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A Window with a re-Purpose!

LeAnntiques, member | January 7th, 20094 comments

Welcome to LeAnntiques with Friends. You are now looking into our front window, as you enter our 'Cozy' Hopkins MN shop. Our '11 Day Market' Window for January, has captured our vision of a Winter...

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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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Wind Chimes

AuntieQ18, member | January 6th, 20095 comments

This was a fun project and I love the sounds it makes! I found the red handled mixer all by itself-it was missing its mixing bowl-and knew it would be the beginning of something neat! After I...

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Doorknob jewelry holders

sewitall, member | January 6th, 20098 comments

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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Spool Table

Jim Healy, contributor | January 5th, 200915 comments

Laundry Basket from an estate sale becomes a great side table with the addition of a glass top. The spools were purchased at a garage sale the same day and placed in the basket to keep them from...

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Viking Cowboy and Sailor Joe Lock People

Jenny Kompolt, contributor | January 4th, 200914 comments

OK, now for some silliness! I found these amazing old brass lock bodies at my favorite salvage yard and immediately thought they would make fabulous little people bodies. So, I put the quotes and metaphors away for a little while (grin) and came up with these two fun little guys. I’m feeling more of these coming on so stay tuned…

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Ski Lodge Headboard

Jim Healy, contributor | January 3rd, 200918 comments

This project started when I found a pair of vintage skis tossed out for thrash pick-up. I was trying to come up with a concept for my son’s new Headboard and the skis were the inspiration I...

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Message Boards

bluejean, member | January 2nd, 200910 comments

These assorted message boards were made from old screens, windows, or frames. Some I used as is except for some paint and the addition of cork, metal and chalkboard. Others I...

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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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Out of this World Chandelier

Lanette Lorsung, contributor | January 1st, 200917 comments

This is a project my extremely creative friend, Sue Wolfe, made out of a saucer/sled.

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An ugly old vanity light seen in a whole new light

Marybeth Barrett, contributor | January 1st, 200912 comments

This was an idea I came up with for a charity event for Habitat for Humanity. I repurposed one of those ugly ole vanity lights which was donated to their Habitat Restore. I simply laid it...

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I've Pulled Another Wheelie

Georgia Terrell, contributor | December 30th, 200811 comments

Another use for a neat old wheel.

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Industrial BirdFeeder

Refinerii, member | December 29th, 200817 comments

I couldn't resist sharing this project; made for my bro-in-law: a funky bird feeder created out of a salvaged aluminum square tube!! It turned out pretty cute, I think: he will get a kick...

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Oar Lamp

Jim Healy, contributor | December 28th, 200811 comments

Picked up this antique Tree Stand over the weekend and turned it into a Floor Lamp. I’ve had this old Oar hanging around for years and finally found a use for it in this lamp. I sawed off the...

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Vintage Sled Nightstand

Jim Healy, contributor | December 27th, 200817 comments

While driving through the Berkshires in Massachusetts I came upon an estate sale at an abandoned dairy farm. Immediately this old snow sled caught my eye and I bought it. The women who had lived on...

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Memory Lamp

junkinhart, member | December 26th, 20089 comments

The adults in our family draw names for Christmas. I drew my niece who is in her 3rd year of college and just moved into her 1st apartment. I went diving into the junk pile......came up...

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Angels Are Among Us

LeAnntiques, member | December 26th, 20089 comments

Wonderful Vintage Wooden Clothesline Posts, and Old Mustard Painted Ceiling Tiles Prove That Angels Are Everywhere. These Angels Grace LeAnntiques w/Friends in Hopkins

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Here is a 6 foot tall robot project made from the best of junk

ultrajunk, member | December 25th, 200818 comments

Here is my 60's tin robot style sculture project i have been working on..he will stand a bit over 6' tall when finished..he is made only with the very best of my junk. The head started off as an old...

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my next project..a floor scrubber spaceship..just a quick mockup.

ultrajunk, member | December 25th, 200814 comments

Here is a sneak peek at my next project..i found this old floor scrubber base and it just screams robot space ship. this was just a quick mockup and it got me itchin to get started on this one.

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cool bunch of scroll work pieces..i think for a railing maybe.

ultrajunk, member | December 25th, 20086 comments

found these the other day. i think they might have been for a porch railing or something like that. They are steel and have some cool scroll work so i thought i should drag them home..Yep your right...

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