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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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 …
In my last post (which you can find here), I wrote about my love of galvanized metal and my success with aging some of my bright, shiny new pieces using vinegar. Today, I'm going to write about the failures. Here's what I started with on the day of the de-shining: eight new containers (all picked up …
I have a soft spot for galvanized metal. I think because it reminds me of my childhood on the family farm. We always had stacks of 10-quart galvanized pails that we kept in the vestibule connecting our milkhouse and our barn that were used mostly when feeding our calves. Our cows drank out of a …
Today's post is all about carpentry, a subject that I know absolutely nothing about. But I'm all about learning new things. And after my brief foray into the World of Wood, I think I can safely say I would make a really great carpenter if wasn't for all that measuring stuff. (I've always been a …
I found this toolbox at Goodwill a couple weeks ago and thought it would be the perfect container to corral my scattered collection of craft paints. It was made of pine, nothing fancy, definitely not antique. But it did have one special embellishment, courtesy of the previous owner: a small verse hand carved into one …