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What to do with sap buckets...take a look

I received these sap buckets from a girlfriend and I knew I could do something with them...well here is the results. I used pretty napkins (you must take the napkins apart and only use the first...

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Sweet Junk at The BitterSweet Cabin

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Over the weekend I stopped at one of my new favorite places and visited with my new junking friend, Jan...

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Stirrup Photo Frame

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When I found a rusty old stirrup this summer at the tractor show, I knew immediately what to do with it.  Inspired, as always, by the Junkmarket website, I hung the glittery photo frame by a...

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Art Axes

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My daughter needed some painted axes to represent Slovakia at a beer festival. I had a couple days notice to get these ready. They were a big hit.

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Leafy Sail Sculpture

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A cute sculpture created this spring; made from some old gears, a big bearing, brass, copper, stainless steel, & a few rivets & nuts & bolts.   The top portion spins freely on the...

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Paris Themed Necklace

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A vintage element redesign, which was in the end snatched up by the one and only "Lani" to be a part of her own colletion.

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Birdhouse beauties

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We love old birdhouses -- especially those with great paint. So for our side yard, we combined an assortment of birdhouses, along with a vintage bird bath we painted red, vintage chairs and a...

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RE Boutique Sign

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A set of signs made for a cute little boutique in downtown Boise--that my cousin just opened this summer.  I used left over copper, re-claimed steel, cable scraps, & other metal...

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Milk strainer "vase"

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An inverted, rusty old milk strainer (with a nice brass strainer grid) gets new life as dried flower container.  The grid makes a perfect sort of "frog" that nicely separates and spreads the...

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Book stand of brass on wood

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My very first junk market project (some 30 years ago).  Old pulpit brass hardware given to my brother was black.  He gave it to me and I cleaned and polished it and went to a furniture...

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In love with old metal

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We love the patina and color of old metal objects and have used them to decorate our outside deck.  The blue child's chair, "home art project" red bell, wrought iron candlestick...

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Junkin' Punkin" at the Library

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Every year I "junk" up a pumpkin for the library I work at.  The hat is from a "shish kabob" cooker and I finally found a way to use some buttons. The nose is a faucet.  Love it when I can...

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A Chippy Welcome...

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Our light fixure by the front door has always been a dilema...low ceilings mean no fun/fancy light fixture.  When I saw this rusty, crusty basket at the French Flea...I knew just what I would do...

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Junk Pumpkins

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A few junk pieces and pumkins come together to create this scene.

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Steel Spring Table

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New dining room table I made today; for the whole story behind it see my blog at http://industrialrevelations.blogspot.com . A huge, heavy train spring, with a concrete saw for a top.  Base is...

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Junk Style Centerpiece

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If only this rusty, green lantern could talk...We picked it up for $2 at the World's Largest Garage Sale. I love the color and patina. I married it with a vintage silver plate serving tray, some...

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Soap Stand for my Mom

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I saw a soap dish on Ikea Hacker- made from a heavy candle stick and a pie plate- Not wanting to waste what could be a perfectly good Pie Tin (In hopes of pie for later) I started scavenging the...

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Keeper of the Bling

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I must confess that I am not only a clothes hound but I also indulge in a little "bling" addiction.  My bling is out~growing my jewelry boxes so I thought I would make one for myself.  I...

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Tin trunk end table

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Found this rusty studded tin trunk at a salvage yard for $10.  Just what my wife and I were looking for to replace our traditional end table ("Down with traditional!").  Cleaned up and...

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Hatchery pipe plant stand

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Kicking around an old DNR fish hatchery pond looking for morels, I almost stumbled over this corrugated old pipe--the first of such I had ever seen.  Some of the other pipe there was actually...

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