Antique Finds

One of my favorite things to do is to browse antique stores. You can always find very interesting and creative items. A couple months ago my Mom, my Sister, and I, took a day to look around some of the stores in the area.  I had been looking for just the perfect piece to hold all of my dishes for a very long time.  I found a lot of pieces that I really liked and had a hard time deciding. I wish I could have bought more than just one =) This is what I decided on:

I have it in our dining room and the color matches perfectly with the rest of the room.

It is hard to capture in picture but my favorite part are the details it obtains. The front doors have a beautiful engraving. The sides look as if it could have been used as a pie safe.  

It has shelves in the bottom and the top so that I can store plenty of my dishes and then some.

I also found a tag inside that says it is from the Wisconsin Furniture and Coffin Co. I have not been able to find that much information on this company but I have found that they are from the early 1900's.

My second lucky antique find came this weekend while trying to finish my craft room. Sunday, I bought a shelve that I was going to put together for my craft room. After I got home and took it out of the box I realized it was cracked! The next day my Mom and I ventured out to exchange it. While driving to return it we decided to stop at the antique store that just so happened to be on the way.

While we were there I found this cute little booger that I just had to have!

It is nice and bright and I will be able to store a lot of little knick-knacks. Hopefully, it will be a lot more reliable than the shelve I was going to use out of a box.