Saturday garage sale steals!

Despite the freezing cold, I braved it to go look at this garage sale I saw online. They had pictures and in one of them I saw what looked like, a dress form, possibly vintage. I got there and found that they had sold it the day before and that it was very old, ugh!! Oh well, however I DID find some really cool vintage goods~ A big bunch of beautiful old silver(not the pitcher, that's just what I'm putting it in to display in my kitchen), a vintage flower frog (these are so cool for using to display an old photo or postcard), and a wire shoe(I LOVE that, thought it would be cute in one of my girls' rooms with something in it)! The nice lady told me to give her a price so I got it all for $5.00! ...and Jeff told me not to spend the whole $50 in one place..Ha!

The "Before"~My Sweet $5 Find!

Yes, you heard right, she was a steal at $5! Isn't she a cutie?! I found her one day when my sister and I were shopping at a thrift store...I spotted her from about 20 yards away and literally gasp when I did. My sister looked and she knows me so well, she immediately knew what I had seen as I raced over to my little table. So, I took her home with me and here is her "before" her big makeover...

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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Antiqued Chest

I think this chest turned out awesome! It was my best experiment in antiquing with a tinted glaze. For the blue, I just used spray paint and it was so easy. I bought a stencil and mixed several colors of paint and just used a rag to dab it on. It makes great storage for table linens, etc. in my kitchen.

Valentines Day Fun!

This was a fun craft to do! I started with a paper mache' heart from Hobby Lobby(I just LOVE that store..), they were about 60 cents. Then I color copied the "heart" and "love" pages out of a vintage children's dictionary and tore around the edges. Used Mod Podge to glue them on randomly and some pink tissue paper. Painted on some taupe metallic paint, glued on some vintage tassel trim. For the beads, they were various old necklaces that I cut apart, mixed together and strung them on ribbon. Lastly, for some glitta and voila'!
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bulletin board

This is a bulletin board I made for Millie's room out of an old window I bought at an antique store. It was already that color. The floral fabric is an old bedsheet from a garage sale and the stripe is a remnant. I covered 12x12 cork tiles found at Hobby Lobby and hot glued them to a foam board piece cut to fit. Then I glued pink ric-rac across.

I had bought some vintage buttons a while back and so I had the thought to hot glue them to thumb tacks to make cute push pins. Now she displays her favorite art work and can change it out when she wants! It would also be cute to use a paned window frame that's missing the glass.

Vintage Christmas Postcard Ornaments

These are vintage Christmas postcards that are all around 100 years old that I bought on ebay for really cheap. I used old-fashioned glitter and ribbon on them and hung them on my vintage style tree. The next ones I make, I'll add more embellishments with vintage paper and things.

More Christmas...

I made these stockings and used leftover leopard from my sofa and some pretty jewel-tone green satin that I got for .50 cents from a garage sale! I could make these in whatever fabric combinations to match different color schemes. The pin is a vintage brooch and since I took this photo, I found some other clear colored brooches at an antique store and put them on others which I think is too cute!

Christmas Mantle

Here is my Christmas mantle. I collected the bottle-brush trees and the other little trees from various places this past year. The wreath was a joint effort between my sweet husband and I.
I had the vision of a square ornament wreath but couldn't find any kind of square form. So, I thought of using pvc pipe. I bought 18 inch pipe pieces and the L-joints and started wiring all th ornaments on. I got quite a few on and realized it was going to be way too big and I wouldn't have enough ornaments. I took those off and had Jeff cut the pipes down to 12 inches (with the joints, each side was about 16 inches long) and I started wiring again. The problem was when I stood the form upright, all of the ornaments fell to all sides and messed up my careful placement of each color throughout. I was about to chunk the whole thing down the stairs (and my dear husband was going to chunk me down the stairs for it taking so many hours and having to listen to my whining). So, my brilliant husband suggested that I let him drill holes through both sides and the ornaments would stay put! A few more hours later, voila'! My vision is complete! (Thanks honey)

Christmas Kitchen Display

Here's my little kitchen shelf vignette that I did for Christmas this year. (Ignore the hideous '90s wallpaper and stain, if you can). I used all vintage balls and I LOVE how the 3 balls turned out hanging them on the faux grapevine. I even filled an old milk bottle on the very top with balls.

Vintage Christmas Postcard Pillow

This is a gift I made for my sister-in-law. I bought a bunch of vintage (this one is about 100 years old!) Christmas postcards on e-bay. I found fabric that can go through the printer at Hobby Lobby. I used the cotton poplin since it has the finest weave. I scanned the postcard, set the size, printed it and then found coordinating fabrics and trims. I machine stitched the picture onto the red fabric and mitered the corners on the sage fabric, then sewed on the trims by hand. It was so fun putting together the fabrics and this could work with any holiday postcard or maybe a botanical photocopy out of a book