BEFORE and AFTERS and REDS

KIM at SAVVY SOUTHERN STYLE
has a brand new, FUN meme party every Wednesday
BEFORE and AFTER...
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How fun...
we all just love to see
BEFORE and AFTERS
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Kim is very sweet and works with you on what you can post.
She doesn't mind that it is a PAST POST...
which is what I have today...

BEFORE

All of my readers that have been with me for awhile

have seen my 

$5.00 THRIFTED LUMBER YARD DISPLAY RACK

that really wants, so badly, to be a BACKERS RACK

when it grows up.

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The lumber yard was going out of business, selling all the display racks, counters and etc.

While Mr. Sweet was checking out other things,

I bought the olden, metal rack

and was dragging it to the pickup when he came running behind me, saying,

"What the heck ?"

I looked back and was surprised that he could even SEE ME,

his eyes were rolled SO FAR back in his head.

I get that A LOT...

the rolled eyes....*sigh
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ANYway, I put ceramic tile across the top...to hold lots of THINGS...
and used it in this state for quite some time..

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AFTER....

 HE is the first to admit that he loves this old rack now...

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I gave it a pretty shade of FRENCH BLACK this summer,

added the vintage wire locker room baskets to hold pretty cookbooks..

hung my vintage brass, long-handled ladles to  the front..

hung the wonderful sign that SUSIE HARRIS made for me..

I'm tellin' ya, she does a FABULOUS job on her signs..

Pottery Barn knockoffs are her speciality...

If you are wanting to give a GREAT sign to someone on your CHRISTMAS list,

go over and browse thru her blog and ETSY SHOP

Stacked some pretty  dishes and added a big bucket of  real  IVY to soften things up...

those are vintage shuttered swinging doors, just propped up behind the rack...

and I love it all...

Also back during the summer,

we went to GOODWILL one day and it was

a day the ANGELS were smiling on moi...
I heard a heavenly CHOIR singing the minute I spotted THESE...

Those amazing huge brass candle sticks...3 and 4 dollars...

I nearly wet my pants.

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And that little wooden, ugly table...less than 3 dollars.

Oh, I had plans for ALL of these beauties...

Oh, yes, I had already spotted these

 WONDERFUL 

POTTERY BARN
candlesticks in their catalog.

MEGA bucks..

I gave my brass ones a couple coats of the best BLACK...That's them, on your right...

and, may I just say...

I like them MUCH better than PB's 'cause they didn't cost an arm and a leg and

I have the EXACT  same look...

I LOVE IT, YA'LL...

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The little wooden table got dressed in COLONIAL RED

and just shines, while it holds a stack of my beloved decorating magazines,
between my two blue, olden easy chairs...

HOWEVER..

in just this last week,

one of my favorite bloggers, DONNA, at
FUNKY JUNK INTERIORS

showed us how to make this TO. DIE. FOR. tabletop...

and MR. SWEET, the sweetie, said he would make it for me... but that 

I would have to do the painting on it...*gulp

isn't it just about the cutest thing you've ever seen.

I KNOW, before I even attempt it, that mine will

NEVER....

EVER...

IN A MILLION YEARS...

look like HERS...
*double heavy sigh

but, I gotta try...

or maybe I can get my sweet daughter, STACY LEIGH, to do it for me..

SHE IS GOOD !!

I hope you will go by and see all the

BEFORE and AFTERS...

and I am also linking with

SUE at REDNESDAY WEDNESDAY

If you like looking at RED...she will have bunches of it.

In the meantime...

HAVE A RUBY RED GRAPE and a STRAWBERRY with me.