swat. swat. swat.

 

flies beware.

early morning...

the sun is just coming up....

peaceful and quiet.....

late summer display.

As summer comes to an end

I've put away the glass sea floats

and brought out the vintage rag ball.

A little bit of summer still

and a hint of autumn.

negative space.

I am still basking in the

wonderfulness of empty space.

Our garage is SO empty it echoes.

And I am loving it.

Today's job?

We gave away all our big vintage clay pots,

but some of them were broken by the weather

over the years

so today I am picking up pot shards

from behind the potting shed

in anticipation of re-mulching

another now empty space.

Things around our house are LOOKING GOOD.

simplify, simplify, simplify.

I am one happy camper.

After the sale in my garage, I wanted to do a simple display

for a now blank wall.

(You can see this empty wall in a recent post.)

In the backyard I had a falling-apart table

so I used one of the table's side boards as a shelf.

And bought two $1.19 white brackets at home depot.  They are

barely noticeable under the shelf.

And now I have a shelf to display my vintage dishpan collection

for the first time ever.

I bought all the dishpans at local Estate Sales over

the span of many years.

And I can sit on my "curbside-find" bench

for the first time ever.

So it is a day of firsts.

And while the wall looked very interesting before the sale,

I am happy to say that most everything is living at new homes now!

Like I said, I am a happy camper.

a little rearranging after the sale.

Whew. After the Sale.

I still have plenty of fun stuff

to look at and enjoy in my garage.

It is all much tidier now.

At next year's sale it will be time

for more of it to go.

summary of antiques sale in photos.

Empty spaces

and 

a gift to myself for working so hard.

Announcement~ vintage and antiques sale.

 

By the end of the weekend 

my garage is going to be a lot emptier.

I have cleaned out the tiny house

and added everything in it to the sale.

If you are in the Chicagoland area contact

me by email or leave me a comment

and I will give you my address.

Sale days and hours~

August 7 and 8

Friday and Saturday

9 to 4.

my email address is

thepottingshed@sbcglobal.net

many, many, many vintage faucet handles for sale.....

In between working on getting my Antiques Sale ready

I have been stocking my shop full of vintage faucet handles.

Interest in vintage faucet handles always

picks up this time of year

so I wanted to be fully stocked.

If you have a project needing some

please see my vintage faucet handle section

of anythinggoeshere.etsy.com.

antique dress forms available at my sale~

Please email me if

you would like additional information.

day4~ less than 2 weeks to go.

The sale area is still expanding.

Moving toward the front of the garage

and around the corner in the back.

Less than 2 weeks until the sale.

Hurrah!

day 3~ update on my antiques sale preparations.

The sale's area and the merchandise are

both expanding.

I still haven't tossed that paint can,

but the pile in the middle is smaller.

Just keeping it real...

it looks bad until it looks better.

The sale is now less than 3 weeks away.

Back to work.....

more things that over-perform.

The gooseneck loosestrife is definitely 

over-performing this year.

 I  love their little goose heads.

 I keep them under control

with heavy thinning each year.

I loved them from the first time I saw a field

of blooming gooseneck loosestrife in a magazine.

If you like them too,

just don't plant them anywhere that

you do not want them to take over.


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