuned into watching another episode of "Sons of Anarchy" and who pops up as an ex porn star but David Hasselhoff. The Hoff!  I had to read up on this so I googled the SOA and sure enough, the Hoff is the newest cast member.

In a surprise bit of casting, David Hasselhoff will be making an earnest return to scripted television by joining SAMCRO in ‘Sons of Anarchy’ season 4 as a… Well, you’ll see, says"Screenrant" columnist, Anthony Ocasio.

In a brilliant bit of casting, series creator Kurt Sutter will provide the “long-awaited” fictional personification of one of Hasselhoff’s most famous images of the past (see below), by tapping the famed Baywatch star for the role of Dondo, a one-time porn star who is known for the size of his… I think you get the picture.

Okay, I don't know if I want to laugh or cry or just shout, "Make it stop." This man always seems to have the cheesiest photos of himself.  His music videos are even sillier.  I mean, is he paying an agent for this?  

Still, "the Hoff" is one of TVs favorite caricatures and you do have to give him props for shows like Knight Rider and especially Baywatch, of which he single handedly made into a viewing and commerical gold mine world wide.  He does know how to laugh at himself all the way to the bank.

Screenrant columnist, Ocasio writes:  With a flawless record of casting Sons of Anarchy – which includes legendary novelist Stephen King – one has to respect Kurt Sutter’s ability to continuously select the right actor for the part. Even though it’s going to be another three months before we find out whether or not Hasselhoff is able to pull off this role, I wouldn’t be too surprised if Hasselhoff’s stint on Sons of Anarchy becomes as legendary as the man himself. 

We shall see.  Sea Witch

Crabtree Festival//Rock N Rib Fest

Saturday was an incredible fall day.  Our first with cool temps, brilliant blue sky and mild breeze which had the leaves singing a lovely tune.  All of this was perfect for several of the first fall festivals throughout the area and I had plans to visit two of them.  Sis had other plans and my honey was taking his Saturday with a good  book and conversation on Shotgun World so I was flying solo.  No problem for me so I grabbed my festival bag and plugged the location into my iphone GPS and I was off.

A short drive to Milton, GA for the Crabapple Art and Antiques Festival.  This small community is nestled between Roswell and Alpharetta, and the local town fathers (and mothers) had  this well planned out for the crowds.  Free public parking everywhere with a shuttle trolly for those needed it, the clang clang of the bell as it turned at each corner was such fun to hear.  The local police had the traffic moving quickly and smoothly so it was easy to find a parking space and I could walk a block to the festival.

This is a gem of festival. Tents filled with quality antique dealers with beautiful primitive wares, victorian pieces and lots of quilts...talented artists offering jewelry and embellishments, one of a kind Halloween and Christmas decorations...and of course, great festival food offered throughout.  I have lots of photos to share.  All enlarge if you click on them.

In the middle of all of this was an area with lots of chairs and benches and live music playing throughout the day. No fees, no parking costs. Just welcome to Milton and the Crabtree Festival and enjoy yourself.

So much to select from and people were carrying items back to their cars non stop. Always a good sign of good prices. 

I adore American Primitive and these school slates are just delightful. 

This dealer had a marvelous display of Victorian items. This old ship caught my eye with all of the hand rigging.  Yea, that is something a seawitch would be drawn to.  Didn't make the purchase as I no longer have a large home but it is always fun to look.

Sometimes simple display says so much.  White pumpkins were everywhere.

Hey, I know this booth owner.  Yup, an old booth friend from when we both rented booths in the same antique store. This talented dealer hand dyes ribbons and offers the most lovely of shades in silks and velvets. 

Luscious, hand dyed velvets.  I purchased a few yards of the brilliant chartreuse you see hiding in the back and then a lovely ombre with muted shades of rust, rose and brown.

Next to my friends ribbon booth was a delightful women who offered a Witches Apothecary.  Such fun to read all of the labels.

More potions for the season.

Don't you just love this display?  So pretty with the brilliant oranges and yellows nestled in with vintage trays, wood boxes and primitive items.

Love the soft colors of these old, tin oil lamps.

Such whimsical faces on these delightful hand made Santa's.  This was a lovely booth of beautifully crafted Santa's and St. Nicks. All one of a kind.

The same artist who created the Santa's also had a Halloween display.  How sweet is this Halloween cat.

Live music played throughout the day.

This festival had marvelous Halloween booths throughout.  This vendor had delightful paper items.

Dogs on leashes were everywhere.  It was so much fun to see them out and about.  They were all enjoying the sunshine and the dropped morsel of food when they could find it.

I came to visit this Festival because of a girlfriend who posted on Facebook she would be showing there.  Susan and her friend always have the nicest displays.  Nice big chest of drawers with a neat Victorian Child witch cut out next to it.  Susan also had a beautiful and large quad plate coffee pot. 

Delightful pumpkin head dolls sitting in a pretty luggage basket.  Susan's sense of whimsy is always fun to see.

This dealer had marvelous oak pieces and I wanted this neat old sandwich board chalkboard but just couldn't bring myself to spend the money. LOL

I love Christmas stockings and these made from vintage feed sacks and old burlap are marvelous.

What a neat surprise.  Two more old friends who also were at the same shop I was were at the Festival. I didn't know they had a space and it was so neat seeing both of them there.  These two gals are just delightful and both have the great knack of finding the coolest stuff. 

Pretty vintage purses and old paste pearls. 

I like mixing old and worn with a little bling.  These pretty antique wall sconces and aluminum tree branches look so well together.

Pretty turn of the century ladies secretary painted shabby white and at a take it home price. 

Pretty wire basket of mini pumpkins. 

These two little dogs would bark at everyone that passed by them. They were so funny to watch.  It was a lovely time at this festival and I will bring sis next year.  Oh, and I came home with a 19th century pudding stoneware mold and a few faux 18th century gravestone heads.

From here, I drove home to meet up with my honey so we can head out to the Rock N Ribfest in Lawrenceville.  This festival was also a first visit and so different from the Crabtree Festival.  Sorry to say that the Rock n Ribfest was more like a mini state fair...very loud with poor parking setup, blaring loudspeakers competing with each other for the loudest messages, mostly commerical business and political booths, just a few art booths, a screaming kids section and a radio station's live music and lines and lines and lines of people trying to get food. 

I had another friend who was showing here and she shared the same observation.  They also stuck her beautiful paintings next to a commerical vendor who was blaring annoying frat boy kind of games over a loudspeaker.  It was horrible. Not a lot of layout planning went into this festival, I'm sorry to share.  It was just way to much overpowering noise and incredibly long lines for food and drink.

 Becky paints family pets and her work is sought after.  She is very active in pet causes.

The day was so windy that she had to take down her tent leaving a few tables for setup.  After we spent a few moments chatting, my honey and I decided to have dinner at the Oyster Bay Seafood Restaurant rather then stand in the long lines for ribs.  Never a disappointment, the Oyster Bay has great food and my honey was happy to order his favorite, their Shrimp Po'Boy and a cold beer.  I had their Angus burger (small one) which is really huge, I ended up bring a third of it home and shared it with my sweet Kota.

The two festivals couldn't be more different and I will go back to the Crabtree Festival next year.  As for the Rock N Ribfest, I will skip it unless they change the setup.  Just wasn't my cup of tea.  Hope everyone had a lovely weekend.  Sea Witch