button letter art: Pinterest inspired

Millie and I had been inspired by some images and tutorials we've seen on Pinterest such as

this:

source:American Crafts Studio

and this:

source:Pinterest

so we decided to make our own. She actually did most of it

herself.

I helped pick out buttons, mostly vintage, that would match her

room.

Millie did all the placing of the buttons herself.

We repurposed an old print and frame that I'd bought a long time ago

from Bed Bath & Beyond and we had a ton of  buttons from 

Grandma's 

stash.

Gma would love what we'd done with them :)

frame memo boards

These are going into the booth at Serendipity Market next week!

vintage frames turned memo boards, painted by moi'...

I used aqua paint and whitewashed this one

allowing some of the antique-y gold to show through

each has a few clothespins stamped with vintage script...

now I need to make one to keep!

fun, new frames in my shop!

I'm slowly adding these

to my Etsy shop!

I just love them and the best part is....nothing to break!

I love to have pictures on low tables but I've had numerous frames break and then you have

broken glass to deal with...

The simplicity also adds to it's charm but the fancy bow with buckle

gives it a twist.

Go on, give it a peek :)

my "Big Garage Sale" finds

I got a whole roll of pretty pink floral wallpaper for 25 cents

that I can use to line shelves.

The bird, I'm going to attempt

to make one of those pretty big tassles

and put him on the top.

The mossy heart wreath is just like something I was going

to attempt to make but for 50 cents, why bother making it myself??

I just thought the bunny was cute.

I LOVE this frame! I love the flower detail and how it's

partly chipping off...ahh beautiful.

The fancy gold frame is just the right juxtaposition with

the chippy, old one.. my favorite combination.

This is a great black frame, both were 25 cents each

or something ridiculous.

I LOVE old platters like this, it makes me wonder

if this was once some young brides wedding gift.

It has the perfect aged beauty to it...

I also found a white chippy metal plant stand, table base, thing. Right now it's on my porch with an old galvanized bucket that I had which fit right in. I was thinking of planting some flowers that would spill over the edge in it.

I got some neat vintage jewelry pieces to remake into necklaces and some vintage seam binding. I bought Millie a half set of little Beatrix Potter, Peter Rabbit series books and some old books that had pretty colors to use for decorating. I didn't get much but what I did get, I really love!

Fabulous Finds on Friday!

I went to a garage sale and found the awesome "Lord's Prayer" poster for $1 and the vintage blue and white metal box AND the clothes, all in really great shape for $1.oo a piece! The cream-colored sweater is so cute, with a tie around the waist and I love the salmon-colored cords.
The poster, which I have seen at a boutique here in OKC and they sell it matted in leopard and framed for like $100 or something crazy, so I went to the RINK gallery to check out their sale table and look for a frame for my poster. I found the frame for $20 and I have leopard fabric in my scraps, I can totally do this for WAY cheaper.
The RINK is my new favorite place!! Today, along with the frame, I found another ironstone bowl, which I think is so beautiful and aged, for $1 and something that I'm having my guy pick up tomorrow and I totally scored on it. I'll post before and after pics when I get it. EEEK, I am so excited about it....!

Our home verse

This is in our entryway...it took some time to get it straight. These are vinyl letters from Hobby Lobby(I LOVE that store) in a beautiful, gigantic,(it's about as tall as me!) old frame from an antique store, that I bought for about nothing. It's a huge 2-story wall, so it needed something that made a huge statement. I love how it's the first thing you see when you walk in our front door. This is really my prayer for our home...

chalk board and robins

This huge frame (it's over 3.5 feet by 2.5 feet!), hung over my Grandma's couch and had a not-so-pretty print of a man on a horse. So, I just spray painted the print itself with chalk board paint. It had a texture already so I thought it would work well. This hangs over the blue chest of drawers that I redid in my kitchen. I'm going to think of an eating theme Bible verse to put on it...

I've been playing around with some art lately and the two robin-themed ones are what I've done so far. For the egg one, I used the "egg" definiton out of an old dictionary. On the robin piece, I aged some pages out of an old french book. You could do all different kinds of themes for different vignettes.

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