Furniture Market and New Projects

The furniture market was absolutely wonderful! I had to control the urge to run around and do a million happy dances during the time that I was there :) I tried my best to act like a professional. In reality only business owners are supposed to go to these types of markets. One of my teachers emailed the people over the market and had it approved for his students to attend the market. I was absolutely thrilled to be there.


Some of my comments while being there:
I want to sell furniture.
I want to do this when I grow up.
I'm so happy with life.


I am sure there were a bajillion more things I said like that! I honestly see myself doing something like that someday. I can't explain what an amazing feeling it is to feel like you belong somewhere or to know you want to do something like that for the rest of your life. I want to spend my weekends at markets buying things for my store. I want to spend countless hours arranging my new inventory and working on inspiring displays.


Back to the furniture market, I had an absolute blast and even bought something! I have been wanting display hands forever.....and ever! I like the older ones that  that are specifically for displaying rings. Some of them sort of look like this one....

As much as I would love to have a vintage one I haven't come across one and been willing to let go of the amount that was on the price tag. I'm still searching :)

Anyways, I like random pieces like this and I like (display) hands in general, vintage or not, preferably unique. One of the home decor accessories dealers at the show had a set of hands that I fell in love with immediately! (I know that sounds really strange...hehe) I got the set for 9 dollars!!! They were one of my treasures for the day! On the way out of town we stopped at Atlanta Bread Company and ate a late lunch after that we stopped at an antique store and I found a little glass jewelry box thing...not really sure how to explain it. I have two others made kind of like it...they're perfect for holding my bracelets and earrings! It was my other treasure for the day :) I'll post pictures of them soon!

Sunday, my dad, mom, sister and I went out to eat for my parents 31st wedding anniversary! It's actually today but that was the only time we could celebrate as a family.

I love them so much and don't know what I would do without them!

and I love my daddy's face in this picture! :D

Love this crazy girl!



I had photography yesterday! We started working on scan-o-grams. He had us bring objects to class and then arrange them on a scanner, cover them with a black piece of fabric, and then scan that into the computer. We now have to edit these scans in photoshop and make one that is black and white. We will be using cameras from now on, but this was a neat project to start with. He showed us some examples of this technique in class. They were a little different than what we did, I thingk sort of a primitive form of scanning maybe (called photograms) but some of them are really neat. Here are a few...

Adam Fuss, My Ghost 1999

Stephanie Valentine



I had my interior design studio II class from 8:00 to 11:45 this morning. Our first project is a collage based on a painting. There is a little more detail to it than that, but in short that's it. I am pretty excited about this project and finding pieces to use in the collage. We had certain paintings that we had to choose from and this is the one I chose....

Lee Krasner

I hope everyone has a wonderful afternoon! My camera is in and I can't wait to start snapping pictures! I'm sure I will have tons to share with you soon :)

Don Henley-The Boys of Summer :)  I don't have a list of all time favorites....this would be pretty far up the list if I did though