Friday Fabulousness~ Lucketts and Fried Green Tomatoes.
I read Miss Mustardseed, do you? And by read, I mean obsess over the beautiful pictures and soak up her incredible knowlege of design and furniture as art. Then I buy things from Goodwill and attempt to recreate her final results.
Key word there was attempt.
Let’s just say, I’m learning. It’s true, with every piece I get better and it is easier. I make different and fewer mistakes, and I can now see exactly what I want to do with some ramdom banged up coffee table that I got for 15 bucks (vintagytraintablethankyouverymuch) I’ve got three things that should be ready to show you next week including one chair that I got at an estate sale I am attempting to reupolster. I have ZERO idea what I am doing, so it might be the funniest thing evah.
Anyway, as I was blathering on to TOTT about Miss Mustardseed and the mythical Lucketts fair she was selling her beautiful wares at, my beloved and so on board with whatever I am into husband says “You know that’s like 30 minutes from here, we should go tomorrow”
And we did. We should have taken the van because oh my gah I wanted it ALL!! Actually I want to know how to DO it all! We spent about an hour getting lost in the Luckett’s Antique store, every where you look was a treasure, everything was gorgeous!
I never would have thought of a yellow table, but I LOVE IT!
Finally we tore ourselves away from the store, and made our way to the fair! While TOTT and The Boss enjoyed the live music I went to find Miss Mustardseed. I am such a dork I was totally nervous! She was busy with customers so I got to look around her booth and see some off the pieces I covet. I wished again for the van, and three hundred or so bucks, because one of my favorite dressers was there…breathaking!I’m still dreaming of it. And then I saw it…the Ashtray Lamp. I was crazy utterly mad about when I saw it on her blog and my eyes just about bugged out of my head when there it was, waiting for me at Lucketts! I quickly sent TOTT over there to get the OK and he was like “Her stuff is amazing!”
no kidding, baby.
{can you hear my mother saying STAND UP STRAIGHT STEPHANIE! ugh.}
So I bought the lamp-which will not be used as an ashtray- and totes embarrassed myself by getting all fan gurl on her. Bless her -she was just a DOLL about all the oohing and aaaahing I was doing. To be truthful, she was just adorable and funny, it’s lovely when people you admire from the blogosphere turn out to be genuine and nice. Bonus? Her mom was there…I love a good mom/daughter relationship. I wanted to stay and humiliate myself with hero worshiping her, but The Boss was hungry, and it was hotter than the face of the sun so away we went.
Some idiot wore jeans. That idiot was me.
It wasn’t just all the beautiful things, and the incredible finds…{1950′s camera pen for 2 bucks? yes, thank you! TOTT has a quickly growing old camera collection that is really shaping up to be cool. I can’t wait to create a whole display for them!} It was a whole day- no computers or emails, no work. Just me, TOTT and The Boss. Live music, lemonade and fried green tomatoes.
It was fabulous.
What was fabulous in your life this week? I want to know! Link up and leave me a comment letting me know what was beautiful and fabulous for YOU!
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What? Who the heck is this Miss Mustardseed?!
Oh, I must visit her…
PS- Ashtray lamps are so cool! Not because they are ashtrays, but because anything that has dual purpose is awesome.
I totally agree, anything dual purpose is the shizz. I love my lamp. Have a great time looking at Miss Mustardseed’s blog, I envy you seeing it for the first time! I am so obsessed with redoing furniture and dream of having her skills…and she does it all with TWO TODDLERS. Miracle worker I tell ya.
I want that bed, including the draped cloth over it, and the blue, and yeah…I’m hooked now. Totally a follower of Miss Mustardseed now, thanks.
No, seriously, thanks. I’m going to be spending the next hour drooling over everything instead of doing something productive!
Oh yeah…have fun! Her stuff is amazing! And she shares how she did it, which is totally amazing considering she sells her stuff!I want everythingand fully plan on stealing her dining room init’s entirety when we move. LOL.
I love the Lucketts Fair. Wish I’d known you were going – I would have convinced Beer Geek to head out there.
Love the lamp. Wish I had any small amount of that talent.
I linked up. Thanks for helping me find something fabulous even when I’m not in the mood for it.
OMG! Love Miss Mustardseed’s stuff and must go to Lucketts Fair with you next time! Love love love! And I love that she blogged about you on her site! Following and will probably get all fan girl-ish or shy upon meeting her IRL!
I had a pain in the ass kind of week, so no linky from me.
How COOL that you got to meet her though! Her stuff is beautiful. One day I must own a yellow table of my own.
You are so sweet and it was great to meet you as well. I could tell that you hubby and little one were so supportive of their mom. I loved seeing that.
I hope our paths cross, again, and I would love to teach you how to do anything.
I have always wanted to be able to do that. Find some worn-out piece, see it for what it was and/can be, then have the time and talent to restore it. Good for you, that is an amazing talent to develop, not just for furniture, but in life.
Heaven!! Total HEAVEN! Thanks for sharing the link, I’m a follower now too!
I really need to go up by you. I swear I can’t find anything down here like you find up there!
Ohhhhh … excited about Miss Mustardseed ~ thanks for sharing her (o:
I love that store! Whenever I was in the Tyson’s Corner area we would take Rt 15 home and pass the Lucketts store and one day last October I decided to stop in and I wanted to buy every single thing in that store! It’s fantastic. I was actually on the phone with some people from work while I was in there and every 30 seconds I would stop talking and squeal to my husband “Omg, I want this!”