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How to Spruce Up Your Porch

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Oh, baby it's cold outside! I know many of you are still enjoying the Fall (lucky), but here in Minnesota the temperatures are dropping and it's high time to put in the pine. Here's a new twist for containing your spruce tips JUNKMARKET Style. This will be one of the featured guests in Lani's booth at Second Hand Rose this weekend.

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Simple Monday Evening

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Peeps are coming over to watch the World Series and I needed a fresh little candle idea for my powder room. So here you have it. Go Phillies!!

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Paris Themed Necklace

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A vintage element redesign, which was in the end snatched up by the one and only "Lani" to be a part of her own colletion.

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"Emerging from the JunkYard" and Designing for a Cause

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Habitat for Humanity Restore Spaces Charity Event

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October Floral of the Month

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Here comes the bride. In honor of Halloween let me introduce to you, The Bride of Junkenstein!

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Trick or Treat...Mwah ah ah!!

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It's that time again! Ghosts and goblins across the globe are gearing up for Halloween. Get prepared for parties at your home with junk you find about the house.

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Garden Arbor Creation

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This is my sister, Sandy and her husband, Jims' re purposing. They used to raise hogs on their farm, but now since her husband retired they had extra hog crates laying in the weeds. See the garden structure they re purposed them into.

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I Had a "LIGHT BULB" Moment

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I found this old light cage and bulb cover at a barn sale in Cayucos Ca. (Sue's favorite place) and knew I could do lots of things with it. Here are a couple of ways to use them ..together and apart...

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Edible Centerpiece

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Well, it's October 13th and it just snowed five inches in Minnesota. Par for the course I guess. So while everyone else is decorating outside for fall. I had to move the bounty inside. Ha!

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Candy Display Spice Rack

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Organize your spices using a sweet display rack.

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RC Cola Cooler Turns Over a New Leaf

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When I bought this old rusty RC Cola cooler I thought I might use it as a drink cooler at a party or BBQ, but soon realized it had a better future, becoming a potting station. With old hooks...

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Organ Pipe Photo Holders

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I've always loved, loved, loved these but have, for whatever reason never done anything with them. The warm wood is fabulous, the design divine, and the letters add a great graphic element. Yummy!

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Time to Hit the Sack

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Inexpensive burlap sacks are a perfect addition to your home decor.

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From Card Table to Wall Art

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A roadside vintage card table adds artistic flair to a home's foyer.

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You Can't Take the Fancy Out of Fancy...

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So go with the flow! Candy, Candy, Candy....You stinker!! You did indeed deliver a doozie of a challenge. I'm not so good with fancy, and you know it! I lean more in the direction of industrial so I had to dig deep into the playground of my mind to deliver up an answer to Editor's challenge # 7.

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My Simple Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday Project!

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Okay, I love Sue's Simple Mondays! And that inspired me to do my own. But I wasn't sure if it would be a Simple Monday, or if it would be a Simple Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday . . . you get the picture. So whatever day it is, simple is good!

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Serving up a "light" snack - vintage junk-style!

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Here's what I entered in Amy's Junk Potluck - at her blog party at Oronoco...

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Trundling Along

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I bought this old, low trundle bed at a yard sale and took the springs off the box, and like Candy, a while ago, decided to make a message board of sorts. You can use it for hanging almost anything...

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A Simple Monday "Ah Ha!" Moment

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OK, I know JMS contributor Miss Kathy was chortling over these delightful pieces of junk she presented to me as just one of the many challenge items she gave me. I had something else planned for today, but while noodling over these and enjoying a cup of coffee I had an "Ah Ha!" moment. So here you have it...fresh from the oven!

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Editor's Challenge #5- Bed Spring Candle Holder

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Yo! I'm moving right along on these challenges, but still many a mile to go. Gretchen decided to give me a pile of vintage cash register pieces and a spring. I decided to do the spring first as she has many of these from her Mom. Notice I threw a jewelry clasp into the mix.

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