Hello, friend! Things have been getting busier around here with my next market just over a month away, which means lots of projects in the works! Also I have been working on something really exciting behind the scenes which you will be hearing about soon. 🙂 But first, a new makeover! An upcycled record cabinet. […] Read more…
A few weeks back, my mom and I took the baby out on a Goodwill shopping spree. (We have to teach him young, right?) 🙂 We hit a couple stores – the first one was a bust but I scored big at the second one! I brought home this lovely once-glamorous vintage vanity bench for […] Read more…
This is the type of inexpensive thingamajig you just can’t pass up at the thrift store… a little wooden storage box with so many different ways to be updated – which is why it took me months to decide what type of box makeover to do. haha I was pretty sure I was going to […] Read more…
Wood crates are awesome because they’re storage pieces and there are so many ways to give them a creative makeover. One of my favorites is absolutely to decoupage them with napkins, but this time I upcycled one into a painted weathered crate with image transfer. I have a few more crate makeover ideas but I’ll […] Read more…
Have you been so excited about a yard sale find that you totally didn’t notice some major flaws until after you got it home, took a before photo, and then started working on it? This little end table doesn’t look so bad at first glance (I got it at the same time as this antique […] Read more…
Guys, this Before pic may not look too bad but trust me, this antique highboy was T-R-A-S-H-Y. It had all kinds of bad issues, but I didn’t even realize it at first because my mom found it at a yard sale and then my husband went and picked it up. When he got home and […] Read more…
This is one of those pieces you can’t help but bring home because you know in your heart that it needs someone to give it a whole lotta love and a major overhaul… and you hope that someone is you, but it’s way past your skill level so you let it sit in your garage […] Read more…
Confession: Occasionally I name my furniture makeovers. Do you too? I don’t all the time, but sometimes when I’m working on a bunch of different pieces at the same time for a market. It can get pretty confusing explaining to my husband which one I’m ready to paint or which one needs stained, like “the […] Read more…
A few months ago I was browsing at a local volunteer-run resale shop, and the price tag for this antique dresser about gave me a heart attack. $850?! WOW. That makes the original price of last week’s Goodwill Lane chest seem like a bargain. I was so shocked that I had to see what […] Read more…
