I am posting again about this fun project from last spring. We found some vintage windows on the curb, and they inspired this entire project. With a bit of wood found in the garage and a quick trip to Home Depot, we had the makings of a fun weekend. On a gorgeous day early last Spring, myhusband got started on building me [...]
This is a Santa Claus tree topper that my son made in kindergarten or maybe preschool. So it’s somewhere around 25 years old. I used it for the top of our Christmas tree every year until it was just about falling apart. Last year I decided to frame it and just hang it on the [...]
I bought this Santa sign at a garage sale for $4. I couldn’t believe my luck, that I had found it. It stands about 4 ft tall and is made out of wood. I think it may have been an advertisement of some sort long ago. Whatever it was, it has new life now [...]
This is an old cupboard someone threw away several months ago. While out on a walk with my friend, we came across it. The back was falling apart, the door was off, the finish was horrible and their had been a can of polyurethane that had dumped inside of it. Quite a mess. It was in [...]
are my old metal garden chairsas as well as my adirondack chairs which I have shown before but thought I would share again. Slowly over the years I have accumulated all of these chairs. I found every single one of them on the curb and brought them back to life with sand paper, elbow grease [...]
Here is the dresser I restored for our new grandaughter that’s was born in July. I sanded off the old finish, cleaned up the pulls and lock covers, then refinished the whole thing. I contact papered the drawers, and voila! Here it is before…. Here it is after. We delivered it to my son and his wife [...]
These are the two adirondack chairs my friend and I rescued from the curb. My husband made a new arm for one and I repaired the backs of both of them. We also had to reinforce one of the legs. Then I primed and painted them glossy red. They still had some years left in them. I [...]
This is the chair I got at the Madison Bouckville Antique show back in August. I had never seen one like it and when my husband and I laid eyes on it, we both sort of looked at each other and we knew right then what the other was thinking. The price was only $50 and [...]
My husband brought me home a surprise a couple of weeks ago. He found this wonderful cupboard on the curb. Someone had thrown it away. In better shape than these pictures show in the before pics. The paint was still in tact, I scraped it to see the wood. The glass was unbroken, even the shelf [...]
What I realized doing this post is that all my stained glass pieces except one, has flowers on it. Go figure… me,… flowers. This first one hangs in my kitchen. I love it’s simplicity and it’s colors. The light that streams through in the morning is cheerful even on gloomy days. I bought this arts and crafts styled [...]
