Weekly Finds 05_09_16

Friday was my day off from Employee Appreciation Week...... my favorite part of the week.  Usually John takes off and we head up north for a long weekend.  This year we had a few events planned that kept us at home.  So Friday I was alone and free to do what I wanted.  GARAGE SALES!!

They started off really slow..... I found this plastic water lily for .10 cents.  It might not last too long but I couldn't resist a bit of pretty for our pond.  

Then I found this table and things started to look up.

A detail wood wall hanging

A ugly tray (guess I took that photo upside down)

A farmhouse stool, you all know I love my farmhouse stools.

A couple of old table leaves that will be perfect for a project I'm brewing up.

Metal canisters

A ratty old shelf that I just couldn't leave behind.

A child's chair that has no legs.... perfect for a photo prop for those babies that risk falling off their chairs.

A number of other items I didn't photograph including an Old Navy Bubble Bee and Skunk costume for the littlest granddaughters.  

And then when I walked into a sale and the furniture starts to beg me to fix it up it must be time to go home.   After buying this challenge of course.

I started to take the tacks out of the stool and grunted and groaned that they were too tight, too many, too hard, too............. and then John did it.  Totally in my plans :)

Well he found these were used for the cushion.  A t-shirt, button up shirt, a sweater and a pair of shorts.  That's crazy!!

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weekly finds 5-4-16

It's starting to warm up and that means garage sales..... yeah!!

A fun bottle

A side table

A farmhouse stool that was made by some hard working husband so he could take his boots off at the door after he got scolded for wearing them in the house.

Another farmhouse stool that is a little chunkier

Perfect wedding chandelier 

A cute little owl that needs some TLC

A sucker for birds

I'm not sure what this is but I know what it will be when I'm done with it.

Tray

Wood duck

Lots of wood bowls

A metal rolling cart with a brake and flip out sides

A heavy metal wall hanging

I didn't buy this.... however it was finished in our garage and left behind for me to paint. 

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Weekly Finds Painted - Frame

Sometimes there is so much detail in a item that you need to paint it so the detail shines.

I thought I'd give the gold a chance on this frame and dry brush with white leaving the gold in the recessed areas to help the details shine.  

Here is the frame before paint.  The natural wear of the frame shined up the details in some areas to accent them just enough to notice them.  

Adding the dry brush was certainly fast and easy with some pretty fun results.

Dry brushing is taking most of the paint off and then painting a newspaper or cardboard until most of the paint is gone and then paint the item just hitting the high spots.  This also saves you time when waxing.... no need to dark wax.

I'm not totally convinced this is the best color choice yet but the good thing about paint is you can just paint over it if you don't like it.  I'm also not sure what I'm going to do with the frame.  Thought about hanging it in the living room with the letter H inside.  Making a back for a chalkboard....

Right now I just leaned it inside my empty mason jar box.  

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Painted Weekly Finds - Dragon Fly Planter

It's been too cold to buy plants for the patio and that was my plan for this dragon fly planter but of course I couldn't wait.  

The planter got a coat of Chalk Spray Paint with a bit of distressing and clear wax.  

Then I needed to add something to the front to make it fun.  I tried handles, knobs, junk metal pieces..... and then this dragon fly caught my eye.  

Remember how this planter looked before paint?  

The dragon fly was clear plastic so he got a squirt of coral and aqua spray chalk paint.  

 Added the twine just for another layer.

Quite the transformation huh?

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Weekly Finds 4/24/16

 Weekly finds are pretty fun this week.  This vintage owl planter is a hoot.

When these things are cheap enough they are fun to use as painted planters 

Thought this wood bowl would make a fun painted chips and salsa (summer suppers) holder.

This jewelry box had good bones and details.

The inside is a fun orange in really good shape.

A concrete plant stand heavy enough to withstand our windy springs on the prairie.  

How about some boxes that were built in China to ship molds across the pond?  

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Wine Rack

 Weather is getting warmer and I will apologize in advance for lack of posts.  I have no idea why we even own a house in the summer months because we are never in it.  I make chips and salsa for supper 3 days a week and for a special night we get pizza..... yes I know that's not good but when our days get longer we try to squeeze so much into them that eating and cooking has no room in our schedule.  

Painting does fit into my schedule but taking the pictures.... not so much.  So again I will do my best to keep this blog current with some items to show you what I'm up to.  

However there will be lots that you won't see until July when my sister-in-law and I have our annual Jazzed Up Junk Sale.  Somethings are just worth the wait.  

Here was the wine rack before paint.

It's painted in a great grey color with white edges.  

I am the fruit snack Grandma so of course I have a jar full of them for every visit.  This is a jar I showed from my weekly finds and the trivet it's sitting on is also a weekly find.  

The wine rack is distressed because I am a distress lover..... everything needs to be distressed in my world.  

Oh you noticed the empty wine bottles..... yeah I don't drink wine so finding bottles to fill this rack was a bit difficult and all I had was empty bottles.  

And the full ones...... them is OLD..... and were probably given to us.  

The edges of the wine rack are painted in white.  I am loving grey and white together and for this item it just worked.  

Did you need another before and after?  

Okay here it is.  

Later....