The Chair is Blue

5 minutes of sanding, 1 coat of primer and 2 coats of spray enamel later… DIYers, Did you know you can sand off loose rust with a sanding block? Who knew?

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I Been A-Junkin’

Bliss = an hour in the my “studio” with super glue, paint and my new paper cutter. Dreaming up ideas for respurposing discarded items is a lot of fun. I had a dream last night that Leonardo DiCaprio was yelling at me for cluttering up the garage. So. Wierd. I guess, if just plain old [...]

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Tiered Plates

The Junk Market is only a few days away! Tiered cake plates are ready to sell. Wanna do it to? Gather or purchase plates, vases and candle sticks. Glue them together with E6000 industrial strength glue. And there you go! Add brownie bites and appetizers or seasonal home decor…like a bunch of red Christmas bulbs [...]

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Thrift Store Sign Gets a Beach Update

Rooms $1.00 Per Person Really? Seriously, someone at some point thought this sign was cool. Such are decor fads I guess. Still, I don’t really get this sign. Is it like a brothel? An early day econo-lodge? Prairie days homestead renter? I just had to change the poor sign from weird to fun! Here is [...]

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Trash to Better-Than-Trash Dresser Redo

Worth the Wait It all started when…. I took home a dresser, as a freebie leftover, after helping out with a family garage sale. You know the moment. The, its free, I’m sure I could fix it up and use it, moment. That was about, um…..4 years ago or so. Now, attempts have been made. [...]

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Towel Rack from a 25 cent Shutter

Just Beachy {Linked up to Trash to Treasure Tuesdays at Reinvented.} I painted a shutter from a garage sale in my pre-blogging days. Hence, no true before photo. It was just wood. Next, it was glorious, in it’s sage and black shabbiness. It was ideal for the top of my kitchen cabs as a backdrop [...]

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Hooked On Lamps

Baby Boy’s Nursery Lamp Redo Can I, as a blogger, do anything anymore, without making a docu-drama out of it? Without the hint of a major blog-dom project party to link posts to, do other, non-bloggers, actually DO projects without their camera? Hmmm….. Thanks to the draw of one such a project-post blog party, called [...]

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Laundry Room/Kitchen Door ReVamp

So time has been flying around here. Wait. No. Time is tick-tocking by in an alarmingly slow, “please, oh, please let the temps be above 0 degrees today” rate. I know! I know! Enjoy them (my kids) while they are little! Well, I have had plenty of “enjoyment” with my two little cooped-up bundles of [...]

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Spinner ReVamp – Prayer Wheel

When board game pieces, pawns, and cards have gone astray. Remember to hang onto the old spinners before you throw the game away! The spinners can be purposed for numerous activities. Just think of the opportunities! I can picture old spinners as: chore wheels (sections of bathroom, kitchen sink, bed) picture wheels (each person of [...]

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Board Game ReVamp

Got Junk? I do. Take this dying old board game for example. I purchased this Bob the Builder game at a thrift store for $2. Upon returning home, I immediately plucked the battery-operated, medium sized, Scoop (character) from the game, that was, after all, why I purchased the game in the first place. So, what [...]

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