I love the shape and details of Seagrams bottles (no, I didn’t empty them), so I bring them home whenever I come across them. Whenever I’m painting something, I always look around to see if there’s anything else I want to paint in the same color before I wash out my brushes and put the paint away. I was painting coat racks with my homemade chalk-style paint and my eye landed on this pair of bottles that have been waiting {Read More}
Beeswax Candles
August 28, 2013 by 7 Comments
I’ve been wanting to make some beeswax candles for quite some time, but didn’t want to pay shipping prices to get a few blocks of the wax sent to me, since we have a well-known beekeeping business about an hour away. A few months ago, I was finally near the business, so I bought a few 1-lb. blocks of pure beeswax. I used a knife to grate large shreds off the block. I didn’t use a thermometer to heat the {Read More}
She’s Got Legs…{She Knows How to Use Them!} My New Cable Spool Table
July 24, 2013 by 36 Comments
If you weren’t born before the late 70’s, you won’t “get” the title of my post, but I’m sure those of you who were, know it was based on the 1983 Z Z Top song “Legs”. Sorry, I couldn’t help myself – I was a high schooler in the 80’s and the title perfectly fit today’s project. How to Make a Farmhouse Style Cable Spool Table A year or so ago, I brought home an antique Duncan Phyfe table table {Read More}
Jump the Curb – Bike Chain Bracelets
April 12, 2013 by 8 Comments
There are five things my daughter really loves – coffee, music, her pets, Monster drinks & her bike – in no particular order. Two of those loves she’s turning into a little business she’s calling, “Jump the Curb”. Click on image to visit her shop She’s creating a colorful assortment of bike chain bracelets for children and adults. They are unisex and look great on guys and girls. She’s been selling these to kids on her college campus and they {Read More}
Antique Alphabet School Book Page Sign
March 16, 2013 by 30 Comments
I warned you a few days ago that I’m a slow learner, and all the troubles I had with my bakery sign didn’t teach me my lesson not to choose elaborate fonts to cut out on vinyl with my Silhouette machine. I truly expected this project to be a failure and probably be a total waste of time, but I felt compelled to try it anyway. Here’s why. I bought an adorable 1895 school primer. It is filled with some {Read More}
Easy-breezy Clothespin Bag
February 3, 2013 by 28 Comments
Last summer, I was on the lookout for some easy-breezy kind of summer clothes. You know…a gal standing on the beach, wearing crinkly, lightweight white cotton, blowing-in-the-breeze kind of clothes…and I didn’t want to pay more than $5 for it…because I’m that cheap and I ruin clothes quickly. One thing I found that had that look was a pretty, simple sleeveless shirt. It was light, it was comfortable, it was stand-on-the-beach breezy looking – so I bought it. What I {Read More}
Repurposed Tin Cans Organizers
December 1, 2011 by 43 Comments
Go raid your recycling bin to create some of these super cheap, super wonderful super easy containers with tin cans! I stayed up til the wee hours of the morning making mine – I’m hooked! As I’ve mentioned before, I have a stash of sheet music and antique magazines from the 1800’s and their aged look means anything I put them on will be gorgeous, so I’m always looking for more things to cover. These were cans that held cooked chicken meat, but you could use {Read More}
