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Repurposed Roller Skate Truck No. 10: Double-Axle Heavy Hauler

Brian Carlisle, contributor | April 26th, 20135 comments

I've actually been working on this one off and on for several months now.

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Repurposed Chrome Flour Pod Birdhouse

Brian Carlisle, contributor | August 29th, 20124 comments

My wife found this great retro chrome kitchen flour canister while we were out junkin' a few weeks ago.

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Wine box from pallet wood, spindle and tree branch vase

Nebraskamae, member | July 19th, 20122 comments

This is a wine box or trug as I like to call it. Made from reclaimed pallet wood and an old staircase spindle. Painted, distressed and stained. The vase holds a tree branch with...

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Edgemont Tin & Film Storage Box Metal Birdhouse

Brian Carlisle, contributor | June 27th, 20129 comments

I always love getting my hands on vintage metal tins. That's the way this custom piece started. Once I found this vintage silverplate casserole lid for the "roof", I had to find a good base. This...

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Structo Keepsake Box Roller Skate Truck

Brian Carlisle, contributor | December 2nd, 201113 comments

I started this truck with a vintage Structo truck cab I was lucky enough to run across. I built a false floor brace to mount it to the roller skate (old Chicago brand). I matched it up with a heavy...

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Stained Glass Lantern Upcycled Light Fixture Birdhouse

Brian Carlisle, contributor | September 16th, 20115 comments

This is my first birdhouse that incorporates stained glass. I hope to make some more exploring ways to use stained glass in the near future. This one started as a housing box for a...

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Upcycled Roller Skates Robot Keepsake Box Truck

Brian Carlisle, contributor | August 14th, 20112 comments

It was really fun putting this one together. An old cake/candy box tin was used for the back and I added the pull knob on top to be able to use it to store things in it. A copper plate...

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Vinegar Painted Box

Boni, member | July 2nd, 20113 comments

I've always loved painting furniture and love to study the techniques people use to turn junk into treasures. One of the best things I treated myself to was a class on Vinegar Painting with Bill...

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Money Box

TinTinJunkFan, member | June 5th, 20103 comments

Cleaned out a desk drawer and found some foreign currency brought back from my son's world travels...not worth enough to exchange back into US$ so grabbed the modge podge and a wooden tea box...

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Finally Finished Junk Swap Project

Christina_S, member | March 29th, 201015 comments

Well it took 4 days (I've decided that I am not a fan of having to wait on paint to dry!) but I finally finished my junk swap project. I'm happy how it turned out. I think this would...

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Reclaimed box clocks

MeretriciousCreation, member | November 19th, 20097 comments

These lightweight & easy to make clocks are made from heavyweight chipboard boxes that were used by my local school system to transport VHS tapes between the libraries. When they started...

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Box Art

Gretchen Schaumann, contributor | January 17th, 200912 comments

Many of you know I'm a jewelry designer, that took a few years off, regrouped and am now back doing this creative work again. So after posting a photo of my new collection of pendants one of the Junk Market members actually purchased my first piece of this new venture. I decided to make her a special little box to ship the pendant in. Here's what I came up with.

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