JanieBV

Love this. You do beautiful work.

I love this idea. I think I might make a bunch to hang on our back fence. I've got tons of music and we have our own greenery in the back that I can cut. I think I might get the music laminated so that it holds up to our beautiful Ohio winters (hah) and I can reuse them next year. Beautiful and simple idea! Thanks for sharing.

What a beautiful arrangement of junk. It looks gorgeous and now I've also realized that the old keyboard that we are soon to replace isn't going in the trash. Great job!

What an adorable idea. I have nightlights on all the time in our house to make it look homey and also to help anyone walking around at night (me). I just might have to make one or two of these. Very creative.

What a lovely path you built. I'm sure your garden is absolutely beautiful. It's great to see a re-use of old concrete as well instead of it ending up in the dump someplace. I wish more companies would consider making scrap-type things available free to the public to avoid more dumping in landfills. One man's trash is definitely another man's treasure.

I just read your post yesterday and today I got a decorating book from the library and when I was paging through it I happened to notice something that you could do with your partial picture frames. I guess it sort of depends on whether you like architectural type decor in your home as well. How the book describes it is "a broken piece of cornice highlights the windowsill." While your frames are not cornices per se, what you could do would be to glue a couple of them together (making a "V") and refinish them to a chippy white or black and place it on a shelf or windowsill as they did in the book. If you'd like to see the picture, it is on page 48 of "Recycled Home" by Mark and Sally Bailey. Maybe you could request it from your library system.

Very cute. I love the tin at the top. It's a great addition.

Love all your ideas. Who would have thought to make a buffet from a waterbed headboard? It's fabulous. Could you tell me what kind of paint you used to paint your fireplace? I want so badly to paint mine but I'm afraid to. What happens if you don't like it and want to remove it or change it back to it's original brick? I've looked online and found "fireplace brick painting kits" and they are super expensive. I'm "frugal" like you and refuse to pay that much money. Your brick looks great.

I can't tell from the picture, but is the oval shape on the clock clear? I have a clock similar to this that has our last name and then "Est. 1990" underneath that. You can stencil that on with that etching stuff -- don't know what it's called. Make it for yourself or for a wedding or shower gift!

What a beautiful find. I love the paint job on it now.

Wow, what a great bunch of stuff you got. It's sad that normally all that stuff would have been burned with the house. Glad you were able to get it all and make use of it in some way in the future.

I am really impressed not only by the quality and reality of the work, but by your creativity. You did a fabulous job!

You did a beautiful job with the painting of everything. It's a lovely display.

Great finds! I'll be looking forward to you posting some of your creations soon. What types of ideas do you (or anyone) have with utilizing old maps? I have a bunch and I want to implement them into the design of my family room that we are re-doing. I'm sort of going with the "old war letters/pictures and maps look." Any ideas?