MimiToria

A little update from when I posted this project. Yesterday, when we opened our doors there was a line outside and all of these trees were swooped up in the first hour. I guess that is a clue that I need to create more. Thanks Candy for the kudos.
Gretchen

Hey Kathy - thanks for sharing such a wonderful post hi-liting your new friends. Only junkers are this generous! Love how they re purpose so much junk and curb side finds into such great treasures. The funnel planters are a hoot and ingenius use of junk. Cool place.

This is great! What a fun creation you came up with and so nice of you to share. As you can see you've inspired many.

It is true Sue. You have been blessed with a talent many people would love to be able to say they have, but you've chosen to inspire many of us with your original ideas that we can than take and copy or tweak and make our own.
For me, this post has inspired me to re purpose something that has been on my front porch for a few weeks, waiting for a brainstorm to come to me, but you've just shown me what to do instead. I'll try to remember to post and it will be for Christmas.
Thanks for being so creative, for your generosity, for your sense of humor and sweet self that you are. You are definitely a one-of-a-kind girl, and that is a huge compliment. Love you my friend!
Gretchen

Very simple, but yet soooo cool.
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This shop is very fun! I had a sneak peak of this vendor booth of Lani's as well as the rest of the shop and it was in top form. Very dressed for the holidays and way cool filled with ideas for holiday decorating. If you're in the area it would be a fun stop for all junkers and non-junkers alike.
Nice to see you Sue today and looking forward to the projects with your finds.
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Simply a beautiful post, photos and idea. I love what you've done. You go girl!
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Just doing some catching up on JMS site, and found your 3 chair post and decided to check out the other posts you've put on here. This dresser was a bit sad, and fun for me to see as I have one very similiar in color/style in our familyroom that was mine as a kid and is waiting for its "little black dress" transformation. Your post has inspired me to pursue it and get it done. I'll post eventually, but will take a bit of time, as the hoidays are super busy with my jewelry business.
So glad Candy's post about resizing helped you as you've got some great projects you've shared thus far.
Gretchen

Judi your details made this a win, win project. The notching and routering of those notched out areas are what really makes your trio look top notch. Love that the three chairs match too. You've done a fine job with them.
I do recognize these from the first Junk Market style book Sue and Ki wrote, and than I think it was ran as a project later in the Country Home magazine as one of their monthly contributions. The step by step directions you linked to are a handy tool for those that want to attempt this project.
Great job to both you and your hubby.
Gretchen
http://mimitoriasdesigns.blogspot.com

Awesome signs! This is truly some of the most creative and coolest signs ever. Well done, and can't wait to see what more you might have to share with us.
I will have to check out the rest of your postings, as I'm wanting to see more of your beautiful work.
Thanks so much for sharing this. I'd be drawn right into the shop by these signs, and love the fact that your design provides the addition of adding Sale info onto the sign.
Gretchen

Hey Kathy- I'm loving those grungy clocks, gears, clock faces, bottles, bottle stoppers, flower frogs,round funky mirror, bed spring vase, mother of pearl and shell buttons and such. Those are all things I love and collect as well. Maybe, you're my "soul" sister. lol
Really enjoyed this post, and think its cool you took the time to share.
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Whoop whoop! That room is truly a transformation from junk to fabulous. My favorite is the chairs and the end table you repainted. The table looks like an Ikea has been and the chairs from an old school setting. Amazing what a little paint can do for you, as well as the addition of the numbers. Too cool!
Great Job MaryBeth.
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Oh my Sue. You are one goofy girl. You never cease to amaze me and always bring a smile to my face. Uffda!
This little bride is so orginal, so cute and so fun. Looks like my gifted pumpkin is being re purposed too. lol
What a great post! Only thing better is if I would of woken up to this in the morning as I would be smiling all day then. FuN!
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What a fun idea for Halloween. So cute.
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Awesome "as is", but even awesomer re purposed into the end table. Wonderful vision with this piece Andrea. I thought it was cool when you picked it out to buy it, but I'm afraid it would of been delegated to hold my umbrellas for the rest of its life vs. your wonderful end table idea.
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Love it all Sue. Loving these two posts and from it all I've discovered I'm a "round" collector kind of gal. Hadn't figured that out before. However, I have a collection of wheels, round wire lamp shades, button - buttons - and more buttons, beads - beads - and more beads,round glass stoppers, round silvered candle holders, round vintage clocks, pocket watches, etc. Lots of round collections!
I would love to hear and learn the philosophy of what it all means. There you go Amy, go to it now and do your research. ; - ) We're looking for some interesting results.
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Awesome choice and so original.
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Very fun idea as well.

Awesome stuff you've created.
G

Another fun and creative idea you came up with here. Fun posts.
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This is a fabulous end table. Love the look of it as well as the idea you came up with regarding the glass to solve the problem of an otherwise tipsy lamp. Nice job.
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What a great re purposing. You and your wife have some pretty cool stuff.

Love this one for sure. Awesome!

What a great project.

Love the rusty patina on your harness rings. Very cool! Looks like it could make an awesome curtain rod too.

Love your scale and what a great re purposing you came up with. Scales are so awesome.
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This was one of my favorite items I noticed last week when looking at you guys' blog of your JunkFest event. Just adore the screen and would of loved to of purchased it. It would be an awesome addition to my props.
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Loved your sale and told others about it too. We all look forward to the Spring sale, so best be ready for a bigger group. lol
Really happy with all of my treasure and waiting for the time to fly, so that your sale date arrives soon.
Will keep your son in my prayers, now that I'm aware.

Gretchen
http://mimitoriasdesigns.blogspot.com

Another great display.
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Hey Andrea - I love everything that you did to create this wonderful tablescape. You've rescued everything you've used from others throwing it out, so nothing wrong with using sheet music like you did. Now if you were burning it up and not recycling it maybe, but I know you and know that you are a rescuer of junk. Love the cow tags for wine glass charms, love the grass matt, music, ironstone,grate and center piece too. Excellent post!
I just saved some sheet music that was for sale at a barn sale, and it would be happier as placemats than left out in a damp barn to get ruined.

Love what you've done here. It is very cool, right down to the fence you built and the cool finds you put together with the wreath. Great job!
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Simple, but fun! My kind of project. Thanks for sharing your beautiful table display.
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Oh, Sue, I do love you! You bring me into a laughter when nothing else does. Incredibly entertaining post my friend.
And this is my kind of display. Too cool!
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Lots of cool ideas in this project. Great idea and fun to see.
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Thanks everyone for the nice comments for my bil and sister. I thought it was really cool too, and so every once in a while when I post I will post something for someone that doesn't have the knowlege to share their project or the computer to do so. I did this with my mil & fil's arbor project, as well as my friend, Laura's beautiful home architectural features last Fall. If you care to see any of the former projects just click on a persons name and it takes you back to all of their projects. Both of these projects were posted late last year, along with some other cool stuff I did for the our cabin. There are sooo many new people that haven't ever seen the projects, that its too bad we don't recycle a few of those earlier ones.
Thanks again, and I'll email my sister and let her know their project is up and showing.
Gretchen

A fun way to keep memories alive with using fur coats and faux fur coats of loved ones and turning them into a bear.
Thanks for sharing your style of art.

Love vintage books. The hook is a fun idea too. Thanks for sharing.

These windows look great! I especially love the 3 pane one that you just stuck over top of the cross you already had on the wall. It really adds interest.
Take a look at a old post of mine that shows some family photos behind a window pane that I used in our cabin. The photos are from a family trip to Mexico and were of our only child, Emily when she was 11. A fun way to do this.

http://www.junkmarketstyle.com/item/977/vintage-window-turned-photo-display

I had glass panes on my window and made copies on my printer at home, than just used scotch tape to temporarily hold them in. This has held now for 4 years at our cabin, with fluctuating temperatures.

You and your husband are definetly a talented team. A great project you've created and he's built. Lucky friends, I'd say.

This is wonderful. Nice job and love all the details you put into making it special.

Tell Ron he's done another awesome job on this lamp he built with gears. So happy to hear it sold for him at the Prize event as it is very cool.
Gretchen

Hey Laurel - this is a lovely post in every way. Just enjoyed seeing all the great serving pieces you came up with. Now you've inspired me with the grate and clear plate idea. And so it goes on and on and on, the inspiration that is.
Bet the gals loved your junk style serving pieces and I'm sure the goodies you served on them were great too. Glad to see you're enjoying the disk spacers we traded. I'm down to just 2 of them left. Kind of fun and love the grates I got in a trade from you. Plan to use them for the holidays.

Hey Laurel- Just seeing this post today for the first time. Too funny about the bedsprings. My hubby doesn't go junking with me, but he did help me with that bed spring project. lol
Cool idea with the candle holders too. I'm still selling my bed springs at the "French Flea" a few at a time as I find more cool vases and such to go inside of them, so now I'm down from 42 to 20. lol
Love what you did with the radio. Very cool idea. Thanks for sharing.
Gretchen

Love your numbers you created. I like the idea that you used the bottom of drawers to make this. Very cool idea!
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Looks like the perfect marriage of two junking pieces. A great combo this table has now become.

Kathy-
First of all "congrats" on your haul.
Second of all "wowie".
Thirdly amazing and unbelievable!
Will be pming you privatley.
Gretchen

How fun is this!
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Nice job, and so useful and fun for anyone to receive as a gift.
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Love this! What a great way to remember to take time out.
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I'm with the rest of the gang! Love the finish on the dresser and the juicer is way cool. Fun to see the green home photos. Looking forward to the befores and afters too.
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Love this very much, and will have to give it a try next summer with some of my vintage pocket watch faces that I can't use in my jewelry design. Great idea.
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wow! Looks like you had some great stuff. I hope to get to these shows one day soon. Hope it went over well for you. A lot of work, so hopefully fun too.
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Wowser, like you say Ms. Sue. This is tooooo cool. I'd of never thought to do this, and I have a stash of those cool tie clips since I'm the original vintage jewelry junker hoarder of the state of Minnesota. lol Now, I have a clue with what to do in the future with them.
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A great post Lani. Love what you've done with this piece, and how you've got everything displayed. I have a vintage camera collection too. Funny!
Is this a mate to the one you sold at JB, or did you already sell this?
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Hey Candy- I do believe I was shopping with you in Minnesota when you rounded up about 5 of these flour sacks. I thought they were pretty cool, quite cheap, and wondered at the time what you had in mind for them. Pretty cool outcome, I'd say. Kicking myself for not looking for some myself. lol
Way fun!
Gretchen

Cool post of great projects and stuff for the Fall. Best of luck with your upcoming sale dates.
Love the roller skate with the wine display. I saw this done at Junk Bonanza several weeks back and bought some rollerskates yesterday at a JM site Barn sale to do this same thing. I hadn't yet seen your post, but Laurel told me about it, so came back to view it. Great photo of it too, and a very fun event to attend.
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I was at your sale yesterday! HOwever, I had my days wrong. lol At least now I know how to get there today. I'm heading out now.
Can't wait.
Crappy Minnesota weather, but awesome junking and thrifting. I guess a girl can't have it all!
Come on over girls, Minnesota always has room for more.
Gretchen

What a great piece of wall art. SImple and stunning with all of the colors and graphics. Very cool.
Welcome to JM and all of your great contributions. We're glad you're here.
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Very innovative use. It is perfect!
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Jen, your finish product photo with the cowboy hat and clothes hanging on your vintage hand drills is awesome. The addition of using copper brackets is great too. Way to be inspired and taking it one step further. Love it! Thanks so much for sharing with us.
Gretchen

Hey Turnpike - Love it that we can now link directly to your site and find out more about you. I just recently found out about the user agreement thing too, as we all usually click agree to and don't necessarily know what we are agreeing to. lol I think you'll find this group a welcome home to hang out with. I hope you enjoy your self.
You have some awesome products you're creating, and very unique too.
Gretchen

I love how you've chosen to use a larger bottle with your masher and the size of it is perfect. With the addition of the bling, the transfers and flowers, you've got another winner on your hands. Wow, who would of thought a potato masher could become such an elegant object.
Gretchen

Hey kathy your set up looked very enticing and very diverse, so I can see why you would do so well. Great stuff. Looks like you've gone to alot more neutrals in colors too. How has that panned out compared to the more pastel colors you used to use? Just curious, as it looks awesome! Love it all.
Gretchen

Wow Sue, this is so very unique. I too would of stopped with the candle holder idea we've all seen dozens of times, but not you. This is such a creative and wonderful way to re purpose this piece. Elizabeths photo is awesome in the frame and the details of the frame just are so perfect with the detailing of the light fixture and the paint just pulls it all together. Awesome!
Gretchen

A good idea would be to list your site under your profile info., thus if someone wants to find you the information is available to them there. Forgot to mention that in my last post.
Gretchen

Great recreation with cast off junk and now a fabulous piece of art.
As a contributor of the site, I know that there are certain guidelines that have to be followed and when we click on the agree to on the membership page it is listed there. Advertising is a very tough issue, as the site is really a think tank sharing of members projects and ideas, and not as much for self promotion. I guess a fine line that is sometimes hard to follow for all of us. I'm learning how this works too, so don't take it personally, it is to protect the integrity of the site as well as the owners that pay to operate it.
Gretchen

Love the green and white church bird house.

Love all of your bird houses and the fact that they not only are awesome additions to your yard, but wonderful homes and feeders for the birds. Awesome!
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Always fun to take a cast off and turn it into a useful and wonderful re purposed piece. I bet the tea lights are beautiful at night. Way to go-
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These are really wonderful! You have an eye for design and a great product here. They should sell well. Great job with finding a niche in the ever evolving Junking life style. Very cool!
Gretchen
http://mimitoriasdesigns.blogspot.com

How cool is this girls!!! I remember a grindstone like this on a rusty base sitting out in the pasture on the farm I grew up in. Brings back memories!
Quite creative - Good luck at your next venue, and so enjoyed you guys next door.
Gretchen

Hey Laurel - sounds like my introduction of you to the Kountry Junkers was a win win situation for both of you. I saw you were buying the $5 item, but didn't realize you got 2 other great buys too. Saw the hose reel in their booth and later they said it had sold. You surely re purposed it in a fabulous way. Looks like you enjoyed your junking expedition at Junk Bonanza.
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A great collaboration of junk Geo, transformed this cast off into a very cool inspiration board. Love the jute webbing addition, the office clips in black/silver for hanging stuff and the fish line. Very cool!

Very cool piece and congrats for selling it. Some of the married pieces of furniture are the best.
Gretchen

Looks like a blast! Love the photo with the big black wardrobe, but it would be tad expensive getting it back to MN. lol
The cupcakes look scrumptious!
Good luck to you all-
Gretchen

Yes, indeedy, these Chinese fingers were stuck on one of us white girls fingers. Whom it was is still a mystery, but I do remember having a laugh over it. Probably Ms. Sue's finger! lol
What a great re purpose you created here Sue. I had no idea what you'd come up with when, I believe it was Candy, presented these to you.
Ken- so cool to have an explanation of these thingamajigs too.
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I'm in for helping with a reunion too Sue. As for what to do, it'd be fun to have a "show n' tell" session, just like kindergarten with each having brought 1 junk creation.
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I will try to make it. Laurel has raved about you to me, so glad you posted and I found it.
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Great cupboards. Way to go.
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I love it that you are training and teaching these young ones to see junk in a new light and their creations are each a delight. Wonderfully creative use of the measuring spoons, croquet ball, etc. and Bob has the coolest head of hair and feet I've ever seen.
Love what you've done with these kids, and I bet they just adore you.
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Marie - This is a wonderful re purposing and fabulous job of choosing your paint. It looks so warm and perfect for the rest of your style going on in your workroom. What a great addition for only $5.00. A steal for sure.
Great job-
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By the way welcome to the site, and again a really great idea post to start out your entrance. So glad you're a part of the site. You can always share your junking excitement with us here, and we'll jump up and down with you, for sure.
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What an awesome idea! Never seen this done.

Great job Alice, and so happy for you that they both sold the first time you wore them. That is a sign that your onto something.
Here's to more designing.
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Wish I would of seen this 1 week ago. A great post and I will be looking for more Junk in the future to display my cards with.
My fav is the trowel type thingamajig. Great post and photos.
Welcome as a contributor. My brain is mush from a busy week and not sure if I've congratulated you or not, but if so, this post deserves a 2nd round.
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Wowser did you come up with a good one for my junk!!! Now, where do I get more bell ringers. lol
Very elegant and beautiful. I would of never in a million years come up with this one. Great job!
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Sue - this is a great post and I love how you presented it and challenged each of us Junkers for the holiday season. I am going to try to take you up on it this year.
Enjoyed seeing some of the gifts as I didn't really see them when they came in and loved to see the great gift and note that Laurel presented and the lovely architectural piece from the Pfarkle sisters. I do know this, that once again I so enjoyed my time with you and the rest of my junking family. Everyone is so awesome and your home is so cozy for gatherings and junk hugs. I had a blast!
Gretchen

Congratulations for having your creation featured on the Junk Market newsletter. Welcome to the site.
Now that I got that out of the way, Wow is this a fabulous marriage of pieces. So playful and a delight to look at. What a great addition to your property. Love it!
Gretchen

What a wonderful Tribute you've made. I know this day changed my life forever. I will forever be greatful to those that serve to keep America safer than it would be without them.
Very creative use of the apple breadboard. When I first gazed at your blog I thought it was a heart. A broken heart! Many lives were changed and hearts were broken on that day. Amazingly creative and the fact that it helps you heal as well as is a tribute is wonderful.
Kudos!
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Love it Janis!!! Ship it to me. lol
Another great post and such a creative use of barn wood. You and those awesome letters you use, are so cool. I just don't seem to find them in the US. Any other members have more luck than me? Please tell.
Love the photography too, and can see why this would be a new favorite in your house.
Awesome!
Gretchen

Wow, Sue this is gorgeous. The flowers are beyond awesome, the trophy is to die for, and the necklace (well it does add to the overall design). Gotta be careful what I say, since I designed it. Don't want to be arrogant ever.
This truly is my favorite floral post you've done, just because the simplicity of it is soooo doable, the flowers are gorgeous, love trophies, love jewelry, and love you!!!
You were so sweet with your words, and your house surely hugs me every time I'm in it. It would be my dream house and I could move right in with the warmth it already radiates. Of course, you'd need to leave it furnished. lol

Love this creative way you are putting together photos of your hubby growing up for his 40th party. Very fun! You are very gifted with your Junking Re purposing! I always enjoy your ideas and posts.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you everyone! You are soooo very kind and sweet with your comments. I appreciate each one of you and the relationship I have or will eventually have with you all. Many of you I have met through this Junk Market site and my life is definitely fuller because of each one of you. I do believe my design abilities have also improved and grown as this has been such a wonderful site for encouragement, building of relationships and just plain sharing of Junk Fun.
I thought it would be fun to show a few make-overs with the raw elements that I'd found, so that was kind of the jest of this post.
Thanks again my Junking friends! And especially Sue whom has brought us altogether through this awesome sight she runs.
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Excellent idea and project. Love what you've done here. What a cool way to make a statement and welcome your guests.
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I just love what you've done with the 3 doors. I've not seen anyone do quite this before and really like the look.
Great job.
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Great way to re purpose trophies. Very innovative.
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What a beautiful calming porch you have created. Love the colors you've chosen and the shutters are very cool, as is the unique garden fencing window valance. Lovely!
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You are one lucky lady. My favorites are the two photos of the wonderful pins. This jackpot should keep you buy for quite some time.
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Congratulations on a successful show in Charlotte, NC. I'm sure you made the gals week by shopping at their great shops. I follow some of the gals and it was fun to see some photos you took of their shops, etc.
Looks like you got some good junking fun in at the same time of meeting some of your JMS followers. How fun!
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Oh my, Laurel! Oh my! I can understand now via face book how you were busting out of the seams excited about yesterdays adventure. You got so fortunate on this junking expedition. At about $25 each per door and $20 per grate you made out like a bandit. Thank goodness for in-laws and their sharing the news with you before all of this great Junk was torched. Love the grates. Maybe, we could trade a grate for a necklace? lol
Have a blast with your new found treasures. Way cool!!!!
Gretchen
http://mimitoriasdesigns.blogspot.com

Love the Fall display. However, I'm having a hard time thinking of Fall already. I'm still loving the summer sun. Have a great time at the Womens expo.
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I love this sign, and since I've seen it in person on your table, I've got to say I love it as it looks there. I think hubby was right on this one, and the 2nd place location takes the prize. It looks fabulous on your table. The disk spacer candle holders are cool with it too, but I prefered it alone the day you served us lunch. It just is too cool!
Another great vision you had!
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Very cool Ron! Great photos as always Amy. Love the fireplace peeking out of the background and the stuff above it. Show more?

What a keeper. Nice first post. Welcome to Junk Market.

I missed this post, so will comment a bit late. Your booth looks just wonderful and well thought out. Love many of the items you've created and I can see why you did so well at the sale. Hats off to your family and friends for all of their love, support and help. We could do many of the things we do with out our families.
Gretchen
http://mimitoriasdesigns.blogspot.com

Only you Sue would figure out that antlers could be repurposed into a cool and funky picture easel. Another great no brainer project. Fun too.

May this wonderful junk key reincarnation be the ticket to selling your house. Very cool repurposing you did with this form junk.
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You've got a great collection of Junk finds here Ann. Especially love your new drawer. You'll have to show us what you decide to do with it. The gears are very cool too, and the shutter looks like it is perfect for the desk you were wanting to put it by. Such a great vignette that came together for you, one piece of junk at a time.
Junking roadtrips are the best!
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Great job turning one persons trash into a treasure for you. Details can really add to pieces like these.
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Congratulations on your recent speaking engagements Midge. It will be just fine, just take a deep breath and use your sense of humor. Before long, you'll forget you're even speaking in front of people and will be sharing the junker mantra with them all. Save one piece of junk at a time.
Good luck and let us know how it goes.
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Nice Ann. I'm sure you'll get lots of fun use with your latest creations. I have a sterling silver thimble that I've used in a design for the Junk Bonanza show. Great minds think alike. lol
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No, Jim. I agree. Jewelry wouldn't go with your persona. Nice you can appreciate though.

Love what you did with your tin molding. I have a long piece 4 sections in length that I'd like to turn into a shelf unit. Did you guys make your shelf as well? Great job!
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Sue - you are a hoot! You bring a smile to my face every time I read one of yours posts. Love how this turned out, what you created is crazy creative. What will that beautiful scale of yours do without tp duty. Of course it can still hold back up rolls. This will be a beautiful addition to your already lovely bathroom, and may need to be included in a future book. Very creative, but yet doable for the average Junker.
Way to go Jim for delivering a cool piece too.

Thanks everyone for your nice comments about my finds at Oronoco. Like Robert mentioned I surely was blessed! The prices at Oronoco were all over the charts and I saw jewelry pieces in cases for $350-800 in one booth and then there were actual flea market vendors with offerings like I chose to buy at fabulous prices. I will definitely be back next year.
I'm at our cabin currently, sitting in the beautiful sunshine, drinking a cup of coffee and designing with some of my wonderful new finds. They are coming together just as I had hoped, and many of these finds will be showcased at a local Junk event, so stop by and see the results. I will try to post a few finished products, but hope to unveil most of it for the first time at this event.
Thanks Junk Market members for your love and support. You truly rock!
Gretchen
http://mimitoriasdesigns.blogspot.com

This looks awesome. Way to improvise when you fell in love with something too extravagant, but figured out a way to make it yourself just as good. Love it!
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I've seen the bottoms of these type of chairs removed and have become the base for side tables. Usually were paired up with another piece of metal like a wheel, or round window, etc.
I have a typewriter table I use in my studio and have another metal shelving unit sitting on top of it.
Great stuff! I hope you find a use for them.
Gretchen
http://mimitoriasdesigns.blogspot.com

Love the bicycle repurposed mail box. Very cool photo. Are you going to show the treasures you picked up next? Thanks for sharing photos so those of us not able to be there can still enjoy it.
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http://mimitoriadesigns.blogspot.com

Love these Laurel. I have 1 like this on my front porch wall with a grouping of mirrors and love the way they look with candles in them. I don't get to light mine too often, since they're next to the siding, but it all the same.
Your grouping of 3 looks fabulous and its so much fun to turn trash into treasures isn't it!
btw, which necklace of mine did you buy this past sale?
Just curious what tugged at your heart. Sorry I missed you at the sale, but had some serious junking going on with Junk Market sisters. Maybe next year, you and your sister can plan ahead and join us for a hoe down good time.

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Ahhh, Lani. Love it and I'm amazed you've already have it up and running. Impressed you decided to tackle it yourself and you've proved your becoming a die hard to it your selfer with this post. Love Sue's observation about the faux nails and the power tools. Too funny, that I had to go back and observe. The pretty and the tough.
Your style rocks. Fun to see it and not just trying to visualize it anymore from descriptions only.
Gretchen
http://mimitoriasdesigns.blogspot.com

I too love the ornate bed photo. Welcome to the site and thanks for sharing.

I think you've started a new surge of desire for these shoe forms. You've done a great job with placing them in your gardens and they really look good. Reminds me of papa bear, mama bear, teenager bear, and baby bear. Very fun!
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Kathy- I love this post. You've shown me things I didn't see even though I attended the same event as you. It was so huge, that I feel like I saw about 30% of it, so will have to do a better job next year when I'm shopping. lol
I do remember a gas sign just like this while growing up and it was 28.9 and was a part of a gas war in a small town on Hwy. 10 in Minnesota. Must of been the late 60's for me to remember it. This photo you took is like a dejavu of that era. Fun!
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This is one of my all time favorite Junk Market original projects that they show in their books. Looks like you executed it perfectly. I have parts of a project in my cabin garden shed to make my own water ski food bar, but my dh and I have different opinions of what to use the skis for. He wants a bench, I want a ski bar like yours. Way to go and thanks for the inspiration.
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After spending a week-end with junking pals, I agree it is great to meet up with like minded ladies. Looks like you were well stocked and had a fun time displaying your wares and selling them. Thanks for sharing.

Ahhhh, thank you Fjerda. At least you took 1 descent photo with me in it. 1 out of 3 ain't 1/2 bad. lol
Since I was working, ahem, and didn't have any photos of this tenting fiasco, I sure am enjoying seeing how silly we truly did look carrying our tent across the campsite. However, putting together the tent was way more challenging. Some male must of written the directions and they had the colors all messed up in the directions. Women are wayyyy to detailed to be making that kind of mistake. lol Now, wait a minute. It was 6 woman that forgot basic necessities for camping, so maybe it was a lady writing the tent directions. ha!
Thanks from the bottom of my heart for sharing your camp ground, your advice, your campfire, your steak knives, your picnic table, your grill, your refrigerator, your sense of humor. Did I forget anything?
You girls rock!

Love this Sue. It belongs in my jewelry studio though, not your house. lol Love all of the things you repurposed it with, but my fav is the jewelry, the candles, the vase with flowers, the condiments, well shoot, love them all.
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How very exciting Sue! No rest for the weary. You must be exhausted after hosting all of us crazy contributors for 1/2 a week, while wearing your fitted jeans. ;-0 Serveral comments have been made in posts, I'm so sorry I say silly things. lol Guess that will be my reputation.
Have a great time and I'll be thinking of you and rooting for you back home in Minnesota.
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Love the metal boxes best of all, and those flour sacks were sooooo very awesome. I was coveting them, but glad you grabbed them all, as they were a deal and you've got great ideas to put them to use. I might of sat on them for a few years yet. lol
You and Kathy are so awesome and it was so great to spend time with the two of you.

Jim - You always have great projects, but personally this one tugs at me the most. I just love it, the thought that went into it and how you executed it. It is one all around winner! The patina is fabulous, the brass numbers a perfect addition and love the base. You rock Jim, and next year you have got to plan ahead for the Oronoco show. You would love it! You'd be a bit out numbered, but there are tons of men around too.

Awe Sue, what a blast you provided your entourage this past week. I had so much fun, but sure was glad to be home Saturday night, instead of Sunday morning like the rest of you gals. I was done in, and knew my limits. I used toothpicks to keep my eyes open driving home. lol
btw - this is Oronoco, Minnesota for the lady wondering about this event. In Minnesota we sure put up with bad weather and mosquitos, but than having an event like this makes it all worth while.
Loved the gas pump and it was awesome for the bloggers party for a photo prop. So much fun you provided with that purchase!
I was asked what my favorite thing at Oronoco was that was unusual and I told the people that it was a sofa table made out of rusty car ramps. Too funny that you photographed it too. Great minds think alike. Ha!
Missed out on the young couples booth, as well as the material lady. Bummer. I don't think I saw 60% of the show. There's always next year when we stay in the Airstream for Lani. ;-)
Last, but not least, I think the felt sign "Blondes Park Here" is because they need help knowing where to park, and the rest of us non-blonds can figure it out without being told. Ha! Just kidding! You said let the war begin.

Love this. I actually haven't seen this done before, so it is fresh and new to me. Thanks for sharing and what a great Dad. I have a few of these items in my Junk stash and may have to repurpose them now. Love this.
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Awesome saves and fun stuff you've found. Thanks for sharing.

I too love your door. The color and patina is fabulous as is, and I agree that I would do very little to it. Maybe, the idea of it leaning in a corner and have a chair next to it, you could even hang a cool mirrror off of it towards the top that has the vintage look too. A linen chair with wood trim would be fabulous displayed with this.
ALso, the behind the couch idea sounds cool too.
I recently bought one at an Occasional Sale in Minnesota, but paid more for mine. It has wonderful chippy aqua on one side and white on the other. I plan to poly it and use it with another door for a business venture.
Love your door and great find! So glad you grabbed it up, as you would of had buyers remorse had you let it stay.
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Wow, what a great JM fan you are. I'm sure Sue really appreciated all of the support and explanations that you gave out at your garage sale location regarding her JM site. The more members here, the more the site can do and provide for all of us. So each and everyone, go out and spread the word about this fabulous site, and help Sue out by helping it to grow to be what she dreams of it to become.
What a great son you have to help you out with computer skills and photographs. Keep keeping on and soon you'll be literate. We all have to start somewhere with all of this crazy electronic gadgets that can make our life so much more fulfilling.
Thanks for sharing the fun and exciting event you were part of. Sounds like a blast, and I hope you sold really well.
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Scrolled right down to the comments section, so I wouldn't see any comments first. This has to of come from Janis the one and only bling queen.
Love what you did Sue. Only you can create such magic out of nothing. Love it!
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I will be making my first trip to Oronoco this year with my new found blogging pals and fellow contributors of the Junk Market site. Thanks to Sue, I am fortunate to have become friends with many wonderful people over this past year as a contributor and will be finally meeting some of them for the first time on this foray. I can't wait!
See you all at the blogger party.
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Love this Sue! I've just been redoing my Studio too, so it would fit in perfectly with the rest of my items. Go ahead and bring it with you on Thursday. I'd gladly take it off your hands along with the other 20 or so JM junkers. lol
Great repurposing idea. And that doorknob on top, has my little brain going 90 miles a minute on another project idea.
Thanks for the inspiration.
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What a great post. Love what you created for your sisters wedding and the thriftiness is very cool as well. Looks so professional and expensive though. Cool ideas!
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What a cool re purpose you did Laurel. And how fun is that when Sue inspired the "Happy and Healthy" comment. Fun!
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Love these Laurel. What an ingenius and handy husband you've found. Sounds like a keeper. Lovely backyard as well.
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Hi Laurel-
It was so nice to meet you a few weeks back at the French Flea. I was hoping to run into you yesterday at Sue's garage sale, but missed you.
Love this post. My favorite is the cross your son spotted in the drafting tool. That is what it is, as my husband got his start in life as a drafter.
The cupboard windows are so cool and memorable with finding them on your honeymoon. Love the way that piece turned out.
My grandpa had similiar skis like yours and they are long since gone, but yours brought me back to happy memories of my Grandpa.
Last but not least is the cool house your husband built for you. What a labor of love-
Thanks so much for taking the risk and sharing. We are all in this together, and the styles and tastes are sooooo very varied that all posts are great for some members. So keep posting, girl.
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What a find and transformation you created here. Way cool!
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Wow, for $8.80 you sure have an awesome one-of-a-kind centerpiece there. I just love it! You found such a deal.
I would love to find something like this and I would re purpose it in a different way, relative to my business. Found something similiar yesterday, but it was $40, not $1, so had to pass it by. Thanks for sharing!
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I just love your piece you have with all of the cubbies. I would use it in my jewelry studio if it were mine, or on a farm style table in a living area with some of my favorite items displayed in varying shelves. Small silver pieces, bottles, shells, books, etc. would be fabulous in this piece. You are one lucky gal to have this treasure. They are expensive when you do find them.

In this post there is one similiar that is shown with items in it, thus merchandised.
http://mimitoriasdesigns.blogspot.com/2009/07/french-flea-market-of-anoka-july-sale.html

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If you're just seeing this email now (Thursday evening) its not too late to go to Sue's sale. I was there today and I tell you it is worth taking the time to get there if you can. There is soooooooo much great stuff, and she has done an incredible job of setting this sale up. It actually looks like an auction is going to take place there is so much being offered and the vignette's are sooooo cool.
I urge you, go if at all possible. There is so much, that you can still make it on Saturday, go. Very fun!
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What a great post and wonderful project Candy. Lovely photographs as well.
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This is Minnesota folks! For those of you asking where the sale is. It is one of the small advantages us Minnesotans get for putting up with mean winters, and that is Sue Whitney being one of us. lol
I will be there for sure, Sue. Parking could be a nightmare, but well worth it.
I can't believe the work you've done just since last Wednesday when it was all still in the garage. This will go down as the all time awesomest garage sale to attend ever. I hope you have weather blessings on your sale as well.
Too fun!
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I enjoyed viewing your post of both of these lamps now filled with wonderful texture. The river rock with the hole in it was icing on the cake. What a great makeover you did on both of these items. Thanks for sharing!
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It sure was your lucky day to find and save this treasure. It looks wonderful in your home, and like it surely belongs there.
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What a beautiful job you've done with recreating the brick look with a bit of paint and sand. Well done.
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Hey Janis- Another great post. Love the flowers and the interesting idea with the jello mold around the hurricane lantern. Quite ingenious! I'll be right over for a visit. Now that is definitely wishful thinking!
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Welcome to the site and congrats on a great first post. Love the idea, inspiration and all of the details you shared with what and how you found the letters of your last name. I'd love to give it a try, but maybe would choose to mount them on something and than have it on our front porch, but yet have it movable to a new place in the home as well.
Thanks for sharing!
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Love what you did with this former junk. It turned out wonderful. Great job.
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Sounds like you'll be busy for a while and that you found great stuff for free to re purpose. Neighborhood pick up days like this can be haven for junkers.
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Welcome to the JM site. Be sure to show your finished project you create with your fun finds. How cool to be a trash man in this day and age of throwaways. Share some trash stories along with photos of some of your favorite finds.
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Hey Lani - enjoyed your cool post on black and white. My favs are the Mannequin, the married furniture piece, the hotel chairs and Sue's 2 art pieces. Wooops, I guess you can't have a favorite at Lani's place, they're all great.
Love the name suggestions thus far for your mannequin. You've got:
Maybelline
Manikan
Anika

I favor the Anika suggestion, but I'm sure you'll come up with the perfect name.

Love your blog posts and great photographs as well.

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Thanks everyone for your nice comments and encouragement. It has truly been a labor of love, but is so wonderful to be able to get my hands dirty in the soil and than see the beauty of the flowers blossoming. I'm looking forward to seeing what may be in bloom tomorrow, as its been 10 days since I've been there to check out my gardens.
Flowerbasketgirl, you were absolutely right with those two flowers being columbines. I knew that, but mistakenly typed the wrong name, as I was in a hurry. I do have the old fashioned honey suckles too that look like a smaller version of the larger red/yellow columbine posted in the last photo.
Candy- you are a hoot! I never realized this before, but my hard water at the cabin has turned the stepping stones into a rusty color. How fitting for a junker! I will now appreciate it after reading your post. lol

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Beautiful post Kathy! I have a bowling ball that is waiting to be embellished. My basement has 2 totes filled with china and goodies with good intentions to do mosaic with, and need to unload a bunch of it at a garage sale as well. I guess I had the same bug you had, "the over anxious one". lol
Love your bowling balls, and especially the beachy themed one. It would be a great use of my much collected seashells and beach glass.
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I hope to hand deliver your challenge to you on Wednesday if I ride with Lani to your house when she goes there. It should be fun to see what you come up with for all of these crazy items everyone has collected for you.
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Very nicely done. We've got skis set aside to create a bench, but haven't done it yet for out at our cabin. I've used skis for several projects at our cabin as we are avid waterskiers and enjoyed your post.
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Wowser! You've got the creative genes in you for sure. Would of never guessed the end result came from the sconce in the photo. Great redo.
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Your trunk looks great against the backdrop color of the building it is against. Nice job!
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These are great! Iv'e not seen this done quite like this before, so thanks for sharing.
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Thank you so much for this post. I have a dark green bowling ball that my sister gave to me. My grandparents were both bowlers and this sister gave each of the 4 girls in our family a bowling ball she found at garage sales for our gardens. My dark green bowling ball simply blends in with the garden and I've been wanting to do this type of project with my ball. Thanks for the detailed instructions, as I've bookmarked in my tutorials as a favorite. This will be a Winter project for me. Hmmmm, now which style do I like best?
Thanks for sharing!
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A wonderful transformation for sure. Great job on the finishing and for saving this lovely treasure.
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Love this idea for re purposing a vintage tri-pod. So very cool! I love photography as a hobby, did it all through high school for our school as well as college, and how cool would something like this be in my gardens at our cabin? Thanks for the idea and for sharing-
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Love your project. I just sold an ceramic insulator like that at our last occasional sale in Anoka. I'd never seen them before either, and thought the mocha color of the one I had purchased to sell, was such a great color.
Your innovation with the wood, little feet, etc. is super. Love it with the flowers!
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I have my camera on a standard setting, and I never have to resize my photos at all. With digital cameras the fine setting tends to be for if you plan to blow up a photo to be a fireplace size photo, and really wastes a lot of space on your sim card. Once you change the setting to the smaller setting, you'll be amazed at how easy it is to post, and how many more photos your sim card can hold.
I hope this helps someone out there, but like the former poster commented, if all else fails, the directions usually do have the answers. Not sure why we all tend to forego that step. lol
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Oh, for the timing of this post JennyK! I just spent the afternoon with my friend, Carolyn, tearing apart two vintage cash registers. Too funny!
What a great gallery art project you created with your treasure.
I've been wanting to buy some of these on etsy, but they're each selling for $6-10 per # with shipping, so waited. Low and behold my dear friend, Carolyn stopped at a neighbors garage sale and bought two cash registers for $10.00 each. Her dh helped her pull apart both of them, and today we finished harvesting the pieces we wanted to keep.
I am actually giving Sue pieces of the cash register for her project from me. How fun will that be.
The one machine has exquiste detailing and I'd planned on posting a "help" post for ideas of what to do with them. Looks like you've started the process. Thanks for sharing!
As always another super project by JennyK.
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Very lovely way to display your platters. So soft, elegant and useful. Just love it! I've not seen this done before and your execution is perfect.

Very cool!
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Love this! I have about 30 more bed springs to come up with projects for yet. lol Thanks for sharing.
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Love the galvanized metal backdrop you and Melissa created for your space. Very cool! Love it all, but the lawnmower lamps, water feature and backdrop of metal are my favs.
Congrats and best wishes on your new and exciting venture.
Hold on for the ride!
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Awesome design Amy! Quite incredible, well executed and oh so sophisticated. Love your entry display area, and your photos are fabulous as always. A great post Amy!
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Georgia I'm getting here late, but wanted to congratulate you on a fabulous looking shop. I just love what you've done, how you've vignetted it and the items you had for sale. I just love the occasional sale venue, and feel so blessed to be a part of a successful one here in Minnesota. It creates such a frenzy and is so much fun. Its a hard 4 days, but always well worth the blood, sweat and tears. Good luck with your future sales as you go forth. I think you'll find it a refreshing venue, but will also find the 4 weeks in between fly by as well. Fun! Fun! Fun!
Off to view Jenny K's post next.
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Hey Candy-
You know how I love shells, so really enjoyed your blog post here on JMS. I love all of the photos you so creatively executed as well as the fabulous display space you have for your wonderful collection.
Everything is awesome!
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What a great photo Kari. So inviting and summer like. Enjoy our fleeting Minnesota summer. It sure is a doozy today!
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What a smart repurposing you've created here. Very cool idea.
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What a cute idea! Love the red/white/blue for the holiday soon arriving.
Ahhhh! I just remembered I have some vintage license plates out at our cabin that I've not figured out a project for them yet. I may be onto something now. Thanks for the inspiration.
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I love this! What a great idea. Thanks for posting it for us to see and be inspired by.
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This is incredible! Love what you've done. You really have an eye for creating beautiful things, and to use a rusty bed spring under the dress to give durability to the design is ingenius.
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These are super. They already have the holes in them, so built in drainage. Very smart.
Love the look of these.
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Just some amazing photos you've shared with us all. The size of that tree is magnificant. I wonder when it was planted? My parents used to harvest the moss out of trees like this when they went to Florida and bring it back to Minnesota for me to use in my crafts I used to do. This is the trees they would get it from. So cool to see this photo with the moss hanging down.
Love the inspiration! Makes me want to go for a drive in my homeland area as well. Staying there for 4 days next week, so will be inspired as well.
Thank you, thank you, for sharing this.
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Wow, they go together so very cool. I wouldn't of ever thought so, but they are wonderful.
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I hope your sale went well. I am just getting around to reading back member projects, so am already too late for the sale.
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This is an amazing piece of assemblage. Just love it! Thanks for sharing it on the site with us all. You have a great design eye and are amazingly talented.
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Jenny - You have got to have the coolest salvage yard around. How cool to find all of these keys at once. Fun!
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Gorgeous and what a great addition to your porch area. I'd love them on mine.
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Hopefully, Carolyn and I will make it to your sale, Sue.
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The vintage bluish table base w/vintage light planting
The rusty scale base w/chicken feeder plantings
Rusty sewing machine
Awesome girl bird bath

These are my favorite of the group you posted here. They are all wonderful ideas, but these 4 would fit right into my style, so love them extra much.

What an inspiring post, Kathy. Thanks for the garden tour. I loved it!
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Wow! These are so awesome. Tell hubby he did a fab job on the welding. The weld job accents the finished project, but keeps the wondeful patinaed crates in the focus. Love the words on the vintage boxes and your compromise is great as well.
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Lani - another spectacular contributor challenge you have created. What a great tribute. Everything is so thought out and so wonderfully creative. Your Dad should be so proud of this display. So neat.
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Love this Jenny K. Very creative use. Just love it!

What a fun lunch you had. I tend to go to a thrift sale or garage sale for lunches too. So much more fun than sitting in the office. lol
Love the clocks you found. They are so great! Love the silver too and the "Schaumann silverware" (lol) I mean "S" silverware. How cool. "Stantz/Schaumann" We'd be fighting over the "S's" if we were out shopping together.
Great post.
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Just lovely Janis. You are the queen of elegance. Love what you did with the rub ons and the silver. I just can't seem to ever find any great stuff locally. What's your secret?
These would be just perfect in a babys room. Love all of your ideas.
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Sue this is truly a fabulous junking idea. You are such a creative gal and cease to amaze me with your talent. From your great ideas, to the presentations to the photography it is always so top notch. It a wonder your so successfuly with your book writing and such. Awesome idea.
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How cool to find this wheelbarrow for a buck and with holes already ready for for planting.
Love it planted with flowers. Great idea.
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Honestly, I thought it was from a magazine. Great vignette as well as photograph. Love it all.
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Welcome to junkmarket. What a great garden perimeter you came up with. Very ingenious.
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Janis - equisite post! Love everything about it. Great ideas.
We just don't seem to be ablet of find great words/letters like you find in Canada. Love your wording you use so often. It just adds so much.
Great job, girlfriend!
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Hey Sue - if a person goes to this much work to have a garage sale, than its a given that it is worth your time to stop. Very bright and eye catchy, and it would definitely pull be in from the curbside. Love the tips about oil clothes as well as the tarps with clamps. What a great tip.
You rock, girlfriend.
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Thanks Sue. What a dream come true for me. Sweet of you to wear my jewelry creation on TB. Can you believe I didn't even notice it the first time I watched the segment, but I sure did the next time around. Quite the thrill.
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Wow! Thanks for having this on your site for those of us that didn't get to see it. It was a great segment, loaded with interesting information. I learned a lot as well.
My daughter has been sick all week, so I've been out of the loop and not on the pc.
Way to go Sue!

Wow! This is wonderful. Tell your fiance' it looks like he's a keeper.
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Are you shopping or selling? How did it go?

Tell hubby he did an awesome job on these from the salvaged dock boards. Very ingenius of you guys.

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What a great redo you did with this. I didn't realize you could paint that chalkboard paint over most anything. Interesting!
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Hi Kim- Your patio project turned out absolutely gorgeous!I'm glad to have been your inspiration. I just love my granite out at the cabin. Take a look at my post from last summer here for all of you that might be new and didn't see it in the past: http://www.junkmarketstyle.com/item/1264/granite-garden-paths

A huge patio of about 16 x 30 is my big project for this summer out at our cabin across the whole south end of our cabin which is currently class 5 gravel and was a former parking spot for the previous owner. My plan is to turn it into a patio area for laying out, and eating in the sunshine next to our gardens. Kim, now knows what a huge undertaking this will be as the dumpster diving is just one small portion of this project.

If you plan to do this. Here's a few tips. Granite is very, very heavy as well as rough on your hands. Do wear gloves for all of it and long sleeves for dumpster diving, as well as strong shoes and long pants. You will save yourself a lot of scratches from the rough granite that way.

Granite can be very slippery, so we found out. Caution people if its wet and be very careful with ice in the northern parts of the US. Might not be a great place to use it if you have a high traffic area.

Again, Kim this turned out fabulous, and I love how you added the great extra touches around this area to truly make it now such a welcome and gorgeous area. Kudos!

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I too have a fetish for all things washed up on the beach. Just this past week-end we were at our "lakeside cottage" and I went to the beach in town to pick up beach glass and cool finds. My husband always asks me what are you going to do with all of your beach glass? It will strike me one day, what I want to do with all of my wonderful treasures. I also collect heart shape rocks. Its wonderful and its free.
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I love your ingenuity with using the cool baskets in place of drawers. That is such a wonderful idea. I've not seen that before, and love the contrast of texture the basket gives the wood piece. Way cool! Thanks for sharing-
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Cool repurpose you did here. I like it sitting on the floor with the items displayed in it.
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Great revitilization you brought to these lamps. Fun to see your project postings.
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Wow, what a great transformation. Great vision!
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What a fun project you've created for your cabin. I hope it gives you many years of enjoyment.
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Wowser girl. When you debut, you do it in style! What an awesome first post you've got here for us all to be drooling over. I'd love this table in my home. Your happy accident was meant to be with the finish, as I don't think you could of gotten this cool of a look if you had tried to. What a great first project posting. Thanks for sharing with us and welcome to the site.
Sometimes, us junkers need a gentle nudge, like "use it or lose it". lol Ha! At least I do.
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What a great transformation with the table and chairs. A very innovative and fun redesign. Way to go. You're on a roll girl!
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What a great looking money box you have now. The only problem is that not only will people want it for the money inside, but for the cool design on the outside too. You'd better watch that one, or it might get away. lol
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I love little trinkets and keys, so this is a fun post for me to read. Love that you've preserved them in a cool display that you can see them everyday in your home. No more hidden away in a junk box.
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What a funky and fun way to use up a bunch of old keys. A very cool project indeed. Thanks for sharing.
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Trey - you've just shown Sue that was her dreams and goals for her Junk Market business are being effective and influencing the younger generations. Her many days and hours she's put into educating all of us about repurposing junk and finding a way to incorporate it back into a useful and viable project has surely rung through with your wonderful chair project you created. I too give it an A+, and surely your professor had best do that to, or us junkers will have to back you up. lol
You're chair is incredible. The design is fresh, innovative and way cool. I'm thinking you should be building as many of these as you possibly can, and the earnings could go towards college costs. I'd think you'd sell everyone you made. Just a thought!
Good luck with your future in interior design and keep up the great design work while saving the earth from too much junk.
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This is a great redo project. You've done an excellent job with attending to the details even under the table. Nice job and I'm sure the new owners will get many more years of use out of this set now. Nice job!
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I love the silver trays you found. Those heavy ones are the best quality too usually. Your shutter cabinet looks like a great storage piece and I'm sure it will sell right away. Good luck with your sale this week-end.
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Some more great finds that you can turn around and make a profit off of. Way to go.
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Love the green table too. Cool lampshade skeletons as well. You made a good haul.
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Jim what a great post to wake up to. I had a smile on my face the whole time I was reading it. A great job once again and how cool are the shadows on the wall from the holes in the shade.
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Lani - this is extremely creative to come up with this repurpose for a guard rail. I wouldn't of given it a second look, but you did and now you've got a wonderful area to display Becca and Zach's artwork. Love it with the candles too. Thanks for sharing as I've been trying to visualize what this would look like hanging on your wall. Needless to say my vision didn't match your execution. I had in a mind a shiny chunky silver guard rail like what we see in todays roads. The guard rail you came across is way cooler!
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Your table came out just great! SO much fun when you see something others pass by and know that with a bit of creativity and time it can be fabulous and useful.
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Cool plantings with a very fun basket. Thanks for sharing.

Love your party guys! What a fabulous time you had together, and I'm sure it is a day you'll remember for a lifetime. It must of been a riot creating all of this cool vintage flair. Thanks for sharing with us. I almost could hear Georgia and JennyK and you cackling while reading the post. I'm sure the laughter was a joy for some of the older folks to hear from a bunch of junkers. How could you not become a convert? Too fun!
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Wow Sue. You are scoring this week in the junkers project ratings. This is another very original, beyond cool and so creative of a project. Love how you created the feet out of the mouth pieces, the instructions for the cocoa mat useage, etc. were all wonderful and easy to follow. The photos of course were great too. What a cool planting you now have.
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Sue you rock girlfriend! I loved seening this in the post about the shops, and now with your repurposed project it is beyond cool. It is definitely worthy of placement in one of your future books. You're awesome junker girl.
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Thank you Sue and Kimberly for making a trip to the "French Flea" shop in Anoka. I am so happy I was able to spend a few hours before I had to whisk of to the wedding event. The "4" must of been meant for you. I'm so very happy that you like it and that it represents the fabulous Elizabeth too.
I'm sad I didn't get to spend the whole day hanging out with you gals, but it will just make next time sweeter. You two are the best and again, "thanks so much" for supporting Lani and my new venture at "The French Flea". If only you knew how much merchandise went out of the shop the prior 4 1/2 days leading up to your book signing. We were a bit nervous that it wouldn't be cool enough, as the stuff flew out. Glad you approved.
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Nice redo.
What do you use for the background that you spray chalkboard paint on? I've heard of using plywood, but is there something easier than that. I have limited access to saws, but tons of frames I'd like to repurpose for our new French styled shop and have wanted to turn some of these into chalkboards with a French twist.
Thanks for any help.
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Simply beautiful redo of this piece. You do gorgeous work! I have one waiting for the same type of treatment you gave this flea market find, but my poor ottoman has almost given up home of ever getting that much loved attention from me. Maybe, this year! lol
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You're project turned out great. Yes, this was an original Sue and Ki project from their Junk Market venture many years ago. It is still a classic. And your version of it it is a feminine more cottagey style than the original invention they did. It is in one of their first books that was published, I believe. I have all of the books, so not sure which one, but I also think it was featured in Country Home magazine when they wrote monthly articles of repurposing Junk for that magazine as well.
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Fabulous idea. I love it!
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It's a beauty now. Nice work.
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Awesome idea. Way too cool!
Way to go. Love this industrial idea.
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Lucky you. I will definitely be going to check out your blog in a bit. I'm enticed!
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Such a clean and cool design idea you two came up with. Great repurposing and great classy finishing of the project. It looks like it was a $1,500 item you'd buy in a high end shop with the detailing you did to complete it. I hope it gives you two many years of washing of hands.
I love this! I might try to come up with something like this for out at my cabin by my outside faucet/hose area near my garden. I get free granite which would be weather resistent and the metal table would work in the rough Minnesota elements as well. Very cool!
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I hope you two gals have better weather than the last Flea Market, and with that good note, the buyers come in droves and help clean you out of all of your wonderful goodies you always have created and sell.
Good luck and congratualtiions on your new contributor status. You are one die hard, fun, enthusiactic and deserving gal.
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Sorry Bart, I called you Burt in my post. Please accept my apologies. I'm a bit rushed this a.m., and didn't mean to offend you.
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See what I mean? Your quirky awesome playful personality just adds so much to your project posts, as well as a delight to each of your projects. Before I realized it was Burt in your first photo post, I thought, how funny, it looks like a face smiling. What a great and fun place to have Burt hanging out. lol
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Sue - Once again you've out done yourself. You never cease to amaze me with the creative repurposing ideas you come up with. Always so classy, with an element of Sue's playful personality dished out. You are a true joy to know and be a part of my life.
Can't wait to see you tomorrow at the shop and get my book signed at the French Flea. Love the rope, spring/washer idea, the door knob, etc. At the shop a gal just asked me what to use for this type of application, and now thanks to this post, I can refer her to this product. Does it work for glass applications too?
Take care-
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Love these, and I too would love to have these. A mudroom/entry way would be awesome with these. Four for me, one for hubby and one for daughter. lol I bet you can tell who the junker is in the family.
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Love this and way cool idea/post. Thanks for sharing.
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Excellent re purposing idea, and a nice execution as well.
Thanks for sharing.
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Cute shelf and re purposing of it. I have one similiar in my laundry room that I found in the ditch when I was a teenager. Its been around a long time now! lol
Sometimes, if you just change the setting on your camera to a smaller size it really makes a difference with downloading problems. Most digital cameras are so good with pixels now that we don't need that Fine setting that makes it extra big and the ability to blow up the photos to fireplace mantle art size either. Good luck and hopefully you can figure it out.
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How fun to see your post tonight. Early this evening I dropped off a "Jenny Lind" style bench that was made from a bed and painted off white. We've had it on our porch for many years, and decided to sell it at the new shop I'm in "the French Flea". As I was speaking with Julie I told her I was going tomorrow to buy some burlap and to make a slipcover for a cushion I had on it on our porch. On our porch I just had wrapped a cool pc. of fabric around the cushion and it worked for us, but to resell I needed something better. The colors of the cushion are too colorful for our French/European style shop, so thought of the burlap since the texture/color/price and availablity are all perfect for the shop.
Now, I come onto Junk Market and you've posted this wonderful post about your great redo, and I now have a visual of what my project can end up looking like. Thanks so much! Now, I've got to do this for sure, since seeing the results. It would add so much to the overall look of the bench, the comfort level and the appeal.
You always post great projects. Glad you're here on JMS.
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Awesome idea. Our new shops biggest deficit is the forest green ceiling. We just didn't have time to repaint it and mess with it. We only had 2 weeks to clean the place out, patch plaster, repaint all of the walls, paint the carpet, and set up a huge place for opening day. No time to deal with a ceiling too. Wish we could of. Might have to start collecting umbrellas though. Cool idea.
Thanks for sharing.
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Great job on your pieces. I wish you much success at the show upcoming.
My favorite thing to design with is clock faces too, and every item I make sells instantly. Hard to part with them sometimes though. I'm currently test driving one that I plan to sell at the French Flea, and I'm really loving it, but need jewelry to sell there. Bummer!
Good luck with your art show. Too bad we don't live closer, as I have bins of dishes for mosaic that I'm not using anymore. I could share some with you for your one of a kind creations.
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Candy this is such a great post. Love your photography, set up, and idea. Enjoy your Mom while you have her.
Have a great Mothers' Day.
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Hey Sue - I really enjoyed reading this post. You are so detailed and I love it. Its hard to find people like me and I am so into the photos, the techniques and the projects. You just are great with all the little ins and outs of things and giving us examples of back up ideas in case we can't find a junk product. Supurb as always. I didn't see a "G", but I bet we could find one in your house to add to the table. lol
You're a gas! I totally had a visual of you shopping in the store while trying on vintage cuffs on various preserve jars. Too funny!
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btw, we have the coolest area set up for your book signing at "The French Flea" the morning of May 16th. I'll have you know that I was up on the ladder hanging the cool thing over your desk area for signing. Can't wait for that morning. Hopefully, the area will stay intact and you'll still have a spot to sign at by Saturday morning. : ) See you then-

Cool post Janis. I love your snow globe you found. How great of a find was that!
I'm with Kathy, I click on the awesome a they've always been top notch great projects you post, with beautiful photography.
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All I can say is you definitely were "Blessed!" You are most deserving Kathy. Great swap for you!
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Oh you gals are a hoot!
Love your "A" letter Candy. I'm a bit envious. Any "G" or "S"? lol We are all coveting your wonderful letter.
Enjoy!
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Very cool execution Amy. When I was reading your post on your blog it took me back to the JunkMarket project, and than you posted that you had remembered seeing it there too. Your project was a fun take off of it and such a cool way to bring ambience to a coffee table.
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Welcome to JMS and what a great first post you posted. Very cool use of two freebies and yet so classy.
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Georgia- I missed this post before your sale, but saw that your first day was awesome. Congrats on that, and hopefully the rest of the sale was great as well.
Just love the green bling on the chandelier. Have any extra you'd like to sell to me, for vintage jewelry redesign? Just a couple would be great, if you have any spare left.
Also, loved the picket fence planter you made too. Those are my two favorites, of all of the great projects you did.
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Just wanted to give you a little update on the sale. It was very, very busy today, and went quite well. I think we learned alot in our first venture, and can improve on things for the future sales too. Like have more smalls. They went super quick, and anything that was cool or unique went within the first couple of hours. We'll need to have back up for the future sales to restock with.
Thanks for all of your wonderful comments and encouragement. It has been a lot of work for everyone involved, but the first day was a success. In this economy one has to wonder how things will go.
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Beautiful project Janis, as always. You just have your own style girlfriend, and no one can come close to duplicating it. You are the Queen of "pretty".
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Nice job Jim. The combination of the two turkey feeders provides great visual appeal. Your flowers being colorful also adds to the overall look of things. Great vision you had for these pieces. I just saw a turkey feeder last week at someones house, and had never seen one before. No wait, it was a fox feeder. Strange!
Your annual flowers should do fine. They are hardy ones, and marigolds (yellow ones) have the added bonus of keeping dogs away. Smart move.

Geo this is a great project. Love what you turned junky old stove parts into fabulous useful frames. The rusty patina and cool shapes of cut outs are wonderful in your new found designs. Thanks for sharing. I wouldn't of thought of this. You rock girl!
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This is a great reuse of Junk, Lani. Very cool project and everything seemed to just flow with your vision, with next to no effort other than your brain coming up with the great idea.
Very cool photo display, and what a great choice of photos for the memory maker.
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Thanks everyone for your comments and encouraging words. I spend a lot of time on each of my creations, they are not thrown together quickly like many people do, but each design usually has several hours included in the time of the actual design.
Unfortunately, my photos do not capture the pieces of jewelry like in person as Lani stated, and the many customers I have sent to from other states, comment that they far exceed photos they've seen that inspired them to purchase an item. This is a good problem to have. Making customers happier than they expected.
Junking has been what has inspired my newest surge of creativity and I have lots of fun things that will be show cased in September at a Junkers extravaganza.
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Hi Ann-
Thanks for emailing me and letting me know you were able to get time to post some of the button pendants like the one you purchased from me in January. Sounds like you've had fun making them. Good luck selling.
They look good. Nice warm colors.
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You my friends, are awesomely generous with your comments. Thanks all the same, I truly appreciate the support each of you have been to me since restarting my jewelry design business again this year. After designing for 10 years, taking off 2 years and being back at it again, my head spins with inspiration and I don't have enough hours in the days to create all that is busting out of my brains. Just doing what I can to help preserve small JUNK treasures from the landfill.
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Lucky you two! Keep us posted on your progress and future projects.
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Awesome dresser now after you've put your magic touch to it. Love the "Dream" letters as well. Your girls should be very pleased with this in their room.
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Love what you designed here. It is very elegant, classy and love the neutral coloring of the vintage fabric. Love it!
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Great job. I love doing mosaic, but just don't seem to get to it anymore. I guess I have too much on top of the bins of dishes for mosaicing. lol
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I love this. I've been on the look out for some, as I think I saw this on your blog and a couple of other altered art artists blogs. Great repurposing idea.
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You are sure doing well with finding good stuff to spruce up, refurbish and sell. Sales have hardly started in Minnesota. I'm thinking this will be the first big week, as it is suppose to be 80 on Thursday. Yeah!
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Nice of hubby to build this for you. It turned out great. I have a bench made from a vintage Jenny Lind bed, but with the round turned features on my bed it isn't very comfortable. Your's looks like it would be very comfortable and you did an awesome job with distressing it.
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Great job on this refurbishing. If you had a rail of wood under both the chair and the desk, it could be sat in by a child again. Looks like the runners were removed from the original set. The add ons really add to the beauty of this piece. So cool white and black. Great job.
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Wow you hit the jackpot with great junk here girl. Be sure to post your finished project with your wonderful finds.
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Once again Candy, a beautiful well done project. Your photos are wonderful, directions great and overall a fun and inexpensive project. Your hubby should be very proud of you!
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You know what I love about you Sue? You're so genuine. You're so not full of yourself. You're just an all around natural, unselfish gal that has so much to share with the world about junking. You did a fab job on TV and you appeared so relaxed, and comfortable that you looked like you were a regular on TV. Fabulous job of engaging the ladies and sharing cool ideas. I was yearning for more after that 5 minute segment. That's what is cool about it, too. People got a snatch of junking finds and will be now enticed to go out and get involved in the movement.
You go girl!
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Hey Sue. Fun to see this post. Lani had asked me today if I'd seen this post of yours and I hadn't, so went on tonight to check it out.
I'll try to post the necklace that Lani saw today that made her think of this post. Its so fun to design with different finds, and the necklace I'm referring to is kind of funky too. Not this funky and fun, but different than some of the other things I've shared.
Hope all is well with you and great job on TV this week. How fun for you!
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Beautiful art work. Well done and very unique. Love it! Thanks for sharing here on Junk Market.
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Love the table,early basket and bunny. They go so well together. Looks like you're having good luck finding some great stuff to fix up and resll.
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Great stuff Kathy. Hope you guys sell out. yes, they are chicken feeders you're selling. So fun with grass growing out of those holes at this time of the year.
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Hey Lani- good to see you today! I'm so glad you told me about this post, as it is awesome. Love it all! You do such a great job with displaying your unique collections and I'm always intrigued with your style. Can't wait to see what you bring to sell in the new shop we're going to be in together.
Gretchen
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Very fun shelf for a little guys room.

Love this. I could use this in my studio for sure. Great idea!
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I too hunt for beach glass and love finding it. Your piece of driftwood is great.
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Great visionary you are Jenny. This is perfect as a mirror and I love it.
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The coat rack turned out so awesome. Looks like rust. I just saw this on a forum and had never heard of it before. I had my doubts, but after seeing your results, I'm now convinced. The poly idea is a great idea.
Can you give any details on how you did it? Did you wet the cinnamon, or how did you get it to stick? Or did you put the cinnamon on wet paint? Thanks!
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So cool! Great save and lucky you. Love your use of them.
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Beautfiul Janis. I like your twist on those gals idea. I saw theres, but it didn't have the impact that yours does. Great job once again!
Your house looks so cool in the background. Love it!
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Thank you everyone for your nice comments. I'm a bit of a perfectionist and the original design really bugged me until I fixed it. This necklace is so fun and fresh looking against a white back drop. I try to wear each design to make sure that it lays right, and doesn't turn, elements are at the right location etc., so this helps in the overall designing of my redesigns.
I should of photographed it against white, as the colors in these photos don't do it justice. Part of the process of learning photography tricks.

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Very cool!
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Love this shop Sue. Fun to see it, and I was encouraged to see that 2 of the items I have for our new shop are hip. I have already had my book covers removed and tied with ribbons to sell at the new Anoka shop, as well as a beautiful crystal lamp w/an almost naked lampshade I found this month at Rose's to resell. Love this look and surely would of had a ball at this shop.
Thanks for the tour.
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Congrats Sue. What a thrill for you. I'll have to have Carolyn set her DVR since I don't have one and I'll be at work, so otherwise would miss it.
Knock em dead.
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The Chinese checker board game table is very cool painted black and repurposed as a table top. The base adds to the great look as well. Nice job with this piece.
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The rusty horseshow is perfect on your green box. Nice idea.
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Very cool project and repurposing of the radio cabinet. I love this. You've done a great job on the finish of it and it truly is a gem now.
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There is also a setting on our cameras that allows us to set the sizes. I have mine on the fine setting, as I rarely blow up pictures larger than 8 x 12. I don't have to do any resizing with my photos by using these settings. Also, it allows you to have way more photos on your SD cards too, so double the benefits.
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Love this! Another great organization idea and a pretty way to store our supplies.
Thanks for sharing.
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I too use muffin tins to hold items that I use to redesign my jewelry with. They are very handy, and I'm waiting for garage sale season to pick up some of these cheap to spray paint, as I saw this done on another blog, and they are extra cute when painted. Fun way to display things.
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Sue this lamp is gorgeous as is the vintage decanter. I would of never thought of this either, but I know a local spot that has a stash of these beauties, and I may have to take a trip there soon with newly opened eyes. Great repurposing and no drilling is always a bonus.
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Way to go Janis. Another beautiful project. I have one of these as well and have been looking for larger sizes of glass tubes to turn mine into a flower holder. Now, I may need to rethink my idea. lol
I found mine at a thrift store for a few bucks, but recently saw one for sale at an antique shop for $28.00. They are out there cheap, so be patient ladies.
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Janis- Your button holder/display is equisite. Very nicely done. I'll have to keep my eyes open for a cruet like that to hold the bottles I currently have like yours, but mine are housed in a shoe box. Not quite as pretty. lol
You create the most beautiful things. Wish we lived in the same country at least, or same state would even be better.
Later-
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Love the fence slats, wire basket and how you put it all together. This is another Geo awesome project.
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Jenny- this art piece is incredible. I used to own arabian horses, and this one reminds me of them. They were agile, quick, spirited and beautiful. Your horse represents all of that, and I love how you worked the horse shoe into the design as well. The quote is perfect. It looks like a vintage weather vane to me too. These were used up in the midwest on barns and are oh so cool.
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Looks great in your backyard!
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I too love old letters. What a fun use of them. Can you imagine trying to hang "SCHAUMANN" off a mailbox? Nice to have a short name at times like this.
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I've not heard of this paint/mirror product so am glad to have you post this project and educate me on this.
You've got a great mirror now, but it is difficult to find these types of frames with glass in them, so you're fortunate to have your concaved glass w/oval frame to work with.
Great project. Reminds me of the look I like from Texas women like Carol Boltons' decorating style.
Thanks for sharing.
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Sue your sense of humor when posting your projects is always a hoot and is a breath of fresh air. This is such a fun floral project and really puts one in the "spring spirit". Interesting how we woke up to another dusting of snow today. Old man winter just doesn't want to let go of his grip.
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I totally agree with Junkrat, and was going to say what she said. You've invented a new type of decorating that fits my tastes "feminine industrial". I like the touches the lampshade and finial add to your industrial designed lamp.
This is wonderful Geo. Sometimes, accidents work out better than the original designs we do.
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This really looks great. Nice addition-
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How blessed you were to recieve this for free! I love it! I thought of two things when I initially saw this post. If a person had a vaulted ceiling in a great room type of room it would be a fabulous top to a fireplace mantle. Of course this would have to be custom designed as the piece has quite a bit of height.
The second thought was an awesome headboard. It could be cool with a great frame with some artwork in the center part or that area coulld have shelves built into it to make a display area. I could even see it painted if that would make your wife feel like it was less churchy.
It is a specatular piece none the less and an awesome find.
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Your shelf turned out beautiful Kim. Great to have a fun memory of your trip as well that you see daily, and its multifunctional uses are great too.
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Your bedroom is truly a labor of love. To collect for two years and have all of those meaningful things included into your final design is wonderful. I'm sure you'll have many years of enjoyment and relaxation out of your peaceful bedroom redesign. The architectural elements can add so much to our home spaces. Nice job!
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Love this project Sue. You the original junk queen for sure. The washer idea is ingenious of you. Awesome!
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Just ordered my book! It was one of the things I wanted for my birthday this year, so I just ordered it. I'm sooooo excited to receive it, but they said they wouldn't be mailing it until 3/31/09. How did some of you already get it? I'm jealous. lol

Great project. Lucky pooch! I think my kitten would like one of these too.
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Andrea - I too love cloches, and am always looking for them. Most of mine currently are smaller, as I don't have much space to have table scape displays, but now that I'll be reselling, I will be looking for large ones too.
Beautiful displays! My favorite is the lamp base used with the cloche, but I'm a sucker for birds nests.
Thanks for sharing!
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The consistent pink painted frames with the botanicals make for instant impact and makes a great wall display.
Welcome to the site and for your first posting courage. You've done great.
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This is a gorgeous addition over your mantle. One would definitely think it was original to the build, as the proportion is perfect.
Nice safe and brilliant use of someone else's cast off.
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What a fun and interesting project you rec'd, Sue. I love the fact that they used such innovative products to create it. It appears to be the backside of a cookie sheet? Is that what they used?
Lucky you! x 2 with winning over Elizabeth too.
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Love the nest idea for the keys. Great project. Thanks for the inspiration and little dose of Spring.
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Looking good Kathy & Terri. I hope you gals sell real well at the new antique location. Love the old letters.
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These would be an asset to anyones garden. Great job.
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Kim-
Great tip on rusting things. Now, I need to gather my things and get them going developing that rusty patina we junkers all love.
The faucets on the shelf for the holders are soooo very cool. Did your Dad have all of these? Very cool to incorporate that plumbing ancestory into your projects. Your daddy,Glen should be proud.
The trap is a way cool addition as well.
Say we still need to meet up for the lunch we missed the week I was sick, so we can get caught up in person.
Great post!
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Sue- Although I've been to my share of flea markets in my years, had I read or been aware of your 10 Flea Market Tips, I would be so much better off.
Your post is fabulous! Thanks for taking the time to do it. I learned a lot, and #9, unfortunately can be my biggest problem, and my husband would agree. :- (
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Wow, my friends! Thank you for your generous comments and compliments. I really do love to do this, so once I get into my creating zone, I wish I could stay there for a few weeks. It is so time consuming just to get it all out and figured out, as I'm such a detailed person that I really do take a lot of time with each of my designs until I'm happy with them and they come together as I've dreamed they would.
Thanks Jim for the nice compliment about the photography. Since I started my blog, my photography has done a 180, as I've learned so much from observing technique and how others have photographed their items. I find there is rarely a straight on shot taken, lots of upclose and detailed shots, and the ones I take that I've loved best are with unique one of a kind vintage architectural pieces that are chippy and peeling or unique material backgrounds with subtle textures.
So fun to do these artistic things we all get to do, isn't it?
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Very cool frame and treatment you did on it. Thanks for sharing!
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Kathy-
Your metal test tube holder looks awesome with the wire blooms you put in it. Love it! That was an awesome find you got. I bought one 2 weeks ago at the Carver, shops that I blogged about on my blog. Mine is wood, with about 7 slots for test tubes, but had 1 large and 2 smaller ones in the one I bought. I'd not heard of cigar tubes until Candy's post, which was so cool, that when I found this wood vintage one at the sale, I knew I had to have it.
Very cool getting the Candy gram, and how fun that you will someday get to meet.
I'm looking forward to meeting the JunkFest girls from North Dakota in April, as they are making a junk trip to MN, and I plan to meet up with them when they come. This whole Junk Market Style site has brought so many wonderful new Junking friends into my life. I love it!
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Missy this is truly a one of a kind project. You did a beautiful job on this piano turned bar and the men of the house should be given extra helpings of food to compensate for their hard work. LOL I've never heard of a make over for an upright piano before, so this was a fun post to view.
Thanks for sharing!
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Congratulations on taking that first big step to do what you love. I hope you and your husband have much success selling at your venue in your local shop. Your booth looks great and has a lot of fun stuff for sale. It would be fun to be nearby to shop. Enjoy and remember to keep it fun!
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What a fun and unique planter you created.

Very creative! Quite the transformation you made with very little $$$$.
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Love this new lamp you've created Jenny. May be my new favorite, but maybe just tied with 6 more of your posts. You are so talented with putting things together, I can't imagine what would happen if you and Jim were in the same lab creating together. Two genius' for sure.
Love the paint finish on the lamp shade and it would look awesome in our cabin. Want to send it north?
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Hey Janis - another great project post. I've seen these done too, but usually they have so much directions that I don't bother doing it. Your's are simple, so may give it a whirl.

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You do lead a charmed life. What a great friend and momento you have from Jenny. How cool of you two to meet and have becomes such good junking pals. Love the letters btw.
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Your letters spell "Leno". Maybe, Jay will buy them. I'm bad! That's what came to my mind.
Looks like you made a haul, and now it will be fun to watch and see what Jenny K creates with all of this metal. You go girl!
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Try, try again! You did it. Great results in the end.

Ribbon frames are so useful and fun to make. Thanks for sharing yours.
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You did a great job of junking it up just the right amount to make it the awesome piece it was awaiting to become. A fab piece for a golfer too.
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Too fun! Who would of thought to do this? Very clever.
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Cassie, this is a piece that should be featured as a member post on Junk Market Style blog. It is absolutely outstanding! I loved it on your blog post, and still love it here. It is so vere unique and the story of how your Dad rescued it for you is so special. Love it! Love it! Love it!
I too love how you've merchandised your beautiful pieces in these two made for each other vintage pieces.
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Love the tin your husband used for the shelf, and it adds some great display places too. The green door knob piece has great patina too.
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A good idea indeed. We can all use extra places to hang things from. I'm a door knob collector too.
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This is an awesome project, and the results are lovely. I really like the black background on your breadbox and your technique with the wax is way cool.
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A fun project you've created indeed, and perfect for a sports themed room.
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Love your treatment you did to your table. It is a very nice makeover and well done. I love vintage maps. Cool bottles you found too.
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Very creative use of leftover materials. Way fun! I've not seen anything like this before.
Welcome to the site, and thanks for sharing your great project.
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Very cool Kim. Love the window shape you found too.
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Very creative and fun project you made here. So great that you were able to figure out who had purchased it too, so that you could get photos of it.
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I like your spindle towel idea. I have some chippy white painted ones that would look way better than the tacky ones that the previous owner installed in the bathroom. I just might have to do something like this. Thanks for sharing.
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Very cool find.
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Love the chalkboard and the cool use of the old drawer pull for chalk is brilliant.
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Nice project. I have literally 1000's of pieces of beach glass and love the colors one finds. Enjoy your lovely piece you've created.
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Incredibly talented to make such a guy. Very cool-
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This is a really great project. Love the look of your whole outside area you have. Very fun!
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This is such a great project you created with literally a pile of stuff most of the US would consider junk. How cool is it! Can't wait for Spring. Just had another blizzard in Minnesota today, and this Winter has been way too long already and it's still February.
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Love this creation you did with the corbel. Very cool-
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Ah, how cool to have my photo in your home. : - ) That was a wonderful day and I'll always remember the good times we all had the day of your open house.
Kind of cool too, because you, Sue and I were shopping in Buffalo together when you bought these photo displays.
They look very good up in your sitting area. Love it!
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See ya in the morning when we're off to our haunts in Carver.

Man Sue, I've been in suspense since November when we went to the open houses together and you told me you had a new book being released in March 2009. I can't wait for it to be released and I'm sure it will be top notch as eveything you do is.
Thanks for the tease, oops, I mean sneak peak of the great stuff we have to look forward to.
I'd love to go Texas and join you all, but this year just won't be the year for me. Hopefully, another time.
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Quite the transformation from what it looked like before to after. I just love to see when people are talented and can turn someone elses trash into a treasure of their own. Nice save.
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Love what you've done with the bed spring. Very cool!
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Lucky you! I love your porcelain hands as found. They have such beauty and shape to them. As a jewelry designer, these really pull on my heart strings.
Thanks for sharing your wonderful finds!
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Jenny- love the push lawnmower lamp you made, but wow, ten years ago is when you created it. That is amazing! You were way ahead of your times girl!
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What a great post Candy. You truly have a gift for putting things together and repurposing them. Another great job!
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Janis- What a great project. Simple, clean and beautiful. Love the dart and word too.
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I just love boxes and to make a piece of altered art like this is a true labor of love. Look how it not only organizes one, but brings beauty to our lives as well. Thanks for sharing-
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Nice save! Lucky you-
This reminds me of my grandma. She had pink appliances in her house trailer when I was a kid. Haven't ever seen the pink other than hers. The shabby chic stove!
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Nice paint job.

Very creative and oh so fun for your kids.
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This is very creative and a great use of some old items. Love how yours turned out.
Thanks for sharing-
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Ah ha! I was going to ask if that was a glider in the previous post, so I'm glad you showed this. I would love to have one of these, and let one get away for $15 a garage sale, 15 years ago. Regretted it ever since!
I'm with Candy, I love the glider and the twig table too.
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I can see why you spend so much time here. It is so cozy and comfy looking.

Welcome to the Junk Market site. I just brought downstairs a white melamine shelving unit from my daughters old bedroom to go into my studio to help me organize my supplies. I wanted to use my extra music roll on it to make it pretty, but decided I needed to get organized first and worry about pretty after.
Looking forward to see what you do to makeover this useful cabinet. Be sure to post the results.
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Welcome to the site, and to the posting world on Junk Market.
Looks like you've got a good start to this junking illness. I'll be going to check out your site.
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Looks like a fun place to go to on a regular basis. Lucky you!
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Sweet. The little poodle is cute.
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I love all of your rusty grate projects. Don't know that I could pick a favorite, but you've definitely got my wheels spinning in my head now. Thanks for the inspiration and sharing all of the wonderful ways one can use a cast off grate.
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The watchamacallit thing I think is part of a piece of an electric light. It is the part that would hang from the ceiling and the light fixture would attach to it. Just my thoughts!
I love the test tube thing you found best of all. I'd take that in a heart beat. Really have enjoyed your vacation posts. Thanks for sharing and taking the great photos.
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I'm so glad this post is finally open and working so that I can leave a comment for you. This blue stand you got from Georgia's is a match made in heaven with your other elements. What a great design of an end table you've come up with here. Awesome!
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Love both of your scales. They are so beautiful and unique.
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Very nice. Love seaglass too, but most of mine is beach glass in MInnesota from a very large and rough lake. I just love picking the stuff.
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Great photos you've shared and what a fun time you had. Love the shop and it would be a junkers paradise for sure.
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I have to agree with the others, that by staggering the heights of your door headboard you created the best design for a headboard using doors that I've ever seen. Great job and teamwork.
The 3 way mirror is a really great project as well, and must be a wonderful addition to the bedroom for getting ready in the mornings.
The chandelier and wall color with white is a great combination. Thanks for sharing your romantic little hideaway with us all. It's great!
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This is a fabulous redo. I love the results and it could easily pass for a $2,000 Pottery Barn piece with that fresh clean paint and nice clean lines.
Awesome-
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This would look great over a fireplace mantle. Check out Sue's book, she has a big "W" above her fireplace and it is such a statement and looks just awesome.
You really scored here! Great find-
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Welcome back Chovey. Glad you're feeling better.
Looks like Jenson has herself a fun little momento to celebrate her 1st birthday with. Quite innovative. I recognized the meat drainer right away, but would never of thought to use it for creating something with.
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BlackDog - You sure came upon a load of insulators! Wow! The candelabra that you created is wonderful. I really love it.
Below is a link to a post I made on this site back when there were about 30 members, so not too many people have seen it. It is a great use of insulators for a beachy themed
decor. A used hurricane lantern was slipped over the top round portion of a larger insulator and then the hurricane gets filled with pretty shells. My friend made this and gave it to me as a gift.
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http://www.junkmarketstyle.com/item/1371/vintage-insulator-repurposed

I dismantled a box spring this Fall and harvested the springs only, but you've got a cool thing going on over in Illinois. This almost looks like it could be a store display. Is it large? Where is it in your home and if you could, would you mind showing a photo that is further away and gives the overall feel of the placement of this? You have great items displayed in it too, and I'd love to see more of your home.
Thanks for sharing!
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Love architectural pieces such as these. I use some of the vintage chippy ones for my photo props when photographing my jewelry. I usually bought them for the same purpose as you have them, but just didn't get around to finishing them up. Love what you've done.
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This garden cart is way cool! Love the wheels on it, as well as the trowel. Thanks for sharing!
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Hey Georgia - yeah, yours is up next! You did a great job. Love the case you used, the thingamajig to hold the vintage photo, huge pocket watch, etc. Way to go! Very lovely piece you chose to showcase your paper roll project in.

Love it! Thanks for sharing your great makeover with the filing cabinet.
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Again, very cool. Love the layering you do, like Georgia said. Would love to see an angle shot when you take your photos, so we see more of a 3 dimensional as well. You just have such great detailing in your artwork.
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I love this art piece, Jenny. The patina on the grate is awesome, and it just all came together so well. Kelsey should love it.
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Hey Jenny - I welcome all ideas for organizing ones art items, such as this post tip. I am currently trying to clean out my studio space and set it up more organized and am looking for any/all tips and ideas. I've also recently discovered that old muffin tins work great for organizing and sorting elements that I would use in my designs. On the look out for those now. I've seen them plain, but also spray painted in a fun color. However, MN lends itself a problem with spray painting due to the winter weather. Bummer! I don't have an alternative space to spray things at.
Keep these ideas coming.

Candy - Your projects you've created are wonderful. I love the candle wraps that both you and whiteflower were inspired to do, and plan to make some for myself with my leftovers. The tray idea was very cool too. I think your Simple projects are fabulous. Thanks for sharing!

I missed this post Candy, so I'll comment now. This is such an ingenius use of the pedal. Very cool and so useful. Mine is out in the garden as garden art, but this is so much better. I bet your daughter thought it was great!
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This is very cool too. Glad you made the save on the piano leg front pieces. I could also see this making a great jewelry necklace organizer. Fun project you created!
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Very cool to take a part of each house with you. Way creative! Thanks for sharing.
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Very cute garden with the cool additions of the rusty junk.
I'm sure you will add another beautiful area to the deck redo and will have it cool again.
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Hey Cassie-
Loved reading the whole story behind this mailbox treasure on your blog.
This is a great repurposing with the small table. Love what you've done and the color on your bedroom walls is great too.
Welcome to the posting world of membership. Glad you are sharing some of your great ideas. It sounds like your Junk Fest would be something very fun to attend.
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Thanks for adding the 3 extra pictures to your post. They really add alot and help with giving us the overall feel of your project. Love it!
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Ahhh Sue, these are so great, creative and fun to view. Thanks for the inspiration! I hadn't even thought about Valentine's Day, but am now. Love all of your ideas.
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Wow Jim! You sure used a lot of details, cool vintage items, as well as new items made to blend in with the vintage to create once again a phenomenal piece of art. Love how the memories of your Valentine's Day with that 2nd grade classroom teacher inspired this project.
Very original, creative and memorable. Way to go!
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What a fun and quick project you have here. Good thinking on Elena's part, and I sure do think she'll fit in quite nicely with the rest of the Junk Market crew. Welcome to Elena, we look forward to more of her brilliant ideas.
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Say would you mind photographing and sharing your center island next? We are considering taking out our table from our kitchen and adding on in ours, and I'd love to see what you've done. It looks very cool. Thanks!
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Unbelievable!!!!! This is so awesome of a makeover. I'm in awe, literally. Way to go. Can you give more details? I wonder how it will wear over time?
I've got great oak cabinets, but they are from the late 1980's and could use some sprucing up. We've toyed with painting them, but the thought of it all has been overwhelming, but when you see awesome results such as this, it makes a person think again.
Thanks for the inspiration. Your kitchen is gorgeous!
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Love the luminary you created with this as well as the roses. I may have to do some of this with my leftovers when I get my project finished. Thanks for playing along. You did awesome as well as everyone else so far.
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Wow! What a great reuse in both ways. However, those dishes look pretty fine in that rusty piece as you have them now. Thanks for sharing.
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Love what you've done here Janis. Great idea and project as always. Excellent photography as well.
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What a great repurpose. Welcome to posting and I'm so glad you did. I've been looking for a way to handle all of my ribbons too, and enjoyed seeing your answer to your ribbon problem. However, I think I would need about 4 of these. : (
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This is a great idea! I love long walks on the beach and each pane could represent a different trip to a beach. Love it!
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Way to go Kim. This is great that you decided to join the challenge and was able to find a piano roll on your own. It is so interesting that your project is a mix of both of Janis and Lani's projects. I too am using modge pog for my challenge and none of us even talked about what we were creating. Very cool.
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Great display, great post. Thanks for sharing! I like your style.
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This is great. Junk Sophisticate posted a project kind of like this and I loved hers then and I love yours too. My friend and I just bought an Atlas to share and do something similar with the maps using areas of places we've each traveled.
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This is wonderful! I used to have a single bull nose from my Grandparents house and this would of been a grand way to display it. Wish I still had it, but love what you've done here.
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I love your repurposing of the salvaged sewing machine piece. It is an awesome shelf you've created and I love the way you've merchandised it. The photos in the jars are great!

Smart reuse. I didn't know the original use for these, so it was fun to learn that through your post too.
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Love it!

I have a white cuckoo clock in storage that I will have to dig out of its box and give it new life. Thanks for the inspiration.
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The pink compliments the pink tulips perfectly and I love the use of the gym locker. Your potting shed it to die for!
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I love this idea! I think I'm going to have to make some of these for my new cabin garden I built last summer. What kind of silicone do you find works best?
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Very innovative! What a great backyard, and also a tease to us freezing Minnesotans. I wonder when it will warm up?

Great combination of items, makes for a great project. Very striking!
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Windows are so great. You've just shown a bunch more of great uses for them in this post.

Another cool idea to use up some of the extra wooden windows we all have around the basement or outside buildings.
Welcome to the site. Nice work on your sign.
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Great project.

Wow! I had to read your post twice. I didn't even realize that they were the same piece. I thought you were showing 2 different projects. You really brought this baby back from the grave. Awesome redo!
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Welcome to the site and becoming an active participant! It is so fun once you take that first intial jump into the unknown and then you become addicted like the rest of us. : ) It is such an awesome site and I just love and am proud to be a part of it. I've met so many great friend through it, so keep posting.
I think it is awesome that you came up with the idea with the vise from the site and than are showing your great twist of it here. I always love projects with old ceiling tins and yours is a great use of tins and shows that just a small amount of tin can make such a great impact.
Your flower mosaic is cool too. Thanks for jumping in and sharing with us all.

This is fabulous! Great idea. Thanks for sharing such a great project.
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Great job with repurposing the sturdy boxes. I just love to do altered art projects too, and have a stash of nice boxes and items to do it with. To think some people just toss all of this without a thought of repurposing! Great job, and to be so on top of things that you already have a Mothers day gift ready? That's impressive.
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Welcome to the site Lillypad. You've sure transported this into a better use than what it was made for. Great repurposing. Now, if Spring would come to Minnesota!
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Very creative and useful too.

This is great! Ron is a natural.
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Looks like you've been a member for a while, but this is your first posting, so congrats on your great first post. I love what you've done with the creation of your shelf. It all came together just great and looks so professional. Good job.
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Quite innovative Janis for someone that was so dismayed over what to do. Thank goodness your 2nd roll was more useable than the one that kept tearing up.
I've had food posioning and this is the first I've felt good enough to be at the computer for 2 days, so finally getting a biit caught up reading the posts. Haven't been up to working on my project more though, so hopefully I'll get a burst of strength and be able to finish up soon.
Your the furtherest contributor in distance, but got yours in first. Impressive!
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Love the little box project Janis. the little glass legs are pretty, as well as the words on the box. I too took a photo of the delightful way Sue wrapped up our boxes. It was so special!
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Very creative and great project that you came up with Lani. It turned out awesome!
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Amy- I've gone missing, first to the cabin over the week-end than with food posioning. ACK! So a belated congratulations on your contributorship status. Not sure when it happened, but I'm glad it did and want to be sure to welcome you.
This is a fun and easy project that most of us could copy. Thanks for sharing! Now if only I'd come across some great deals on some grates!
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These are two great projects you've shared with us all. Love the cart. I have one in the garage that my husband despises, as it takes up precious room in the garage. I don't think he'd like it if I moved it inside though. I however, think this is very cool.
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What a very creative and awesome gazebo you now have. Great idea!
Welcome and have fun with this site. I posted a gazebo that my in-laws built from junk, and is pretty fun too. You guys are awesome with your creativity.
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Very clever and oh so neat.
Thanks for sharing with us.

Love the white on white and simplicity of it all.
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Love the frame you've chosen to use. It is awesome and it does go great with your house. Very cool idea too! Thanks for sharing!
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Misartgurl - when living in Minnesota you are expected to love it and live with it (the snow). I should of been born in Florida, as I'm a warm weather person & only live with it (the snow). As a kid I remember my Dad packing all 7 of us kids in the station wagon to go places and we'd fly through 3-4' drifts with the car. Call all of us Minnesotans "foolhardy" and that about it sums it up. No play days for us, unless we get a Halloween blizzard again. That was maybe 1991 and we had 20+" in record time, that did slow us down for a day. Crazy!
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Welcome to the JM site and thanks for posting such a wonderful first project. I've done broken china mosaic myself, so can appreciate the work that went into this. The results are certainly worth the effort. Great end results.
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This is a great quickie project and the results are wonderful.
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Gorgeous! You guys did a fabulous job with building it. Love what you've done.
Welcome to the site and have a blast with it. There is so much great information and projects on here that all of the members as well as Sue and Kimberly have shared, that it is such a great resource. Glad you found us!
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Looks like you had some fun with the scrabble tiles! Lucky you to get a snow day. In Minnesota the metro area doesn't get snow days. In 10 years of school my daughter has had 1 snow day and it was for a furnace that went out. We are expected to be crazy and die hards, so they just don't cancel. Outlying areas they do cancel, usually for drifting and such.
As to the snow deluge, I can happily report that we rec'd less than 1/4" here last night in Minnesota. We shoved it all to the East this time and we just got the cold front -20 last week, and no snow. We actually probably only have 11" on the ground in the Minneapolis area.

Too funny, Sue, I actually posted a comment at lunch at work and forgot to click on submit, so it didn't post.
Love the combination you used on this project. The door hardware, the chandelier and the upholstery tack are great together to make this inovative photo hanger. The added mystery piece is a vintage pre-electric wick holder. Am I right?
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What a great looking cabinet. The crown molding and the lower molding really fool ones eye into believing it was original to the house. Great display piece to boot! Thanks
for sharing your great find.
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This is awesome and the colors are perfect!
Great job!
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By the way, I can see why you fell in love with this piece. It is so very special and your painting has made/enhanced the piece very much.
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Here's a little trick I've used. Often you can find discarded mirror from peoples bathroom renovations at Thrift Stores, which I buy and than take to a hardware store and for a small fee they will cut it for me to the size I need. I am usually using a square or rectangle for vintage frames, but this could be an option.
Also, looks like a piece of mirror from a cheap door mirror taken out of the frame may fit your cabinet door. I would replace the mirror either with new mirror or some of the other suggestions, as it appears to be a danger for future use.
Too bad you aren't from Minnesota, as I have a mirror that you could have for this project that was from a broken framed door mirror. Mirror is good, but plastic frame on it was broke, so I salvaged the mirror for later projects.

Hey - I just left you a follow up to your question about my button pendant post. Just saw your question now. Sorry.
I have 2 plastic tubs full of china/dishes that I did/do broken china mosaic with and took a soldering class thinking I was going to solder pendants of broken china. The soldering is so much work for what you can sell them for that I didn't pursue it further. Looks like you've come up with a more simple version of what I had thought I would do.
Creative way to do this. Good luck with selling your jewelry.
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Pieces of the past: I am using a variety of backs for the button pendants. Anything that is remotely flat and allows a hole for a jump ring to be attached to it. The new Gorilla super glue is what I find to hold the best with items that are flat one on one and E6000 only when it is an object that is raised up somewhat and has a more difficult time of gluing together. I hope this helps answer some of your questions. I go to bead shops, Michaels, and JoAnn's to find things, but haven't found the ideal source yet. Like I mentioned I use what I can find. I found the perfect attachment at a local bead shop, went back and they were all sold out of it. Figures!
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For JudiThomas: The gold/cream vintage button bracelet actually has a metal X that is showing on top, so the shank is what the beading wire is attached to on that one. However you may be referring to the grass green button closure on the green/pink bracelet. The wire is strong through one hole and I use tiny seed beads to cover up the wire between the 2 holes on the button and than thread the wire back through the 2nd hole and start my 2nd strand. I hope this helps you with what you were asking. If not, email me at gretchen.schaumann@comcast.net
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She was just such an angelic looking little girl. All she needs is wings!
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Misartgurl - love the china with the silver solder on the sides. I took a class for that, but only got going with a small stash of pendants, as it is so time consuming to set up and I didn't have a place I could leave my solder tools set up in between.
Thanks for the inspiration. It's lovely!
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Isn't it great when things just seem to be meant to be "Married to one another", and they become an awesome project?
Thanks for sharing!
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Way to go Kathy! I have used my daughter Emily for my jewelry business card for years, sitting at an adult version of one of these tables. I'm so glad it will be a photo prop that lots of little girls will get to have their photos taken at. You truly have an eye for junk revisions and the how to's of turning them into useful and beautiful projects once again.
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I think this is a great use for this wire piece. It really looks good as a wine caddie. So creative and original!
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Love this! Great idea you came up with here. Spring will come before we know it, or at least we can hope it does.
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Love the bed with the storage space in it. Very cool work you do!
The commode/pot thingy is too funny!
Thanks for sharing.
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Way to go Jerry. Husbands can come up with some pretty good ideas when push comes to shove. Way to work around a potential disaster like a broken mirror. I love ceiling tin for projects like these.

Great shadow box. The addition of the shelves really gives you room for displaying treasures as well. Thanks for sharing.
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Your girl is a hoot and what a conversation piece she is as well. Great project!
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Very creative and very fun!
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This is a very cool transformation Georgia. And I love how you've merchandised it with the white/ivory pottery which really pops against the wood.
Great job.
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These are so much fun. This is what I made with mine for our cabin. It is the name of our cabin. It is in the post with the suitcases, but features more of the scrabble photos on this post.

http://www.junkmarketstyle.com/item/1330/useful-suitcases

Welcome to the site! It looks like you and I have a lot in common. : )

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http://www.junkmarketstyle.com/item/1073/waterski-sign

http://www.junkmarketstyle.com/item/1242/waterski-shelf


A couple of more ideas of what to do with water-skis. You still have the 1 extra one.
These are both at our cabin. We are serious skiers, so this fits our lifestyles.

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It's always great to see more waterski projects on this site. Thanks for posting. I have 5 skis at our cabin, and my husband keeps trying to take 4 of them for a bench he wants to make, but I've been wanting to make the serving table that Sue created for one of their books. I might have to let him have the skis and make his bench now, after seeing yours. He already has built the bottom portion of the bench for the skis, but will have to add his back. Can you tell me how you made it so that it tips up and can be a serving area? This might make both of us happy.
I've posted 2 other waterski projects that you might enjoy seeing on this site. It was back in September, so most members haven't seen them, but you can view them here. I'll post the links on a seperate post.
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Welcome to the site. I like the idea of putting this in front of window to let the light show through.
I collect beach glass and have jars full that I plan to make jewelry with, but would never use it all in a lifetime. I should consider doing something like this with all of my gorgeous pastel colored beach glass.
Thanks for the inspiration!
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This is gorgeous! It would look awesome in my beach themed cabin. : ) Love it!
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Welcome! Love the floor lamp made into a light. My mil did this too, and it really is a great idea.
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What kind of building is this chandelier in? It looks really cool with the open rafters painted white, and I'd love to see more.
Fun idea for a chandelier.
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These are gorgeous pieces "as is" for those that love the wood look, and it is totally your discretion what you end up choosing to do, no guilt applied!
I too love the shabby white painting for accenting beautiful carvings and details. You will need to prime the piece first and I would take Janis' opinion about primer. The primer will really help you to get a nice quality piece in the end. I even once primed a piece and started sanding it for the paint and it looked so great, I never had to paint it after that.
Some people also use a wax product after painting, and Sue could probably tell you more about that. It really gives a great finish and on pieces like these you want them to be awesome when you're done painting them.

Ultrajunk this is one far out and awesome gal you've created. She is gallery worthy!
Great creativity and use of junk on her. Unbelievable the outcome.
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Hey Kim -
Another great project you've created here. So PD is your nickname, huh?
Isn't this site the best!
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This is fabulous. This is something that my mother-in-law would do, as she always thinks outside of the box. This is vey creative and a fresh idea as Sue mentioned. Great job!
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Your very talented MelHow! Love your posts.

What a great display in the cool urn! Love the empty frames leaning up against the mantle too.

I love the patina and the awesome brass label with Adorno. I will have to do something fun like this for myself. I have a great little brass tag all weathered and am a jewelry designer, so you can imagine how I always can use more things to hang jewelry from. Great first posting project. It is fabulous!
Welcome to the site and please share more of your great talent!
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I adore this! What a wonderful refurbish/repurpose you did on this piece. I love it! I've been watching for one of these to do this too, but really love the styling of yours. I will kick up my search a notch. I have 3 now that house silverware, but I want a empty one for repurposing.
Thanks for the great inspiration. I will bookmark this project for sure.
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These porch posts you split in 1/2 are just a great addition to the mantle. I love that you left the chippiness "as is". It provides great texture and detailing to enhance the fireplace that was existing.
Welcome to the site. Looks like you have more cool stuff in your house to share. Keep posting!
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I love these pieces sitting on your windowsill. Great pieces.
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Love the use of your vintage door knobs. Very clever, decorative, yet useful.
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This DejaVu, should be the project post of before and after photos shown to all non converted junkers to win them over to the "junk style" rescue missions. No one that wasn't already a junker would believe that your Asian Themed Cabinet was once a pile of throwaways and built for very little money.
The cabinet turned out fabulous! This post should be featured in a "Trash to Treasure" magazine. Incredible!
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This is a very clever project! An A+ for sure. Love the addition of the vintage sewing drawers. Great job!
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You need to prime it with primer first to get anything to stick to veneer like this. Then you can paint it or deco podge cool paper in it.
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Here is the link to Janis' project she posted that I referred to in the previous comment.

http://www.junkmarketstyle.com/item/6409/light-it-up

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Janis had a great project where she took posts like this and attached thick chunky old ashtrays she picked up at a thrift store for next to nothing. Then she bought chunky candles to go inside of the ashtrays. It was awesome.

You are such a great rescuer of forlorn and forgotten treasures. Its amazing what people will reject, and thankfully you come along and find it for free and give it a good and happy home. You've found yourself one great auction to scavenge at. Way to go! You're an inspiration to us all! You don't even have to dumpster dive to find your treasures.
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Another great save and redo project. Thanks for sharing your finds.

This is great! I think I'm going to make one for my husband and decopodge it. He likes boxes and has some ugly ones on his dresser, but this one is fabulous. I might just have to start fixing up his too. : )
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Kathy- this is a great reuse for the lamp bases one finds now and then, and this surely is useful and beautiful. I love the extra touches of bling you always include in your designed pieces. That is the icing on the cake!
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I am a "fan" of your latest junk project.
What a great display piece you've created. I've never seen a fan such as this though, so it may be hard to duplicate. A one-of-a-kind project you've created.
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I cannot hardly wait for the release of this new book!!! I just have loved everything you have ever released in written and photographed form, so know that this book will even be the best of what you've done. Just talking to you about the writing of it and the photo shooting that took place has enticed me to no end.
This is book is on my #1 wish list for my March birthday!!!!
Congratulations on it coming closer to the release date and have a blast in Texas!!! I will get there one day!

Awesome post Kathy. Love the idea of the wedding couple in a jar or salt shaker. Hmmmm! Might need to do something like that for my mil and fil. She would get it.
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Great Job Kathey! I'm sure they'll all sell.
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Great idea!
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Welcome to the site! This potting table is awesome. I love how you made use of the old door, patio leftover boards, the galvanized pail set into the sink, cool shelf brackets and the hose reel on the side are just awesome.
Great project. I could use one of these up at my cabin. I will keep this project in mind. Thanks for sharing.
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I'd love #4 coasters shown for my house! : ) These are truly great, and very inspiring. Hmmm! Another project?
Our habitat just closed. So sad!
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It looks like it could be used on the wall as a shelf right now as it is.

Love the old bottles. Unreal that someone left these behind. I usually pay at least $1 a bottle, so this is quite a haul. Maybe, you need to have a garage sale and turn your extra "trash to cash". (not really trash, but it rhymes.)
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I agree with either of the ideas, but I thought a stool or coffee table/stool when I first saw it. Cool material would really make this great.
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I agree the swap idea would be fabulous. I have extra rusty bed springs, I'd love to trade for some vintage large buttons. Ha! We could really get going here, I'm sure.

Great save. Hard to know the dimensions from the photo, but they look tall and skinny to me. My being a jewelry designer I immediately thought of a jewelry display piece. One could put scrabble tiles on the top flat area and write something cool there, and than on the lower flat area, add cup hooks, vintage hardware hooks, etc. and hang your jewelry from them. Or your scarves, or whatever else you need a place to display something.
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You always find amazing things, and than create something pretty, useful or fun each and every time for next to nothing. Awesome!
Welcome back!
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Jenny K - this is so very special. You are one thoughtful and talented gal. The details and great recycled finds you come up with are fabulous every time. You never cease to amaze me.
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Jenny - This is now my new favorite project you've ever posted. Now don't get me wrong, I like lots of them before, but this is just so my style and taste. Love it! Love the door knob, door plate, door bell frame, the wood, everything is fabulous.
Thanks for an incredible project inspiration. It was meant to be.
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Very cool shelf Kim and what a treasure this quilt must be for your parents. I know you are a great daughter!!!!
We really need to get together sometime for lunch or something. I work in Osseo part time across from the post office, near you.
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I love this idea! Very clever! Keep posting, you've got some great ideas. Glad to have you on board.
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Melhow - This is a project I could see myself doing for myself. Love it!
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I sure could use this idea to make one for my garden out at the cabin. The sun would keep the water warm too, instead of it being freezing coming out of the hose.
Thanks for sharing your great project.
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Candy - your project as always is gorgeous. Love it! You are one talented girl and I agree it looks like it should be in a magazine.
I think these could make cool Christmas tree ornaments with stuff in the tubes (vintage white buttons, mica, glitter, etc.) and than a pc. of chain or ribbon around the tops.
Awesome post Candy!
Where did you get 100 of these?

Want to trade some for rusty bed springs?

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Very clever redesign of Ann's bracelet idea. This site is so great for creativity and you've shown that here with this post. Thanks for sharing!
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Welcome to the site JunkMistress. You've got some really clever projects that you've showcased here. Great job with the saves of former junk that are now once again viable and useful pieces.
Thanks for sharing!
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Thank you everyone for all of the nice comments.
Here's what is really cool, is that Ann and I became friends through Junk in September at the annual Junk Bonanza. I'm a friendly soul and my friend and I had just shared a table for lunch w/a young gal (she was alone at a table for 4 and there was no other seating), so I asked if we could share. We visited with her, and than when she left Ann and her friend were walking past looking for a table. I offered our 1/2 to them and we visited a while. We exchanged numbers, emails, Junk Market Style site info, and told them all about the Occasional sales in Buffalo. How fun is that. They've been to Buffalo since, Ann is an active member on Junk Market, visited the Haupt Antique sales, and became a friend to me and now a customer. Junk can build great friendships!!
This is testimony to that!
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Love your project post Lani. You've shown once again how great rust and junk can be when you have good taste with putting it all together. You are a natural at this, and could easily teach your skills to others. I guess you already are with us Junk Members. Thanks for the great inspiration.
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One mans trash is anothers treasure. Great save.

You surely do some great projects with your papers, paint, fabric and deco podge. Thanks for sharing another fun idea to try. I hadn't thought of using fabric. I'm working on a deco podge project right now.
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Your flooring is beautiful! You've used lost of vibrant colors with your remodel which show up well with the flooring you've chosen. The vintage fruit crate labels give you good pop of color to go with your walls and overall feel of the remodel. The pop crate and fruit jar lighting is very creative as well.
Welcome to the site and thanks for sharing your fun remodel. It is always fun to see other members decor styles and the great projects everyone comes up with.
Enjoy the site and the inspiriaton it may bring to you.
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Ok Locklady and Kim. I plan to use a combination of both of your ideas. I have some knobs with the original square spindles, but many do not have that and were sold with just the door knob part itself. Thanks for the hints gals.
Now, Kim, which of the gorilla glues did you use? I have them all and want to use the correct type the first time, without mistakes. : ) Thanks again for the added inforation. You'll find us junkers like the whos and whats on the projects people post, so its always great when more details are provided or like you did added after you were asked by several interested members.
You've got a lot to add to this group, so I'm so glad I had mentioned it in my Christmas card I sent you. : ) I had forgotten I'd included it.

This would be fun to do with a special Grandma's potato masher or a Mom's. Memories!

I really like what you've done here. Great save and idea for a future project.
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Great saves. I do the same type of thing from my office. Last week I saved 3 heavy duty containers that a computer program or something came in. They were in the recycle bin at work, and are like magazine holders. I plan to recover them and decopage them for storage in my studio. I also save all of the heavy grey tagboard type of dividers that are sent with office products and use them for altered art and projects. It all comes in so handy!
Thanks for another great idea of what to watch out for to recycle at the office.
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Another beautiful room redesigned. Keep on posting they are gorgeous and so inspiring. I love how you proved your friend wrong about the desk and how you revamped it. I've not seen anything like that done to a desk, but only to a dresser before.
I'd love to be a guest in a home this beautiful. Wow! Very nicely done.
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Yeayyyy Redesigneed! You gave us a post on that room beyond the shutters that we were all wanting to see.
This is a stunning room and so glad you posted these photos of it. You've done such a great job with the white on white. I love that look, but unfortunately my family doesn't share that with me, so only am able to have touches of it. However, I love what you've done.
I'm with Candy that I love the compotes and the cake plate collection you've amassed. I have a small collection of milk glass, but no place to showcase it. I'll have to work on that, as you've inspired me with your posting.
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This is very cool! Love what you've done with it. Simple, but stunning.
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Wow, you sure are handy will do it yourself projects, and it sounds like you're getting everything refurbished for very little cost. Way to go with recycling!
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This is very well done and so cool. You are such an innovative thinker!
Just waiting to see what you come up with the piano roll challenge. I'm sure it will be awesome.
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Kim- what a great custom planter you have added to your garded. Love what you've done with it and that you change it with the seasons.
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These are great! I have a whole stash downstairs that are new that I had planned to do altered art on, but just haven't gotten around to that particular project. I may have to do so now that I see how great yours look.
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What a great idea! I always dislike the boxes tissues come in and this would sure cure that problem. I could make my own custom designed one to go with my look.
Did you use plastic tissue boxes? Modge Podge? Any technique hints you can share would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
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Sounds like it would be such a fun place to visit. So nice of you to share it with the group.
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Sue-
This is a fabulous project! Oh, to be more organized. That would be awesome. : ) This is really a creative use of someone elses castoffs and turning it into such a personal and handy project for yourself. Awesome!
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What a great idea Janis! Sometimes the best ones are the simple ones, and this is a great project for new comers to the junking world. One that would easily see success and fabulous results such as yours. You never cease to amaze me my friend!
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Fun! I am looking for shower ideas as well, so it was great to see yours as well as chiccottagejunks previous pink server post. Thanks guys!
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Now, I really love what you've done on this project. The vitnage earring is icing on the cake. I just love vintage jewelry touches and the idea to paint a bad silver plate piece is very cool. I hadn't thought of doing this, but it is a great way to use and showcase a fine piece of silver.
My bf and I are putting on a shower for her daughter, and I will for sure have to show her this post for serving piece ideas. Thanks for the inspiration.
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Welcome to you as a new poster. Yeah! It's not so bad now is it. You've done a great job here with posting this romantic pink tulle tree, sharing the directions and photographing the details.
It's always great to get good ideas ahead of time for the next Christmas, so I think anytime is a good time for a project post. Thanks for sharing it with your Junk Market family members. : )
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Very creative use of a skirt you no longer use. I notice it is nice and long with the extra length of material you'd garner from a skirt, so that you could pack in a bunch of groceries too.
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Junkermidge I just love your shutter organization project. It is way cool!
Organization is something I try to continuously do and still need more help with it. A fine project this would be to anyone's home.
Great project you shared here.
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This should be great fun! My mind is a buzz. Let's see now if I can sleep tonight! Ha!
Will be watching for my music roll. Wasn't this a great find you came across Sue! A true deal, enough to go around, a cool wooden box to boot. Sweet!
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Ann- this was one of the first things I did when I started making jewelry. : ) It brings back fond memeories. Kind of tricky getting the lengths correct and being sure the wires all got crimped in together. Making it with Grandma's jewelry is so very fun. I started my jewelry business 12 years ago with Grandmas jewelry and now I'm going back to that styling again. Great job!
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What a gift of time and love. I bet hubby loved it!

Great idea for washboards. How cute would this be in a laundry room as window treatment. Thanks for sharing!
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Hey Ann - these shelves are great. What a great gift you got. I just love moldings such as these and you're idea as turning them into display shelves is great!
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I love to do altered art, and this would be an awesome project to tackle. Thanks for the inspiration. We just got back from the ocean in December, and with it being -20 here in MN, it would be nice to have a little something to remind me of the hope of warmer days ahead.
Your projects are great. Welcome to JMS site.
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Hey Kim- this bathroom is great! Love the contrast of the white with the brown. I will be redoing my upstairs bathroom in the next month and have been vascilating back and forth with going neutral or the milk chocolate brown I used as an accent wall in our livingroom. After seeing your bathroom photos I think the brown is the way to go. Thanks for the inspiration.
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PJ this is a great bench. The colors are great, the birdhouses really add, and the style is wonderful. This is a great project you created.
Thanks for sharing!
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Janis, Janis, Janis - Another wonderful project from my dear friend Janis. This is fabulous and I really love what you've done. I love these pieces I see in the stores, but since I don't need them, nor do I have room to display them I pass them by. However, I do have silver leafing in the basement and a lovely plain compote just waiting for some leafing such as this. Thank you for sharing your treasures and this great project.
Congrats on your contributorship as you are much deserving!
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I'm looking for ideas to use bed springs. Thanks for sharing yours.
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Check out my button pendant posting to contact me regarding the findings off site for more info. Not sure how else to communicate with you.
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Thanks everyone for all of the nice feedback, which you have all been so kind to post. It is so helpful as a designer to know honestly what others reactions are to your designs, so that you know if you should pursue more time in a collection, or move on to the next design collection.
Kari and anyone else intersted in purchasing these, I just created a blog this week and have that posted now in this post, so you can get a hold of me, see more details on these pendants, or just follow along on my artistic journed. I plan to share many new designs in the future as well as hope to do some teaching tutorials in the future.
Thanks again for being my Junk family!
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Incredible Sue! Truly 3 fabulous projects. You are one clever girl.
Was I with you when you got these holders? Just curious. If so, then I know where I can find them for myself. : )
You rock!
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DITTO to everything everyone already said. Love it! My favorite project of yours as well Georgia. I think this turned out incredible. I love Paris stuff, so this is wayyyyy cool!
What insight and creativity you have girl!
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Lois - welcome to the Junk Market site. Its great to have your talent on board. I just love your table and chairs, and I'm sure the lucky ones that now own it do too. You did an outstanding job of painting it. Would of loved this when my daughter was young. Her table was little like this, but not pretty by any means like this one.
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Hi Kim- another great project. I've finally got all of the door knobs collected, as I too wanted mine to be eclectic and mis-matched. I have yet to find the vintage piece of wood that I want to use for mine though.
Can you share any types as to how you attached these door knobs? I'm sure you've got it all figured out with this great project you did.
I can't believe I didn't recognize your photo earlier. Hey other members, this talented girl, Kim was one of my best friends in my 20's and now she's a talented Junk Market Member. Yeah!!!!
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Welcome to the site Judy. You definitely have a God given talent that I'm sure you've spent hours tweaking. This Santa rocks!
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Love the lavender sachets, but they are so pretty they look like they should be out of the drawer and into a purse, maybe an eye glass holder for readers or something. Very cool!
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By the way, your room is very beautiful! The blue is strinking with the ivory and brown accents. Great job!
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Marybeth- I just love what you've done with these doors. I would of passed these babies by, but no more. I think the square ones give such a great look than the typical rectangular shape doors usually are. You have created a very beautiful pc. of art for next to nothing. Awesome idea!
Thanks for sharing this fabulous project.
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Marty this is absolutely wonderful and so creative to take the door off the cabinet and repurpose it for a memo board. It is authentic, useful and looks fabulous too. Thanks for sharing your projects. I'm sorry about your husband being ill, but I am thankful that you have your junk to help you destress.
There is a member of this site that was doing a study on the positive health rewards of junking, and once again in your case this is true for you.
Take care-
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Oh do I feel silly! I just clicked on your photo to see more of your designs and when you joined the site and commented on your chair thinking it was an old post I had missed. Silly me!
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I somehow missed this post when it came out, so will comment now. What a great way to repurpose your chair. It is very useful and creative. Thanks for sharing.
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I've seen these gutter wire caps repurposed in books before, but haven't ever seen them for sale. How fun they are! I love rusty things.
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Wacky, but great idea you came up with and obviously useful as well. Very clever.
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Mary Frances - Beautfiul job with the cards and what a great gift it becomes. Very creative and clever. I will plan to go onto your site and look things over closer when I have more time. I'd love to see more of the details you've mentioned and this photo doesn't quite showcase that, so I'll check out your link. Thanks!
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You ladies have created 2 wonderful people from cast offs. Incredible!
Geo, I just love your ladies hat, her legs, the padlock body and of course the stand you created for her is over the top perfect. Love this!
Jenny, I think it is very cool how you pulled together the crown nut crown for the head, and the crown looking bottoms of his feet to pull this into the King category.
I'd love to see what a Queen might turn out? I love crowns.
Thanks for sharing with us, I can almost imagine the laughter filling that lab was enough to keep the mice away this time. : )
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Welcome to the site JunkPainter!
I too love the cigar boxes that are out there. I only have a couple, but am currently using them for storage for jewelry design.
I love to do altered art and plan to one day make use of them like you have done, but for now I need them for storage.
Thanks for the inspiration though. What you've done is a great tribute to the Dad in the photo.
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What a great way to make words. Really good directions too. Your shop looks great from its website, and it is so nice that you've shared some of your great projects here on JMS. Love looks great with the wood you've chosen to display it on too.
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Kathy -
Really truly appreciate the details you've shown on this redo of the porch.
My question is this, does Ellen have all of these great shabby finds, or do you provide those in your redos? They are incredible.
Is she the same friend that got the wonderful bedroom makeover you previously showcased?
Love your redesigns. You should be in the business of doing this for a living.
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Kathy- It's you again!!! That is a good thing! I loved what you did in a past post for another room make over of the bedroom, so was excited to see what this post was all about. You've once again outdid yourselves with this porch
makeover.
Ellen is a fortunate friend, and you girls did a fabulous job with this room redesign. Should be in a magazine photo shoot for sure. Thanks for thinking to repost on this site.
I am a gardener, my bff, Carolyn is a gardener, my other bff, Laura is a gardener, and my good friend, Lani is a gardener. Is that one of the qualifications of a junker? Ha!
Great job Kathy!
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I just think your old worktable is fabulous. What a solid table that your Dad had, and how fun to be able repurpose it for your studio/creative space. Love this. Wow, the lemon oil did wonders for it too.
Welcome to the site and thanks for sharing. You've got a great area in your living space to work at, my studio is down in our basement and not near as fun.
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I love letteres too. How fun are these? And for free, none the less.
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Looks like you've had a fun time putting together your snowy MN dispaly. Thanks for the details for your repurposing of the window, snow shovel as well as the tobaggon. Fun!
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Nice way to reuse a headboard. Love the details on these old pieces they had back then. Nice save.
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Snow man hill - I was a designer for 10 years, and the last year was in 9 retail shops and ended up burnt out trying to keep up with demand when the creations were each one-of-a-kind. I took off 2 years, was reinspired this past Fall, and am just now starting to sell again in 2009. I'm not currently in any shops, but hope to be in the future. You can contact me at gretchen.schaumann@comcast.net for more information. Thanks, Gretchen

Oh my! Am I ever blushing out of embarrassment! Kim, I am so sorry, I didn't recognize you. I totally did, once I clicked on the bigger photo of you, but your hair looks more strawberry blonde on this photo, and I was used to you as a blonde. I cannot believe this!
I also wasn't even expecting that this was you. Duh! Plumbers daughter, husband from St. Cloud, and you even signed your last post Kim. I think the Buffalo deal through me off.
Your stuff you've posted is awesome.
On Sunday I was out for dinner with Lanette (another contributor and dear friend of mine that posts on your post all the time)and Sue Whitney (the owner of this site and also a new dear friend) and I was bragging about your posts and the new girl on the block. Too funny!
We must get together, girlfriend! Miss you-

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What a fun project you've created here with new cedar and a vintage element with the door and door knobs. Very cool! You sure do well with your talents!
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What a great shelf. Very unique and one-of-a-kind looking and the way you merchandised it with candles is great too.
Love the night time photos.
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Traveling spas are such a great idea. Your chamber pot is a cool way to contain the items. Great project to share.
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Welcome to the site. I love the ball jars as well. The little sheep you show are so cute.
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Beautiful way to unite mis-matched furniture with the use of paint. Your three pieces are awesome and you should be so proud of them. I have done as well, but mine are roughed up to go with other pieces I am uniting together.
In my kitchen I painted 6 pieces black to make them work together. Paint is a wonderful and cheap way to spruce tired furniture up into great treasures like you've shown here.
Welcome and keep showing your projects.
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What a great way to display ones jewelry. I sure have a lot of jewelry to find creative ways to display and organize.
Welcome and thanks for sharing.
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Benches like these are so useful. The white is great.
Welcome to the site and have fun with this junking journey. Thanks for sharing!
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Love the simplicity and style of your new table. I have the glass top in my basement, if only I could find one of these. Love them.
Beautiful design as always.
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Candy - I was going with Lani to meet Sue about 30 miles away and needed an easy way to seperate and carry these pendants with me. My dear husband had just fixed me hash browns, eggs w/mushrooms/red peppers/sausage, and toast and had asked me if I wanted the egg carton. Hmmmm! I think he's catching on! I said no, but than grabbed it off the top of the garbage. Ha! Ha! It worked perfect for this and inside printed in red ink it says "Thank you for shopping at ___________________." Sue loved it and she and Lani came up with the idea that I should display the pendants in the egg cart and add "Mimitoria's" to the blank spot inside the cover. I could glue a button over the red Cub Foods logo that is off to the side of the blank area. Too funny!
I've been working on these since September, but it took 2009 to really get me going and able to finish them. They are layered and it takes a while to get the right elements combined. They definitely aren't thrown together, but well thought out and thus time consuming. Many of the buttons are vintage mother of pearl backgrounds which are hard for me to find and I really want to make them proud with what I end up permanently gluing to them.
Thanks ladies for your nice comments. They are one-of-a-kind pieces and are fun to wear.

Hey Kim - how do you know me? From when I sold at Atelier/The Porch? I'm confused! I feel bad that I'm not sure of who you are. I grew up in Upsala, MN which is a jaunt from St. Cloud.
Are you in Minnesota now?
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Sue - I loved this in the publication, but wanted more info., so here we go. Everything and more details to go with it. Thanks!
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Jenny-
Just love this project. Like Sue, it may be my favorite.
So very unique and cool for the new home it is going to.
Welcome to Cottage Rose, and we'll look forward to your posts.
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What an excellent job you did on this project. Way cool and for $0000. Incredible. Welcome to the site!
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You are truly amazing. I don't know how you come up with such clever altered art projects. Excellent once again.
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What a great pc. to start the New Year with. You do such fabulous work Jenny. Truly a gift!
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This project really turned out great. I'm not a big red person, but you've really done the trick with creating a vintage feel to the paint job. Very nice.
The added box that reads "Minars Potting Co. St. Cloud" really adds to the overall great look of this too. Are you in Minnesota or Florida? They both have St. Clouds? I grew up about 35 miles from St. Cloud, MN and it was always our shopping destination.
Your posts are great, so thanks for sharing your techniques & posts.
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This is great Janis. Love the detailing of the date stamp on it. How fun is that! Lovely as always.
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What a fun idea you did here. I too love the black/white graphics of dominos and have a stash of these in my basement that I use for jewelry design and such. Another fun use you've shared.
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Love your feather tree and it sounds like with what you used to decorate it, that was great as well. Thanks for sharing.
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I really liked all 3 of your projects you shared. The pub table is so one-of-a-kind and a perfect way to use a forgotten beautiful antique. The door table with the chipped away paint has incredible patina and it is so fun that you used the vintage sewing machine bases to support it. I also love the garage door spring idea for hanging your chandelier. I will have to be on the look out for one of those now.
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What a fabulous idea! You are definitely special. What a gift of joy you must provide with this bus.
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I love your lamp designs. The great chippy pcs. you used with the clean lines of the galvanized pipes are perfect. Love this!
Your sign idea added to the vintage mirror frame minus the mirror is really cool too.
Love your projects you've shared. Welcome to the site btw, and after checking out your profile, the other projects you've posted have been really good too. Your definitely an asset to the JM site.
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Fun idea, but I gotta tell you something interesting. I was shopping in MN at a bridal shop with a friend, and your little bling 3 strand of aurora borealis crystals were priced at $238.00 at this bride shop. Ha! Ha! And yours is identical hanging from your light fixture. Not that it is worth $238.00, but that is the atronomical price they were trying to charge brides. It is vintage, pretty and cool, but not particualarily uncommon to warrant such a high price.
My friend found one identical down the street at a vintage store for $38.00 and this is more in line with the accurate value. Thought you'd get a kick out of this.

These are really nice and I love the combinations with the metal and cork.
Everyone needs a message board.
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This is a beautiful redesign. The white grate is so special and the shelf you've created is awesome. So glad your sister threw the grate your way, as it is so perfect for hiding the thermostat. Very nice!
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A great "New Years" quote Jenny. However, I'm feeling guilty after viewing this post. On New Years Day, I was in the Junk decluttering mood and threw away a lot of excess pens/pencils. Naughty me!
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Janis - another fabulous project indeed, wether you were the oringal creator or not, just your own touches you add to things always makes it distinctly yours. I too have seen this done elsewhere and loved it, but it is hard to find an empty clock to do it to. Duh!!! I hadn't thought to find one and take it apart. Seems kind of silly now, but a brilliant idea indeed. Love, love, love this.
Thanks again for sharing my friend. Your posts are always fabulous.
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This was a really fun post to read. Thanks for sharing all 3 of your creative ideas as well as the added info. you posted later about how you make the pin cushions. Those extra tidbits of info. are so special on posts, and the sharing on this site is so warm and genuine. Welcome to the site and enjoy being an active part of it. Is so fun, once a person feels comfortable enough to get involved and than become part of a larger family of junkers at JMS.
Back in August there were a couple of posts that earlier memebers posted where they took an item and showed multiple uses for it in their home. That is always very inspiring to me, so it was fun to see your post.
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Looks like a place to definitely remember if and when I get to St. Louis. Awesome stuff in these photos.
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This was such a great idea for your husbands office, with him being a builder and all. Very creative and it is so perfect with the industrial basket pcs. Great job.
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Your studio is beautiful and I love the fact that you have added memorable pcs. from trips, and such to your space. You have a lot of creative ideas in your studio, and that is a great way to get your clients thinking and creating as well.
Thanks for sharing your awesome studio with us.
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I like what you did here. Simple, but statement making. Thanks for sharing.
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Happy New Year to all of the Junk Market Style partners. I feel like this is a family and everyone has been so wonderful with their sharing of projects, positive words and new friendships that have been formed, just since August when the site came online. A big thank you to Sue and Kimberly for all of the hard work they do on a daily basis to make this a site we look forward to when wake up in the morning.
A great tablescape Kari, and a Happy New Year to you as well.
Many blessings to each one of you as we start the New Year. The U.S. is still a great country and will pull out of this downturn a much stronger group of people.
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This is great! Love how you've left the patina on the register grate. Very original and way fun!
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I need to find this soon. With all of the snow that came yesterday, the furtherst I ventured out was to the Post office and Target. Hmmm! Neither of them seemed to be selling it! Will look for it as a New Years gift to myself. Anxiously hoping to find it today or tomorrow.
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Thanks so much for taking the time to post more detailed instructions. I really do appreciate it and hope to do something similiar. I have a cute little smoke stand that is a square shaped box that is freshly painted brown, but is in dire need of some spoofing up, so may give this a whirl. Again thanks for your sharing. You are truly talented and I like Sue are glad to see you post some more fabulous projects.
Happy New Year!
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This is stunning! Would you mind sharing a little more on your technique with using the posters to create such master pieces? I'd love to give it a try sometime. I just bought a bunch of Cavallini posters and they would be perfect for a project like this.
I went back to look at your projects you've posted, and remember when you posted the 1st groupings. You are a very talented artist.
Thanks again for sharing your designs you've made. They are so unique and one-of-a-kind.
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Wow! This turned out incredibly good. What a very creative way to create such a statement piece of furniture by using the posters. This is way cool!
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This would make a great little cabinet for extra towels and such in a bathroom, like at my cabin. : )
Kudos to using all salvaged items.
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You've got a lot of very creative ideas for doors. Very cool. Thanks for sharing them.
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Jenny- I just love the faucet handles with the wooden spool idea. Very clever!
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A quick project can be fun once in a while. Everyone needs a little instant gratification every now and then. This quickie project is just as great as your more labor intensive ones you've shown, so even though it was quick you still have come through with great style once again. Very innovative uses of pieces to create a one-of-a-kind lamp. I love the original pieces one can create when a person uses found pieces and can't be bought new.
Thanks again for sharing!
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Welcome to the site! I just love vintage buttons too and use them in my designs. Mostly use them in jewelry design, but also in other projects as well. There is a group of ladies on this site that have also made these button bouquets and you might find it fun to look back and see their creations as well.
Looking forward to seeing more of your projects.
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Congrats on your appearance in the Somerset magazines. I am a follow of those. These are very unique. Way to use up something to create a gallery worthy artistic piece that others would of just thrown in the trash.
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Welcome to the site!
Your decor is quite unique and you've found some great as well as fun ways to display your tools. Very fun!
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I really love the way you make one-of-a-kind unique pieces out of found treasures to decorate your familys home. Each piece you create is distressed to look so original and the final outcome is always awesome.
Another great job! Also, it is fun to see your mock concept drawn up and colored for each of your visions. Thanks for sharing your projects. You are a great addition to the site, and all of us await your next project. They are always good.
Happy Holidays!
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Junkermidge I just love the way you executed this project. It is wonderful for a young boys room or even an avid tom boy softball player for a daughter too. Very clever thinking with the way you inserted the bats and left them so that they could spin with the nail. Smart!
Love this-
Thanks for sharing-
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Very cool projects. I love these pcs. made from the vintage 6 panel doors.
Thanks for sharing!
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Congratulations Janis. I loved your collar you made for Doby and it garnered my vote. I've worked with silverware and have made jewelry with it before, and because it is quite difficult to work with, I knew just how much time and effort you had put into making this collar for Doby. It is very original and so very cool. Doby rocks!
Congrats my friend!
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You both are sweet girls! You - Janis and you - Carolyn. I'm happy to call you my friends!
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Sherry- the star ornament is vintage. I don't even know how old it is, but very old. My bff bought it at an Occasional sale and gave it to me as part of my Christmas gift from her.
I've never seen one before like it, so not sure where you'd ever come across one, but one can try.
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Very creative angel design. Welcome to the site, and do please post when your next sale is. I'd like my friend, and I to try to make it there.
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tmailyn - thanks for the nice comment. Email me at Gretchen.Schaumann@comcast.net and tell me what you're looking for. I can see if I can design something to your liking with the birds nest. It is I believe a base metal composite, so would be great with a mixed media sort of feel to it. Let me know if you're interested, and I could send photos, etc. and see if it is truly something you would end up wanting.
I was on a family vacation, so sorry it took a bit to reply.
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Love the rusted muffin tin with the buttons. Very unique use and very creative use of castoffs turned to art.
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Both of these lamps are great Midge. I'd use either in my homes. They'd be an awesome addition to anybodys home. Thanks for sharing all of your great lamp/light projects. They've all been so creative and fun to see.
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This mosaic project turned out awesome. I've done quite a few mosaics and have an appreciation for what you've created here. Your friend is fortunate! My bil would love this, as he's a Harley fan.
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The jelly cupboard looks so original. No one would believe it was newly crafted. The wagon is great on top, but the Santa addition just really adds to the overall design look.
Another great job.
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A wonderful and blessed Christmas back to you Kari and all of the rest of the Junk Market members. It has been so much fun being a part of this great site and getting to know new people that share the love of Junk like I do.
I too love these vintage picks and remember the day I scored a shoe box full of them at a garage sale about 15 years ago for about .50. Not sure that would happen anymore. They're awesome in this display.
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What a great post! "Simply Beautiful" sums it up. Need I say more.
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Hi and welcome to the site. You've done some great things thus far, and I can tell you will have much success with your new venture. You will probably have a unique market for it in Hawaii. What a great place to be living.
Thought you might be interested in checking out this site I stumbled across and really enjoy. This gal moved from England to Australia with a few suitcases and a full fledged family. Her goal was to furnish a beach cottage with second hand finds that she recreated. That is what her blog is about. However, she is in the process of turning this into a business. It is a beautiful blog, and thought of you when I read your post. I think you'll find it inspiring. If you have the time, start at the beginning and read to present. It is amazing!
http://abeachcottage.typepad.com/my_weblog/
We are so lucky to have great sites like Junk Market style to inspire us and it has been a great site to make friends through. I hope you continue to post future awesome projects that you create. You're very talented.
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Janis-
I'm back! So glad to be able to see this awesome post of yours. It is incredible what you've created for your loved ones, and soooo very creative. You are gifted girl! Love the boxes covered in glitter. You'll have to pm me via email all of the details. Please!
Have a blessed Christmas Eve and Christmas Day with your family in Canada. It warmed up just in time for our arrival back to Minnesota. We will have a White, beautiful Christmas with tolerable temps. Yeah!
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Oh, how fun would it be to be related to you at the Holidays! This is an incredibly well put together bird house and so inventive. Love the use of the turn buckles for the hanging mechanisms, the diamond plate roof you've created, as well as the copper wire additions you used to create uniqueness in your work. Very well done!
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What a great redesign of cast offs. Very creative! Love the addition of the pennies to this pcs. Very cool! Love the rusty pop lids with the scrabble letters spelling out your message. Such great altered art this is. The color really catches ones eye as well.
I wonder who bought this pc. of art? Any idea!
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Welcome to the site!
This is a great project and such a great price point to. Next to nothing, with just the modge podge and paint costs. What a great way to recycle cast offs into a piece of art.
Just love the chippy/flaking paint on this window frame. I could also invision it with white on white with white flower photos, so this project could just easily be translated into a lot of great different styles to ones liking. An awesome project.
Thanks for sharing!
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Looks like fun!

What a great animal to add to the collar contest. I'm so glad you thought to do this. It's a great addition.
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Love the Frenchy chair you redid. I have been adding aqua to our home and love the look you did with this. The medicine cabinet is awesome as well. Now with 3 little boys I can definitely see where the 3 bulletin boards and shutters are a great addition to keeping oneself organized. Just with school alone, it is massive the amount of papers a Mom has to deal with on a weekly basis. What a great idea for other Moms with busy families to keep on top of things.
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What a fun way to involve the whole family. Searching for "S's". With a name like Schaumann, I too look for S's and the first one I found was a large silver S which I put up in our cabin inside an empty silver frame in our bathroom. My sister-in-law took it for something else other than our last name Schaumann, as it was in the bathroom. Go figure!
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Hey Kelly-
Welcome to the site! Isn't it great fun? Glad you decided to check it out. My bf, Carolyn, alerted me to your project via email, as I've been out of this cold blizzardy state basking in the Florida sun, so have been out of the link.
It amazes me all that you do with 3 young boys like you have. You go girl! It's so fun to be creative and make the tablescapes for the Holidays. Your boys will remember this for years to come and playing with the Nativity is very cool.
So often they are of the "no touch" variety, and this is a great way to introduce the real meaning of Christmas to small children.
Happy Holidays to you and your family. Greetings to your folks as well.
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You are just too smart my friend! What an awesome display.
The girls are having ice cream in a shop that has internet, so just had to check out the site. We're at St. Johns Pass tonight for our anniversary dinner, in Madiera Beach, Florida. Way warmer than MN. : )
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I wasn't sure how they'd do, as I had the lid on them overnight the night before I gave them to you and probably shouldn't of. Your on top of things, Lani. Sorry for even questioning you.

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Janis - I love this! Does anyone else have a clue how hard it is to work with silver pieces? I do, and I'm proud of you to go through so much work to create such a masterpiece.
I don't know how the winner will be chosen, as there are so many great entries with this project. We must love our pets!

Have a great Holiday, I'm flying out of this freezer early, early tomorrow a.m. I'll try to send the sunshine and warmth north with us when we head back home. : )

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What a great photo with the fireplace lit in the background. Your little theme tree is perfect. I love the silver piece you've chosen to display it in and all of the little colorful gift packages under the tree is cute in the tray to.
If you want to do a theme for next year, after Christmas sale shopping is the perfect time to start finding those discounted great buys. I buy Christmas all year long whenever I find great things, whether it be at a garage sale, thrift store, new, or whatever.
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I just love how you add these great quotes into your artwork which really gives each piece such a fine touch. This would be an excellent way for someone to remember a loved one.
My Grandpa, a Sweded from the old country, was a Master Carpenter (used this kind of ruler) and always carried a pocket watch (real gold one). This brings floods of memories of that dear man.
Thanks again for sharing your great art.
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Thanks guys. I like how subtle and vintagey these skates turned out.
Ann- the ornament is vintage that she bought from an Occassional Sale. I was there a few minutes after her, but she'd already bought this and brought it out to the car. I would of bought it myself had I seen it first. It is a perfect match for me. I just love the pearly look the silver has tarnished to and the star is gorgeous.
Melhow- a bright color like lime green or red would look great laced up with your black skates. I bought the ribbon on sale of 2.49 off the Martha Stewart line sold at Michaels, but any ribbon adds style.
If you want to see more ideas do a search for "Seasonal" and a number of skates will show up for more creative ideas to embelish your skates.
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E6000 can be purchased at a Michaels, Hobby Lobby or JoAnn's with coupons at 40% off that they have each week. I use it all the time and it is a great product. I also like Gorilla super glue, but you would have to hold it for at least a minute. I've just starting using that glue since being a part of this website and actually like it as well or better than the E6000.
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Very creative doll too.

Wow, this looks like it was really time consuming and obviously a lot of creativity went into.
I'm sure your friend will love her.
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I swear I posted on this project, but it doesn't show up, so will again.
Love this idea Candy. Very creative! Cute kids, cute names, what a great card you have this year.
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How cute is this Carolyn! I'll be up to visit the week after Christmas, so save some goodies for me.
Very cool display.
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I'm in.

Don't tell me Sue, that I am the only one that followed directions in this project posting? My poor Coco is showing up all alone in this post.
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How fun and creative is this Georgia.
Bahumbug is what Ollie seems to be conveying in photo #3.
This contest is too fun!
And I'm suppose to be packing, not doing this. Ha!
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Take the covers off Lani. Fill up with water to the bottom of the paperwhites, and they should get going to bloom for you. I think they'll last quite a while.
I knew the embellishments had to be rusty for you. : ) Love your rust and industrial you have in your home.
Glad you liked this project. Enjoyed your party. You are a great hostess with the mostess.
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Awesome Elizabeth and Sue. You two are a great team. How fun is this! It inspires me to do something like this for Emily's friends. How about a gift card for Caribou and other goodies inside for her friends, so next time they go to a movie they can walk over to Caribou after for a treat?
You've just created more work for me before I go on vacation, Sue. lol My brain is spinning!

Lisa this is a great collar with the vintage buttons. Love what you've done.
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Not being partial Lani, but honestly, I just love this collar. You'd get my vote in a heartbeat. However, there are some other great ideas as well out there.
I'm a lover of all of your materials, so love what you've done. Indy is a stitch in photos as well as in person. He is a one-of-a-kind junk yard cat! lol
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I knew you and Lynette each had one of these, but didn't realize that you sold them at your shop. I totally missed them. This is another fun project to display ones baubles on, and truly being "Green" while using it.
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How fortunate for you to get 3 of these in one day, so that you could create such a fun project for yourself. I love this, but I know my husband wouldn't get it. lol
Lori, it actually looks even better in your home, than what the photo shows it. Very cool.
Welcome to the site and great job with posting a project that other members may not have thought of doing themselves.
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Welcome to the site tuxdog. You've made your Mom a beautiful bench and with all found objects. Incredible piece you've created. I'm sure she'll love it and shed tears of joy. It was a labor of love, I am sure of that.
Thanks for sharing.
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I love what you did with the memory scrabble board and the photos. I had a Grandma that always played scrabble with us grandkids and this would be a cool way to "remember her".
Great idea.
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I truly believe that great displays and stuff outside of shops can lure people in that would typically be "drive bys". Looks like you're accomplishing your goals. Way to go. Isn't this a great site for inspiration!!!
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Junk Architect this is another great project. I agree with what Kari said in the 1st post. I totally had a visual before I even looked at the photos of well worned pcs. which turned out to be accurate. Much talent you have.
As for this site I couldn't agree with you more with your statement.

"I’m truly amazed at how much talent there is on this site. I’ve never seen so many creative people in one place. Every post is an inspirational project that I’m able to take something away from. Each time I open the site it’s like going to an “Art Opening”…even better!"

I hope Sue and Kimberly see this post and realize that this is such a wonderful site they've created and have brought in a great group of truly unselfish and artistic talented people that are spread throughout the U.S. and CANADA, but are brought together with the common thread of loving junk/recycling, etc. It is truly awesome!

Thanks for sharing your talent with all of us. You've amazed many of us with the pcs. you've shared thus far, and we look forward to seeing more great things from you in the future.
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Very fun collar you created for your little friend. Quite festive I'd say. Good luck!
Welcome to the site and have a great Holiday season.
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Beautiful Cat!

Great eye Carolyn. You are a converted junker at heart and at eyeball range now. I bet you would of never noticed this last year at this time? It is amazing if you really look at things in life with different eyes, just how much we can go through life not really noticing things. I would say you are noticing things girl.
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My, My aren't you funny lately Carolyn. I guess I should of logged on hours ago, so I would of started the day with a laugh. : ) You are becoming quite the camera junky. I am proud of you! Two great shots in one week. Can't wait to see the rest in person.
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Ha! Ha! You forgot to tell me about this one, Carolyn.
When we leave for Florida on Thursday, I sure hope the North Pole weather stays back here in Minnesota while we're gone and doesn't chase us down to Florida. I need some sun to warm my bones, so I can get through the next 3 mos.
Why do we live here???? Brrrrr@!
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This is so cool! How you brought all of the great mementos of your Dad and figured out a way to put them together and make this tree representative of a small part of the joy he had of in his life and just how full he lived his life is really special. The fact that it is at the front of your house and at the front door to greet all of your family and the loved ones of your Dad's is cool too. It has a prominent place of honor.
Very cool with the license plate on the painted galvanized pail too. It really shows up well.
Well done my friend!
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Hey Sue-
I did this project and loved it. I made a large and small size of these for Lani as a Hostess gift. We were at her house for a Holiday party last night. I didn't get photos taken of them though, but had to do more of rusty elegance look to go with Lani's house. I added a rusty number on one area that I etched with a square and added ribbon with black wire and a vintage rusty key. On the smaller one it had the etching with the copper wording "Believe" on it, as well as ribbon, mother of pearl button and copper heart detail around the jar top.
I used a mix of polished small rocks that go with the look/colors of her house, the green moss and paperwhite in each.
I didn't think to take a photo and am leaving for Florida on Wednesday. Maybe, Lani could post the photos if she sees this or has the time next week.
Love this project. btw our Michaels' is really low on the small bottles of this etching, and I'm sure your post is the reason. It is great!
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Hey junkermidge, it doesn't have to be a holiday project, it is just that most of us have that thought going and are franitcally trying to get it all done. Lucky you have time to dream up other cool non-related Holiday projects. : )
This is a great idea for in a game room or family room that especially has teenagers hanging out in.
Thanks for sharing!
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Amy-
I really like what you've done here. Great post.
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Janis this is beautiful!!! Love the added glitter and little pearls. I haven't gotten to add any bling to my trees yet, and probably will do it after the Holidays and plan to use them and sell some next year.
Did you use spray glue for the glitter? What works best also to glue on the pearls or mini balls on these trees.
They are awesome and so very cool Janis.
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This is hilarious! Great job!

Candy- you scored with that pulley girl. Your use with it and the wreath is unique and has fabulous results. Love it!
Very clever with the metal shoe stretcher as a wreath hanger. Who would of "thunk it"?
Looks like you got the snow fall between wreath 1 and wreath 2 photo shoots. : )
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Incredible! That sume it up.
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I love the idea of this window you've made. It would look great with my vintage redesign stockings I made out of velvets, etc. I'm sure your family will love it! I'll have to make one like this for another year.
Another great idea!
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This is a great idea. Look again, it looks like it is the bottom of a table (4 legs and the part that attached to the table top. Probably the holes were drilled in the bottom of each leg and wahlaa, you've got a unique candelier. I'm sure of it!
How cool is this! Thanks for sharing- btw the greens look great with this.
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Your jewelry display is a super find and looks so good in your pow