Latest Blog Posts for A Southern Belle With Northern Roots

• Upcycled Drawers Times Two
  on Dec 15, 2016 in Annie Sloan Paint chalk paint Furniture Hometalk Paint upcycle vintage love
  It all started when I picked up a couple mid century over sized drawers, my husband wondered what the heck I was going to do with them, so did I. I decided to add feet and make side tables out of them.   So, I told him about the idea, and a...
• To Heaven and Back
  on Mar 17, 2016 in Cranioectodermal dysplasia Dwarfism Grandparents grief infant loss Sensenbrenner syndrom
     For 3 years now we have been vendors of vintage and re-purposed items, part of the reason I have been such a bad blogger lately! Sometimes a show is slow...or gets slow and vendors begin to chat with one another. We find commonalities, h...
• Flashback Guest Room
  on Sep 2, 2015 in collections decorate Furniture junk style vintage love
   Our guest room has been in constant transformation since we became empty nesters. It had been done in lovely white- but was soon taken over with wedding materials and crafts for my daughters wedding. Soon after that I began Junkflirt, my busine...
• Buffet Media Stand
  on Feb 26, 2015 in curbside decorate junk style Mobile Home Paint upcycle
  My daughter and I were driving when these lovely legs sticking up by the trash caught my eye. I mean these were some nice gams! I couldn't look away.We quickly pulled over and saw this beautiful buffet just laying on the ground. Now...no drawers, no...
• Ideas for Wine Racks Hometalk Inspiration Board
  on Feb 25, 2015 in Hometalk upcycle wine racks
  I love finding a new use for an old piece. My tastes go toward vintage but there are lots of great ideas for upcycling and repurposing every day items into funtastic ways to store and display wine bottlesA new board at Hometalk has been created to in...
• Vintage Radio Dry Bar
  on Feb 5, 2015 in Annie Sloan Paint chalk paint create Furniture Paint upcycle
  We found a couple beautiful 1930's radio cabinets, in non working order and decided to give them new life as dry bars or book shelves.Even the befores were lovely, but they showed their years and needed some freshening up. After gutting and cleaning...
• Painted Furniture Projects
  on Oct 15, 2014 in Annie Sloan Paint chalk paint create Furniture The Graphics Fairy vintage love
  This year has been busy and I find myself spending my days in paint stained clothes, with green elbows, white fingertips and pink hair. Always unintended. I am one of those less than neat painters, to say the least. But I have managed to gather toget...
• Hometalk Countertop Idea Board
  on Sep 3, 2014 in countertops Hometalk
  About 50,000 of you have visited my posts on how we tackled our countertops, many more have pinned the posts. I have tried to keep updates on how the countertop fared over time. I can say I am about to repaint and seal it better. The last time we onl...
• Noah- Creating a Creator Movie Review
  on Aug 13, 2014 in Christianity creation Movies write
  Noah- the least biblical film ever made.That is what Aronofsky himself said about his film Noah, a self proclaimed atheist who wanted to do a new take on the old story. I ask this, Why bother?If you hate God, don't believe in his word and feel the ne...
• New Painted Furniture Projects
  on Jul 15, 2014 in Annie Sloan Paint chalk paint create Junkflirt Paint
  Finishing up some projects for our first out of town show. I love the pink and gray dresser, I just bought two new "old" dressers or I would have held on to her for sure!! Can you believe we found that large frame for free? We replaced the back board...

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