The Beauty of Burlap: A Sofa Update

Thursday's the Day!  The day I go and pick up my 1920s sofa that has been rehabbed/reupholstered.   If you check back in some of my later posts, it's a sofa I bought in a nearby town for $45.  It had been sitting in a rundown building for who knows how long.  Kinda scarey, uh?

Here's the before picture:

I know, it looks pretty shabby.  Before I took it to the upholsterer I tore off alot of the old fabric, pulled out a lot of nails.   What made the biggest difference was refinishing the wood.  When we stripped the wood, we saw the beauty of the grain and it turned out to be the most gorgeous mahogany wood.  Of course, Mr. D put that front foot back on too.

So, I settled on a burlap looking fabric.  A cotton/linen combination that I got at a really great price!  I think I paid around $ 175 for 12 yards of this high quality upholsterey fabric.

The sofa should end up looking something like this:

I've decided to go for a french laundry look with a combination of an ethnic look.  I've been loving the Ikat design lately.  So possibly some pillows made of a ticking and some ethnic looking pillows.  Oh, and by the way this sofa is going in my living room.

Here's some pillows made out of ticking fabric that I think are oh, so cute:

The walls will be painted a light grayish blue.  I've got this vision in my mind of how I want the living room to look.  From the colors to the type of furniture.  Now I've just got to put what's in my mind into my living room.  It's happening one slllooowww step at a time.

Check back in the next couple of days for the reveal!

A Shop Update: The Latest and Greatest!

Here are many of the items in my shop that were listed this week:

 1950s Alligator Skin Purse

 1950s Baby Blue Stole

 Late 60s Big Neck Bow Dress

 Vintage Izod Lacoste Cardigan

1970s Asian Jacket/Robe

1970s Sweater with the best turtleneck

Early 70s Semi Sheer Dress

1950s Wool Coat

1970s Falling Feathers Dress

1980s Sailor Sweater

There's lots more at www.sassysistervintage.etsy.com   Thanks for looking!

Update on Studio Space

First, I wanted to say Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone! I truly hope this is a time of year that brings you much happiness and joy, and also that you're able to spend it with the ones you love.

It's freezing outside, even in South Alabama today.  But I decided to go out and take some pics of how the "room" / studio space is coming along.  Mr. D (hubby) has been working his tushy off.  I'm so glad he knows how to do this stuff!  It sure saves us a lot of money.  *Refer to previous post to see the outside of this building that is behind our house.*

 Outside of wall but inside of building.

 Inside room.

 Mr D. working.

Supplies......

Hopefully, next time you see pics of this project it will be a project that is done.  But we'll see!

The Makings of a Studio

Our family of 4 lives in an 1800 sq. ft. house that seems to be slowly closing in on us.  We need space! A couple of months ago we decided to get busy and have someone remodel the 1600 sq. ft. building behind our house.  They did the outside, we've got to do the inside.  It's sort of a garage, workshop, storage building .............. you know one of those kind of buildings.

Here it is.  Mr. Thomas (husband) is painting the trim white.  We've still got to put garage doors on, hang a set of shutters on the window, and some landscaping.  Then....... our next step is to build a separate insulated room inside for my vintage clothing studio.  I'm so excited!

Here's some of the supplies for the soon to be studio.  You can't see all the insulation behind the sheets of wood.  I'm estimating the studio to be about 600 sq. ft. with clothing racks around the perimeter of the room and a table in the middle of the room for wrapping packages.  Does it sound cool?!

No more of me bringing my vintage findings into the house and sitting them on the kitchen table, but instead taking them directly to this new much needed room I've been dreaming about for years!

My Dream Room

Every time I look at this picture I'm inspired......

From the amazing furniture to those gorgeous vintage dresses, every time I take a peek I'm in love.

A Sneak Peek of What's Coming for the Week

This will be the first, I hope, of a preview of whats to come for each week.  I'm trying to plan better and keep myself more organized and this seems like a good way to do it.

This is not everything, as I can think of several things right now that aren't in it, but a portion of it.  It includes from left to right: a long length black 1950s coat with fur collar, a cropped length vintage evening jacket with fur collar, a blue strappy 1950s full skirt dress with bolero jacket, a 1920s silk flapper dress (from 1980s but reworked to look 20s, it's very high quality too) , an early 70s graphic dress, Etienne Aigner Satchel/Bag, patchwork leather 70s boots, (on top of armoire) a large leather 1950s briefcase, fabulous framed and matted owl pictures, 1960s color block purse, and on floor a vintage letter D, and shabby chic wooden jewelry box (already in shop).

These items will be listed through out the week.  I will come back and create a link to my shop for each item as it's listed.

But remember, this isn't everything.  So check www.sassysistervintage.etsy.com often!

The Mullet......and I don't mean the fish kind....

I was thinking the other day about that unique hair style.  The one they call a mullet.  You know, "business in the front and party in the back"?  Where did it come from and when did it come into style?  So, I looked it up:

.....The mullet is a hairstyle that is short at the front and sides, and long in the back. Often ridiculed as a lowbrow and unappealing hairstyle, the mullet began to appear in popular media in the 1960s and 1970s but did not become generally well-known until the early 1980s. It continued to be popular until the mid-1990s....

.....The modern mullet began to appear in the late 1960s, with Welsh pop singer Tom Jones sporting one. Glam rock artist David Bowie wore a proto-mullet in the early 1970s. Florence Henderson featured a mullet in the opening sequence of the television sitcom The Brady Bunch (1972–3 season).......

She's still totally cute though!

1980s Michael Bolton

In Canada and the USA the mullet is particularly associated with blue collar men (or women), fans of country and ice hockey players.

Business in the front and partay in the back fo sho!!!

Did you know?

That the mullet has been banned in Iran?

This information from Wikipedia:

"In July 2010, the Islamic regime of Iran issued grooming guidelines to men supplementing the existing modesty stipulations to women. Among the new regulations is a ban of the mullet hairstyle. The ban on mullets is one of the measures that Iran has deployed to "confront the cultural assault by the West." The regime aims to promote a set of new Islamic hairstyles that were unveiled at the Hijab and Chastity Festival of 2010."

he's still a cutie with those adorable dimples!

I'm proud to say that I never sported the mullet haircut, even in the 80s when they were at their height!  Did you ever have one?

Thanks for looking!