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Thursday, July 18, 2013

Day 27: Instagram

Hello! I hope you are enjoying your Summer! The Carpenter's have been busy and I've been trying to snap some pictures along the way. My new favorite tool is Instagram. It's so easy because all you need is your phone and the FREE app and you get results like this...
 
 
 
 

 

 
 
{I know, they make some funny faces!}
 
Here are a couple I made from the previous picture...
 

 
 
I love to zoom in, blur the edges and then play around with the different filters. My favorite filters are Rise, Earlybird, Brannan and Inkwell. Which do you use?
Follow us: @530resale!
 
Bye for now,
 
Erica
 
 


Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Day 26: the paint display

Hello! I hope you are having a wonderful Summer day! It is supposed to rain buckets on us in Indiana today. So, if you are local, be careful out there!
 
I've had a lot of questions about our new paint display, so I thought I would share our process and do a few close ups on some of my favorite parts...
 
BEFORE
 
 
 
Here's the before, a-l-l 12 feet of it! It was a great find, but green. Really green. And, we all know it's not easy being green!
 
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AFTER
 
 
 
Here she is in the store (half of her anyway), all gussied up with miss mustard seed's milk paint and pillows and chalkboards. We painted her MMS kitchen scale over the existing green and then sanded so some wood and some of the old green comes through. One of my favorite things about milk paint is how easily you can let the history of a piece shine through!
 
 
 
The lower left corner of the big cabinet has an antique sewing storage bin with drawers and dividers that houses our sample size paints...
 
 
And the cubbies are perfect for all of the milk paint. We've held on to some of the old box packaging to add height here and there.
 
Our original display was an old wire bread shelf from a grocery store. We loved that one, but we are excited to feature the paint more prominently in the store!
 
Bye for now,
 
Erica
 
 

Friday, July 5, 2013

Day 25: a little craft-time

Hello! I hope you had a fantastic 4th of July! Popsicles and a parade for the Carpenter crew...
 
 
our neighborhood bike parade
 
 
Thanks to the Zionsville Police and Fire Departments for making this an extra fun (and LOUD) event every year!!
 
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Last week, the girls from Chickadelic Salvage tweeted a fun project from Pinterest courtesy of the Richmond Thrifter Blog and I was inspired.
 
I dug out the lamp base and picture frame...
 
 
got movin' with my Krylon Spray paint...
 
 
AND, now it's a table...
 
 
 
I will agree that it is not the sturdiest table ever, but it is sooooo cute!
 
Thanks for the inspiration, gals!
 
Bye for now,
 
Erica
 
 
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