Let me fill you in on what I did on my snow day, which if I might say so myself... it was a pretty productive day!
It all started on Sunday after church. I asked a crafty lady, Teresa, at church if she would like to go to the antique mall that afternoon. We had talked about it a few weekends ago, but hadn't went yet. She was all in, so after we ate lunch, we headed to the Old Timer's Antique Mall in Dexter, MO. When we got there, I gave her and my mom the low down on the kinds of things I was into, what I was looking for in my apartment, and had them on the lookout. I needed an old small vintage vanity mirror tray for my bathroom, was looking for a clock or something decorative for above my TV to put between the two paintings I have up there, and almost jokingly, that I was in the market for a new vanity/desk.
Going around the store, I found so many amazing things that I loved. I found so many larger vanity trays, but couldn't find any smaller ones. Finally, Teresa found a small vanity tray! I was so excited. It was just want I wanted, with the gold coils around the edges. Perfect. Although, at this point, I had already almost decided that I just had to have a larger one as well. I wasn't exactly sure where I was going to put it, but I had to have it. Here is the larger one I bought!
and the smaller one...
Anyways, so we were just about through the entire store, which I think at this point we had been there about 2 hours... (an awesome 2 hours I might add.) And I spotted it. An older desk, so sturdy, almost perfect although painted pretty crappy colors, but a perfect frame and exactly what I wanted to use as a desk/vanity area in my bedroom. More so a vanity, let's be honest. I loved it, I knew I wouldn't love the price though. Furniture like this isn't in my price range, usually ever. Everyone else always finds the deals on furniture, I never seem too...
But I did! The going rate for the desk was $69.50. If I had the money, I would have paid much more than that. It was too good to be true though, that is an extremely low price for such a well-made piece of furniture. My first question, what in the world is wrong with it? I couldn't find a single thing... I mean c'mon, it even came with a free chair. The desk ended up being an old sewing machine desk, but I guess whoever owned it previously had plastered in the part where the desk would open for the sewing machine, so now it's just a flat top instead. Lets just say, I definitely purchased it! The man that helped me carry the desk outside to the car said that the piece actually came in only 2 hours ago. I am pretty sure this piece was meant to BE MINE. Here is the desk before I got my hands on it...
And I forgot to take a before picture of the chair, but the picture on the left is the seat cushion before and the entire chair after I recovered the cushion and painted the chair high gloss black!
And then... after about a 10 hour day of sanding, painting, repainting, and touching up... here is my almost entirely finished product! I am on the market for some new to me vintage hardware for the drawers!
Up close picture. This was while it was still in progress though!
(Please excuse the crappy iPhone pictures)
Anyways, I ended up doing a lot of productive work on Monday for the snow day, and I absolutely loved every minute of it! Now I'm excited about my next great find!
On another note, just in case anyone is really into my life or something, my busy weekend ended up going very well and really smoothly. I did, however, miss seeing the movie, Courageous, so that I could make it in time to my friend's engagement party but hopefully I can borrow or rent it and watch it sometime soon! The Meeting at church was a lot of fun and great fellowship. We learned a lot about each other that many didn't know before, and the different ages that were there enjoying each others company was great!
Great things are going on in my life right now and I just seriously could not be more excited or happy! YAY LIFE!
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