One woman's quest to salvage the world's castoffs, lock, stock and bauble
By now, my husband really should know better than to leave plywood laying around out in the open inside our garage where anybody who lives here can steal it. If he wants to keep the plywood for his own use he should hide it somewhere out of sight, amirite? Anyhoo, in a related matter, here's …
Today's snowstorm kept me home from work and school and gave me a chance to finally finish a craft project I had started before Christmas: a mini winter village.
I finished building another junk turkey, just (barely) before my self-imposed Thanksgiving deadline. This was my starting point this time. You know how some people look at clouds and see animals or objects in them? That's how I look at thrift store kitchen gadgets. But instead of seeing animals or objects, I see turkey parts. When …
If it's November, it's time to make the Thanksgiving bird. Here are the ingredients I used to make mine: And here's what he ended up looking like when he was all done: I call him "TurkeyBot 2018." The idea for this guy started with a vintage aluminum juicer that I found in a thrift store. …
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I made a new sign for my back porch. If you think it looks familiar ... ... it's because this is what's on the other side of it. I made the "noel" side of the sign back before Christmas (and blogged about it here.) After I put my holiday decorations away, my porch looked a …
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I have somehow managed to acquire a small collection of both snowflake ornaments and vintage embroidery hoops. So as I was packing away my Christmas decorations, I decided I'd put the two together to make a few flattened snow globes (or "snow hoops") that could hang around my house for the rest of the winter. …
To celebrate the holidays -- and the end of my first semester in my second go-round with college -- I made myself a little Christmas present. Isn't it purdy? I've been crushing on the Pottery Barn JOY sign the whole Christmas season, but as a poor college student, I didn't have 59 discretionary dollars to spend …
This week's project -- a DIY woven wreath -- has been on my to-do list for about a year and a half. That's when I dragged this wire frame home from a garage sale. Actually when I dragged it home, it was green, but I forgot to take a "before" picture until after I had …
Here's what I made this week: And here's what I made it out of: That would be the lath in the shower of our downstairs bathroom, which the husband had to tear out in order to attach cement backerboard to the studs, so we could tile the walls. Sadly, this is what the lath looked …
I finished one more turkey assemblage just in time for Thanksgiving. When I first got the idea for this guy, I thought assembling the pieces would be quick and easy because most of the parts were going to attach to the hole in the center of the coffee basket that would become the turkey's body. …