gardenjunkpickergirls: First coat of paint

Inspired by the recent reality TV show Picker Sisters, we are fans of REAL picker shows. We relate to the thrill of finding something cheep. We love road trips and filling the truck with our unique finds. We love the reaction of your husband’s as we pull in the drive w/ junk. Unfortunately, Picker Sisters is like watching a train wreck. You know you should turn away, but something draws you to it. You try to yell at the TV hoping it will STOP, but they just keep heading straight into a disaster.

Sunday, February 26, 2012

First coat of paint

I wanted to finish the priming and the painting of the inside of the cabinets. Unfortunately, Saturday it was 27 degrees- the small space heater was not enough to keep the "tin can" - I mean Alma Trailer warm enough to paint. Sunday the dog got me up at 7am so I went out and stated up the space heater. By 9:30 the trailer was warm enough to finish priming. I was calling it the "tin can" all weekend, then I found a website called the "tin can tourist" all about their vintage trailer.

I had some time to start the painting of the inside of the cabinets. We picker "cyan" blue. The outside of the cabinets will be a deep red and we are thinking about making the inside of the cabinet door one of our other color choices. Laura and I will need to get on those hopefully this week. I got about half the cabinets done. will only need touch up and not an entire second coat.

The door handle has been a problem. Scott says the wood inside the door must be rotted- yicks another project, but compared to some of the vintage trailer refurbish projects I have seen on line, we are lucky. I have added a new page to the top of the blog called "Vintage trailer resources" this is where we will store all the links to our ideas, Pinterest is a big one for the visual and Yuku.com is a great resource for how to's.

On Saturday we came across an antiques store out in the country that never seems to be open when we pass by- No heat in the barns- and as I said it was 27 degrees so we looked quickly. I of course found a light. 10 bucks - needs to be rewired.

You can tell there was paint under the gold, so I have to decide how to finish off the light.

No comments:

MO

I come from a long line of pickers. I learned from my mom, driving the station wagon around on garbage day looking for stuff others didn't want. She taught me how to search through old barns, and find the items everyone else missed. I was refinishing furniture and polishing silver at a young age, always looking for the diamond in the rough. Her passion grew into a fabulous business, but for me, I am still just a picker who makes a living more traditionally. Many of our trips stem from my business trips that Laura tags along on, or weekend adventures. Laura is more thrifty then I am, we are very different . . . I will always have time for picking, gardening and blogging. I have three blogs, none for money, just to share my interests and opinions. Click on my picture to get to my garden blog. There is a reason I do the driving, do not let Laura fool you- you do not want her to drive! Picking is hard work, not a glamorous Hollywood production. You can call us “the picker girls”, “garden junk picker girls” or “the REAL picker sisters”!

Laura

Picker, gardener, not that good of a driver. . . Is one of the "greenest" people you will ever meet. She uses a clothesline, saves everything, is still cooking with some of the pans we had in our college house in the 80's. It’s not about being trendy, it’s how she lives. . . . OK I need to speak for myself here . . . Mo is definitely the blogger, driver and boss. However, I need to clarify a few things in my bio. First and foremost, I am an excellent driver and have an almost clean record to prove it. Also, my job as co-pilot is equally as important. I am, after all, the navigator through unknown country roads; no GPS in the old pick-up for these gals! I also have to rummage in the cooler and prepare sophisticated hors d'oeuvres. Last, but not least, I'm in charge of tunes. If left up to Mo, all we would be listening to is satellite radio's all Grateful Dead station. Not trendy? Without a doubt. I actually started thrifting and picking to save money. I still do for that reason, but more importantly, I want my surroundings to be funky and meaningful, and am always up for an adventure with my "true picker" sister!

Fender Art - has a long connection to "junk"

No it is not a fender made into a chair, just a fender made into ART! DEFINITION: The Middle English word jonk, ancestor of junk, originally had a very specific meaning restricted to nautical terminology. First recorded in 1353, the word meant "an old cable or rope." On a sailing ship it made little sense to throw away useful material since considerable time might pass before one could get new supplies. Old cable was used in a variety of ways, for example, to make fenders, that is, material hung over the side of the ship to protect it from scraping other ships or wharves. Junk came to refer to this old cable as well. The big leap in meaning taken by the word seems to have occurred when junk was applied to discarded but useful material in general.