So there I was slacking off at the beginning of the week when I get an email from Eric “Flea” Demby filling me in on a cancellation at the Dumbo market. I wasn’t booked to participate until the 24th/25th so I wasn’t too bothered by my lack of focus. But I figured it would be a good idea to be there since I was one of three featured in the Daily News article.
And so, after hours and hours of work yesterday, I’m still not finished with everything. But here’s where I’m at…
The God-forsaken chair is finally done. I bought this last winter and schlepped it from Beacon to Brooklyn to Beacon to Brooklyn and back to Beacon and never got the chance to work on it. I never want to move it or look at it again. It better sell. I haven’t figured out a price yet but $175 has a nice ring to it.
Here’s the before picture. Snow on the ground was from last winter.
I’ve discovered that people like bright, shiny objects. Well, you can’t get much brighter than this fluorescent orange side table. Lucky for me, someone had already primed it by the time I found it. Sweet. Hope they did a good job. I’m going to add some gold details, but the paint was still wet when I shot this.
I am F*in loving this piece! I had this roll of vintage vinyl wallpaper that I couldn’t sell. I don’t know why….I think it’s really cool! Anyway, I had matching paint in the house. What could be easier? Perhaps if I coated it with poly instead of resin, that would’ve been easier. I have to figure out a way to leave the cat hair out next time. No way this will be ready for tomorrow. The resin is still sticky and as you can see, I haven’t even finished painting yet. It’s just a test to get an idea of what it will look like. The entire bottom bit will be green. I wish I had remembered to take a before shot, but it was all poop brown.
I sold a bed with the same color scheme over the summer. I call it my “cartoon line”. Not really, but the bright colors do look cartoonish to me.
Dumbo Pop Up Market launches tomorrow and runs for 12 weekends throughout the winter. 76 Front Street.
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Great colors!
Nice before and afters, and what a great flea market. Love that sewing machine turned sink.