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new life for old jewelry

roadtriplouise, member | January 13th, 20094 comments

Special bracelets I made out of old and broken necklaces from my grandma.

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2008 JUNK CHRISTMAS TREE

BJMossor, member | January 13th, 20092 comments

My tree this year was decorated with junk-Clothes pins tea cups vintage toys spools of thread clocks embrodery hoops jewerly buckles tape measures eye glasses shoe strechers, get the idea?

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"THE UNCOLA Crate" Shadow Box Table

Jim Healy, contributor | January 12th, 200926 comments

Flea market soda crate turned into a Shadow Box Side Table. This was a quick way to display a collection of vintage Match Books I picked up at a garage sale. It was also a way to protect them from my...

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Screen Door Dresser Mirror

JudyJunkster, member | January 11th, 200912 comments

I needed a dresser for my guest bedroom. Found the dresser for $20, gave it a good cleaning and coat of paint...then stumbled upon this great old screen door. I just hung another junk mirror on the...

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Assemblage Fun With Georgia Moon & JennyK

Jenny Kompolt, contributor | January 9th, 200914 comments

Geo and I try to get together every couple weeks for some silly fun assemblage time and tonight was no exception! Please meet Baby Boy & King of Hearts!

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Cigar Box Items

junkpainter, member | January 7th, 20098 comments

Cigar boxes are a great way to get creative and cheap. Enjoy and let's see your ideas!

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Repurpose old jeans into a fun, funky purse!

MissMelis, member | January 6th, 20099 comments

Here’s a fun way to re-use some of your old (favorite) jeans.

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How to of Gretchen's Button Jewelry

Gretchen Schaumann, contributor | January 6th, 200916 comments

I've been working for a while on some button, vintage earrings, vintage elements and such to create jewelry out of. I have been swirling it around in my brain for a long time, and this is the first of the finished products for this line of jewelry.

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Scary salvage

Tuttibelle, member | January 5th, 20098 comments

The side portions of this shelf began life as decorative fronts on a piano. When the piano literally fell apart, I salvaged these two gargoyles. I used left over dowels and scrap lumber with white...

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Small scale architectural salvage

Tuttibelle, member | January 4th, 20094 comments

We have traveled a lot and bought a few houses in the last few years. These are parts to front doors to two houses we have had. This allows me to keep a part of my old house with me in the new one...

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Chamber pot

Tuttibelle, member | January 4th, 20096 comments

Like Sue's traveling spa, this one holds bath goodies. An antique chamber pot gets put to use so it can be seen and enjoyed. Its filled with loofas, small massage balls, sponges and other goodies.

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Angels by the roadside

Tuttibelle, member | January 4th, 20093 comments

Sometimes it pays to take another way home. I saw a table marked "free" in someone's driveway. I stopped. I think these angels might go to live in my new succulent garden.

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GOOD EATS Clock Using Vintage Wood Type

Jenny Kompolt, contributor | January 3rd, 200915 comments

As many of you already know, I have a thing for (and quite a collection of) old wood type and use it in my projects wherever I can. A local restaurant asked me to assemblage them a wall clock and after much puttering around in my lab with nothing striking me, I decided to pull out the type and see what sort of design I might come up with.

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Studio Junk

fauxwoman, member | January 3rd, 200927 comments

I own a faux finishing studio that is in Greensboro's 110-year-old flannel mill, called Revolution Mill Studios. The Mill is a 600,000-plus square foot property that is one gigantic recycling...

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Earring hanger

Tuttibelle, member | January 2nd, 20096 comments

We had to clear a relative's home when she went to assisted living. She had crocheted the cover on this wooden hanger. I couldn't bear to throw it away. It immediately told me it wanted to be a born...

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Horseshoe Cake Pan Message Center

Candy Allen, contributor | January 2nd, 200910 comments

What better way to bring luck into the new year! A horseshoe shaped message center can be a serendipitous reminder of your good fortune for 2009.

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A New Year's Resolution

Jenny Kompolt, contributor | January 1st, 200912 comments

I decided my first assemblage for 2009 needed to set the tone for me for the rest of the year...

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Vintage Ceramic Squirrel Pin Cushion

MissMelis, member | January 1st, 200916 comments

I created a fun little pin cushion using an old ceramic squirrel vase.

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My bull skull...transformed

FunktionalJunk, member | January 1st, 200916 comments

This is an old bull skull I've had hanging in my house for many years...ya'll don't laugh! It's a Texas thing. Anyway a few months ago I hit on an estate sale and bought a whole box full...

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