Let's start off with a prayer....Jesus, Help! Please move all the snakes and lizards to Kyle, Texas Amen! P.S. That includes baby "worms".

If you missed part 1 and part 2, you can go there really quick and catch up!! Vada's dining room is not apart of the main living area, so it provided a good opportunity to change the wall color. She wanted the space to feel open with cool, fresh colors. We choose Clear to See PX-0697 from Behr. The dining room chairs are from a local design shop. Kasey recovered the seats with fabric from Cowgirls and Lace, painted and distressed them.  With my snazzy wheelin' & dealin', we got a kitchen table and 6 chairs for a great price. Wheelin' & dealin' is simply asking. You would be amazing how much money you can save by just asking...and having me there! The table that came with this set of chairs was not the style we were looking for so you know what we did, SOLD IT! The two chairs on the ends are from Restoration Hardware...again, on a super duper great sale!!  Sometimes staying in your budget is not the most important but getting exactly what you want is.....when you can do both. Jackpot! The dining room table is from Pottery Barn Outlet. It was a display and had scratches on the top and it was perfect. We wanted a table that was worn and had character.  Added an enamel antique white paint to the legs to match the chairs and the room was coming together.  Side note:  that enamel paint will burn your nose hairs and make you see Elvis...open the windows for sure.  We had Vada's dog bouncing off the walls.  The shorter antique buffet serves as a great display for her grandfather's cash register and other knick knacks he passed along to her. The wall above the buffet is waiting for Vada's vintage rolling pin collection.  A project she wants to do on her own time. Gotta love it when your customer gets inspired and takes ownership. The wall art is very special too.  It was hand made by Jo Momma's Junk  who has booth at the Wimberley Market Days with us. The colors are amazing and Vada loves to have scriptures displayed in her house. On to part 4 ..... Photography credit: Bold Photography    

Get ready for a novel....Part 1 of 5 or maybe 6. Vada emailed Kasey and I explaining that she had bought a house in August of 2013 and wanted our help to finish decorating.  Before we scheduled a time to meet, we asked if we could look at her Pinterest account to get a feel for her style. Pinterest is a perfect tool to use for that purpose. Our first thoughts, "we got this!"  Vada's style is "Hashtag".  Antiques used in modern designs to create a clean homey environment. The reason I titled this post "The customer who had it all" is because Vada had collected or inherited old pieces of nostalgia and antiques that Kasey & I treasure hunt for everyday.  You will see what I am talking about in the next few posts. Vada wanted a complete dining room, living room, breakfast nook, and entry way.  We decided on a blue paint for the dining room walls and a light gray paint for the rest of the house. While Vada painted the walls and I think her husband took the SOME light switches down, Kasey & I started on the space planning for each room and working on a budget.  We knew we would save alot of money by using the amazing antiques Vada already had for the small decorations and tchotchkes, so our first mission was to find the big furniture pieces. Here are the before photos: (these were taken with my oh so sad iPhone 4 so please excuse the not so great clarity)   ~Jessie

Ladies and gents, let me introduce you to #Hashtag... I consider myself an Austinite, even though I was born above the Mason-Dixon Line. My parents moved to south Austin when I was two and this great city has been my hometown ever since. I did move away for about five years to Colorado Springs, Co. and even though it's a beautiful state with so much to do I couldn't wait to get back home. I worked the corporate world for several years and was fortunate enough to work for a company that allowed me to bring my son with me to work right after he was born. One Friday afternoon I was packing up, ready to head out for the weekend, when my boss asked to chat with me, I quickly realized what the chat was about. I was jobless! By Monday I had processed this change and was now thanking God that He had answered my prayers and desires to stay at home with my then six month old son. Fast forward a few years and my family had grown once again, we had a beautiful little girl that completed our family. After adjusting to being a family of four I began to want to scratch the itch to bring home an income. That's where Hashtag began. Jessie and I started turning our creative wheels and making home decor out of anything we could get our hands on, from items left on the curb to friends and family begging us to take pieces off their hands. Since we started, less than a year ago, not only has our company evolved but we have grown in so many ways. Kasey LaBorde

Born in Alabama, raised in Louisiana, grew up in Dallas and settled in Austin and don't plan on leaving. Sorry mom! I have always had the "junk" bug. I can remember decorating the front room of our house when I was 15 with old suitcases, photographs and vintage clothing. It was a useless room but to me it told a story. I wondered who had this stuff before me and why did they throw it away! I met my husband when I was 17 at a church camp in Dallas where I lived and we dated long distance for 7 months before I decided to move to Austin. Austin and I belong together. Weirdos at heart! I was having a group of moms over to play with, well, they brought their kids too, but it really was about the moms hanging out. Looking at all my friends sitting on the floor of our playroom, next to a window with no curtains, I felt ashamed and embarrassed. I realized I had put our house on hold to raise babies...well, time was up. I didn't want to go blow tons of money on decorating and neither did Cody plus, like I said I like "junk"...pretty "junk". I went to a thrift store, found some really cool old floral print sheets and decided I was going to make curtains with them. I drug my three boys into the woods and set them loose...mission: find mom a 6 foot stick to repurpose into a curtain rod and that they did! Is it weird to use a stick and old sheets as curtains...not in Austin! Everyone raved about it. It hit me then that people like to use things in ways they are not supposed to be used, along with saving money! Hello! #Hashtag was born...Kasey and I started selling small home decor items we had repurposed in an antique shop in Plano and when I say the rest is history, I mean, we haven't had time to look back since! We let God take the reigns and we are just holding on tight during this crazy, amazing, shocking, fascinating, rewarding ride.