Philly Home and Garden Show Farmhouse Decor Clock


Have I mentioned lately how much I love my blogger friends and the wonderful community they have built?  There is a huge network of shared knowledge.  The DIY bloggers are constantly offering one another opportunities to grow and thrive.  Just before Christmas, I learned that Denise Saiba at The Painted Home was looking for bloggers to do a Make It Take It at this year’s Philly Home Shows.  Denise heads up the blogger contingent to provide the craft demos and activity stations at the shows. One quick email and Pop and I were ready to take this show on the road!  Our task?  Lead a Make It Take It in decorating a farmhouse decor clock!

You might remember that last October was our first huge vintage show when we participated in The Market on Chapel Hill.  You can read about the show HERE.  This was so much fun!  We met so many wonderful folks.  Since that market was in Montgomery Alabama, many of our shopping friends stop by to visit us at The Blue Building Antiques in Alabaster, AL.  We enjoyed the event so much that we will be doing several other shows this year starting with Vintage Market Days in Mobile AL over St. Patrick’s Day weekend.  I will tell you more about that event later.

The Philly Home and Garden Show was Friday, February 17  through Sunday,  February 19, 217 .  We made these 24 inch Farmhouse Decor Clocks at the Make It Take It station.  We did 3 classes of 15, one each day.The Blue Building Anitiques Alabaster AL shopatblu farmhouse decor clock

We were super excited to have two fabulous sponsors.  HomeRight sent us Finish Max Paint Sprayers to demo and give away.  We had four participants go home with new paint sprayers!  Everyone had the chance to try using this lightweight and easy to use paint sprayer!  Folks were absolutely loving the spray shelters as well!  The HomeRight spray shelter comes in two sizes to accomodate large or small projects!

The Blue Building Antiques Alabaster AL shopatblu farmhouse clock class HomeRight small spray shelter
HomeRight Small Spray Shelter
The Blue Building Antiques Alabaster AL shopatblu farmhouse clock class HomeRight large spray shelter
HomeRight Large Spray Shelter

 

the blue building antiques shopablu HomeRight Paint Sprayer

Thanks to HomeRight we will also be giving away a new HomeRight Finish Max paint sprayer at the end of this post!  See the Rafflecopter to enter.

Our second sponsor was Plaid Enterprises, you might know their products…Folk Art and Apple Barrel paint!  Plaid graciously supplied us with stencils, paint, brushes, and stencil glue for all of the classes!  They have a seemingly endless supply of craft items to fill your needs.  Let me just say that their stencil glue was the bomb!

The Blue Building Antiques Alabaster AL Plaid Paints

Our first class was Friday Feb 17 at 4:00 PM.  I have to admit that I was a little nervous.  I’ve never done a class at a big event.  I had some wonderful helpers in 3 of my best buds from high school.  Meet Lisa, Mickey and Susan!

The Blue Building Anitiques Alabaster AL shopatblu farmhouse helpers

Here are some of our wonderful class participants hard at work:

Saturday brought a whole new crew of helpers.  Here are Shelly, Germaine and Lisa, more of my wonderful friends from grade school and high school.

the blue building antiques shopablu helpers

Some candid shots from Saturdays class (photo credit to Shelly):

the blue building antiques shopablu Sunday class the blue building antiques shopablu Sunday class mom time

 

the blue building antiques shopablu Sunday class stenciling the blue building antiques shopablu Sunday class helping the blue building antiques shopablu Sunday class friends

the blue building antiques shopablu Sunday class HomeRight the blue building antiques shopablu Sunday class finished

the blue building antiques shopablu Sunday class participants the blue building antiques shopablu Sunday class demo

And lastly, here are pictures from our Sunday class.  Special thanks to my grade school friend, Dana, and my 3 cousins Maureen, Kathleen,  and Michele who were incredibly wonderful helpers!

the blue building antiques shopablu Sunday class cousins

The Blue Building Antiques Alabaster AL shopatblu farmhouse clock class Make It Take It The Blue Building Antiques Alabaster AL shopatblu farmhouse clock class decor clock The Blue Building Antiques Alabaster AL shopatblu farmhouse clock class Linda The Blue Building Antiques Alabaster AL shopatblu farmhouse clock class participants The Blue Building Antiques Alabaster AL shopatblu farmhouse clock class Sunday The Blue Building Antiques Alabaster AL shopatblu farmhouse clock class

And of course, my number one helper was in rare form.  He kept the funnel cake booth in business for 3 days!

The Blue Building Antiques Alabaster AL shopatblu farmhouse clock class Pop

I kept him very busy!  Pop picked all of the winners for the HomeRight giveaways!

The Blue Building Antiques Alabaster AL shopatblu farmhouse clock class HomeRight giveaway

The absolute highlight of the show for me was meeting Jeff Lewis from BRAVO’s Flippin’ Out!  

The Blue Building Antiques Alabaster AL shopatblu farmhouse clock class Jeff Lewis

Gage must have sensed how horrible I am at selfies so he took charge! Thank God!

The Blue Building Antiques Alabaster AL shopatblu farmhouse clock class Gage

What a phenomenal event this was!  Once again, a huge thank you to HomeRight and Plaid Enterprises for providing the wonderful tools and giveaways for this show.  Please take a minute to check out their websites and their wonderful products!  If you are a DIY addict like me, these two companies have the products to make you happy and your life easier!

And for our grand finale, we are giving away a HomeRight Finish Max Paint Sprayer!  Enter starting March 4 through March 20, 2017 via the Rafflecopter below. Winner will be announced on March 21st.

We extended the giveaway through April 8.  And the winner was Kelly W!  She had claimed her prize and promises to post some picks of her projects!

Thank you to everyone who participated!

Here is a link (affiliate) should you wish to purchase your own Finish Max!

 

a Rafflecopter giveaway

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  1. If I win I’m using this for my dining room chairs!!!

    1. thebluebuilding@charter.net says:

      It will save you soooo much time!

  2. I’ve got chairs waiting to be painted – the HomeRight sprayer would sure simplify it!

    1. thebluebuilding@charter.net says:

      It’s perfect for chairs! Thanks Sharon!

  3. I so need this in my life, I have a ton of projects waiting to be sprayed & transformed!!

  4. what a fabulous post Sue! All your craft participants looked like they had a blast – awesome job! Love that Homeright sprayer and tent – hubby would love one of those so we don’t get our garage so mess, lol! And so fun that you met Jeff & Gage!

  5. I hope I win! It looks like you had a blast with all your classes.

    The clocks look great.

    1. thebluebuilding@charter.net says:

      Thanks girl! It was a blast!!!

  6. Jana Monaco says:

    If I win, I would paint the porch rockers that need painting desperately along with a night stand for my boy. Who knows, it might encourage me to paint my living room or at least talk someone into doing it with that fun tool!

  7. Jana Monaco says:

    If I win, I would paint my porch rockers that are in desperate need of painting along with a few other items.

  8. That looked like a lot of fun! I love my sprayer and my shelters. The shelters are a life saver in a windy town like mine.

    1. thebluebuilding@charter.net says:

      It was incredible fun! I’m planning on using my shelter pretty regularly!

  9. I think the question is really what wouldn’t I paint? I have so many projects that need to be done and this would be perfect for it!

    1. thebluebuilding@charter.net says:

      Good point! I use mine for EVERYTHING!!!

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