A sweet dresser à la mode

Anyone know what à la mode means?

Because I wasn't quite sure until I just looked it up. 
I was pretty sure it had something to do with ice cream, which can never be a bad thing.

à la mode: fashionable or stylish
or
topped with ice cream.

I think it describes this sweet dresser perfectly.









 





 She's lightly distressed, has cute little wheels, hardware is original, painted in Manhattan Mist by Behr with detail work in Windsor Haze, also by Behr.

For more information look under the "For Sale" tab at the top of the page.

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Also, I'm SO flattered to be featured on TWO blogs today! 
You can check it out here and here!


Thank you to these awesome women for featuring me!

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Farmer's Market

As I sit here typing this I am sincerly grateful that we survived this weekend. On Friday morning Rhett woke up with the stomach flu. Poor little man. When he get's sick we've had to take him to the hospital for an IV because he dehydrates easily so we were worried. Thankfully he seemed fine for most of the day, so we kept up a harried pace, trying to finish all the odds and ends we needed to get done for the market the next day. In the middle of all this we were told we had a tent to borrow, then that we didn't have one, then that we did and back and forth till we finally got our hands on one. Around 6PM we went to dinner with some friends and when we got home I promptly threw up my dinner and passed out on our bed for an hour.

All those aforementioned odds and ends equaled us being up till 1:30AM. Ugh. I don't know how I used to do that every night when I was still in school. And Rhett got sick again around 11PM that night.

We got up at 6AM and got everything loaded into the truck and headed over. We managed to get everything set up just in time to snap a few pictures and then it was BUSY!

Here are some pictures from before we got started.
(I apologize for the lack of quality of these pictures. We just had time to point and shoot and not mess with lighting etc. Better pictures will be coming tomorrow. :))










We have sales pending on booth dressers but other than that everything but the hutch sold! (!!!!) We met wonderful people, were blessed with great weather and Rhett waited till the end to get sick again as did I.

I am happy to report that this evening we are all feeling much better and none of us had to go get an IV this time. :) 

Vintage Eye Candy from Natalie at Natty by Design

Everyone, I'd like to introduce you Natalie from Natty by Design. She is an amazing furniture restorer and I read her blog religiously. And you should too. :) She is so talented at turning ugly duckies into beautiful swans. All of her work is vintage eye candy and if you need inspiration you should check her out! So keep reading and enjoy her beautiful work! Thanks again Natalie for sharing your talents with us!

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I'm Natty of Natty by Design and I looove refinishing vintage furniture.  There's not a whole lot more gratifying than fixing up something old and worn out.  With a little elbow grease and a lot of patience you can create something fabulous and unique.  Here are a few of my favorite resent transformations:

Vintage nightstands, before:
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After:
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Vintage desk, before:
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After:
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Vintage china cabinet:

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Check out my blog for more great before and afters!  Thanks for having me, Julia!

Aww thanks!

When I checked my email this morning I had the sweetest email from Tracy at The 2010's Housewife. (Isn't that such a cute blog name? I spent an embarrassing amount of time trying to come up with mine.) 


She's got a great blog with all sorts of tips, tricks, recipes etc to become a domestic goddess of sorts. :) Go check her out! She's got a recipe up now for Oatmeal Coconut Walnut Cake and it looks divine. And I usually don't like walnuts...they taste kind of like wood to me. :)

Anyway, her email said she was nominating my little blog for the Liebster Award. 


Me? At 551 East?! 


Thank you! 

I feel like this is the time to do my Miss America wave, cry a few tears of joy (even though I have kind of an ugly crying face) and tell you all how much I want world peace. Which I do!! 

But really, thank you SO much to everyone who follows, comments and just takes time to read 551 East. I've never thought of myself as a crafty/thrifty person so this is all new to me. :)

So I'd like to share this award with some of you! I'm supposed to pass it on to 7 other new and upcoming blogs so go check these guys out! 

This award goes to








Check em' out! 

A "little women" inspired desk and chair

Remember these beauties?


Well here they are...even more beautiful than before.

Can I get a cat call?! :)












Oh oh oh how I love them!
Can't you just see Beth or Marmee from Little Women sitting there reading or writing?

I kind of broke one of my own rules that I shared on my post on priming.
I didn't prime the desk. 
The wood grain was so gorgeous that I just didn't want to lose it. 

Both the chair and the desk are painted in Behr's Manhattan Mist.
The seat of the chair is reupholstered in cream burlap and stenciled with silver amethyst.
And that same color is inside each of the drawers as a little surprise when you open them.
Hardware is original. 

She's coming with us to the farmer's market this weekend! 

For more info look under the "For Sale" tab at the top of the page.

How was your weekend?

Ours way pretty great actually!

We did some of this


And spent a lot of time on this



 And ditto to doing this





Along with a little of this 


and that


Followed by more of this






And we knew when he started taking off


It was time to go get us some of this deliciousness from the Sweet Tooth Fairy.


How was your weekend? 

What did you do to celebrate Father's Day?

Jake got all of his favorite kinds of nuts. Cashews, peanuts, macadamia, almonds etc.
He's pretty easy to please. :)
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