One woman's quest to salvage the world's castoffs, lock, stock and bauble
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 …
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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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 …
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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I've always wanted a vintage typesetter's tray. The trouble is, the ones I've seen for sale have been on the large side, and the walls in my house don't have any large-sized spots left to fill. So until I can persuade my husband to buy a bigger house or to build another wall in our …