My First Frenchy and Tuesday Thrift Store Find

RUNAWAY! IT'S HIDEOUS! WAIT WHY ARE YOU WALKING TOWARDS IT? TURN AROUND! SIGH, I GIVE UP.
Last month I went to my first estate sale and this beast of a chair caught my eye.

This was my first frenchy find and I couldn't walk away without it. I paid $15 for the chair which I thought was a steal. Of course after I went home and looked more closely, I realized I could have bargained down a LOT more. The left arm of the chair popped out of the joint, one small section of the arm had a crack in it, and the entire back of the chair was covered in thick wax. You can see thickly it was globbed on in the this picture.

Yep, that's not paint. That's wax. Yikes. I knew it was a build-up from the furniture wax that someone had previously used on it, but every time I looked at it I couldn't stop thinking about ear wax. I don't know why! Unfortunately the wax covered every inch of the weave on the caning of the chairs. It would have taken me a lifetime to get all of the wax out of every nook and cranny, so instead I used Miss Mustard Seed's french chair tutorial to cleverly cover it up.

Tomorrow I'll tell you all about the nightmare I had to go through to make this beast lovely again but until then, here's my teaser after photo.

CAN YOU SHOW ME SOMETHING THAT'S NOT WHITE?
Sure! How about a lot of white with a hint of blue? Today I went to a thrift store with my mom and my daughter Aine in Spring, TX and found this cute ironstone teacup and a matching ironstone plate to go with it. They weren't made by the same company, but I think they've taken a liking to each other.

I love the shape of the cup and that handle is just itching to be picked up. And if you look closely, the plate has a border of raised bluebonnet flowers on it (it's probably just wheat, but this is Texas after all).