Recycled and Upcycled Projects for your Home
Whale Weathervane DIY Revisit A couple of weeks ago I was showing you some of my flea market finds. Remember the oak side table, the pair of dressing table side tables and the trio of country style signs, all from … Continue Reading →
Antique Oak Side Table, Flea Market Find At the beginning of the month, my sister, my niece and I hit up the 40 mile Yard Crawl in Virginia while the husbands golfed. Only bought a few items for refinishing and … Continue Reading →
DIY Vintage Style Sign, Flea Market Find Hi all and welcome back. Last weekend I spent a fantastic couple days with my sister and my niece at a great flea market. I didn’t buy too much stuff. After 10 years … Continue Reading →
DIY Cubby Shelf from a Curbside Find Last week I showed you a bunch of antique cubby shelves I’ve been ogling for years now. When I found this shelf curbside it was finally time to make that dream of … Continue Reading →
Upcycled Brake Drum Side Table If you love making something useful out of various odds and ends I have a great side table for you. This one uses 2 thrift store finds, a candlestick and a table top, plus a … Continue Reading →
IKEA Moppe Cabinet with Wine Crate Drawer Fronts Welcome back friends. I’d like to introduce you to my latest thrift store find. An IKEA Moppe cabinet that someone has lovingly painted with labels for all their art supplies. While I … Continue Reading →
Recycled Crate Coffee Table My latest project is this nice wooden crate that I purchased from an online auction for the ridiculous price of only $1. I was actually bidding on two items at the time, this crate and a … Continue Reading →
Upcycled Rusty Pipe Side Table I found this fantastic rusty pipe in a dump pile behind my son’s house. It immediately screamed TAKE ME HOME, followed by a quieter, YOU KNOW I’D MAKE A GREAT SIDE TABLE! Pair that pipe … Continue Reading →
Flea Market Rescue, DIY Tripod Floor Lamp Dating back to a flea market I went to in August of 2019, I am finally doing something with this old surveyors tripod. It got buried deep in my garage. It wasn’t until … Continue Reading →
Faux Concrete Paint with Baking Soda This one is for all my crafting friends out there. I’ve collected these birds and the candlesticks over the past few weeks in hopes of trying a faux concrete paint finish using chalk paint … Continue Reading →
Create your own unique upcycled coffee table from flea market finds. Every one is different, every one is handcrafted by you. Continue Reading →
Easy Thrift Store Makeovers with White Chalk Paint Last week I found this pair of wooden plaques at a local thrift store. At $6 each I had to have them. I was having a good day, it was the same … Continue Reading →
DIY Frame with a Thrift Store Find I’m so proud and excited to introduce you to the newest addition to our family, our grandson, Isaac Michael. This sweet little angel arrived last Thursday, weighing in at only 6lbs 9 oz. … Continue Reading →
DIY Bar Cart With Upcycled Sewing Machine Drawers, Hardwood Flooring and a Shutter My sister has a booth at a local antique store and she’s always acquiring fun things. So when I get bored of my own projects I bug … Continue Reading →
Mercury Glass Window Happy New Year everyone. You may have noticed that I took the month of December off from blogging. I was still working on projects but not blogging saved me the time of sitting at my computer and … Continue Reading →
Upcycled Wire Spool Table Do you remember my flea market haul from back in August? Today I’m tackling one more of of those projects. I’m calling this a wire spool but frankly I don’t know what it is. It has … Continue Reading →
I told you I was inspired by watching Flea Market Flip last week when I constructed my bar cart. Well the same goes for this weeks project, a memo board made from an old shutter. Last week, when I saw … Continue Reading →
Flea Market Flip, DIY Bar Cart Since I watch the show Flea Market Flip all the time, it may come as no surprise that I saw a bar cart to be as soon as I saw this rusty old metal … Continue Reading →