A new bulletin board

As I've mentioned before, I went thrift store shopping while on vacation.  This will be the first of my makeovers that I found there.

These are the items I started with:

When I first picked up the blue picture frame, I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it. I wanted to turn it into a bulletin board. But not just your everyday bulletin board. I wanted to be able to use clips instead of magnets and twine instead of metal.

Here is the before:

This frame had a nice price tag of $1.50 - just call me the last of big time spenders.



After removing the picture inside (which was just a piece of paper with cardboard backing) and the birdhouse on the front, I gave it a couple coats of black paint.  Once more I turned to my Cricut machine for the vinyl lettering and turned this once donated picture into this:



This frame now has a new home in Sierra's bedroom - hence the Paris theme.

Total cost  - $ 1.50 and little bit of time.  Everything else I already had on hand.

Thanks for looking

Alexis' Thrift Store Treasure

As you know, I LOVE thrift store shopping.  Well, unfortunately I have passed on that passion to my daughter and my niece.  While on vacation, we took a little trip to the thrift store a.k.a. Deseret Industries.  That place is so much better than Goodwill near my house.  Anyway, we came up with a challenge, we had to find something UGLY and turn it into something a little (or alot) more beautiful.    Lindsey found a hideous picture frame and some hanging thing (no idea). Watch her blog for her projects coming soon.

The things I found will also be coming soon.  I still have a few small details to work out. 

Alexis found someone's old treasure box and decided that she could do something with it.
We bought it and gave it a new home with us.  Here is what she started out with:

It needed alot of TLC so we took the lid off and gave it a bit of sanding:

Time to give it that new look.  Alexis picked out a lime green paint, painted it and then put it back together.  We decided that the outside needed something so we found a great tutorial on how to make ribbon flowers (sorry, I have no idea where we found it).  Added some vinyl lettering, a couple buttons and a cute little handle at the top - and ta-da she now has a "new" treasure box.

Cost:
box - $1.50
ribbon - $1.00
paint - left over from a previous project
handle - free (already had it) check it out, it's an old spool that we painted
vinyl lettering - free (already had - I love my cricut)
buttons - free (found in button jar)

New Treasure box - Priceless

Stay tuned for more Thrift store challenges - we have several

Who is Ezekial ???

I have no idea who Ezekial is.  I found this cute little bench at the trift store (for $4.99 - what a bargain) and just knew that it needed a new home.  But of course I don't have a darling little boy named Ezekial so what was I going to do with it?  

Well, I knocked off the blue letters with a hammer and then completely tore it apart (forgot to take a picture) by then it was in 5 pieces.  It was only being held together with staples so I knew something better needed to be done.  After much sanding and alot more sanding, it was ready to be put back together.  My darling husband put it back together for me with nails this time (had to make it sturdier you know).  I then painted it and added some vinyl lettering.

Now it looks like this- and I love it.  So do the stuffed bears.

Thrift store find...

Yesterday while I was out and about running some errands, I made a quick stop at the thrift store. I didn't really think that I would find anything but I was wrong. I found this:

Now I know it may not look like anything wonderful (and it's not) but I knew that it would work great in my recent makeover. And speaking of my makeover, it's about ready for it's reveal. Check back this next weekend when it should be ready to go.

See you then.