I love the white wall cubbies in the PB catalog this year.

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Here are a few more memo boards to visit today

Folded Fabric Memo Board.

Stenciled Burlap Memo Board.

Repurposed Memo Board.
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Here is a tutorial for a vintage jello mold bell
I had great fun creating...

Today I'm turning the lamp into a fancy tassel!

How to make a repurposed crate handle.

I'm of the belief that anything rusty is beautiful.

How to turn an old lamp into a pedestal dish. 

How to turn a lamp into a candlestick! 

How to make jewelry hooks from a lamp. 

Welcome to a 5 part series:  
"What can be done with an old lamp!"


Picture if you will, a lamp found on the side of the road. A very large lamp... 4 feet high, very ornate and weighing about 50 lbs... It had to have come from a castle! 
It was brought home not by me this time, but by my dumpster diving daughter. Even I had second thoughts about repurposing this one!
The lamp sat in the garage for a very long time until I couldn't help myself any longer, I had to do something with it.
So I took it apart.

The more I unscrewed, the more excited I became.
Look at all this good stuff! Now my creative mind was racing!
I was thinking candle holder...
and candle stick...

I even thought these pieces would make some very cool hooks, maybe even a whole line of them!

I'm even thinking planter.…

Here's a cute little way to serve your flatware  for Christmas dinner a la Pottery Barn.
I decided to make my own today.

With right sides of a cotton muslin fabric together...

I sewed around the stocking leaving a rather long leg on the top of the stocking for rolling.

Turn the stocking right-side-out, add a heart, fold down the top two times and press.
Then make more, enough for your whole family.
Next, if you're like me and just because you're on a roll you cut some out of a different fabric!
This time I did not roll down the top, I liked the ragged edge. 


Then make a whole bunch more! 
And because you always want to have extras for when unexpected guests stop by...
Make another bundle!
Now we're prepared for Christmas Eve

I was asked by Dutch Boy Paints 
 to do a post on their paint.

I collect vintage games, Dominoes, Cribbage,   Jenga, and of course Scrabble.

Loved it on Pottery Barn!

Did you ever buy something from the thrift store 
and not know what it was?

Don't you just love Rosemary?

This time of year it seems that everywhere I look I see  Christmas Trees.

Making beautiful Tin Punched Ornaments  is easier than you might think.

I was intrigued by this recipe for  Cranberry Relish 

I did not however have the Packaged Mulling Spice that Susan used in her recipe.

so  I did the next best thing, I Googled how to make my own....


*ground allspice

I added 1/4 cup of homemade 
Mulling Spice to a 20 oz. can of crushed pineapple and a 14 oz. can of whole cranberry and 1/2 cup of crushed pecans (as per Susan's recipe)
I mixed it all together and believe me...
IT WAS DELICIOUS!!!
I can't wait to serve it on Thanksgiving!

While I was at it I decided to make Cranberry Bread...
I used a Krusteaz Fat Free Cranberry Orange box mix. 
Instead of adding the can of cranberry-orange that came with the box, I mixed the can of cranberry-orange with a cup of the homemade cranberry relish and added it to the bread mix.  
I used the little can it ca…

This project was a cinch and the results are beautiful!

So, what did I do with these babies?

I was inspired to turn my under used bunt pan...

I found this great pair of vintage wooden shoe stretchers.

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Did you ever notice how darn shiny chicken wire is when you buy it? 

Found on the side of the road this week...