So this is one of the finds I recently came across while treasure hunting.
A find that I just couldn't leave alone and one I don't really need…but I mean how could I leave her? This, unfortunately, is, an Occupational Hazard in this game (and you can find other things I just *had to bring home, a roadside shabby old stool here and a wonderful one here!).
Does she not have Beach Cottage already written just about all over…??
I actually love the way the little drawer sits up above the legs with just enough room underneath for a nice rustic basket filled with rugs and blankets…she's in desperate need of some love..a lick of fresh beachy white paint…a good old clean…
edited to add: I don't think I made this clear: this is the before, found it like this in white, but pics make it look better than it is, it's quite dirty and paintwork is patchy..so it will get the BC Treatment!
Someone cut her open at some point, she's sporting quite a few knocks and bumps…showing age and wear, she is topped with a sweet-as little latch..and she wobbles just enough…
She speaks to me. In Vintage Speak. You speak Vintage too. Right?
{ And talking about Vintage Speak, my daughter had a to do one of those, Hello My Name is things the other day, and she asked me what I would say… they then had to sit with a partner, find things out about each other and then give a quick intro on the other person…you know those scenarios, right?
Can I just say, I find something extremely cringe-worthy about these ice-breaker exercises…and if I ever find myself in one of those situations…which, I'll have you know, I spend a lot of my life scheming to avoid, my heart sinks to my boots…}
So I thought we might have ourselves a little Beach Cottage Hello My Name is session
…'cos I could just about stomach it with you..
Hello, my name is Sarah. I speak fluent Vintage.
Vintage Beach. With a French Accent.
And my poor partner would elaborate like this…
Sarah likes to Treasure Hunt, twenty-four seven.
She is constantly on the lookout for vintage things.
She loves old battered beauties, marked with love and time.
The tattier the better.
She has a strange need to bring unloved furniture into her cottage.
You may find her, at any given time, doing the Vintage Treasure Hunting Dance.
Her cottage is old, unfinished, tatty, on the wrong side of town, but the right side of the world.
She's loves the pureness & simplicity of white.
If you are not simple enough or pure enough & stand still she may paint you white.
Her Beach Tribe, know and feed her love. Though they roll their eyes a lot.
They bring her Vintage Finds to avoid the Beach Cottage Witch
She loves the Beach vibe…but only mixed with a Vintage Hue.
She makes friends with furniture and nurses it back to life.
So c'mon Beach Chicks, how about you? Do you speak Vintage too?
See you all another time…and yep I'm taking those coffee comments on board
you'll find me Down Under, wearing a Witch's Hat, painting things white and possibly doing a raindance…
p.s …don't forget the Giveaway (*comments from today will be thrown in the hat)
I love the patterned door panels on this cabinet. You don’t find stuff like that built much anymore. And you painted it white…so you, Sarah. So how do you determine when something gets painted gray?
Too funny! I speak vintage book and I relate to objects and for that matter, people whose “binding is not secure”…”leaves are a smidge loose” & whose “edges show a bit of shelf-wear” ! ;} And your latest find is just enchanting!
Vintage – with a French accent! What a perfect way to describe a feeling I would love to have – maybe someday. At least I am trying to head in that direction.
Question – I guess I’ve been quietly reading your blog for some time….Take this piece for instance…Did you strip it then paint it? I guess everyone has an imaginary life tucked away…Your cottage would definitely be in mine…..
This one’s a beauty-good find! We have no place to find any of the treasures you do and believe me, I am always on the look out. You know when your eyes are always wide open driving past an alleyway or trash day!
Where will you be putting this? I just love it when you show us a new treasure – also, do you use the same color white for everything?
Have a great day!
Sarah
Hi, I speak vintage, too. and, beach, and shells, and sand, and pretty, and cottagy, and family, and dogs, and nature, and ocean, and God, and life. But, not necessarily in that order. Your blog adds so much to my life, that I should also say that I speak “Sarah and A Beach Cottage” as well. Can’t wait to see your new piece when she’s done!
Another Sarah find. She’s a beauty. Obviously, I speak vintage and white and I could go on and on…You know the drill…I’m Ginger and I speak mostly bring home any stray piece of vintage furniture in need of a good loving home and provide it the paint and shelter it needs! Sounds about right!
She is lovely Sarah and would definitely have come home with me regardless of what hubby might have said/thought I’m on the lookout for a beauty just like her.
That pie safe is SO pretty especially with a fresh coat of white paint…white paint cures everything!
Hello I’m Kat and I speak beachy, vintage, quirky, handmade, much loved and overlooked things!
My partner (ok my family) would say. Kat is a little nutty and can sometimes resemble a 13 year old boy with her humor rather than a 46 year old mom! She is silly, fun loving and kissy/huggy! She obsesses about cool “stuff” and keeps bringing things home that we have no room or need for, but we love her anyway and we continue to feed her “need” by giving her more things because we love her and she loves us! She can be brought to teas by a special card or a simple flower, but she’s also a tough cookie who can hang with the big boys. Oh, and she’s pretty darn cool too because she can sometimes kick out butts in Call of Duty!
And did we mention that Kat also needs an editor…because she types more quickly than her brain can handle! Tears* and Our*…sheesh…she clearly needs more caffeine this morning!
Yes, I speak vintage…mainly love me as I am vintage, because somehow I never manage to paint the way I planned. I never met an old cupboard I didn’t like. I have four in my small house, but could always use one more.
i understand more than i can speak, but i’m learning! what are the “window panels” made of? tin? that is quite the find. i mean is this stuff just out there with a ‘for sarah’ sign on it on the side of the road? or are you skulking about tired parts of the city (are there any there?) for these treasures? you amaze me.
i got the ok for the beadboarding the bathroom, but now mr.house is part of the project. could be good, or not. progress is slow.
off to dogsit, with plain old but LOVED latte! jkj
Hi, people close to me know me as Cindy, I love old stuff. It doesn’t have to be perfect, just paintable and have pretty lines. I too hate icebreakers. But this is easy!
I love your new find, it is gorgeous, I can’t wait to see where you put it and do with it.
What a beautiful find Sarah!! You never cease to amaze me with these wonderful finds of yours…gee how I wish they left things like that on the side of our roads. ;o)
I most certianly speak vintage and the great love I have for it. I would also say that I speak create, the need to make something out of nothing.
That is a wonderful cabinet. Even if you didn’t need it – you Need It. What will you store in it? I love its high standingness. Besides its good looks, it promises to hide and organize things – that makes my heart pitter patter.
Vintage is the best language of them all…with French coming in a close second. Ah, the romance of them both! The new find is simply beautiful. I just LOVE the doors with their white tin (?) inserts. Another treasure lucky enough to make its way into Sarah’s lovely cottage – a great find indeed!
I think there is something to love or admire in everyone and just about every thing. People who feel a heart-tug for old objects are recognizing this fact, but I think they are also the type of people who appreciate that the little things in life are what enrich that life. A houseful of brand new furniture would not thrill me as much as finding something like that cabinet, then sprucing it up to make it all mine. Doing this shows an appreciation for the continuity of life, the passing of time, and the urge to slow it down – especially once one gets past age 40. I like to ponder who had my fiestaware and jadeite before me, what kind of lady was she, and would she be pleased to know that I love and appreciate her dishes so many years later. Same with my old furniture that has been re-born…it’s like a hand reaching from the past into the present and shaking mine.
That’s just lovely. I’d be so dangerous if my husband didn’t reign me in and remind me that we’re in our little apartment for a few more years and have plenty of furniture already. I love the hardware on your piece!
Love this find! Love your blog as well, Sarah! Thank you!
I was born and raised in Michigan, a stone’s throw away from the sandy dune beaches of Lake Michigan.
I now live in Missouri, far south of my beloved Michigan. Rarely visit anymore.
But my dream has always been to own a beach cottage on a sandy Lake Michigan beach. This is only a pipe dream for me–never gonna happen–so I live my dream in your blog, Sarah, especially your beautiful whitewashed look, which triggers memories of bleached driftwood from the Lake Michigan beachy times of my youth.
I love that pie safe–wish I could find things like that. I love vintage, especially books. And furnishings. And houses. I also love beach and sea and shells.
that’s a lovely cupboard. I have to admit that I tend to go for the brand new rather than the vintage, but this is quite lovely and definitely suits you and your house!
You are too cute Sarah~ love this post and your new ‘vintage’ find! I’m with you on the dread of ice breaker exercises in any and every setting!
Hugs~
T
Hi I am Marianne, I love all things vintage and like to call my house a nest.
Great find, but can I just ask you one question that has been bothering me for weeks now?
Do you still have room to walk in your tatty old cottage, or is it actually a castle? You bring home so many wonderful treasures, you either have no floor space left or you are secretly selling them of somewhere. Do you ship to Holland? Because I have my eyes on some or your finds….
You are so funny sarah ! When your looking around for things do you ever wonder where you will put it . You find such great things but will there come a time you can’t fit anymore in your lovely house and what will you do . That seems to be my problem sometimes I see things but think I don’t have anywhere to put it .
Oh my goodness, she is beautiful, where did you find her??Love, love,love!
The last photo shows her true colours,ohhhhh metal panels, they are gorgeous!
Sue
You have done it again! Gorgeous. I speak vintage and wish it were spring here so I could get going. There is always room for anything vintage. Can’t wait to see where it goes and what you do with it…of course it will be white. I have been hibernating and cleaning my nest this winter, dreaming of garage sales and making lists. You have given me plenty of ideas. Thanks Sarah.
Kathleen H
Hello Sarah, I speak, smell, see and hear all things vintage with a passion. Your cabinet is your best find so far this year and I love how the legs are high for a basket underneath filled with creamy white blankets.
Have a great weekend,
Terri
Hello.
My name is Cherrie and I also speak vintage, though without the french accent,probably more fake Italiano.
I love collecting old things.
Even if I don’t need them. I can’t wait for this Sunday to be the first to check out our local hard rubbish collection.
I want anything I find.
Just because.
Cherrie
I speak my own weird Vintage dialect. Right now it is 70′s bamboo-like furniture-don’t know why or how, it just ended up that way! In the past I have a had a chair fetish and I still have a collection of cricket chairs-love’em! That cabinet is an awesome find!
G'day! I'm Sarah, I live in a tatty old cottage, near the sea in Australia with a battered old deck & a big old fig tree out the back...stripped wooden floors, old sash windows & a jumble of vintage furniture. [Read More …]
Beach Cottage ladies, we have some vintage linen and some wood/twig washed up on the beach today here in Beach Cottage Land….don’t say I don’t keep you entertained now will you . Â Come on in. So, yep I have posted about colanders on this blog, about things sourced from the side of the road, about [...]
G'day ladies, let's have a Too Easy Beach Cottage recipe yeah? Â The original place for Too Easy Recipes on the web ;-)
So, after my last salad went down a storm in my inbox, that's here if you missed it, I had to do this one seeing as I make it most weeks.
There is a problem with this salad and kiddos though...it looks, well, it looks, kinda yucky...but once they try it, they'll ask if and when they are next having it....at least that's what happens in this ratty old cottage...but I must interject here that my kiddos are 'good eaters'? ...they didn't get a choice in that ;-)
Now, stop, don't start running and hitting that next on your blog reading list, pulses are your best friend in the Too Easy Dump & Go kitchen for the busy mum, or busy anyone for that matter...that reminds me I must blog the garlic canneloni Go To for when you forgot to do dinner, feel like a bath but have three ravenous young Beach Cottage Kiddos on your hands...another day.
I am almost embarrassed to tell you how easy this is, we have it so much that I always have a couple, make that six, cans of lentils around and a jar of goat's cheese in the fridge...the great thing about this is that it's all too easy to get ready in just a few minutes, but it looks, tastes and seems like you did oh so very much more than that.
You can obviously too change it up a bit depending on what you have to hand in your kitchen, and I must say that is how I settled on this version...because one day when I made it I didn't have enough Parsley in the garden and so I chucked in some basil too, and liked the Summer feel it added.
I think of this as being a rather posh salad, not sure why, because it couldn't really be further from the truth...the great thing is that it works so well for an average run of the mill day, (when I did this for this blog post, it was a hot Sydney Sunday and I did it just simply to go with Rosemary & Garlic stuffed pork, you can see that pork here),
...but just as easily it works on a regular old Wednesday night when you have lost all enthusiasm for rustling up yet another meal, or indeed on Saturday night, when your friends are on their way over for dinner and you my friend, are in your new vintage inspired clawfoot bathtub (that's me in a few weeks time, k?) without any clothes on, a tipple and no idea what to cook for dinner...
I have a complicated and ever-changing relationship with goat's cheese...it never fails me in its performance and it never fails to impress me (you can find out a bit more on what I like in food here if you like) and I kinda collect it...because it's very easy to collect and has a fairly long fridge-life, I love trying out different ones and there's not many things I love more than goat's cheese on sourdough...but I think the best thing about it is not thinking about it exclusively in the toast/salad department...I've stuffed it in chicken and all sorts of things as a last minute and it's been fab.
But let's get down to the nitty gritty of this super salad that makes you look like an angel who has been on her knees all day scrubbing the front step when really you are in the digital world and spent most of ...
G'day Beach Cottage ladies, howdy, howdy howdy today for a Beach Cottage Too Easy recipe.
If you like cake, cream, sugar and chocolate, make this.
This is, rather than a recipe, a putting it together...as you know I am no dessert maker, but, I do make quite a few sweet things, because, somehow I have ended up with kiddos, who in their roles as offspring, believe that part of the deal, is that not only do I feed them a home-cooked meal with a few homegrown ingredients in there, yes, they also believe that dessert and not the kind that comes out of a packet is included too in this All-Inclusive Deal they call Parenthood.
So, this, for sure, is no culinary masterpiece, but if you are looking for something that is so very easy, dump-able, uses everyday ingredients and at the same time makes you look like you spent hours pulling things together plus tastes good....well, then this is for you.
Best though, you don't make this for yourself, if you have spent the most part of your week sitting on your derriere reading blogs...this my friend ain't low in the calories department...if, however, you are treating yourself to a delight in a mason jar, this is so for you.
I first had a version of this when at dinner back in Old Blighty with a girl, I once, in another life, caught the train up from our village to London with...she was a funny thing really...I am not quite sure how we got on...she was kinda prissy and a bit bothered by too much...I would run to the train flustered, having got up late, and she would have a spreadsheet on the train times, if you know what I mean.
Anyway, a few years later when we both had bambinos, I bumped into her again and we met up for playdates and dinner sometimes....this particular night, after a lovely meal she served up little bowls of creamy, cakey fruity stuff topped off with chocolate flake...it was delicious!
She didn't serve hers in little jars like this, hers were in a champagne glass and not quite so layered as these ones, plus she used tinned fruit not fresh or frozen.
Years later when said offspring kept requesting dessert, one day I wangled together somehow these from what was around in the fridge and they've been with us ever since.
Most likely, if you ever come here for dinner, and shock horror, you dont' bring the dessert with you, this, if you are lucky, will be what you will get.
Throw it all together, sprinkle a lil bit of chocolate on the top and the blog reading past-time you so rudely left in order to make this, is my friend, your oyster.
Beach Cottage Too Easy Layered Raspberry, Cream & Sponge Dessert
1 small maderia or butter cake or a pack of cupcakes (or of course make your own)
1/2 cup whipping cream
1/2 cup cream cheese
1/4 cup sugar
8 tbsp fruit
1 x chocolate Flake or chocolate bar for grating
 1. beat the cream cheese  until it is soft
2. Â whip the cream until soft peaks form
3. combine & add the sugar through
4. cut your cake into portions
& layer into the bottom of your jar
5. add a tablespoon of fruit
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6. layer on top the cream combo
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7. repeat
8. grate chocolate or Flake on top
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*Beach Cottage Recipe Notes : this is just a guide really, you can use any cream that you have on hand...I have made this with clotted cream (don't even go there unless you want to seriously get these babies on your thighs), with double cream and I have even, in desperate times squirted in that, ...
G'day Beach Cottage ladies, well I thought it was time for some blogging tips here today, alongside a few nice flowers and shells ;-)Â
I was recently part of a blogger discussion group over at Kidspot and a couple of hours later had a few questions from girls who couldn't make it to the live chat, one was on my Facebook page and one via email, the Facebook one I will deal with in another Real Girl Blogging Tips post...the email one asked me what essentials do I think every blog needs?
Well I have been around here for a while now doing the blogging thing, so I should know this, yeah and I mused this on my walk by the sea this morning I thought well what do you only need?
...I think it is really very easy when blogging, whether or not you are blogging up there in the lofty heights of the Super Bloggers or you are just dipping your toe in the water, to get side-tracked by 101 million different things that are 'essential' to your blog and if you are someone like me who actually gets a thrill from reading blogging tips then you are in an even worse place because you will find yourself literally buzzing with these essential things to add/do/implement on your blog.
However, walking along, gulping down that brisk sea air today (no sunshine & clouds) I thought you actually don't need any of that professional blogging stuff to be successful...but there are a few things that are pretty much crucial ...and once I started to think about it I got it down to about 5 - these are the only things that you need to concentrate on...once you have read through take a look at some of the big girl's blogs...you'll see that actually they don't have bundles of stuff on their blogs...but they do have all of these...
So here are my top things that your blog must have
1. About Page
There are all sorts of About Pages out there, and if you search on it there are many different tips and ideas for what to have on yours
Whatever blogging platform you use, adding an About Me Page is easy, quick and simple and will do everything to grow your blog.
I like a long-ish About Page, I am inherently nosy and I like to know a bit more about the person but at the least you should have on it your name and where you are located. Â I also think a photo is good too...over the last year or so I think this has become more important in blogging - if you are hesitant about that as I was, you can try using sunglasses or a behind shot until you get comfortable.
There is nothing worse than stumbling upon a new blog and going to find out more to only be faced with a piddly little one liner About Me Page...well there is something worse, not having one at all!
2. Contact Page
The chances are someone, somewhere will want to contact you and you will be surprised what lands in your inbox once you put yourself out there on the world wide web with a blog.
Many bloggers also use this page to include details for PR's/brands that may want to contact them and some bloggers put their stats on there too.
A short, to the point and simple Contact Page works really well...whenever I have wanted to contact another blogger I am often very busy and have limited time so I don't want to hang around sifting through information looking for an email address, so concise and clear ...
G'day lovely Beach Cottage lovelies.
So, yeah, so on a roll people, so on a roll.Â
I feel kinda home accessory wired right now.
I am always telling people, if anyone ever listens, that blogging is all about passion, not that sort of passion, but about passion that makes one tick.
Things like this make me tick tick boom.
I love finding things that suit my budget and let me treat my home but look amazing too.
So without further adieu I introduce you, ladies of the beach, to the blue vintage glasses that I have been stroking for about a week or two now...
These glasses are from a little boutique I sometimes happen upon, this boutique sells also pet accessories, carpet cleaner, bras and compost...it's quite unique though.
And, thanks to my friend Marnie (she blogs over here, go take a look at her praying position, interesting), who just so happens to be one day having me over for a lil' Greek dinner, has let me in on the fact that we call Kmart....The KMart...with an accent ....as in 'I love The KMart'...just like her MIL does. Â Oh yeah. Â Love that.
So I have had my eye on reproduction vintage glass blue wine glasses and being trying to find real true vintage blue glasses for like ever.
Oh yes I have spied them in Frenchy boutiques, I have lusted after them in stores that I shouldn't even enter and I have put them back pretty quickly in those shops with the hand-written price tags. Â C'mon, you know the ones.
And, though all of the above have tempted me, muchly, really, even with my wardrobe stashing skills I just thought that, actually, I'd rather be saving that casherooni for our next trip overseas..
Hello The KMart.
Tick Tick Boom
Vintage style blue wine glasses.
Do not come to my old place and think you might pick up one of these and smile with pleasure at their handblown quality, their weight, and be secretly jealous that my wine glasses cost more than your car...friend, that would not happen...these do not feel like that...indeed these in a funny way reminded me of my baby girl, she was a tiny little thing, with stick legs, the tinsssssssiest ankles and wrists you ever did see, she slept sideways in her cot wedged in between rolled up blankets and would only settle attached to Mr Beach Cottage or I or a (dirty) pj top of mine scrunched up under her nose...the first few times I picked her up to cuddle, being used to Honeymoon Baby who weighed in at 9lbs at birth and has never really stopped growing, I nearly threw her little bird-cum-rat down covered body over my shoulder.
These glasses are like that...be careful or you might lose your wine down the front of your shirt.
But oh baby, we are not talking picking up here, we are not talking quality, we are not talking house accessory snobbery.
Beach Cottage ladies, we are talking aesthetics.
And this is what I need in my cottage.
Blue vintage style glass, paired with coastal / nautical / beach stuff on my deck.
It's The KMart.
Tune in tomorrow, tomorrow, I have more budget foofing for your home, or maybe it will be the dress that wraps me up in supermarket-chic and makes me feel like me again.
Good Day to you my friends, wanna come hang out on my deck, talk house accessories, The KMart and drink some wine from blue glasses?
Sarah
I love the patterned door panels on this cabinet. You don’t find stuff like that built much anymore. And you painted it white…so you, Sarah. So how do you determine when something gets painted gray?
Jan
BellaCasa
I speak vintage! And I think this find is my favorite of all.
P.S. I’d like to see a video of the Beach Cottage Witch doing the Vintage Treasure Hunting Dance. I’m sure there are others who share my wish
Too funny! I speak vintage book and I relate to objects and for that matter, people whose “binding is not secure”…”leaves are a smidge loose” & whose “edges show a bit of shelf-wear” ! ;} And your latest find is just enchanting!
m ^..^
Vintage – with a French accent! What a perfect way to describe a feeling I would love to have – maybe someday. At least I am trying to head in that direction.
We have these new advisories at school and last week we had to do those stupid “get-to-know-you” games. I hate them and the kids did, too.
But I love yours! It’s like a poem!
Hello, my name is Linda and I like to turn life into poetry. I love old things with stories to tell.
Great post, Sarah!
Question – I guess I’ve been quietly reading your blog for some time….Take this piece for instance…Did you strip it then paint it? I guess everyone has an imaginary life tucked away…Your cottage would definitely be in mine…..
This one’s a beauty-good find! We have no place to find any of the treasures you do and believe me, I am always on the look out. You know when your eyes are always wide open driving past an alleyway or trash day!
Where will you be putting this? I just love it when you show us a new treasure – also, do you use the same color white for everything?
Have a great day!
Sarah
crikey!!! i wish i could find something like that, she is adorable oxo
Hi, I speak vintage, too. and, beach, and shells, and sand, and pretty, and cottagy, and family, and dogs, and nature, and ocean, and God, and life. But, not necessarily in that order. Your blog adds so much to my life, that I should also say that I speak “Sarah and A Beach Cottage” as well. Can’t wait to see your new piece when she’s done!
Bien sûr!
je parle vintage
tu parles vintage
il/elle/on parle vintage
nous parlons vintage
vous parlez vintage
ils/elles parlent vintage
Lets parlons vintage toujours!
(With apologies to Miles Kington and Franglais)
Another Sarah find. She’s a beauty. Obviously, I speak vintage and white and I could go on and on…You know the drill…I’m Ginger and I speak mostly bring home any stray piece of vintage furniture in need of a good loving home and provide it the paint and shelter it needs! Sounds about right!
She is lovely Sarah and would definitely have come home with me regardless of what hubby might have said/thought
I’m on the lookout for a beauty just like her.
That pie safe is SO pretty especially with a fresh coat of white paint…white paint cures everything!
Hello I’m Kat and I speak beachy, vintage, quirky, handmade, much loved and overlooked things!
My partner (ok my family) would say. Kat is a little nutty and can sometimes resemble a 13 year old boy with her humor rather than a 46 year old mom! She is silly, fun loving and kissy/huggy! She obsesses about cool “stuff” and keeps bringing things home that we have no room or need for, but we love her anyway and we continue to feed her “need” by giving her more things because we love her and she loves us! She can be brought to teas by a special card or a simple flower, but she’s also a tough cookie who can hang with the big boys. Oh, and she’s pretty darn cool too because she can sometimes kick out butts in Call of Duty!
Kat
And did we mention that Kat also needs an editor…because she types more quickly than her brain can handle! Tears* and Our*…sheesh…she clearly needs more caffeine this morning!
Kat
Yes, I speak vintage…mainly love me as I am vintage, because somehow I never manage to paint the way I planned. I never met an old cupboard I didn’t like. I have four in my small house, but could always use one more.
i understand more than i can speak, but i’m learning! what are the “window panels” made of? tin? that is quite the find. i mean is this stuff just out there with a ‘for sarah’ sign on it on the side of the road? or are you skulking about tired parts of the city (are there any there?) for these treasures? you amaze me.
i got the ok for the beadboarding the bathroom, but now mr.house is part of the project. could be good, or not. progress is slow.
off to dogsit, with plain old but LOVED latte! jkj
Hi, people close to me know me as Cindy, I love old stuff. It doesn’t have to be perfect, just paintable and have pretty lines. I too hate icebreakers. But this is easy!
I love your new find, it is gorgeous, I can’t wait to see where you put it and do with it.
Hugs, Cindy S.
What a beautiful find Sarah!! You never cease to amaze me with these wonderful finds of yours…gee how I wish they left things like that on the side of our roads. ;o)
I most certianly speak vintage and the great love I have for it. I would also say that I speak create, the need to make something out of nothing.
Have a great day!!
I’m fluent in vintage. It’s lovely to know so many speak it too!!
It’s gorgeous, and looks so nice with it’s fresh coat. Yes, I speak vintage as well. I love vintage linens and wooden furniture.
That is a wonderful cabinet. Even if you didn’t need it – you Need It. What will you store in it? I love its high standingness. Besides its good looks, it promises to hide and organize things – that makes my heart pitter patter.
Vintage is the best language of them all…with French coming in a close second. Ah, the romance of them both! The new find is simply beautiful. I just LOVE the doors with their white tin (?) inserts. Another treasure lucky enough to make its way into Sarah’s lovely cottage – a great find indeed!
I think there is something to love or admire in everyone and just about every thing. People who feel a heart-tug for old objects are recognizing this fact, but I think they are also the type of people who appreciate that the little things in life are what enrich that life. A houseful of brand new furniture would not thrill me as much as finding something like that cabinet, then sprucing it up to make it all mine. Doing this shows an appreciation for the continuity of life, the passing of time, and the urge to slow it down – especially once one gets past age 40. I like to ponder who had my fiestaware and jadeite before me, what kind of lady was she, and would she be pleased to know that I love and appreciate her dishes so many years later. Same with my old furniture that has been re-born…it’s like a hand reaching from the past into the present and shaking mine.
That’s just lovely. I’d be so dangerous if my husband didn’t reign me in and remind me that we’re in our little apartment for a few more years and have plenty of furniture already. I love the hardware on your piece!
Love this find! Love your blog as well, Sarah! Thank you!
I was born and raised in Michigan, a stone’s throw away from the sandy dune beaches of Lake Michigan.
I now live in Missouri, far south of my beloved Michigan. Rarely visit anymore.
But my dream has always been to own a beach cottage on a sandy Lake Michigan beach. This is only a pipe dream for me–never gonna happen–so I live my dream in your blog, Sarah, especially your beautiful whitewashed look, which triggers memories of bleached driftwood from the Lake Michigan beachy times of my youth.
I love the new “find”. I speak vintage but my husband – not so much, so I guess we balance each other out
I love that pie safe–wish I could find things like that. I love vintage, especially books. And furnishings. And houses. I also love beach and sea and shells.
I speak flutent vintage too and I think I learned it from my Aunts who have spoke it all their life.
I love that cabinet!! I speak vintage with a southern country drawl!
Very nice find! Love it. Love the tall legs. Is that tin panels in the doors?
that’s a lovely cupboard. I have to admit that I tend to go for the brand new rather than the vintage, but this is quite lovely and definitely suits you and your house!
What a GREAT cabinet! I have spoken vintage for far too long…………house is FULL and I still look. oh well……..
Hello, my name is Pat and I AM vintage!
I love that cabinet, Sarah and I just noticed the cove ceiling! Wow! Love it!
You are too cute Sarah~ love this post and your new ‘vintage’ find! I’m with you on the dread of ice breaker exercises in any and every setting!
Hugs~
T
Love this cabinet! The love the fun texture detail
Hi I am Marianne, I love all things vintage and like to call my house a nest.
Great find, but can I just ask you one question that has been bothering me for weeks now?
Do you still have room to walk in your tatty old cottage, or is it actually a castle? You bring home so many wonderful treasures, you either have no floor space left or you are secretly selling them of somewhere. Do you ship to Holland? Because I have my eyes on some or your finds….
You are humerous! I speak vintage/old/rustic/wood/used and CREAM! I do wish I had a beach cottage for the winter months! Thanks for sharing yours!
Beautiful! You’ll have to distress the middles so the pattern shows a little more.
You are so funny sarah ! When your looking around for things do you ever wonder where you will put it . You find such great things but will there come a time you can’t fit anymore in your lovely house and what will you do . That seems to be my problem sometimes I see things but think I don’t have anywhere to put it .
She is beautiful! I do speak vintage.
Oh my goodness, she is beautiful, where did you find her??Love, love,love!
The last photo shows her true colours,ohhhhh metal panels, they are gorgeous!
Sue
I definitely speak vintage. So many people just don’t understand my language too. Love the tall chest.
You have done it again! Gorgeous. I speak vintage and wish it were spring here so I could get going. There is always room for anything vintage. Can’t wait to see where it goes and what you do with it…of course it will be white. I have been hibernating and cleaning my nest this winter, dreaming of garage sales and making lists. You have given me plenty of ideas. Thanks Sarah.
Kathleen H
Hello Sarah, I speak, smell, see and hear all things vintage with a passion. Your cabinet is your best find so far this year and I love how the legs are high for a basket underneath filled with creamy white blankets.
Have a great weekend,
Terri
I speak a different dialect of vintage but that is a lovely armoire you’ve picked up.
You painted the glass!!!! It looks UNBELIEVABLE. I’m so impressed. Can’t wait to see what you come up with next.
xo krista
Hello.
My name is Cherrie and I also speak vintage, though without the french accent,probably more fake Italiano.
I love collecting old things.
Even if I don’t need them. I can’t wait for this Sunday to be the first to check out our local hard rubbish collection.
I want anything I find.
Just because.
Cherrie
I speak my own weird Vintage dialect. Right now it is 70′s bamboo-like furniture-don’t know why or how, it just ended up that way! In the past I have a had a chair fetish and I still have a collection of cricket chairs-love’em! That cabinet is an awesome find!
oh my goodness sarah, i LOVE LOVE LOVE this piece. absolutely amazing! the details are fantastic….i want one…..