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Thanks for sharing your fall displays! My favorites are the lawn mower and the tractor seat.

Thanks for taking me on a little roadtrip. It would be a great place to visit!

Loved how you spruced up your porch. I'm ready with the cool weather to decorate with greenery now. It seem too soon to find spruce tops where did you find yours?

Awesome porch made from priceless junk!

You are a big tease, love the little tour, Can't wait for more pictures.

Like your fun junky pumpkins!

Ive been here, this is an awesome place??

Simple and industrial what a great combination!

Great vintage shower for someone special.

Great organizational storage ideas.

YOu've been busy, great potting table.

Love how you used the old door.

Windows are so much fun! You made some great projects.

Great frame for your quilts squares. I quilt so always enjoy quilts projects.

This is adorable, sometimes we have to have pain to get a masterpiece.

Great refurnished project, buttons are so unique.

Love your fall arrangement!

Great frame for the flash cards.

Simple but great Halloween decor!

An awesome necklace, love all the neutral tones of the buttons.
Ann

So vintage yet so beautiful and elegant! Love it.

LOVE all you simple projects.

Love the frame.

I like the combination of old bottles and potato masher. Simple but made a great look!

Never would of thunk of this. Wow, I love it!

Awesome, you come up with great projects!!

I love this, great aged paint job. Perfect for all your sewing supplies.
Ann

Simple but elegant. Your so creative!
Ann

Great junk recreation Jim!

Beautiful jewelry, it is so much fun and addictive!

Great simple Monday project!

Great window project!

Tell us please where the sale is??

catstuft,
If you are interested in a certain piece contact me at my e-mail phelpstr@netins.net
Thanks, Ann

This is a great community! We all inspire each other! I'm glad I'm a member.

Your such a creative person Gretchen. Beautiful designs. See you a Junk Bonanza.

Neat way to display jewelry.

Very unique bird cage, love how you transformed it into a beautiful chandelier.

It is so funny how a collection starts. I have always admired the clocks but haven't started to collect. You have a great start.

My husband drives truck, but I haven't got him convinced to let me have his old license plates. Love this plate art!

This is a great tribute!

Love all the vintage pieces you used for your picnic, wish I could of been there.

A very awesome piece! love the industrial look.

This is great! My husband has several snowmobile trophy's, do you think I use tham??

I love the headboard you made out of doors.

Family treasures are the best.

Looks like a great room to relax in. Love the clever fence valance.

You did win the junkers lottery. Lots of great finds, love the grates and doors.

I think you won the jewelry lottery!

Love this star! Great project make some more.

This is a great display. Can just about taste the chocolate.
I have been trying to find my dad's old projector, I have a display in my mind.

Great doors, I have some doors waiting for the right project.

This is so creative, great outside junk redo.

Your picture display is great, I like to decorate with nature and suitcases too.

Love the unexpected, great clothe!

Great display for fall, I have been thinking about it.

Great Monday project. I love simple decorating.

I really like this, good luck selling your house.

Great treasures! It was hot at Oronoco but alot of fun. Glad we run into you.

Can't wait til Friday, my friend and I will be at Orocono.
We are only a couple hours away.
Ann

This is really neat! I'm going to Oronoco on Friday, can't wait!

What took you so long to bring this in your home. This was a great fine!

Great table, the steel with glass is really kind of classy.
Awesome industrial look.

Junk is great when given by someone special.

Great idea to use belts for curtain tabs.
Ann

Great junk, the sewing machine base would look great on a wall.

Cool wagon wheel fence.

Jim, you always make the coolest lamps.
Ann

Beautiful garden, I too have balloon flowers, they are such a brillent shade of blue. Thanks for sharing.
Ann

Neat pictures, really like the 3rd one. The tree is cool.

Great use of leftovers!

This is just great. Very creative!

Great tote!

Great use of an old door!

I love this! Great transformation.
Ann

Love the wheelbarrow planter.
Ann

Love your junk projects- great art!

Looks like a great place to find great junk!
Ann

Love your displays. The claw foot is awesome. I have some stacked suit cases, and just bought another cool one at an auction right across my street for $1.oo. And yes only junkers understand how we decorate. My family just shakes their head, then knows that how it going to be.
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These are awesome!
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I wish I could hop in the picture! The French Flea is on my to do list soon!! I wish you all my best on your new venture.
Ann

I like your blending of buttons and tpyewriter keys.
Ann

I like what you did with these broken pots, its fun to see expressions of peoples faces when we buy junk.
Ann

Great pictures, I really think the fence with the tools is neat!
Ann

Great junk. You have amazing imagination!
Ann

Great picture frame, I always like to put unique ways to display pictures!
Ann

I love these pictures frames, very unique! Ann

Beautiful designs Gretchen! I have been working on some button pendents, I'll have to post soon.
Ann

Great idea, I like all your unique scissors.
Ann

I like this alot, very clever!
Ann

This is awesome!! Love your style. Thanks for sharing the room you put your table in.
Ann

As always, beautiful jewelry. I have been working on some button pendents. It's so much fun sorting through the buttons.
Ann

That's the most excitement I've had all week. I going to go set my VCR right now.
Have a great time!

Your purses are awesome, and a bonus a removeable pin.
Ann

This is beautiful, I quilt so I know all the time you put into this quilt and what a treasure it is!!
Ann

Welcome, great first post. Awesome way to use the calendar pictures.
Ann

Your so creative. I have a all bucket in my bathroom for my magazines.
Ann

I love this clever calendar! Great gift.
Ann

A great treasure you rescued from your parents farm!
Ann

What a great idea for the bathroom, I use this same idea outside in the spring. I plant flowers in my buckets, I do have to water the plants often.
Ann

Love this, its unexpected and useful.
Ann

A great unique arrangment, its nice to add the spring touches now.
Ann

Wow, this is just awesome!! This is the best lamp, kind of industrial and red so I love it.
Ann

I like the extra large projects that make a big statement. This is great!
Ann

This is a neat project, plus your organized now.

This is great,is your bed a king size?
Love how you made different heights of the doors to make your headboard. The best door headboard I've seen, I have no headboard right now, so will have to keep this style in mind.
Thanks for sharing.
Ann

Presto this is so great. So simple, but neat.
Ann

I like to put pictures in unique frames, your so creative!
Ann

I love your garden junk, beautiful garden too. Wish it looked like that outside today.
Ann

Impressive Jim, I love how you combine the vintage and new. You have a big heart, along with special memories that you use to create. Thanks.
Ann

I really like fountains, yours is a great idea. We're always happy to think spring will be here soon.
Ann

A wonderful accident made a great project. Love the wine caddie.
Ann

Beautiful Gretchen, I love the on with the tassel. I'm glad you got the one back with your Grandma's beads, that's makes it an extra special piece.

This is amazing. How did you ever think to do this. Great work. Ann

I have a similar piece in my bathroom, it is backed with a piece old tin roof, and my door pull is a old bent up spoon. I'll try to post sometime soon.
Ann

This is a great jewelry orgnaizer! Unique and vintage!
Ann

I like your style, you come up with some very unique and creative ideas.
Ann

This is a neat idea, I liked how you used the drawers.
Ann

I love architectual pieces especially the natural brown tones.
Ann

what a creative project, and useful too.
Ann

Great job on the island. It gives me some ideas to help make my cutting table bigger. Thanks
Ann

This is really special.
Ann

This is a lovely piece to find!
Ann

Are they backs to chairs? They look like fun architectural pieces to display.
Ann

Chairs are alot of fun, this one looks unique.
Ann

A great find!
Ann

This is a beauty!! Simple but impressive!!
Ann

A very clever idea. Way to make something great out of something old.
Ann

Great shelf, and the quilt is special gift. I've not made the picture type quilt yet.
Ann

Your necklace turned out beautiful, and thanks for the compliment. I look at that we both have good taste. Enjoy wearing your necklace.
Ann

Great idea, and pracitical. Ann

I'm about ready to cry, you made my day. As I was reading this post I had no idea this box was for me!! Can't wait for the mail!!! I'm just like a kid waiting for Christmas right now. Very beautiful. Thanks
Ann

You're an ARTIST!! Great job!
Ann

Such a creative idea! You can really personalize this project.
Ann

The ideas could be endless what you could cover your tissue box. It's a great way to reuse and end of with a great display. I'll have to remember this one.
Ann

So, nice to see a glimpse of summer, when it's snowing and blowing outside here in Iowa. Your planter looks great!
Ann

Really impressive! I would love a wood floor. It's a great feeling when you get a project like that done. Also love the added stars!
Ann

Its' great to get organized, plus I like the vintage style.

Great idea! I hve some of these items waiting for the creative moment.
Ann

I love unique jewelry- yours included!
Ann

I like the shutters for holding the DVD's, I have been trying to think of something unique to hold our Wii games.
Now I just need some shutters. I have doing lots of organizing too.
Ann

I would love to beable to paint. Nice gift!!
Ann

Wow,love this idea! Ann

I really think this is a great chair, would like to try this sometime.

Great idea, I would have use one of my pepsi crates. Trying to think of something I have to use for the legs. JunkArchitect I like your creative style of your projects.

This is neat! Looks like you covered the seat with an old quilt, which I love.
Ann

Sometimes we just need someone to open out brain up, great idea to scan old cards. I'll have to remember that now.
Love the cards!!

Very clever! I like enamelware. Makes me want to bring my back out in the bathroom. Sometimes I put things away for awhile, than it new again when I put it sometwhere else.

This is really neat, my husband is always picking up pens and we have a drawer full, so looks like a project soon...
ann

great project, like ideas to organize sewing areas. Thanks
Ann

This is very creative, love the rustic look of the lamp.
Keep sharing your great projects.
Ann

Just the best, so creative! It's so great to reuse an object and make it into something unexpected!!
Ann

Your Christmas window box is great! The metal piece was a great find, unique!
Ann

My computer was down, so I now checking back on past blogs, can't wait for the magazine, do you need help with the option of the magazine coming out more often, I would love a fun job!!
Ann

Love your decorating vintage mix, the tin cans are so simple, but make it all come together.
Ann

It's amazing what we can use to create!
Ann

I like your fun lamps.
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This is great, love your unique style.
Ann

It's so fun to put together a simple project with a unique twist. Plus a great find with the well used tool box!!
Ann

I like your skates, I have to go look to see if I still have mind. Really like the star ornament, is it old or did gardenjunky make it? My whole tree has star ornaments on it.
Happy Holidays Ann

Just my style, love it. Happy Holidays Ann

Oh what a treasure star coasters!! A truly simple but great idea!
Ann

A very impressive display. Liked how you used all the different candle holders.
Ann

Silver must be the color for chrismas this year, I haved seen it alot. I really like your christmas tree stand. I think your cat was ready to jump.
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It's so amazing what creative minds are on the site, wonderful idea!! Ann

Simple is the best and quite unique. Love the wall art.
Ann

This makes a fabulous statement. Your Mom has great taste!
Ann

Love the idea, I'll have to check out your secret weapon!!

Very creative! Super idea, wish I didn't get rid of all my weird belts.

I like your way to display a family picture, need to fine a typewriter deal like that! I want to paint my bedroom a mustard color, but have not been brave enought yet. Since it snowed today, I'm ready to decorate for winter, put away the fall stuff. Ann

Nice display, I'm kind of getting excited to decorate for Christmas. Ann

Love the idea with the vintage tree topper.
Ann

Very creative, it's always fun to do something unexpected that really adds to the display.
Ann

Love the simple decoration!!
Happy Halloween everyone.
Ann

Its fun to find neat unique places on road trips!! I agree its best to shop with fellow junkers, as the family don't always understand the hunt! Like the idea to use the letters in a picture grouping.
Ann

Great ideas for punch needle and wall hangings. I needed some new ideas, for my punch needle and quilting projects. Thanks. Ann

I love pictures, this is a great unique way to display them. I wondering if Mod Podge would work for the glue. What kind of hot glue did your use, mine would be thick?
Ann

Your hanging light is amazing. You have a very creative mind!!! I love the christmas one. Now my mind is turning, do I have a wheel somewhere?
Ann

sorry missed some letters, ( you have a beautiful back yard )

Love your garden junk. You a a beautiful back yard!
Ann

This is really a neat piece. It will be so handy to grab when you need spices. Great job!
Ann

Love your new screen in porch, the green table really is a big plus. When can you come to my house to add a porch???
Ann

Gretchen I bet you have fun putting all your treasures together on your front porch.

You are so creative! I bet you worked on this quite awhile.
Ann

What weekend in the month is this flea market open?

Clever idea. Now I'l keep my eyes open for a ruler.

This is really neat, would of never guessed it was a paint can. I have a paint can in my garage right now, I'll have to set it out to rust. When is the new book coming out?
Love the ideas on this site.
Ann

Wow, very impressive. My daughter was married outside at an arboretum this summer, it was beautiful, but I was of died if she gave me 4 days notice. Great natural decorations!!
Ann

love the idea, I'll have to show this to my friend that has been looking for something different for her window.

Simple but oh so clever!!

Love your fall pictures, I also look for different colors of pumpkins, as orange does not go with my favorite color burgungy.

I would love to see more of your jewelry you make.