Assembly Line Style: A Prepping System That Works
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How I Store & Organize Thousands of Items For My Website
Storing inventory as an antique dealer is one of the unglamorous but necessary aspects of reselling. Creating a system of organization is a process that continually needs tweaked! Today I am sharing with you how I store and organize thousands of items for my website. Maybe you are wondering why and how you store and
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DIY Chippy Paint Technique
Have you ever wanted to take a new, plain piece of home decor or furniture and make it look aged? Here is one of the DIY chippy paint techniques I use! I love aged, alligatored, naturally chippy paint. However, sometimes it’s worth it just to recreate the look myself! Old chippy, crackled paint can have
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Adding a New Workshop
Work Smarter Not Harder Series Now that I have the main part of the barn organized and a good system in place, it’s time to tweak the process even more. In this series I am sharing how I try to work smarter, not harder. This is a process that has changed over the years and
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Oven Cleaner & Ice Cream Buckets
I have recently picked up 3 nice wooden ice cream buckets! But the color on them is just not for me! Will oven cleaner strip these ice cream buckets? Let’s find out! I’ve used oven cleaner as a stripper a few times. I mean by now almost everyone has tried this technique to remove old
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Gift Wrapping Tips
It probably comes to no surprise that I like to get all of my shopping done and then wrap everything at one time! Batch work not only works for business, but it also works for our personal lives! I do not have a designated gift wrapping station, although I’ve seen others with some pretty elaborate
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Picking New Chairs For The Front Porch
Picking porch chairs was my first decor decision for our new house in Ankeny, Iowa! I’m so happy with our selection! The new house is SO different from our old house. As I write this, we’ve been here a month and a half. When we moved I had sold everything that I had on our
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Picking New Counter Stools
In our new house we have an island and we needed to select new stools for it. Below I share my process for picking counter stools. First off, picking new counter stools for me was SO easy because my sister had already done all of the work. She recently bought a new house and renovated
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Converting a Morton Building Barn into a Shop | Part 1
Checkout how I converted our Morton building barn into a retail space for my antique shop, The Junk Parlor! https://youtu.be/zugpeVyCQ3I In 2019 I was selling antiques out of a little brick church in Centerville, Iowa. I opened 4 days a month as an occasional shop and everytime I opened, the shop would be transformed to
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