Salvaged Wood Signs

Happy Monday!

(just kidding I hate Mondays lol)

I wanted to share some cool signs,

 I made out of a junk piece of wood I had lying around!

I was going for a vintage shabby chic look!

My Favorite One

I LOVE JUNK!!

I love the way they turned out!

Tutorial Coming Soon! =)

~Jan

Linking to:

I Love Thrift Stores!

Hello, hope you all had a great day!

I know I did!

Well, aside from the usual boring errands

I stopped at two of my favorite thrift stores and I found some GREAT goodies!

I found this pitcher it is huge and heavy!

I loved it, and thought it could hold some flowers!

On the way home I stopped and picked some Forsythia to fill it up!

Pretty!

I also found this stuff:

A large chalk board with a burgundy frame,

 black metal shelf, utensil crock, wrought iron spoon and fork and

last but not least a small peg shelf with square nails for pegs

The shelf and spoon and fork need paint, the peg rack is perfect.

The utensil crock I am not sure about yet, but for 99c how can you pass it up!

I am totally loving the chalk board as is, but may need to spruce it up!

In total I spent $10.00 not bad for the stuff I got!

It was a fun trip and definitely worth it!

I love thrift stores!!

My Finished Hutch Bottom and A New Selling Blog!

Hello,
Here is the bottom of my hutch all finished!!

I didn't go with punched tin, none of the pieces came in the size I needed!

I went with brushed bronze handles and what I believe is a type of radiator cover for the doors!

It is aluminum and is a matte black! I really like the way it turned out!

I also wanted to share with you a blog that is a very good friend of mine!
My friend Deb has just re-vamped her selling blog!!
Deb makes some pretty amazing things!!
Please go and see her blog and tell me what you think!!
Goat Creek Mercantile
When your there make sure you become a follower,
there is a lot more she will be adding soon!

On another note, I have been working on a few things myself!

Some Primitive Easter Eggs

A Primitive Pear Painted In Cast Iron Frying Pan

I am working on a few more things will post when they are done!

I hope you all had a great weekend!

((HUGS)) ~ Jan

Happy 2011 and Hutch Makeover!

I hope 2011 treats us all well, and if not we all have our blogging friends to lean on!

 I spent last night in chat with some of the forum girls (we all have no lives yes we know lol)

Anyway, we got to talking about decorating and

Karen at The Barely There Primitive Bear was saying

we should just re-do the furniture we have...sooo I did!

I was checking out her hutch pictures and started looking at some on line and figured

I CAN DO THIS!!

Well, today it was in the 50's here so,

I dragged the hutch out side and sanded it and re-did the whole thing!!

I think it came out pretty good, if I do say so myself. =)

Thank you Karen for the kick in the butt lol!!

Thank you also to who ever said in chat

"What you do on New Years Day sets what you will do all year",

I thought that I would do something productive,
maybe I will have these days all year lol!

Anyway, onto the pictures: It is not complete I need advice for bottom piece...

On the doors where the holes are should I:

1) Curtains

2) New Wood

3) Chicken Wire

4) Any other ideas?

I also need knobs on it as well oh ya and,


maybe some decorations would be nice too lol!

 ^ A little to cutesy country for me!

 Much Better!!

^ Now for this decision, Mmmmm!!

Thanks For Looking!

~Jan

One Man's Trash.....

Is my treasure! I found this today on the side of the road in someones trash!!

Why would you just throw this out.... I LOVE IT!!

It is great shape and someone put a lot of hard work into this!

Isn't it Awesome!! I love giving unwanted items a new home!

I can not wait to find the perfect spot for it!