What the heck is Love Me Vintage?!?
Get ready, cause that's what I'm going to tell you.
It all started back in 2008 when I came across 2 very cool pieces of furniture that someone was giving away. One was a tall cabinet with glass doors, the top of it looked like the top of a heart. The second one was a small 4 drawer dresser that had an extremely ugly finish (it's to bad I didn't get before pictures to blind you with). Anyways, when I snagged the furniture I thought to myself "One day I'm going to paint these or do something to them to make them awesome".
Long story short, years went by and it never happened. Each piece kept getting moved from the garage to my daughters room and back to the garage.
Then, lo and behold, in the beginning of 2012 it happened AGAIN! I found a totally awesome antique dresser for FREE! This time, since I had been laid off and wasn't working, I decided this is it! I'm going to paint this dresser. And guess what?!? I did it and it was awesome.
And that is when the magic really started. It became very apparent that painting furniture was something that I absolutely LOVED doing and I was good at it and it was something I definitely wanted to keep doing. So here I am today, still painting furniture, taking custom orders and absolutely loving it.
Now on to "Love Me Vintage". One day I was text chatting with my sister trying to come up with a business name...I had such a hard time trying to come up with something original. Ever since I was introduced to the antique store "Whimsy" in Carpenteria, I loved the name and knew I wanted something original like that but completely different at the same time. And of course, my brilliant sisters where just the ones to talk to! We were trying to come up with different names, putting words together and making up words and nothing made sense or sounded good until we came up with Frivical.
Frivolous. Practical. FRIVolous. PractICAL. FRIVICAL! Get it!! And Fancy just flowed so nicely with it.
Confusted yet? hehehe...
Frivical Fancy was the first name that I used, but after a countless number of people not being able to either pronounce it or understand it, I decided it was time for a change. I needed to come up with something easier to say and understand so I recruited my trusty Facebook friends to help me out!
So there you have it! The beginning of Love Me Vintage.
And by the way- The cabinet and the first dresser I found did eventually get a makeover :)
Well, that's it for now, check back later for some awesome before and after pictures (and in some cases, just the afters)!
Cheers,
Shannon
