Meet my two new pets. They're much less trouble than my two old pets. I found them at the St. Vincent de Paul Dig 'n' Save. (The new pets, that is. The old ones were also someone else's discards, but that's another story.) The Dig 'n' Save is pretty much The Island of Misfit Toys …
Makeover | Painting a quilt square chair
Here's my new Ohio Star quilt square chair. Here's how it started. It may have been a curbside rescue. If I was the sort of person to pick up other people's trash. Which apparently I am. One of the spokes holding the legs together was missing, so I bought a dowel that was the same …
Crafting | Making a wooden arrow from a picture frame
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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Building a frame for a canvas panel
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 …
Makeover | A new grain-sack-style striped cushion for an old stool
In between a parade and a picnic and some fun with friends and family over the weekend, I did a quick makeover on World's Ugliest Stool. This is what the sad little stool looked like when I bought it at a thrift store a couple weeks ago. Yes, I actually paid money for it …
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Crafting | Tiling a tray with popsicle sticks
I bought this tray from a secondhand store a while back. (But it didn't look like this then.) The "before" picture of the tray is below. I loved the size of the tray... ... and the dovetail joints... ... and the black metal handles. What I didn't like was the Christmas scene. I wanted to …
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