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Cute Little Cabby
It’s a ThrowBackThursday and I thought I’d share one of my favorite makeovers with my new readers and a “remember this” with my “ride or die chicks” that’s been with me from day one 😉 thanks for hanging in there with me. Hope you enjoy reading it :
Saturday was such a beautiful day. The weather was absolutely wonderful and I decided to finally work on this little cabinet I got for free back in November. My sister was doing a house sale and it was an item that no one wanted..so she decided to bring it home, well she had no place for it and was going to dump it. Luckily I saved it just in time..I brought the cabinet home with me and kept it in the garage to air out.. It had the dreaded “OLD” smell… chuckles.. Let’s see.. of course I have to have music for my listening pleasure, so I popped in my Joe Simon and Lou Rawls cds along with a few other classics and began my project. The cabinet was still sturdy but the scraping and sanding was harder than I thought. I managed to get the surface somewhat smooth. This is the cabinet before:
I’m done sanding and scraping, so next comes the primer
Ooops,,, Almost forgot to tape the glass.. so I had to take care of that before I continue.. ..
Next comes the spray paint. I used the metallic silver as my selection.
Next – its LUNCH TIME,.. gotta take a break and lunch was ” Salmon burger w/monterey jack cheese and chips.. Yuuummmy 🙂
Back to work and I sprayed another coat of metallic paint …. this cabinet is turning out pretty good – 
It’s dry and time to put it to use…I figure in the bathroom for towels and toiletries would be perfect for now
The crystal candy dish makes a good powder puff dish – don’t cha think so too?
All done!! Another job done and all for less that $15.00… I just love great finds…
That Little Basket!
I was a kid watching Abbott & Costello, when I first Ella Fitzgerald sing this song. Today, as I listened to her sing this kiddie, joyful song of her little yellow basket, it brought me to post about these once used tobacco baskets. The tobacco basket was used until about 1980, to display tobacco taken to market. The crop is grown throughout North Carolina, primarily on family farms. According to the NC Dept. of Agriculture, North Carolina farmers today produce approximately 2/3 of the US crop of flue-cured tobacco.
After sorting and grading, the leaves were tied into “hands.” A hand of tobacco weighed about 1 pound if made of tips or lugs and about 2 – 3 pounds if made from cutters. A hand of tobacco is a group of leaves tied together at the stem end. The end is wrapped in another cured leaf.
The hands were then laid in the tobacco basket in a circle with the stem ends pointing to the outside. The baskets were then loaded and taken to the tobacco warehouse where they were sold at auction. Today these baskets are used for more decorative purposes.
Placed neatly behind this lamp – it makes for the perfect backdrop
Very creative way to display the modern deerhead
The entryway was accented with the basket above the table flanked with candleholders
Here it makes for excellent wall art in this bedroom
A wreath made of cotton is attached to the tobacco basket and hung on the outside of the home
When placed behind the mirror, it gives the mirror more eye appeal
and the perfect accent for a country kitchen
Tobacco baskets are old and some are even broken, but they still offer an array of ways to decorate with them. They may not be the type of basket Ella sings about but, it’s the basket I chose to write about. However, if I found Ella’s basket I’d like to give her this and say “Thank You” for making a beautiful music.
Darling Little Boxes
If you’re like me.. I tend to carry a few Advils in my purse.. cause I never know who’s gonna give me a headache.. chuckles. Well this post is to show you how to carry them in style.. Vintage Style – that is… Ode to the loveable pill box… I just adore carrying this little darling in my purse.. and when someone needs a pill and they see me pull that classy little box out my purse… Ohhhh how excited they get when they see it.. 🙂 Saying little compliments like “aren’t you all fancy-smancy with the pills..” and my simple response is (in my playfully coy tongue) … “Don’t hate” – smile followed by….chuckles…. Let me show you my darling little boxes – one is a pill box and the other – unbelievable – but guess what.. A contact lens case… (Those Vintage ladies had the best accessories). Pill boxes and lens cases nowadays are just hard plastic with no class or finesse about them.. smh.. oh well .. I got mine and I’m happy about that..
Aren’t they darling? All jeweled out looking fancy-smancy.. and take a look inside…. fully equipped for the necessary items
Of course there’s a mirror inside the case to use when taking out the lens 
They thought of everything.
Now, say I’m laying in bed and need my pills, well this little beauty sits on my nightstand..
When you open the case the pills are stored inside the lid bottom with a little cover marked “pills”. Also, you notice there’s no glass to take the pill …well- no need because this is a “two-in-one”.. a pill box and a cup… (I know you’re trying to figure it out.. but look close….. it rises…
How neat is that…. !!!!
Then collapses back down when you’re all done 
Who’d ever thought that taking pills and removing contact lens could be so classy….It’s just little things like this that makes me appreciate the finer things in life 🙂 and it’s simply- as always…… VivaLaVintage!!! Ciao!
ps…. If you care to purchase your little “touch of class” pill box, let me know.. I’m sure Pieces of Time can accommodate your desire..
Cute Little Cabby
Saturday was such a beautiful day. The weather was absolutely wonderful and I decided to finally work on this little cabinet I got for free back in November. My sister was doing a house sale and it was an item that no one wanted..so she decided to bring it home, well she had no place for it and was going to dump it. Luckily I saved it just in time..I brought the cabinet home with me and kept it in the garage to air out.. It had the dreaded “OLD” smell… chuckles.. Let’s see.. of course I have to have music for my listening pleasure, so I popped in my Joe Simon and Lou Rawls cds along with a few other classics and began my project. The cabinet was still sturdy but the scraping and sanding was harder than I thought. I managed to get the surface somewhat smooth. This is the cabinet before:
I’m done sanding and scraping, so next comes the primer
Ooops,,, Almost forgot to tape the glass.. so I had to take care of that before I continue.. ..
Next comes the spray paint. I used the metallic silver as my selection.
Next – its LUNCH TIME,.. gotta take a break and lunch was ” Salmon burger w/monterey jack cheese and chips.. Yuuummmy 🙂
Back to work and I sprayed another coat of metallic paint …. this cabinet is turning out pretty good – I think
It’s dry and time to put it to use…I figure in the bathroom for towels and toiletries would be perfect for now
The crystal candy dish makes a good powder puff dish – don’t cha think so too?
All done!! Another job done and all for less that $15.00… I just love great finds…