Sometimes I fall in love with a piece that's intended to be part of my rental inventory and then the logical voice inside my head tells me, "What were you thinking?"
I picked up this amazing vintage work counter a few months back at a barn sale, I saw it online and arrived an hour and 20 minutes early in a thunderstorm just to be the first in line! I fell in love with it over the internet and it was everything and more once I saw it in person.
It was aqua chippy perfection with cool vintage hardware. I removed the drill press and my intentions were to put a butcher block top on it and rent it out as a bar or dessert display, I had dreams for this piece.......and then reality struck and I realized hauling this thing back and fourth and loading it on the weekends for weddings would turn into more then I could handle, not to mention the time I'd have to put into refinishing it.
Luckily I came across two bars on my buying trim a couple wks ago, one is finished and on wheels and the other just needs a coat of stain, easy peasy! Not that I want to haul those either, but knowing I don't have to put any work into them somehow sets my mind as ease. So I hesitantly put this on Craigslist with the hopes that someone would appreciate it as much as I did. An email came in from a name that I knew I had heard before but I just couldn't place it. The deal was done, she told me she was sending her dad to come pick up from Gettysburg. That night her parents showed up in their truck and they told me their daughter was a designer and had a blog.......Miss Mustard Seed!!! I literally freaked out like a giddy little girl and proceeded to embarrass my boyfriend with telling her parents how much of a fan I was!! I am so grateful and thrilled that someone that is such a huge inspiration in the design world picked one of my pieces for her collection. Maybe the best compliment I have ever received!!
