Recycled and Upcycled Projects for your Home
December is always the month when I shop for a new calendar for the new year and last December was no different. So while I’m looking at all the cute puppies, sunsets, grumpy cat, beautiful gardens, and hunk calendars, the … Continue Reading →
Last Christmas my brother-in-law gave me this great teapot planted with a beautiful green plant. Unfortunately, it didn’t take long for me to kill the beautiful green plant. The leaves started dropping like it was fall and soon it was an … Continue Reading →
Good morning. I have something just a bit different for you today, a blog hop. Yup, I was invited to join the Junk Revision Challenge. Each month the group is given a theme and it is up to us to … Continue Reading →
January was spent getting my youngest son’s bedroom painted and organized. What used to be a jungle themed bedroom has grown up substantially…a little of out with the old and in with the new. The desk redo with the mismatched … Continue Reading →
When I shared with you the desktop (above) last week, I mentioned that a blizzard was on its way. Well I’m back, and pleased to announce that I survived the blizzard of 2016. Forecasts called for 18-24 inches of the white … Continue Reading →
I just put away the Christmas decorations and I’m already thinking about Valentine’s Day. Well, I did have an empty space on the wall where the pallet Christmas tree has stood for the last couple of months. I could have … Continue Reading →
Can you believe Christmas is this week? Back in November when the stores first started to play their Christmas carols, it was like, seriously? Aren’t you rushing the season just a bit? But now I find myself singing along to all the … Continue Reading →
Good morning and welcome back. If it’s the third Friday in the month then it means I must be guest posting over at My Repurposed Life today. I think you’ll really love this project and it brings me back to my … Continue Reading →
One week to Thanksgiving and counting. Sorry, didn’t mean to shock you, I’m sort of just reminding myself. I have 18 people coming for dinner next week and I have no menu and I still need to start cleaning house. … Continue Reading →
Here at the Scavenger Chic household we have a sad little advent calendar we’ve been using for over 25 years. And every year I see these beautiful advent calendars with little doors and little nooks and crannies and think, I’ve … Continue Reading →
Recycle, upcycle, repurpose, reuse….whatever you call it, these nightstands do it all. The knobs are new, but the spindle legs, hardwood flooring top and drawer body of the table have all had past lives. Their worlds are about to collide. … Continue Reading →
On Monday I showed you how easy it was to create your own set of corbels using nothing other than leftover wood scraps. Hopefully I inspired you to make your own set, but if that didn’t work, I’m back to … Continue Reading →
I hope you all had a wonderful Halloween. We had about 150 or more trick or treaters. I was actually glad they stopped coming when they did or there would have been no chocolate left for me. It didn’t help … Continue Reading →
I am always on the lookout for my next big project and I am not ashamed to tell you that I often steal my ideas from the millions of ideas floating out there on the internet. It may not be direct … Continue Reading →
Welcome back all you diyers. Today I have a super easy project that is put together just like a toolbox with the exception that the opening is in front instead of on top. This project came about because I’m still using … Continue Reading →
Have you ever been given a sign by the universe that you should follow a certain course of action? Well my sign from the universe was really a sign. An oyster sign. I spotted my first and second sign in … Continue Reading →
Hello friends, as promised, I’m back with another fairly easy diy. Since I’m guest posting over at My Repurposed Life this morning you’ll just have to click on the link to get the full tutorial. This project started out as … Continue Reading →
It’s kind of hard for me to believe that it has been two months since I’ve brought you a junk angel. This little angel has been just sitting patiently in my workshop waiting for me to decide on what kind of … Continue Reading →