Potting Table

I'm in love with junk, all junk!  I love garage sales, estate sales and flea markets!  Nothing makes me happier than to find that perfect treasure!  I had been looking for a new table to serve as my potting table.  I have been looking for about a year.  I didn't want to spend a lot of money and wanted something that would hold up in outdoor weather.  So the hunt was on! I am the type of person that knows, just knows, that I'll find the right piece, if I just take my time and look.

So last weekend the rain was suppose to set in early morning.  My husband and I decided to take a long shot and head for the flea market to see if any vendors showed up.  When we arrived we were surprised that there was a good turnout.  We started up the first row and to my surprise the first booth had this magnificent industrial work bench sitting there with a large sign on it that said $12 bucks!  I nearly tripped trying to get over to the booth to tell him I would take it!  I couldn't believe it!  It was the perfect piece for an outdoor potting table!

When we got the piece home, to my surprise, my son had given me an old vintage window from under his basement he had found.  I measured the window and it was the exact same size as my potting table! No way! I cleaned up the table, put a few coats of clear coat on the wood, my husband attached my window for the back and BAM I had a perfect re-purposed potting table for $12 bucks!

Blessings as always

Summers End

Summer is fastly fading away, take in as much as you can!  Have a blessed Friday!

Window Screen Take #1

Remember these?  Well one of them got a makeover this weekend!

I cleaned and scrubbed on this old girl until I got the crud off, only to reveal the nice chippy paint I so admire!  Not sure what I will do with the rest of the screens, but I needed something to hang over my nightstand in my bedroom.  So I decided to create this piece of wall art, it took all of 5 minutes.  I basically bought a hanger kit from home depot ($1.50) to hang it with, purchased three shabby looking door knobs from hobby lobby ($6.00), snatched up an old photo I had purchased at a garage sale ($1.00) and hung it with mini clothes pins (already had them). To top it off, I hung a string of crocheted hearts I had made earlier this year! I have to say I was very pleased with the end result!  I spent a total of $8.50 on this piece of wall art!

Have a blessed day and create!

Catching up

Hope your having a wonderful Labor Day weekend so far!  I am trying to use my time wisely and play catch up on some long over due projects.  I shared my vintage time card holder with you earlier, but wanted to share a couple of other projects, I finally got finished!  Here I have taken an old wire lampshade that I purchased at a garage sale for $.50 and turned into a light for my outdoor gazebo.  I paid $8 for the vintage light bulb to use in it, that cost more than the whole light did to make!  Ha! BUT, I love the vintage glow it puts off in the evenings.  Next I took one (of many) of my vintage windows and turned it into a chalkboard piece of wall art to hang in my computer/bedroom.  I loved the way it turned out as well! I still have a long list of projects to get done, so stay tuned!  There is just something about taking something old and making it new again!

Have a blessed holiday weekend!

Repurpose

I finally had time to clean up two vintage timecard racks to hang and use to display photos!  They worked out perfect! I love making the old new again! Repurposing is a must!

For the Love of Junk

You know your boys love you, when they call you on a Saturday morning and tell you they got a load of junk in the back of their truck and ask if you want to come go through it before they haul it to the dump!  Yes!  How sweet it is!  They know their mama all to well!  I have been known to dumpster dive, so I can now add truck bed diving to my credentials!  Ha!

My little mind has been spinning like wheels trying to decide what I am going to make out of these old window screens!

Stay tuned.......

Have a blessed day!

Portraiture Class

Photography is my passion.  I guess you would say I have waited my whole life for this.  I can remember always wanting to learn to shoot when I was younger, but working full time, raising three kids and life just happened, before this did. So I am happy to say that being 50 and fulfilling one of my life time goals feels really good!

These are shots from my Portraiture Class yesterday.  It's nice when you have a great teacher and he offers to be the model too!

Have a blessed day!