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Shake Up Your Valentine!

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Salt and pepper shakers become the object of my affection this Valentine's Day!

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Mid-Winter Junk Swap - End of Sign Up - February 9, 2010...Hurry!

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Anyone out there have the mid-winter blues? I know I do. I think I know the cure...a good old-fashioned junk swap.

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Live Internet Chat witth Sue

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Hi, y'all.  Just want to give you a heads up.  I'll be heading off to the Milwaukee/NARI Home Improvement Show  at the Milwaukee State Fair Park. Prior to that i will be doing a live chat for the Journal Sentinal Newspaper. Please join me and ask all your junking questions. Follow the link below, post your question and join me at Noon (CST) for answer time! Hope to hear from you!

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Flea-ing in the Sunshine State!

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We visited the fleamarket at Volusia County Fairgrounds this week...

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Go Fish, Go!

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My assignment? To come up with a re-use project for a kindergarten class. I'm not sure who is going to have more fun with this...me or them. Oh well, we're all kids at heart, right?

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How to Make a Gear Mold Clock

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If you have a gear mold (or other hefty piece of scrap wood), a nifty-noodle forstner drill bit , and an inexpensive battery powered clock...you can have this!

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Let Me Introduce Some Very Talented Junker's in Training

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JMS contributor, ALVN, when not out junking teaches a college course called Environmental Health. Yes, she has a day job. Part of the curriculum is to teach her students the art of re-use, recycle, and re-purpose. That's a good thing!

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Throwback to my Youth - Take a little trip with me

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Oh, the fun you can have with cardboard

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Stop the Draft!

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I decided to start out the new year with a totally “green” project.

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Trash to Treasure Clock Tutorial

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An easy project with very few tools needed.

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A Simple Monday Floral Arrangement

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Simple Mondays.....they're back! I don't think there's any better way to work yourself back into the work week than waking up to a fresh and fragrant bouquet JUNKMARKET Style.

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Photo Finish

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Displaying family photos is a wonderful way to make your house your home. Whoa doggies, we all have enough of them... right? So get them out of the drawers and boxes and put them on parade in a way that only junk can provide.

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Would Thomas Edison be Proud?

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The first lamp I ever made...

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Found by a dumpster...now it's my favorite shelf!

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While visiting my mother-in-law, a stop at a nearby dumpster was in order...

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Vintage Bottle Capper Candle Vessel

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Taking Sue's advice - when all else fails...make it a candle holder.

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Top "10" for 2010...Ten Very Good Reasons to Buy Junk

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First and foremost, happy 2010 to one and all! I had a fun filled vacation and I'm back, relaxed, and raring to go! As I like to say...Yee, ditty, haw! Sorry, some things never change. I hope that all of you had a wonderful and joyous holiday season and that you too are looking forward to the junkingly good year that lies ahead for all of us. I start every year off with my favorite junk picks. So here's what I'm liking for 2010 and why. Enjoy!

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You Need a Little Copper in Your Diet

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A box of scrap copper pipes and fittings becomes a more avant-garde approach to the typical Dining Room Table.

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Dear Santa: All I want for Christmas is a Gigantic Pile of Junk

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I’d really be OK with just a pile of junk for Christmas.

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How to Make A Paris Lamp

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This is a lamp that I found at the local thrift store. I wasn't crazy for the fringe so it had to go!

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Shimmer Me Timbers

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This little light of mine shines brightly over a bathtub. No fear of electricity too close to water, just the soothing glimmer of candlelight to help wash your troubles away...if only for a moment.

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