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Posted on July 30, 2011

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.  ~ Rabindranath Tagore

Posted on July 21, 2011

I’ve walked by my in-laws old chicken coop a million times. During our last visit, I glanced inside hoping to see a critter so I could take it’s picture.  Instead, I found some old windows and immediately had an idea. My daughter has been wanting to keep her jewelry untangled and displayed in a neat way.  My idea was a window jewelry display. Here is what I did:

 First, I took the glass out of the big frame (the other one already had the glass gone).  Then, I cleaned them off with a soft wire brush (Dollar General find) and wiped them down with a wet wash cloth sprayed with Windex. I’m not sure that Windex was the appropriate cleaner to use but it worked.

After they were clean, I screwed in wall hooks on one of the windows and attached window screen to the other window.

It’s all hung and decorated. No more tangled necklaces and what a beautiful wall piece. My daughter loved it!

Easy as pie! Here’s the finished product.

Posted on July 11, 2011

I love to make use of things no one else wants. I’ve wanted a swing for my front porch for a while so I started looking online. I found a wooden swing that I loved and immediately got the idea of using a pallet. I found a pallet that was going to be thrown away and started to work (with hubby’s help of course).

Step 1 – I took the two end boards off the pallet. Then, I had hubby cut the pallet in half.

 Step 2 – I added some boards from the leftover wood to the end of the pallet for drink holders.

Step 3 – I lightly sanded the top and sides….just enough to get rid of anything that would cause splinters. Then, I stained it.

Step 4 – Hubby and I attached the swing to the porch with strong nylon rope. I still want to add an outdoor pillow or two but all and all it’s finished.

Posted on June 29, 2011

My latest project involved a door from an aunt’s old house.  I really like how it turned out so I thought I’d share with you.

Here is the door before I started. Lots of paint and a few unsecured boards/trim.

Hubby helped by sanding down the boards for me. It was so much easier than trying to strip off three layers of paint. Plus, I didn’t want all the paint off.

I did have to strip some parts of the door. The trim inside the panels were hard to sand so I sprayed paint remover on them to help. I also sprayed paint remover on the metal lock plate.

After I had the paint off of the trim, I was ready to paint the panels of the door with magnetic primer.

Once the magnetic primer had dried, I painted the panels with chalkboard paint.

At first, I had plans to stain the wood but changed my mind once I saw it all sanded down. Instead, I applied a coat of Tung Oil to bring out the natural beauty of the wood.

And here is the finished product, a chalkboard entryway thing-a-ma-gig. I bought some dresser knobs to hang things from and some old pop tabs for magnets.

Thanks for looking. I hope you enjoyed it. I have another door and I’m ready to start that project too. Stay tuned!

Posted on June 14, 2011

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