Kitchen tables have been like a revolving door in my house over the last several years. We started out with an oak table (sorry, no photo of it) that we bought about 9 years ago, when we still lived in Missouri. When we moved to Illinois, we used the table for a few months, but it was too long for our new kitchen, so when we remodeled the kitchen (seen here), my husband removed the legs, and I painted and {Read More}
Archives for January 2015
Numbered Tags Silhouette Tutorial
January 6, 2015 by 5 Comments
Yesterday, several people left comments, wanting a Silhouette (affiliate link) tutorial to make the Brown Paper Number Tags, so here it is! It really is very easy, but I know having a visual is easier than just written instructions, so I’ve provided both. Step 1 – You’ll need to have a stencil font downloaded on to your computer, which you’ll use to create the numbers or letters inside the tags. Click HERE to download the font I used on my tags. Once you’ve {Read More}
Vintage Inspiration Party #171 – Upcycled, Vintage and Repurposed Decor
January 6, 2015 by 9 Comments
Happy New Year and welcome to the first Vintage Inspiration Party of 2015! We are happy you are here. Who are we? We are 4 bloggers who love vintage, repurposed decor, lovely and lacey, junky and rusty. And when you share here, your link shows up on 4 blogs so you get a lot of bang for your buck, or link up! 1. Becky @ Beyond The Picket Fence 2. Betsy @ My Salvaged Treasures 3. Angie @ {Read More}
Brown Paper Number Tags
January 5, 2015 by 11 Comments
I told you last week you might be seeing more brown paper projects, because I’m on a brown paper kick right now. I decided to challenge myself to see how many projects I can come up with using it. I don’t know if I’ll do it all year, but I’ll do it as long as it’s still fun! This time, I made some adorable alphabet and number tags. Technically, I used brown craft cardstock paper, not regular grocery bag kind of paper, although {Read More}
Little Child’s Chair
January 4, 2015 by 14 Comments
A few weeks ago, when I went to Arkansas to bring my college son home for Christmas break, we stopped at an antique store along the way, and I found this little child’s chair sitting outside the shop.
The Lord’s Prayer Antique Hymn Page Printable
January 4, 2015 by 3 Comments
Of all the beautiful old hymns, my favorite ones are actual passages of Scripture that were set to music, like this, “The Lord’s Prayer” song. Occasionally gospel songwriters, both past and present, include lyrics that just don’t line up with what the Bible teaches, but you can’t go wrong when you set actual Scripture to music. It’s also one of the best ways to memorize Scripture, for people who are auditory learners, like myself. This page came from a beautiful antique {Read More}
Vintage School Desk Makeover
January 3, 2015 by 8 Comments
I’ve been given several old school desks over the years, from people whose kids had outgrown them. I often repurpose parts of them, like the antique alphabet school page sign I made from the top of another desk, but this one didn’t have any parts that were easily removable, so it would get a makeover instead. All in all, it was in decent condition, but a child had scratched some words into the top of the desk, and the “greige” {Read More}
Rustic Brown Paper Pot
January 2, 2015 by 13 Comments
Sometimes new projects are a huge success, and other times, they are a dismal failure. Today’s project turned out wonderful, but only because another project was a dismal failure first. Last year about this time, I made a canvas bucket bag (seen here), which I absolutely loved, and I always thought it might be possible to make something similar out of brown paper, and I decided I would attempt it. My husband walked in while I was working on it, {Read More}
Looking Back and What’s Ahead in 2015
January 1, 2015 by 14 Comments
2014 was another busy year for changes around our house, and I haven’t even shared them all on the blog yet. The biggest project we completed was our old shed that we converted into a guest room/photo studio, which then became a bedroom for our oldest son when he switched from an out-of-state college, to our local collage. He’ll graduate from college in the spring, and once he gets his own apartment, it will revert back to a guest room/photo studio {Read More}
Antique Clock Face Graphics from School Book
January 1, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Recently I picked up an antique school book, which was filled with lots of charming illustrations, and of course the first ones that caught my attention were the telling time pages, with antique clock face images on them. The first day of 2015 seemed like a good time to share them!. It’s easy to print these out, and attach them to old cd’s, or a round piece of wood for an instant “antique” clock face to display in a vignette. Here {Read More}
