Sewing Table & Hexagon Parasol

Two new additions to the shop today, are the long awaited sewing table and a spur of the moment parasol. I've been trying to finish up the last of my parasol stock, but only so I can get more!

The sewing table was a sweet find. It was in great shape, just needed a face-lift.  After stripping it and examining it, Ross decided to take off with Grey and Teal for this one.  We had some leftover from our kitchen project, and the two go together beautifully! I'll let the pictures do the talking:

 

What do you think? It's available here, with free shipping or local delivery. $50 off for pick-ups.  Up next is another parasol, this one I did in the style of a wall mural I did a few years back, that got a lot of compliments. Thought I'd give it a try!

Available here, this is #11 of the 12 parasols I have made. One more to go! They take a little while though so I have to take breaks. Cutting each piece then gluing each one, man! Oh well, it's fun.  Have a wonderful day, it looks so much like fall out today!

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Fleur de Lis Desk - Before & After

Before:

After!

I was surprised with how this desk came out, I am really happy with it. Thank you Sarah for your help! This is available in the shop or through email.

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Lil' French Provincial!

Here she is! All done and ready to take home:

 I love how this one came out! It was similar before, but in pretty bad shape and dirty. Now we have a cuter cleaner style, that still says french vintage. I believe it's named "Madison" - kinda cute! For sale in the shop.

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Hexagon Table; Before & After

Here it is! Remember this table? You can see the original post here. I just finished it! Kate & Ross had found this one up in Felton, or Ben Lomond. I love the shape and all the details. I went with purple because it was really nice on another table I had done (here), and I had still have a decent stock of the purples that make it happen. I debated between going with a color or stripping it down and re-staining it.  I went with color because the wood on the top would stain different than the wood on the sides.  Here are some more shots:

This table is currently for sale, either in the shop or by email. Have a good one!

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Honeybee Telephone Table

Remember this table? You can see the original post here. Well it's finally done! I went with Marigold yellow for the entire table, but opted for a chalkboard top and black knobs. It reminds me of a honeybee, but I stopped myself before putting accent stripes here and there. Maybe I will still do it.... we'll see!  The table is done and for sale, best of all, it packs flat!  

On the vintage front, here is an interesting wooden plaque (or tray?) with hand painted butterflies on it. I feel it's a wall plaque, but I guess it could also be a trivet or a simple serving tray. I guess it's up to the owner!  Thanks for checking out Nine Red blog, have a great one!

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Super Seventies Chandelier Makeover

Here it is! The super seventies chandelier is done. This was a chandelier that was going to be thrown away during a home remodel. I had a few ideas, and eventually went with paying homage to it's 1970's roots by redoing it in retro fabric and colors.  It lights up really nicely.  I yet again forgot to take a before picture, but I have a picture of it in pieces before hand. You can really see the improvement! For sale here.

On a vintage note, Ross and I came across this really pretty serving tray and thought it would be a great addition to the shop. Click here to see it in the shop.

Have a wonderful week, the weather is great!

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Shells and Cheese

Hello! Hope everyone had a graet 4th of July weekend. Here's an update on what I've been up to lately. I found these book ends in a thrift store and it looked like someone just left them in their garage for years. Tarnished and it looked like a child with a sharpie attacked them.  I wish I took a picture,oh well.  I had the idea that they would look great in a really high gloss solid color, for a retro-modern look. After debating about the colors for a week or so, I decided to just go for golden yellow.  I love this color! After it dried it immediately reminded me of that nuclear velveeta ooze on those shells and cheese - I can't help but love that stuff!  So these are up for sale in the shop.

In other news, I recently got my hands on this really great 1970's console stereo (thank you sarah!).  I can't wait to get my hands on it. It needs new curtains, but the stereo itself works, the speakers and great (with amazing bass!) and it has auxilary ports to hook up an ipod or mp3 player.  We had a phone hooked up to it streaming Pandora, when a phone call came in, and we actually took the call on the stereo! Pretty funny. I think I found my new love, console stereos....

A long time ago I did a few chandelier make overs, and I really liked that. Here is the teal "candle"-lier I did. I'm onto another one.  Again, I thought I took an assembled picture of it before hand, but I can't find it. So here are it's parts, just so I can show you the progress!

So, I hope I can explain this, the wooden pieces connect to that metal center. The metal center has the lights on it, and the 6 wooden pieces that attach hold 6 semi circular glass panels with a brownish tint. I'm going completely 70's with the chandelier.  While working on that one, Sarah sent me a few more chandeliers that were being tossed out, so I went and grabbed them. I'll have updates on it soon to show you more, but think 1980's octagonal & rectangular lamps... we've GOT to find a way to bring these "beauties" into our modern decor. Any ideas?  Thanks for stopping by, have a great one!

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Teal Hexagon Accent Table

Just finished up this teal accent table. Originally brown, I rescued it from the depths of a used furniture shop and brought it home. I originally intended to do solid teal, but when it came time to finish up I couldn't resist giving it some distress.

If you'd like to acheive this look in your projects, here's how I did it. First was of course sanding and cleaning, then I disassembled it. What's nice is that this easily comes apart without any tools, so it packs flat. Then I gave the 3 pieces a dash of primer, and a few coats of teal. I sun "cooked" them because this particular latex paint takes a little longer to not be "tacky" (sticky).  For the distress, I used a medium grade sandpaper first to start the wear and tear. I like to do all the edges, then choose a few focal points. After, I use a fine grade sandpaper to polish up the rough spots, and take the overall sheen off the piece so it doesn't look freshly painted. This is pretty easy with lightweight sandpaper because it takes some effort to do some damage, so you can safely rub over the entire project.  Last I took the back of the hammer and gave the piece some history in logical places.

This item is for sale in the shop if you are interested.  If you decide to do your own piece, I'd love to see pictures! I have some before pictures of this piece that I will post later, right now they are locked away in a hard drive. Oh well!

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Spring colors!

I just finished adding 3 very bright and colorful items to the shop. Two in Spa blue, and my favorite in lime green. First, here they are:

The lime green tray started out completely different. I had originally done a tray in black with flowers in multiple shades of teal across the top. Well, for one reason or another that I won't get into, I wasn't happy. and I decided to go a different route, and now I love it. I want to make more of these.  I really love the color, it's a key lime base with a kelly green wash over the top to catch the flowers edges and all the cracks. It's available in the shop. Also new in the shop is the two spa blue (or baby blue, in my opinion) shelves. One if a frame that is set 4 inches from the wall, so you can place items on the back to have a sort of 3-d framed image. The other is an accent shelf that I picked up, that needed a little character. Check it all out in the shop!

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Bud Vases

I've found more bud vases for you!  I'm happy so many people like them as much as me.  It's nice to see them go to good homes, but believe me, I enjoy having them here in the meantime! All but one of the last group of bud vases are gone (see April's Bud Vase post) and I've found more while out on my treasure hunts. Here are the newbies that are available in my shop.

Though this isn't a bud vase, I'm gonna throw it in this post anyway because it's so cute. It's an old truffle dish,  probably holds 4-5 truffles. Perfect accent to a table, I really like this piece: 

If you're interested in any of these, head over to NineRed.com and take a look. These are vintage finds, so they are the only ones I have of them. I know, I wish I had more!  In other news, things are starting to warm up around here, and I've been planting a ton of veggies. We have 15 tomatoes, 4 eight ball squash, 6 pole beans, 6 sugar snap peas, 2 grapes, a ton of herbs, 4 watermelon, 4 lemon cucumber, 8 varieties of peppers, 2 eggplants... jeez! Leftover from winter we have 12 broccoli finishing up, 6 cabbage and 6 cauliflower. Hopefully they finish up soon so I can plant other things in their space. We've been having a lot of random rains here, which is unusual, but I like it because 1) I don't have to water, and 2) we need extra water so bad! Last year we were on a strict schedule. I could only water on Tuesdays and Saturdays.  That's California for you, never know if it'll be a drought year! Have a great week everyone, keep in touch. I'm gonna hop around your blogs and see what everyone is up to!

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