The Girls Bedroom

My March home improvement goal is to refinish, from bottom to top my girls bedroom.My poor little Molly girls is almost four years old and wears her sisters clothes, gets the remnants of her sisters shoes, slept in her sisters nursery and moved into her sisters big...

Master Bathroom Makeover

Some things take forever to finish. Such was the case as my Master Bathroom. I started refinishing it last April…yep…nearly a year ago. I re-painted my chipped up, laminate, boring, hum drum cabinets and started to re-paint the walls.That’s...

Selling in Irvine

I’ve never thought about all of the logistics that go into setting up a huge flea market. When you go to shop, there is row after row of perfectly placed vendors and their perfectly placed cars, trucks and vans right alongside. How all that fits so perfectly...

Irvine Antique Market

About four months ago, one of my customers came to the shop and told me I had to sell down at the Irvine Antique Market. I hadn’t been to that flea market. I thought I had heard of all the Southern California swap meets so my interest was piqued since I had...

The Wood Ladder and Strings Music

This morning, I was taking a walk downtown to drop some packages off at Ellsworth Stationers to be mailed. I hate going to the post office. It’s an irrational kind of hate. I rank it up there with emptying the dishwasher. Well, this morning I had a few important...

Custom Milk Paint Color

What a week we’ve had. In fewer than six days we have:Participated in the Glendora Village Wine Walk,Set-up (and tore down) an awesome Valentine’s Themed Photo Booth,Hosted an Annie Sloan Paint and Play Workshop,Re-arranged the entire store,Unpacked and...