Monday, July 16, 2012

Sharing My Projects!

Good Evening Blogger friends! I hope everyone is doing well and had a great weekend! The weekends are never long enough for me. I wanted to share with you how I spent most of my weekend. I hope you enjoy my projects!! This weekend I spent mostly in my craft room creating the items below. I made all these items from a recycled suit jacket I found at Goodwill. It had all this beautiful lace and fringe and I just used my seam ripper and took it off. I then cut the jacket in manageable pieces. So this is end result of it all. The buttons from the jacket are gorgeous as well. I will use them at a later date on another project.
A few weeks back I found many storage shoe box like boxes at the yard sales. They were and ugly orange striped in color. So one at a time I have been altering them to my girly taste. I am using them to store craft supplies in my craft room. They are functional as well as decorative. My favorite of these two is the one with cream roses and brown feathers. I am drawn to cream colors. The peach lace one is made from scraps of lace and the fabric under the lace is left over from the recycled blazer. The flowers are a candle ring that I deconstructed.
I hope everyone else is having better luck with their yard sale finds! The past few weeks have not been good for me to find treasures. Below are the extent of my finds this past weekend. The napkin rings and the two flameless candles cost me a total of two dollars.

16 comments:

  1. Susan- Your new creations are just beautiful. I love all your lace and frills. I haven't gone to any garage sales this summer....just too much going on all the time. Looks like you found a little something anyway- xo Diana

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  2. Well I have to say your 'storage' shoe boxes certainly look better than mine. Mine look just like they did when the shoes came out...just a little more used!!!
    I love the idea - they are great!
    Rhonda

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  3. That is the luck of the draw at garage sales. Sometimes fantastic and some times not!!! Love all your pretties.
    Hugs

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  4. You did very well, and your boxes are lovely. I have found lots of good finds lately. I've blogged about them this week and more to come. It's not always like this though. Infact,lately there have been too many great buys. I found a lot of silver on the weekend at awesome prices,but alas I had spent too much lately and had to walk away. That is so hard to do. Sometimes when I have money to spend I don't find anything.
    Keep searching,treasures will find you. xxoo

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  5. I wish you lived close by for my Open House I am having in August. I have 13 vendors right now that will be coming to share their crafts, jewelery, aprons, paintings, purses, nail design to just name a few....if your around,,stop by, I'll have a table set up for you sweet sister...

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  6. Susan ~ Your creations are beautiful! What a creative way to recycle a jacket!
    I havent been to a garage sell at all this year yet but it looks like you found yourself a couple treasures!
    Cheers,
    Lynn

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  7. You did a beautiful job! These are so elegant I thought you were commissioned to do them for a wedding!

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  8. I can't believe you made all those from just ONE suit jacket!! They are beautiful...you are very talented!!!!!
    ~Des

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  9. Oh, my, Susan! You have so much talent and creativity! These items are so very pretty and to think you did them from a recycled suit jacket. What an eye you have :)Beautiful!

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  10. waooo..so beautiful..Love your collection dear :)

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  11. I'm trying SO hard to visualize the jacket in its original state! You have an amazing ability to "see" possibilities and then make them happen!

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  12. Oh my gosh Susan! You transformed that jacket into some really beautiful items! You are just so talented! And I love the napkin rings your found. Thank you for sharing at TTF last week. I hope you are having a terrific day!

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  13. Wow Susan, you are very talented indeed! I can't believe you did that with an old Goodwill coat...that's amazing!

    Thank you so much for stopping by my blog, it's always nice to see familiar friendly faces in my comments:)

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  14. Hi Susan, still trying to catch up on blog posts! I love those napkin rings! Very unusual. Susan you are so talented and I love how you re-purposed a jacket into such pretty items. Hugs, Linda

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  15. Hello dear one! I adore your beautiful lace creation!!!
    xo
    Olivia

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