Holiday Open House Uptown Antiques!

Our dear friend Kim from Uptown Antiques 
invited French Hen Farm to join her Holiday Open House!
She has an beautiful shop in Marysville filled with amazing pieces!

Here are some shots from Kim's shop Christmas transformation!

We spent the weekend filling it with a little holly jolly!

Hope you can make it.  This coming weekend.  

Uptown Antiques 

117 South Main Street, Marysville 

Nov 7 & 8

Friday 11-5, Saturday 10-4!

Lots of beautiful Holiday goodies! 

 Hope you can make it!

chalkboard art

One of the things I did for the Holiday Open House was make some fun chalkboard art.

I started by digging through the barn for some old frames.

I thought I was going to spray paint some plywood or mdf, but hubby found pre made 2' x 4' sheets of chalkboard at Home Depot for $9.97.  I am always into taking some shortcuts!
So you will need a frame, pre made or make your own chalkboard, chalk, chalk markers, ruler, wipes, q tips, aqua net unscented hairspray, glazers points.

Start by printing off some artwork from the internet that you like (pinterest has some great ones).  

I then fold the paper into squares and then grid off my chalkboard accordingly with a light chalk line.  

This then becomes your guideline to hand drawing the artwork onto the board.

I will lightly draw out the placement of the artwork and words in chalk to make sure it is spaced correctly.  If not, simply erase and draw again.

I then take a chalk marker and begin my drawing.  Again, make a mistake, simply take a baby wipe or dampened q tip to erase...

When it is all done I will go through with a baby wipe and q tip and clean up all my lines,

I will set it aside to look from a far and make sure I don't have any changes.  
When I am finally done I will lay it on a towel and lightly spray it with unscented aqua net to set it.

Let it dry flat before you put it in the frame.
When done, use glazer points to secure it in the frame and you have wonderful Holiday artwork that can be changed out season after season!

Here are a couple more of what I did, all of these will be available at Kim's store, Uptown Antiques, in Marysville.  Her Holiday Open House is Nov 7 & 8.

Holiday Open House - Uptown Antiques & French Hen Farm!

We have gotten so many questions about if we are going to have a Holiday Open House this year.
Unfortunately, we have been so busy with weddings all summer that we won't be able to have a Holiday Open House this year :(
However... my dear friend Kim, from Uptown Antiques, asked if we would join her in her Holiday Open House Nov 7 & 8! :)
details here   https://www.facebook.com/events/713367465413983/

So this past weekend, my hubby and I, helped Kim get ready for her upcoming Holiday open house! 
We worked over the weekend rearranging her wonderful unique pieces and adding a French Hen Farm touch to her great space in Uptown Marysville.  
We will have a selection of French Hen Farm goodies in her shop this Holiday season!

Here are some pictures of her shop from this weekend. 
Lots of great Fall treasures for your home!

More to come this upcoming weekend when we "Christmas-ize" her shop for the Holiday Open House!
Hope you can make it!
Visit her https://www.facebook.com/uptownantiquesmarysville

gentlemen...start your engines.....

One of the sweet treats my daughter and I made for the sale were these little candy Santa sleighs.
You can pick what ever candy you like and create lovely little gifts that are great for the kids to give to each other or sweet little teacher gifts.

Start with a full size candy bar and hot glue the candy cane sled rails (as you see at the bottom of this picture).  I used my two favorites: Reese's and Kit Kats. 
I secure the rails with a little extra hot glue on the sides.
Then pile up the mini candy bars.  Add a  pretty ribbon and a little bow.  
I finished mine off with these cute little chocolate Santa's I found at Aldi's.

 And yes,  a glass of wine is always nice to accompany any creation :)

iced hydrangeas

 I had a lot of dried hydrangeas left from the fall and wanted to use them in my Holiday decorating.  
I got out my glue and my crystal snow glitter.
I watered down the glue and gently painted the petals of the flower with the glue.  I sprinkled on the crystal snow glitter and gently shook of the excess.
It looks like fresh snow on the flowers. 
You could do this on silk flowers too.  I can imagine roses and peonies with this frosty look.
Very pretty!

a blue christmas

One of the color stories in the holiday sale is this pretty aqua blue.  It is so pretty mixed with cream and silver.  One thing I like about doing the sales is I can decorate in colors that I might not decorate in my house with.  I get to experiment!

industrial letters

i found some great industrial letters over the weekend. 
Usually when I find letters I am not able to spell anything I want, but this time I was able to spell out a a few words.
Farm...
Eat...
and Noel.  
The "o" in "Noel" is from an old National City Bank!  It would look great on someones mantle.

The "eat" would be great in a kitchen.  
I will be keeping the "farm" for my self :)

christmas advent calendar

 I have been planning on making this advent calendar for a couple years...
 My daughter and I finally sat down together to make this one and a couple others for the sale a couple of weekends ago.  We had so much fun making it together.
Start with some tea dyed shipping tags.  I usually buy these by the box from U-line to always have them on hand. Or you can get them at Office Max.
I use them for gift hangtags, tags for pricing my antiques etc.
I pulled out my bags of old vintage christmas goodies I have collected over the years, my stamps, old photos, my glitter, some vintage broken jewelry pieces, game pieces etc.

  
I stamped the tags from 1 through 24.  This was so much fun to make with my daughter.  
It was like a puzzle putting the different goodies on the days.
On each tag we glued a little christmas goodie making sure that the composition of the overall month looked balanced.

I took an old vintage frame and covered some old foam core with a nice velvet fabric.  
Pin the goodies up and you will have a wonderful advent calendar for the kids to countdown the days until santa comes!
This is a wonderful holiday decor heirloom that can be passed down to your kids!

holiday sale - santa's watching you!!

here is a wonderful santa that I got at Polly's antique mall.  

He looks like he is warning you to not be naughty!!
you better be nice!!!
Isn't he fabulous!

craft day with pinecones

I continue to have have weekly craft days with my daughter.  Here is a batch of friendly snowmen we made up last week.
This summer we collected pinecones from under the pine trees so that we didn't run over them with the lawn mower.  I have been thinking of ways to use them.  We have glittered them and now we are making them into little snowmen.  My daughter has been naming them.
I'd like to introduce, from top left to right:
Fred, Ruby, Arlene,
Sparkles, Francine and Jolly.

craft day - pretty bottles

Yes, here I go again with more bottles!!!
This one is just doing the first process of the snowmen bottles (previous post)
Take some old bottles, add some sparkly things inside the bottle.  Pearls, tinsel, fake snow.
Put some vintage papers on the outside.  Handwriting, music, pictures, whatever you have.  Glitter the edges with iridescent glitter. 
Group several together for a pretty centerpiece.  Beautiful!

Auction fun!

My sister came down this past weekend with her load from the last few auctions that she has been to, And boy does she have some neat stuff!!  


It is always amazing what you can find at auctions.  
You get to almost know the people that are selling their wares.  
My sister found this GIANT box FILLED with sock monkeys a lady had made.  Crazy!  I have never seen so many sock monkeys!  
They used to scare me, but these guys are hilarious!
We are so excited!  Santa's workshop is filling up!
We know that when WE get excited, and say that this is a sale that WE would love to shop at, that hopefully our customers will be excited too!

 We have a lot of fun, fun, fun stuff... And, my friends still have their loads to bring out too!!

pretty holiday!!

...so many stories I want to tell in the Holiday Sale.

Here is  a sneak peak of the pretty metals section...golds, bronze, silvers... 

I got these pretty gold leaf bowls at the longest yard sale this summer.  
My daughter and I have been glittering pinecones all summer, add a few vintage ornaments - perfect centerpiece!  
This color story is nice from fall through thanksgiving to christmas...

pretty neutrals!

i love decorating with natural colors..silvers, greys, naturals... and lots of glitter and sparkle...
here is an old bread box I stenciled and some bottles I frenched up and glittered.

holiday sale!!

OK!!  ...its official!  Mark your calendars!
We will be having a ONE DAY ONLY - HOLIDAY SALE!  - Saturday, December 4th from 9-5.
We have been pulling all our fun Holiday goodies from the storage unit and getting them ready!


It will only be one day, so make sure you get here early, before all the good stuff is gone!
More to come on the Holiday sale.....

ironstone

I always look for chippy ironstone platters and repurpose them into beautiful wall art.

You can find these plates and platters at yard sales and flea markets.

I add press on letters and buy plate hangers from Joanne's 
(I've tried a lot and Joanne's are the best!)
Instant wall art!