A Project and Yard Sale Finds

Good Evening my friends! Not much to share this Monday. I did not feel like going to many yard sales this weekend. I think I went to two. I was just feeling not quite myself. We have had a lot of stress at work. When I went into the counseling field I wanted to help people. However with the current medical model we have now, its no longer about helping people. The goal is billing and numbers, this frustrates me because I am social worker to the core. It goes against my grain to push for productivity for a certain percentage so the agency can make money. But because I can not quite retire just yet, I try to please Administration at the same time help my people. But I tell you folks this is taking a tole on my physical and mental health. So keep me in your prayers, and I would be ever so appreciative. Project! I was not feeling very creative this weekend! Actually I was not feeling well at all. I did get this one project completed. The birdcage and bird graphic is one I down loaded from the internet, possibly Graphics Fairy. If you recognize your work please let me know and I will give you credit. Yard Sale Finds! All these candles were a buck! I was able to purchase all these plates below for 1.00. The cardinals, the Blue Willow and the Roses. Yep all of these plates were just a buck. I was so excited when she told me. Most of you who have visited my blog during the Christmas Holiday, know that I love Cardinals. Blue willow is a favorite classic! I have four other plates in this same design. Bling is one of my favorite finds at yard sales. I use it in my projects all the time. These pieces cost 25 cents a pair.

I am joining Diane's Thrifty Things Friday!

Projects and Yard Sale Finds!

Good Evening my friends! This was an awesome Sunday, simply because first of all God and his blessings. But secondly, Dale Earnhardt Jr. won the race today. To me this was just downright Awesome! Being the Earnhardt Jr fan that I am. I did manage to go yard saling, although the finds have not been all that great lately. I also squeezed in some time for a couple of projects. I thought I would share my finds and projects with my friends in blog land. Projects!! A couple of weekends ago, I found about five squares of cork at a yard sale. So of course being a crafty type person I brought them home with me all five pieces for a buck. I decided to use it to make a layout. I covered it first in card stock on both sides. Then on the front I glued on some sparkly specialty scrapbook paper. I added some ribbon, trim and pears. I use some glittered alphabet to write Miss u. I put a picture of my grandchildren with my son on one corner. I surrounded the picture with Wild Orchid craft trim. I added the pearls in the trim with hot glue. I put some bling here and there. I intend to hang this on my craft room wall. I plan to do a layout with each of my children's picture. After all I do have four more pieces of cork to alter. These are my two weekend projects. The jar I altered was a sweet relish jar. I layered it with lace and use a prima flower on the top of the lid. I small pink strand of pearls at the bottom. This little pillow is made from a muslin like material. I sewed individual rows of lace to the muslin and then sewed it into a pillow,and then stuffed it. I think it turned out so darn cute. Yard Sale Finds! This was bird print weekend for me! I love the hummingbird print, but my favorite is this first one with the blue birds. Of course, they will both get their frames painted. Probably spray painted oil rubbed bronze. That seems to be my go to color for anything anymore. I have an addiction to boxes. I just love this cherry wood box. I will not alter this one. I think I will use it in my bedroom to hold my jewelry. I really do not know if this is a table cloth or a wrap of some kind. But I will use it for a tablecloth. I can see this being used in a Halloween display of some sort because it is black with sparkling silver. I always buy candles when I see them at yard sales. I only buy them if they are new. These two little candles came in this cute little box. They are brand new and so are the two boxes of tea lights. I loved the way these little soaps are packaged. I got all this for 1.00. I have had an attraction to little lanterns lately. I just love this, I thought with its silver tones it will look great in my blue bathroom. When I first saw this little gal I thought she was a teddy bear. However, she has a long tail. So I guess, she is a kitty. I had decided not to buy anymore stuffed animals. I usually just end up taking them to Goodwill. But.........this little gal won my heart and for fifty cents she came home with me.

Good Evening my friends. I thought I would stop in and share my yard sale find and the projects I worked on this weekend. I had a lot of fun in my craft room this weekend. I am trying to use up some of my craft supplies as my craft room is over flowing. Hope you enjoy! I stopped at one yard sale this weekend. The only thing I found was this Mercury glass looking candle votive. Its about 8 inches tall. It was brand new. The label said it came from Kirklands and the original price was 6.99. I paid three dollars for it. This was a really heavy nice shoe box before I started this project. I wanted to decorate it in creams and browns so I could store some of my laces inside. I first covered the lid with cream color cotton fabric. Then I attached the darker lace around the sides of the top. I added some ribbon to cover up the fabric around the lid and then glued some ruffly cream lace on top of the ribbon. The doily is a vintage doily I found at a yard sale. The flowers are really vintage. They are made of a heavy velvet. They use to have gold clips in the center of the rose. They were used as place card holders in another life. I used my cutter pliar and cut the metal out of the center of the rose. The rose also had brown velvet leaves. I purchased some beautiful feathers at AC Moore last week. They are the perfect color for this project. I glued a bronw and cream feather behind each flower. I hot glued pearls all the way around the edge of the doily. The beige rose trim I purchased from Wild Orchid Craft. I just love it! All the lace is glued to the lid of the box. So when I want to store something inside, all the lace lifts off with the lid. I used part of an old lace curtain to make this unmentionables bag. I used coffee to dye it to an aged look. The flower is off a hair band I found at the Family Dollar. I just love feminine little bags. I used fabric and lace scraps to make these little hanging pillows.

Blog Envy and Vignettes!

Good Evening my friends. I am confused as to why I am getting so few comments. I visit most of the blogs on my reading list daily. I always leave comments. I blog for myself, but I just love for people to visit and let me know what they think. I glean so many ideas from your blogs and I welcome any feedback on my decorating or my crafts. I thank each and everyone of you who visit me regularly. Anyway enough of my pity party. LOL, I wanted to share some of the Vignettes in areas of my house. Most of these changes were done this weekend. Hope you enjoy! I made a change to my fireplace vignette. I found the candle holder last week. I added some greenery and some hydrangeas. The candles came from the Dollar Tree with the exception of the taller one. I bought it at Old Time Pottery this weekend.

Yes I changed one of the vignette's on the Entertainment Center again. The book box and the plate was already a part of the vignette. I added the new hurricane candle stick I found last weekend. Also I had found the wood vase a couple of weeks back, the feathers came from AC Moore.

I found this metal art at a yard sale a few months back. I just got around to painting it this weekend. I decided to hang it over the little black cabinet. It is in the hallway to our Master Bedroom.

This is a vignette in one corner of my counter top in the kitchen. The wood plate is an old yard sale find,I have posted it before. The rooster is a new find from last week. The little basket was found this weekend.

This little egg wreath was 50 cents. All it needed was a little cleaning and it was as good as new. I use to have a star hanging where it is, but I thought the egg wreath fit this vignette better.

Yard Sale Finds/Projects!

> Yard Sale Finds These are my two yard sale finds of the weekend. I found them at a sale a lady was having in a development down the street from my neighborhood. I was the first one there and she did not have everything out yet. I spied two Southern Living boxes that she had never opened. I ask what was inside the boxes and she unsealed them and showed the candlestick and flatware caddy, both brand new and never used. I ask how much she wanted for them, she stated 2.00 for the candlestick and five dollars for the flatware caddy. Of course I said, SOLD! I did some research on line and the Southern Living Home is now called Willow place or something like that. Anyway I found the flatware caddy and it sold for 82.00. I could not find the candlestick. Candle Holder

Flatware Caddy

Crocheted Basket! I found this basket sometime last year at a yard sale for 50 cents. I love that it is a crocheted basket. When I bought it was filled with some dried flowers that had outlived their usefulness. I glued some cream colored lace onto the handles. I glued a strand of cream color pearls in the center of the lace. I tied a bow made from the cream lace, to the top of the basket. I glued a vintage rose to the bow.

I used some Vintage Roses I had in my stash already. I also use some muted hydrangeas as a filler.

Shabby Chic Boxes I made these two Shabby Chic boxes over the weekend. They are altered cigar boxes. I used some laces and flowers I already had, but I also went to AC Moore today and purchased some prima flowers and some lace. I am going to use these boxes in my craft room. I am trying to decorate my craft room in shabby chic. I use the boxes to store my scrap booking flowers, ribbons , beads etc. On the 2nd box I used an old lace blouse I bought at Goodwill just for the lace. I buy things specifically just to cut it up for the lace and sometimes the fabric. Shabby Chic Box #1

Shabby Chic Box #2

Hello Friends! I wanted to do a quick post. I wanted to share the changes I have done with dining room and the beloved Entertainment Center. I welcome your comments! Again! The Entertainment Center. Yep! Once again I changed out the decor on the entertainment center. I have to say though I have liked this one best of all the ones I have tried. I love the natural balls in the basket in the center. The log cabin print was a Goodwill find. I did not know what to do with it or how to display it, so I decided to use it here. The lamp was a yard sale find and the little house was a GW find. I don't remember where I got the candlestick and bird on the right side of the center. The bird in front of the plate came from Tuesday Morning. The plate was one of last weeks finds.

Dining room table! I decided to use some of last weeks yard sale finds to decorate our dining table. The candle sticks were a yard sale find many moons ago. This past weekend I found the vase of hydrangeas , with the exception of the green hydrangeas, at a yard sale. Also the table runner was one of last weeks finds. I really like this vase of flowers on the table. It is just the size our big chunky table needed.

Good Evening my friends! I hope everyone is having a lovely weekend. It has been cloudy and wet here all week. But that did not stop me from going to my yard sales. I did not have to go far this morning for my treasure hunt. The housing development down the street from me was having its annual Community sale. I had so much fun going from house to house and talking to everyone. The most fun of going to yard sales for me is talking and getting to know the people! There are so many different personalities, some really beautiful and nice people........and then you have the others. LOL. I wanted to share all my finds with you. I had someone ask me why I posted the price of my purchases, was I bragging about how much I spend. Well I guess I am sort of, but not in a show off greedy way. I like for people to see that they can find some really nice things for very little money. I have thrifted all my adult life. I never saw the logic in paying full price for something you could buy at a yard sale for nearly nothing. Also it is my way of keeping the earth green. This little box will go with the rest of the pill box collection I have. It was a dollar!

This cigar box was a buck. I will alter this, cigar boxes are a scrappers dream find. LOL

All this bling was 1.00. It had two beautiful cameo pieces in mix. I use old jewelry to decorate my altered objects.

All these silver ware pieces were a dollar for the lot.

This table runner is 72 inches long. I love that it is cream colored. I love the gorgeous rose lace that trims the piece. I paid five dollars for this, it is brand new.

Today was doily day for me. I hit the jackpot at the yard sale. The large ones were 50 cents and the small ones were a quarter. The lady I bought them from said they were her mothers. I can not imagine selling my mothers handmade pieces. To me these things are heirlooms that you pass down to your children.

I am not sure if this is a table cloth or what, it is quilted yellow gingham. I love gingham anything and I thought this yellow was so pretty. I will use it for a table cloth.

I picked up these new garden gloves for a dollar.

Of course I can not pass up a pretty delicate plate. This Lamages Plate was 2.00. More than I would normally pay for a plate.

I love this cream and copper ironstone plate. It so matches my earth tones I have going on in most of my house. It was 1.00

This was my last yard sale purchase of the day. The lady wanted five dollars for it, I only had 3.57. I ask the lady to hold it for me until I went back to my car for more money. She told me not to bother that I could have it for the 3.57. Score!

I bought this picture at a yard sale for 1.00. At the time I purchased it, the lace was completely off the mat. I painted the frame with Martha Stewart specialty paint in copper color. I sprayed the white mat attached to the frame with adhesive. I then attached some brown fabric I had in my stash. I sprayed the brown fabric with the same adhesive and attached the lace. I put a pearl and gold trim all the way around the frame. I am not sure if that will stay there, I am not sure I like it. I then attache a cream colored rose I pulled off a head band I purchased at family dollar for a dollar. I just love the French couple dancing! Its hanging in our guest room.