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.

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 :)

a huge thank you!!

Wow!  We are humbled!  

We want to say THANK YOU to everyone who came over the weekend to visit us.  

We thought the pouring down rain would keep everyone away!

It didn't!!

It was so great to see so many old friends and make some new ones!

Thank you to all our wonderful friends and customers who stood in the rain.

Thanks to my darling son who worked the muddy parking lot and made sure no one got stuck! 

Thanks to my sweet daughter who helped me so much.

Thanks to my wonderful French Hen Farm crew, which without you this wouldn't be possible...

Thanks to my sisters, Becky and Sandy; my cousins Judy, Jane and Bonnie; and my friends Anne, Cindy, Kim, Carrin and Jeff, Jenni and AJ, Mechele; and my mom, who instilled this love of what we do here.
And a very special thanks to my hubby who helps me every day and loves this as much as I do!

fa la la la la!

hope to see you tomorrow night or saturday!

frosty the snow tree

Frosty the snow tree is waiting your arrival!

holiday buffet

Here is a gorgeous buffet from the wonderfully talented Jenni from The Vintage Songbird.  She will have some beautiful pieces for sale at our Sale on Dec 7 & 8.
She does the most amazing work!

chippy wonderful!

Here is a wonderful chippy cupboard from the talented Kim from Uptown Antiques in Marysville.

Come on Friday or Saturday to see this and more great primitives from Kim!

white christmas

Here are some beautiful pieces from the wonderfully talented Carrin From Chic Unique.
Come see us on Friday or Saturday and see these and her other wonderful creations!

fun holiday centerpiece!

Here is a fun thing to do with old Holiday decorations.  
I took a hurricane vase and added some vintage flea market finds...a vintage santa, a vintage deer ornament, an old sleigh, added some mini ornaments and a sparkly silver pick...
Sprinkle in some snow and glitter and you have a really fun table centerpiece for the holidays!

pretty holiday bottles

My obsession with old bottles continues.
Take some old bottles, some old photos, vintage papers and glitter them up!
Very pretty for your Holiday mantle.
We will have these for sale at our Holiday Open House December 7 & 8!
Hope to see you then!

2 weeks until our Holiday Open House!

standing guard...

Hoping to see you Dec 7 & 8th.  These little deer will be there to greet you.  Aren't they cute!

it's starting to look a lot like christmas!

I know its not Thanksgiving yet, but the barn is getting twirled up for our Holiday Open House Dec 7 & 8.

Here are a couple sneak peeks of how the barn is starting to shape up for the Holiday Sale.

My goal is to get it done before Thanksgiving so then I can just craft up until the Sale.
I will be sharing with you some of the new things we are making this year.
Hope you can make it!
Friday,  Dec 7th in the evening 5-8, then on Saturday Dec 8th 9-4.

warm metallics

I found this picture on the site Joss & Main. I fell in love with this dresser....

I became obsessed with trying to find nice metallic paints.  I have tried quite a few.  
Krylon, Martha Stewart, Modern Masters... to name a few.
So far my favorite it Modern Masters.  
It is a very nice coverage and the colors are warmer than some of the others.
I took this little empire drawer piece (sorry it is upside down in this picture, but you get the idea...)

and made this out of it.

I used Modern Masters on this one.

Here are a couple others that we painted.

Knobs from Hobby Lobby -they have the best and every other week they go half off!
(Yes I still need to find my last knob for this one!)

We used Martha Stewart on this pretty dresser.
We will have these pieces at our Holiday OpenHouse, Dec 7 & 8.