Feeling Blue

I have been doing a lot rearranging (even more than usual) due to the fact that I had to box up most of the things in our dining room while I take down the plaster and lath ceiling. The mess it is creating is making me quite nutty actually and I feel like I need a least one area that is calm and clean. I boxed up most of my blue dishes but I thought it would be a nice change to bring some of them into our family room.

My new little corner cupboard seemed like the perfect  place for some blue and white dishes that I recently acquired.

I bought the little striped bowl on the top shelf at an estate sale a couple of weeks ago.

And the blue striped crock is a recent Etsy purchase from Frae and Co. I just love it and it fits perfectly in the little cupboard. 

And I just have to share with you something that made my week! My sweet friend Laura sent me an absolutely amazing smelling candle that she made me in the spirit of Thanksgiving!

I can't even begin to tell you how good the "Pumpkin" candle she made me smells, and what a perfect combination, candles and ironstone! I asked her if she sold them anywhere because I know you guys are going to want to know...turns out she just opened an Etsy shop DOE AND BUCK where you can buy your very own! How perfect would these be on your Thanksgiving table?!

On the other end of the couch I added some blue stripe grain sacks and blue ticking to pull the room together.

I don't think I have shown this cupboard on my blog since I added the plank backing to it.

When I bought this cupboard I had to remove the disgusting back that was on it and planned on adding something different but was so anxious to hang it that I never got around to it. It was really bugging me that it was just the beadboard wall showing through in all my blog pictures though, it just didn't look right.

I didn't want to spend any money to make a backing for it since the whole cupboard only cost me $5 to begin with. Then it dawned on me that we still had all of the random length pieces of ship lap left over from when we did the ceiling in this room!

And because they fit together tongue and groove style I didn't even have to take the cupboard down to do the project. This was the first wood cutting project (I know I am way behind you other DIYers) that I did entirely by myself and I have to say I am pleased with the result! The cupboard is painted Colorplaces (Walmart) Antique Beige.

As I was moving things around I went through all of my blue and white dishes and I have some blue stripe bowls that I am ready to let go off so be sure to look for them in my Etsy  shop.

And a little update on the dining room renovation....I got one section of the ceiling down and we have the windows in! The beams are absolutely gorgeous and I know exactly how I want this room to look but I have to be patient, or at least that is what I am trying to tell myself:)  Since the weather has been so nice we have been working on the exterior of the house but once the weather changes we will put all of our efforts into finishing this room and the bathroom we have been working on for what seems an eternity.

Thanks for visiting and I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Farmhouse Friday ~ Farmhouse Storage

Hello and welcome to this month's edition of Farmhouse Friday! Our theme this month is FARMHOUSE STORAGE!

Like most old farmhouses ours is short on closet space so I am always on the search for unique items that can serve as storage pieces. Vintage boxes or handmade items that were used for storing something long ago are my favorite to look for.

My husband Neal built us this long sideboard for our dining room specifically for different storage items that I have collected over the years. If you are a regular vistor to my blog you will notice that we added a bottom shelf to it since I showed it last.

On the sideboard I  keep this neat cubby thing that I found at the Country Living Fair. I asked the seller if she happened to have a wine bottle laying around so that I could see if it would fit because I wanted to store my wine in it and she actually did have one. We tested it out and the wine bottle fit perfectly. I was tickled but she was bummed she hadn't thought of it because she could have charged more for the piece!

Neal also built me this beautiful piece with the drawers out of old wood (same cedar that we used for the bathroom floor) from our house.  It was a Christmas present a couple years ago and I had no idea that he had been working on it. I absolutely love it and I keep linens and serving pieces that I use for entertaining in it.

The antique basket holds my tablecloths and runners, I like to keep them at arms reach since I change what linens I use on the dining room table so often.

Ahhh cupboards, nothing says farmhouse storage like a cupboard right? I absolutely love primitive cupboards and put one in just about every space I can.

I love their simple beauty and the fact that can hide all of those things that you just don't want out in the open, like your husbands ever growing t-shirt collection.

Or they can be left open and showcase the prettier things, like a collection of quilts.

or linens and ironstone. 

By the way some of these linens are currently for sale in my Etsy shop  :)

My mom gave me this adorable antique cupboard and I keep it in my sewing room to hold all of our crafting items. I know I promised to show this room some time back and I promise I will show it soon, it has been on my to-do list for awhile now. The problem is that I keep my Etsy inventory in here and I always have a new pile of things that I am about to list, so this room is never photo ready.

I picked up the little white medicine cabinet at the flea market last summer, I just love old white medicine cabinets.

Old trunks are another one of my favorite things to store things in. The trunk in our dining room sitting area is one of my all time favorite flea market finds costing me a whole $10.

It is perfect for holding the air mattress that our guests use when they sleep over and because it is on casters is easy to move out of the way and can even become a bench when needed.

I could never have too many little chests of drawers, they are great for keeping the small stuff organized.

I bought this primitive little set of drawers at the Country Living Fair. I keep little items like my chalk, thumb tacks and stamps in it.

Little apothecary chests and chests of drawers are hard to come by and usually very expensive when you do so for the kitchen I just bought a reproduction one and painted it a creamy white.

So cute to look at vintage metal bread boxes are another storage favorite of mine. They are perfect for those items you don't use daily but want to be able to reach with ease when needed.

Thank you so much for visiting! I hope you enjoyed this edition of Farmhouse Friday. Be sure to check out the other wonderful blogs below! Also, I created a FARMHOUSE5540 Instagram account so be sure to start following me!

  

 


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