Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries--or Strawberries

Buying vintage and antique things to resell usually means a garage full of projects.

It is rare that we buy something to sell on and it is ready to place in the shop without some tweeking.

Tweeking can mean cleaning, dusting, using Howard's Magic Juice, (cures so many issues with old stuff), hosing off, nailing together, fashioning some little bit, or in the case of paintings--cleaning off nicotine or just old age brown yuck.

The photos you see are not just bad cloudy pictures.  They show the process of using Qtips and cotton balls and Another Secret Sauce to clean paintings to looking like they were the day they were painted.  And adding value.  I had no idea that this painting was of Queen Anne or Ranier cherries before I started cleaning it.

And the way this basket of strawberries popped when cleaned was amazing.  Life is a bowl of cherries or strawberries when you can recognize it.