One woman's quest to salvage the world's castoffs, lock, stock and bauble
I found an old metal breadbox for $1.50 at a thrift store a few weeks ago. It looked so sad, I had to bring it home and fix it up. It had a few dents in it that needed to be pounded out, and it had been painted a nasty pinky-beige color. Apparently it had …
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Things are looking up around here. At least in my upstairs hallway. As I was hanging artwork there recently (you can read about it here), I decided I needed one more piece to stretch across the top of the wall. Maybe a sign of some kind, I was thinking. I checked the stash of projects …
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It's taken about three weeks, but I finally have art up on the wall in my upstairs hallway. Here's what the hallway looked like before. It's right at the top of our stairs, and I always felt like it would be perfect for a gallery wall but I just never got around to making a …
Earlier this summer I was picking through the leftovers at a garage sale that was about to close when I found this little jar for a quarter: I love glass jars with typography on them. And I especially love glass jars with Helvetica Bold on them. There was one little problem with the jar, though. …
One of my favorite parts of traveling is buying souvenirs. My husband and I bought this little (6" x 8") tile painting when we were on vacation in Mexico in the spring. (I blogged about our trip here, if you're interested.) We were walking after dinner one night when we happened upon a small arts …
After watching the first two seasons of "The Borgias" -- and one episode of season 3 (because season 2 ended on a cliffhanger and I had to see how things turned out) -- I decided it was time to stop procrastinating and start hanging some art on the wall in my upstairs hallway. (I blogged …