Can You Guess What I Use To Be?

This weekend we had a booth at the Indian Lake Fall Harvest Festival. One of our items is this gorgeous chalkboard (just $40 for a solid wood 4 1/2 foot piece, ask for details!). It is one of our fabulously re-purposed items that is at the core of what makes The Loft and Found so special. As a conversation starter at this weekend's three-day festival, we wrote this message: "Can You Guess What I Use To Be?"

Well over 150 people came up and hazarded a guess. Only 6 people guessed correctly without our hint. Only three people guessed correctly on the first try.

So here are some of the more creative answers we received.

A Tree: Well, yes it was at some point, but not quite what we were looking for. Nice try smarties!

A cupboard door: Good guess, but incorrect!

THE MOST POPULAR guess was a transom. Don't worry, we weren't sure what that was either. So someone told us and we went "Oh yeah...nope!"

Other guesses included a door, garage door panel, bench, mantle, headboard, old store sign, classroom chalkboard (come on folks, we turned a chalkboard into a...chalkboard?), train station sign. All great guesses, but nope, nope and nope!

Want a hint? It used to be musical. As soon as we give this hint, the look of comprehension dawns on everyone's faces and they all say, "A piano!"

Ding, ding ding!

I don't have a photo of the actual piano unfortunately, but here is something kind of similar.

Our old upright piano (old even 22 years ago when it came through our front door, complete with a box of kittens) had seen its last days. It was broken beyond reasonable repair, but we couldn't stand to see it chopped up and thrown away. So instead we salvaged the front and made our unique piece!

So there you have it! A fantastic piece, perfect to hang in your children's playroom or in your kitchen. The solid wood surface makes a perfect chalkboard, with minimal chalk dust created. If interested, please let us know (we also do custom pieces)!

Gearing Up

Our next craft show is coming up this weekend. We will be at the Indian Lake State Park for the 33rd Indian Lake Harvest Festival!

This event takes place over three days. Lots of activities, food, and entertainment for all ages. The fun starts Friday September 27th. The craft show will go from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m along with other fun events!

On Saturday the fun will continue! The craft show will start at 10 a.m. and go until 6 p.m. And then on Sunday the craft show will wrap up from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.! Lots of different booths and crafters alike with be there. 

We are lucky enough to get participate in this grand event. We will be sharing a tent and both the our friend Kathy. She makes these amazing scarves and has so graciously invited us along for the fun weekend ahead of us. 

Keep your eye out for our tent! We will have a few items that were shown at our last show along with a few new items. Please stop by and say hello! We look forward to seeing you there!

Now I am off to keep working away and getting our stuff ready for Friday! Will be a busy week! 

Laurel Oaks Hobby and Harvest Fair

 This past Saturday we got to partake in your first craft show experience! 

 We were at the Laurel Oaks Hobby and Harvest Fair. There were about 110 total venders there with all sorts of crafts and goodies. The day started out very early for us by we were ready to go! We got there around 7:30 and had until 9 a.m. to get ourselves set up.

The gate unfortunately open earlier than planned and there were people looking around about 20 minutes before we were ready for them. But we worked fast and got what we needed done!

Doesn't our booth look great?! This was before we had the tent issue.

 It was very stress full, but very fun all at the same time.

 It had rained a lot the night before which made the park a bit of a mucky muddy mess. But not to worry! We brought cardboard along with us just for that reason. And we only got one of your vechiles stuck, but with a little help from the gate guard we got it out with only some mud left on the tires.

 It was also a bit on the windy side and we had to take one of our tents down for Miss Mother Nature decided to rip it right out of the ground. But no damage was done!

 It was a slow sale day for us as well as most of the other venders, but we did make a few sales and met a lot of great people. 

 Have a lot of future potential clients with projects they would like me to work on!

Love the my distressed "J" 

Our Buffet Table turned out to be a nice display center!

This Chalk Board Coffee Table was a huge hit with the kids!

The Hutch was a great place to show things too!

This Mirror was talked out of a few ladies by their husbands :(

Chalk Board Easel anyone? 

I love the inside of the French Provincial Writing Desk!

The globe on our Map desk was taken home by a boy who
wanted to by it at the beginning of the day
but mom said no. Then later that afternoon they were back!
The kid knew what he wanted and went for it! :)

 It was very much a learning experience for all of us. We can't wait to do it again! 

 Please stop by at our next show and say hello! We would like to hear from you!

Mock set up for weekend craft show

This is our debut and first official show appearance so we did a mock set up of the booth and some of our items for sale!