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Herringbone Drop Leaf Table

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I’m busy working on some furniture and accessories for the Sweet Clover, and I wanted to share one of my latest projects.

Photo from the Sweet Clover Facebook Page
This table was in ROUGH shape when I picked it up. It was painted lime green with a really crummy paint job, and the top of it was all kinds of beat up. I decided to strip and power sand the top. I stained the top with General Finishes Java Gel stain, and put a layer of Varathane poly to seal the stain so that it wouldn’t bleed through the painted pattern. Then I measured and taped off the herringbone pattern, and painted two coats of Annie Sloan Chalk Paint Duck Egg. I painted the rest of the piece Duck Egg and sanded it all down with a super fine grit sanding sponge. I opted to seal the table with poly since I had already sealed the stain with poly and I figured it would be more durable. 
I love it! It will be available in my space at Sweet Clover next weekend. Hope to see you there!

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Inspiration for my Sweet Clover Space

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My first go-round selling furniture in the Sweet Clover barn was decent, but I’ll be honest, I had no clue what I was doing. Considering I’m in design school, this concerns me a little. I should be able to put together a cohesive space easily, right? I didn’t mind how I arranged the space, but it had a bit of an identity crisis. Part of my challenge is that I don’t assemble a master plan. I don’t pick a color palette, I don’t select a style. I pick what I love, and I let the piece decide what it wants to be. That’s an OK strategy to a certain extent, but I need to rein things in a little. I love to mix styles, but there still needs to be something cohesive. One thing that I’m finding incredibly challenging about selling my own vision is that I have to create […]

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The Sweet Clover Community

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Last weekend was my first time as a vendor in any kind of regular space, and it was also the first month that the new Sweet Clover Vintage Barn Sale was open (learn a little more about the backstory of the transition of the Stylish Patina barn to the Sweet Clover barn here).  The first weekend went pretty well for Sweet Clover! The Sweet Clover Vintage Barn sale is now in the capable hands of Cassie from Primitive and Proper, Sarah aka The Thriftress, and Celeste and Terri of Catfish Studios. They all had tons of visitors come out and support them on their opening weekend. You can read more about it on Cassie’s blog. Via Sweet Clover Part of the deal with having a spot in Sweet Clover is that you work one day of each monthly sale. I worked on Saturday and we were busy for most of the day! […]

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Sweet Clover Vintage Barn Sale this Weekend!

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Remember a few weeks ago when I was talking about how much fun I had at Lucketts and how I wished I could be part of the community of vendors more often? Yeah, I made that happen. This weekend I will debut my booth inside that Sweet Clover Vintage Barn sale in Frederick, Maryland! Sweet Clover used to be the Stylish Patina barn, but Kelly gave up the barn sale so that she could get some warehouse space in Falls Church where she’ll be having monthly tag sales. The barn is full of amazing other vendors who have picked some great stuff for this weekend’s sale. Make sure to “like” the Sweet Clover Vintage page on Facebook to preview all the great stuff that will be in the barn this weekend. My mom is helping with the barn sale, so some of the pieces in this space are her work. […]

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