Loot and Such

This past weekend, I went up to Missouri to see the parents and the Chiefs, mainly the Chiefs. While I was up there I visited with a family friend, Stan, who between his work as a carpenter and flea market stalls has a pretty good stash of old furniture, barn windows and other knick-knacks.* Here's some of my take:

This was really just the stuff that I could fit into the Mustang. A small cabinet and a neat old drafting table that will be making their way to Arkansas this weekend. 

Plans and Actions:

• I cleaned up the barn window to get some of the dirt off and show off the wood grain better.
• I gold-leafed one of the vintage frames (the one on the right in the picture above) and painted another Tiffany Blue (the center one). I plan on gold-leafing the other frame, but didn't buy enough gold leaf for both.--Turns out it takes a lot of gold leaf to turn out one frame.
• The end table is going to be painted a two-tone, green and grey (with purple undertones). 

I finished up the other barn windows this week also and did some more work on the vanity. I plan on working on some individual posts about each of these projects this weekend. Until then, be good and don't do anything I wouldn't do!

*Stan is how I got a hold of all the windows that I've been scrapping and painting.