Painted Furniture and Decorations

a box is a box until it turns into a facebox… these are 1930’s file boxes from an office in los angeles, california which still function but no longer for files. they are now painted ladies with chess-piece hats and sit nicely on a shelf and never say a word.

as you already know i love collecting vintage pieces and either augmenting, re-assembling, painting and creating a new heirloom. the rolling pin now has a painted ball head and a chess-piece hat. i painted an icepick and added a feather to the tray and it makes a nice centerpiece for a party laden with crackers, cheese and crudities. the lamp is painted in a fall theme and then augmented with felt acorns. those hand-felted acorns with real acorn “hats” were made by my artist and bestie friend ruth donakowski.