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Posted on June 20, 2019September 24, 2020

Statue of Liberty sign for the porch

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 …

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Posted on March 25, 2018July 6, 2020

Painting | A home address sign for the porch

Handmade black and white wooden home address sign painted with chalk paint

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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Posted on December 20, 2017September 24, 2020

Crafting | Painting a Christmas sign

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 …

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Posted on November 4, 2017September 24, 2020

Makeover | A new look for an old chair

Old, unwanted chairs have a way of finding me. This one was waiting for me on the curb outside of my son's apartment building in Milwaukee. Here's what it looked like when I found it. The hunter green was a little dated, but otherwise the chair was in great shape, so (much to my son's …

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Posted on December 19, 2016July 13, 2020

Makeover | Chalk-painted suitcase

Here's a little train case I picked up at a thrift store ... Except when I bought it, it looked like this ... Cute little case, right? Except for the 1990s floral tapestry. I like to use old suitcases for storage (because a shelf full of vintage suitcases is much nicer to look at than …

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Posted on October 17, 2016September 24, 2020

Halloween sign | “Double Double Toil and Trouble”

Nothing says Halloween like a spooky sign with a smiling skull and crossbones on it.

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Welcome to Wisconsin Magpie. I’m Lisa, the creator of this site.

A history nerd and profligate collector, I spend way too much of my free time at thrift stores and garage sales, salvaging other people’s castoffs. When I’m home, I’m attempting to use power tools I have no idea how to operate and undertaking craft projects well beyond my skill level. Sometimes they actually turn out.

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