One girl’s trash…
It all started back when I was doing an antiquing side-hustle a few years ago. Because my friends all knew about it, I would get referrals all the time, for stuff that would be good for my inventory. One day, I came home to discover someone had left this sweet little yellow tv in my driveway. My initial plan was to sell it, and I very nearly did at the Flamingo Haven yard sale. But the would-be buyer took it inside to see if it worked, and opted out when it didn’t. So I brought it home, and started brainstorming what I could do with it. Enter the little accent table I made for the husband’s fireplace chair, as seen in My Work.
Each piece has a personality of its own
Each of these vintage electronics is so unique, and one of my favorite parts of these projects is tailoring the hardware to match each one’s personality. It may be anything from a Bakelite drawer pull from eBay, to a defective one from a thrifted dresser that didn’t match the original piece’s hole width. But as yet, no two drawer pulls have been the same, and they each suit their respective electronics beautifully.
Early Television Convention, 2024 - present:
I went to my first Early Television Convention in 2024 at the Early Television Museum in Hilliard, OH. While I think my work is pretty stinking cool, I was very careful to not breathe a word of it to anyone there. So when I went to the Early Television Convention last year, I went very incognito. The Early Television community is full of television purists, who tend to have very strong opinions about repurposers. So much so that there was a presenter doing a presentation on “So, you just got your first vintage TV. Now what?” and at some point early on, there was a slide titled – Trigger warning: the next few slides have some very greusome images…” Cue the aquarium, the cat bed, the bar cart, et.al., which validated my inclination to not out myself.