Let's Talk Vintage #98: To Chandy or Not to Chandy: Tales from the Flea

 

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Bebe is back in school and I finally have some extra time to work on projects and blogging! This years first-day-of-school was a little bit hard, emotionally, for me. She's just getting so big and so grown up! Anyway, this is where I am in life and I choose to embrace it. She even went to the fleamarket with me last week and was a big help.

This week I'm sharing a few of the pieces we found and added to my brick and mortar shop called Vintage & Co.
Now you will notice that I mark my photos with the name of the shop, which is a huge time saver because I also keep up with updating that site as well.

This was not my best photographic moment, but
it will do.

I came home with two large green, weathered, and naturally distressed shutters.

Plus...a coat rack and a pallet wood fence!

I lunged at this wire market basket for fear someone else may have spotted my treasure ... and then found the bicycle basket soon after.

I was pretty happy with my finds... we arrived pretty late so I thought there wouldn't be anything good left.

Then there was this:

 

Although it is hard to see here,

this gorgeous Victorian style chandelier

was just screaming "Buy me! Buy me!"

 

But in another ear I heard my hubby

saying "What? I have to re-wire this?"

 

You know how this story ends, right?

 

 

 

It has such wonderful style, and

 it had an even better price!

 

So now it sits in the store. Waiting

for me to figure out what to do with it.

 

The sockets for the lights seem

so much smaller than today's versions.

 

Do I just paint it and remove the

wiring and decorate with crystals?

 

Keep it gold?

 

Make it into a real working chandy?

 

Let me know what you think.

 

To chandy or not to chandy.

 

 

Now for this

week's features:

 

 

Kim of Camp and Cottage Living

showed us how she harvests lavender.

Lovely to look at and I can just smell it now!

 

 

 Melissa of Melissa's Antiques

shared her finds from the

World's Longest Yard Sale.

 

 

and Cecilia of My Thrift Store Addiction

turned a beat up metal cart

into a glamorous, rolling spa on wheels! 

 

 

 

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