Shabby Chic Shelf Another garage sale find. Oops, this picture was taken after I had fixed structural issues. It was in pieces because it was missing several screws. I decided to make it a match to the shabby chic iron vanity chair from my previous post. With that in mind, the same painting technique was […]
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Shabby Chic Iron Vanity Chair This was another find from my garage sale treasure hunt in Rose Hill, Kansas. I got it for a steal, mostly because it would tip over backwards when someone sat in it. I knew immediately what the problem was. Unfortunately you can’t see what the problem was in these pics […]
Bentwood Cafe Chairs My husband and I found these cute chairs at the Rose Hill, Kansas citywide garage sales. They were in very good shape, but because they were placed on separate sides of the yard, we didn’t realize until we got them home that they were not a matched pair. Close, but no cigar. […]
1940s Child’s Table-Restyled This is the ugly duckling this table started out as. I picked it up a few weeks ago at a yard sale. The owners told me it had been the children’s art table in their grandmother’s house. It had been in the family since the 1940’s. Yep, it showed. Most people would […]
Restyled French Country Stools These are the chairs that Youngest Son got rid of when we finished transforming the chairs I posted a while back. He was going to toss them, but I couldn’t let that happen. An idea was taking shape in my head. They needed a bit of help. The problems are pretty […]
Junk-to-Gem Chairs When Youngest Kid was home for Christmas break he helped a friend with moving. There were several things that were headed for the trash, but like his mother, he just couldn’t let good junk go. These treasures didn’t get a new life while he was home for his Christmas break, so I decided […]
Poker Table Redo A project from my youngest apple that didn’t fall far from the tree. This proud “tree” has now officially instilled the merits of turning junk into gems to all her “apples”. While my youngest (Colby) was home from school for Christmas break he snagged this old poker table that a friend was […]
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Stenciled Christmas Collages
Christmas Collages My newest junk finds. Actually they came from my daughter. LOL! If you’ve been paying attention, you know I don’t have a daughter, but I made her mine years ago. She gave me old cupboard doors… …and a 3-tiered table that was falling apart. Sorry, I was too quick and only got a […]
I made this project a few years ago and it is still one of my favorite fall decorations. The bike tire rim was found in a pile of childhood bicycle parts that my son was cleaning up. Old vines and leaves were tangled in it’s spokes. It almost looked like it was decorating the area. […]
Primitive Halloween Witch Wands I collect a lot of junk that I think I will eventually use for new projects, but until I sorted, organized and packed for our move I never really realized how much of any one thing I had hoarded collected. Spindles and dowels are just one of the collections I am referring […]