Oct 3, 2012 | Home Projects
Two years ago, I gazed at beautiful, new cabinets and dreamt about the day when I could create the kitchen of my dreams. Instead, I went to my Good “Enough” Plan B, and knew that updating my knobs would suffice until new kitchen cabinets came further up on...
Feb 19, 2011 | Trash to Treasure
Window’s cracked open, spray paint bottles dusted off, and storage bins pulled for a make-over…life is good. Spray paint sprayin’ definitely means springs a comin’. Forget the ground hog, this is a much surer sign. This $5 yard sale shelf...
Apr 23, 2009 | Trash to Treasure
It started with a pocketful of change, a wee early morning hour on Saturday, and vision…$.50 glass/brass tea tray, and $.25 Hutschenreuther Gelb(made in Bavaria Germany) china sugar set from two different yard sales.Spray paint given to me by yard...
Mar 15, 2009 | Trash to Treasure
In continuation of my mad spray painting rampage, I give you some more of what I did when “I shopped my house.”Again, this was done in a few mere minutes, and the total cost was $2 (including the brass pieces which were originally from a yard sale.)...
Feb 14, 2009 | Trash to Treasure
One of the best yard sales that I hit this past fall was a moving sale. And this wasn’t just any moving sale, it was a “I’m leaving on a jet plane, don’t know when I’ll be back again” sale. Every thing had a price tag, including the...