Thursday, January 31, 2008

do your own thing

i love all the parts and pieces of the old, junk, antique, world ...... its fun finding the parts to sell and so rewarding making the parts useful again, and i love the variety that is possible......you can paint a door serious black or foo foo pink...its up to you.....
................you can do your own thing...........
i love hearing our customers stories about what they did with what they got from us....like old doors...they have been menu boards in a fancy resturant.....foo foo backdrops....counters....hinged displays, screens, walls...hall trees.....it just goes on and on.... every person has a different idea....
i try and get customers to send me pictures of their projects for our pin up page....
and windows....they have been paintings...places for photos, see thru dividers, snowflake displays, quilt samplers... greenhouses...etc etc....
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lots of parts of my world, and our store, are places where sanford and son could bump into martha stewart...farm auctions... flea markets, etc etc
.its a fine line between trash and treasure..... and our store needs the brave scroungers who will haul old house parts around or tear down an old barn, or salvage a truckload of windows with us instead of hauling them to the dump...