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Kitchen Redo

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I'm still in the process of redoing my kitchen...I couldn't afford to gut the cabinets, so I decided to paint and add wallpaper to the doors. Yes, this is wallpaper that is textured and made to look...

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Vintage Sewing Pedal Goes Contemporary

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Who can resist polka dots? Not me! With its timeless abundance of circles, this sewing machine pedal will never go out of style.

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Stove Grate Clock

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This is about as lazy as one can possibly get.  I've had this stove/chimney grate floating around my house forever, wasn't sure what to do with it next.  Decided to see if it would fit...

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Diningroom cherry ribbon scrap wood

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We are slowly working on adding wood flooring to our whole upstairs with scrap wood. This wood would have been thrown away, we go to the cabinet maker and get it from their trash. They are oak...

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Glass Cigar Tubes - Totally Tubular Project

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Project One of more to come, with your help, using glass cigar tubes.

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Our Scrap wood floor

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Our scrap floor is maple, oak and pine. We are working on the dining room which is going to be Cherry and Maple.

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Pizza Mural for Husband's Restaurant

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This was a surprise Christmas present I did for my husband. 

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Doorknob jewelry holders

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the door knobs and plates were rusty and were not anchored together although they are a matching pair. I glued the knob into the plate and let it dry; spray primed then spray painted a flat...

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Toilet Topper

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The shutters and drawers were found at the local dump. I cleaned them up, and then sanded them a bit, other than that i did not alter the color. For the shutters i removed the knobs and hinges...

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Horseshoe Cake Pan Message Center

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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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Toboggan Winter Photo Display

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What do you do with your sledding equipment when not in use? Why, make a photo display from it, of course!

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Pantaloon Christmas Stocking

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This Christmas "pantaloon" stocking is crafted from vintage ticking I picked up a tag sale and a vintage window curtain.  I traced the outline of a woman's thigh high stocking from the 1940s...

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Mix It Up

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Fill your home with junk that makes it pretty and functional. This happy kitchen is loaded with pre-owned pieces that make it special.

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Shutter light fixture

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Thought I would post this since I am computing today. This is a fixture I built for our bathroom,  one of two. I took the old one, striped it down, scrapped the back plate, painted a couple old...

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Needlepoint Doorstop for a Friend

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Needlepoint is WAY too tedious for me.  Instead, I pick up amazingly beautiful framed, or sometimes incomplete needlepoints...and repurpose them.  Here is a pretty daisy pattern...

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cool drawer pulls

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SWEET drawer pulls... I just need to figure out what to do with them....

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Embellishing Old Mirrors

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Here's something you can do to snazz up old mirrors and use up vintage trinket collections. This old mirror was left in my circa 1930 house, i embellished it with a vintage gold frame and old metal...

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Vintage typewriter turned photo display

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I received this free old typewriter enroute to vote on Tuesday from a Craigslister. He just kind of threw it in my van after I purchased other great things from him. I simply used a Word...

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Hand Embroidered Towels

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The Hand Embroidered Towels are 100% Cotton Flour Sack material...  Hand Embroidery is a lost art, but it is something that I found... and LOVE IT!!!!!

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HO HO HO

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I had one hoe that still had its handle and then two that just had the hoe part so I attached them to the wood part of the hoe and added greenery and ribbon and also some fake snow. I just need to...

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