We will name him No. 37 {the stool with yellow feet}

You might have sneaked a peek or you maybe didn’t notice…but you might have seen our yellow-footed friend pos­ing  next to Minty {No. 34} in the Lilla Vän shoot…

He is a new addi­tion to our 508made fam­ily of stools & side tables. As you can see, I have decided to go ahead and start num­ber­ing our 508 made items along with the oth­ers. I don’t know why…just go with it.

The design for our stool came straight from the mind of Nathan. His design for our new kitchen scrap wood step-stool is so loved that we decided to make a larger ver­sion of it. And put yel­low feet on it. Don’t you just love it in the larger scale? We hope to do a 3rd size that can be used as a bar stool or side table.

We decided to go ahead and make them both avail­able to you in our shop!  Woot. Because the bot­tom line is, we can’t keep every­thing we make. Sad.

Until next week,
s

goodbye friends & how to get more

SO many of our lit­tle friends are all wrapped up and on their way to their new homes! A BIG thank you for all the won­der­ful feed­back and also to D*s for help­ing us spread the word on our Lilla Vän ani­mals!

We have received many request for more, so we are busy mak­ing a new batch! If there is a par­tic­u­lar one you would like but some­one already snatched it up, email us with your request and we can put your cus­tom order in with our next set! You can also check out our shop for details too (on size, price, ship­ping dates, ect).

We are SOOOOO happy you like them as much as we do– MANY more to come! Can’t wait to show off our new fur­ni­ture piece for our shop this week too!

Oh and one more thing…breakfast in bed while watch­ing Mod­ern Fam­ily (YES) and this lovely gift…

{via}

…made for a very happy Mother’s Day…I am blessed beyond mea­sure — thanks to my two beau­ti­ful chil­dren and lov­ing hus­band. Hope yours was happy too…

–s

Lilla Vän … a new collection by 508

OH. Hello. Are you excited today? Well, you bet­ter get there, because we just added a lit­tle some­thing to our 508 fam­ily. I want you all to meet our lit­tle friends…

Let’s just be clear. I am totally try­ing to play it cool right now…but IT IS NOT HAPPENING. I just LOVE our new lit­tle col­lec­tion of painted wood ani­mal sil­hou­ettes that we like to call Lilla Vän {pro­nounced “leela-von”}. It means “lit­tle friend” in Swedish.

I can not even tell you how fun it is to play with color & pat­tern on smaller-than-furniture scale pieces! Lilla Vän has a lit­tle 508 style mixed with a lit­tle of the Swede in me…I just can’t help it. We are intro­duc­ing 4 animals…in a vari­ety of sizes and color…

The idea started to form about 6 months ago…in my WAY too tired and over­loaded brain…in other words, the idea was not solid (to say the least). But, on the prin­ci­ple of “waste not, want not”, I was try­ing to come up with an idea for us to use all our scrap pieces of beau­ti­ful barn wood & other misc wood from our fur­ni­ture mak­ing. Lucky for me, I also have a hus­band with draw­ing AND wood work­ing skills. SWEEEET.

We tried MANY ani­mals. We made many mis­takes. Bru­tal hon­esty? Many of our failed attempts where burned in our wood stove over the win­ter. I don’t really hang on to stuff. We either love it or we burn it {appar­ently}.

I have sev­eral on my walls now and when you throw one of these in with your typ­i­cally bor­ing col­lage of pho­tos, it TOTALLY makes it fun and unique and filled with awe­some­ness. Per­sonal opin­ion, I know.

One day, we decided to add a SUPER WHALE. He is huge– too big for our barn wood. Made from a piece of wood from the Tor­rence saw mill. He is super amaz­ing.

Every­thing you see is avail­able in our shop today. For you. None of them are per­fect and none are the same.
So, go check em out and let us know what you think. We really do LOVE feed­back. Favorite ani­mal of the four? Favorite size? Want to see more of something?

OH and one more thing. I didn’t take a sin­gle one of the pho­tos. No not one. Thank you to my favorite…Kelly at Kel­lan Stu­dios. She loves me AND she is mad skilled AND she took all these pho­tos. xo

over and out.
–s

No. 33 {split personality}

In the midst of all the mad­ness going on around here with a wed­ding and client work and the usu­ally crazi­ness of our family…I found myself going a bit mad :) Per­haps that is why we have a new addi­tion to our shop… No. 33:

He came to us as plain as can be & a bit beat up…

and as a result of the mad­ness, he came out with a split per­son­al­ity! Chippy painted dis­tressed chair dipped in solid white glossy. YUM.

This chair is a per­fect expres­sion of 508 style…a bit SPLIT…

No. 33 is ready for a home. A small & quirky accent piece. SUCH a treat. You can buy him HERE at our shop.
That is all for today. Enjoy your Mon­day!
{the quote in yel­low made me laugh and i had to print a quick ver­sion for this shoot! i saw it here on pinterest}

**UPDATE: No. 33 has a new happy home and is no longer available**

a chair > a marriage > a table > a hair cut

Numero uno:  this piece of fur­ni­ture is now com­plete and looks BA (but i don’t have a final pic yet– oops)

Numero two {and most impor­tant}: My beau­ti­ful younger sis­ter is get­ting mar­ried in lit­tle more than A WEEK! I am a brides­maid. My daugh­ter is the flower girl. My son is the ring bearer. Whoa.

{this is NOT her dress, so i am not spoil­ing the wedding}

Numero another thing I have a photo of: a bunch of these barn wood boards are now trimmed and ready for the planer and will then be made into a farm house table. By us.

Oh, and to top it all off (no pun intended), I now have to deal with main­tain­ing bangs. Which I have never had before. Until today.

so we are busy around here. and that is all i got.

–s

i want to think of dangerous & noble things

We have been BUSAY these days…I feel like I have no time to share a post recently! Is that how all blog­gers are? You either blog about doing stuff or actu­ally do the stuff. Ugh. Anywho…can’t wait to show you some of the beau­ties we have been work­ing on!

I do have a moment to share this bit of a poem I just came across by Mary Oliver called Dan­ger­ous. I LOVE THIS. It is sim­ple and inno­cent and unpredictable.…I just love being inspired in unex­pected ways.

Ok, back to 508-ish things! This week­end will hope­fully be filled with me tak­ing pho­tos to share!

a wee bit different way to do easter eggs

You guys. I do not crotchet and I do not dec­o­rate Easter eggs.
Both per­fectly lovely things to do-just not on my bucket list. I DO, how­ever,  like color & I very much like ran­dom­ness.

ENTER: cro­chet egg cosies. They are ridicu­lous because…do eggs really need cosies? The answer is YES. Because these are tiny and col­or­ful and I love them.

In fact…this entire etsy shop is full of col­or­ful and ran­dom and tiny crotchet pat­terns (pdfs) that you can download…even if you don’t crochet…they say to start small, right?

Look at me post­ing some­thing Easter-y!

–s

Good Product: New Linen Spring Collection by Bemz

As a lover of my IKEA couches, I recently found (and became a huge fan) of Bemz. You heard of them?

They offer a HUGE vari­ety of designer cov­ers (cot­ton, linen, loose fit, ect) for IKEA fur­ni­ture that embraces the Swedish look/lifestyle…and let me tell you…I was super stoked. Must be the Swede in me.…

Oh, and I am not get­ting paid to say these nice things…I just really like the stuff– ha!

These images are all Bemz images– from the new Spring col­lec­tion (Brera). Go check out their site because there are TONs more fab­rics and linens to choose from. OR check out their blog for great inspiration!

Cheers!
s

508made: minty side table

You prob­a­bly fig­ured out by now that we like fur­ni­ture. Duh. I some­times stop &  think…“furniture is kind of a weird thing to love”…but then I get distracted…probably by a piece of fur­ni­ture. But we don’t just want to PAINT. We want to BUILD & DESIGN too. So, we start small. Meet our 508made minty side table:

We aren’t big into mod­ern or com­pli­cated design {obvi­ously}. Just usable fur­ni­ture that brings color to your home…

These pieces are NOT per­fect or alike.…

We want to make sim­ple fur­ni­ture that is MADE WELL so it can be WORN WELL.

We want to rep­re­sent char­ac­ter, travel, his­tory, color and sim­plic­ity…

…you know…all that good-one-of-a-kind stuff you want to col­lect for a “homey home” that rep­re­sents you…

We are not sell­ing these in our shop yet, but if you are inter­ested in Minty for your home, let us know.….… fiveoeightRD (at) gmail (dot) com. Minty is one of the first in a col­lec­tion of 508made stools and side tables that we will slowly be build­ing over the next months.

Oh, and just so you know. I am totally play­ing it cool right now, but inside I am all !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BIG-DEAL-super-stoked-try-not-to-implode-with-ideas feeling.

–s

Good Words

{via 73 Letterpress}

Be cre­ative this weekend.

GO OUTSIDE.

Oh. And GET EXCITED for some new 508-made fur­ni­ture on Monday.

Boo. Ya.