$7 Thrift Store Frame, Burlap and Chalkboard Paint

Today was a good trash to treasure day for me.  I went to a couple of thrift stores and found a few fun things.   But for now, I’m only going to show you what I made with one of my finds and that's the large oval frame for $7. 

A picture frame chalkboard! 

I used brown chalkboard paint and covered the mat that was inside the frame with burlap. 

 

I had every thing on hand to make this so the whole project only cost me $7.  

Don’t you just love projects like this when you have everything on hand and it only takes an hour to make?  I know I do!

Gail 

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Is It A Pumpkin, Gourd or Squash?

Isn’t this the cutest whatever it is!  I purchased it today at our local Farmer’s Market.  The worker there told me that she thought it was a squash but couldn’t tell me what kind of squash. 

 

If it is a squash is it edible?  

Well in any case, I love it and have placed it in an urn by the woodstove in the family room. 

Just to let you know, if it is a squash and it is edible, I wouldn’t.  He’s too cute! 

Gail

Welcome to my Kitchen

I’m so excited to share my kitchen with you today.  Now that I’m done  painting this and tweaking that, I’ll give you a little tour.  As you enter from the kitchen door, you’ll see the entryway wall. 

 

Our kitchen and family room is one open space.

The kitchen table with my most recent purchase of cane back chairs.

I covered the seats of four of the six kitchen chairs with a neutral color fabric.   I made little pillows for two of the chairs with left-over fabric from the arm chairs.  I tied a burlap bow around each one.

I created a little seating area behind the sofa with the two arm chairs. 

I also made two little throw pillows for the arm chairs.   I love the pillow fabric.  My original thought was to cover the chair seats with the same pillow fabric, but I decided against it.  I thought it might be too much so I covered them with a solid color. 

 

The tabletop vignette has a little touch of fall. 

You’ve seen this space many times.  This area changes a lot throughout the seasons. 

Last but not least my trash can cabinet area. 

As always, thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed your little tour of my kitchen. 

Gail

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Restore Round Table Gets Another Makeover

   I’m on a roll!  I’ve been busy around here trying to lighten things up. One of the things I’ve done was change the ottoman in the living room into a round table again.  Originally, the ottoman was a round table that I purchased at Habitat for Humanity Restore.  You can read all about how I transformed the table into this ottoman here.  

I removed the fabric, trim and skirting. 

Next, I removed the few remaining staples, sanded the top and repainted it to look like this.   

  I used my Cricut to make a stencil for the Roman Numerals. 

  On top of my table, I placed three little cloches that I have picked up here and there.   I added three little pumpkins, that I purchased over the weekend from one of our  local farmer markets, under each cloche .

 

I really like how it turned out.  Such a little change seems to have really opened the space up. 

As always, thanks for stopping by and I’m looking forward to reading your comments about the transformation of the round table once again. 

Gail

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Kitchen Chandelier for $10

  I’m so excited about my $10 chandelier purchase at the Habitat for Humanity Restore!  It was exactly what I was looking for the kitchen BUT the brass had to go.   

 

I hung it from a tree, spray painted it and then decided to hand paint certain areas. Take a look at what it looks like now hanging in my kitchen.       

I used Rust-oleum Espresso Brown gloss spray paint. For the hand painted areas I used Worn Penny Metallic Elegant Finish paint.   I love this paint!  You can get it at Michael’s for $1.89 a bottle.  It comes in several different finishes.

 

What a difference wouldn’t you say?  I couldn’t be happier with the way it turned out! 

It’s been cloudy and rainy the whole weekend, so as soon as we have a sunny day I will take more pictures of my kitchen.  

As always, thanks for stopping by and I’m looking forward to hearing what you think of my $10 chandelier!  

Gail

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Sneak Peak At My New Chairs

I’m happy to say, the vendor was there and the chairs came home with me! 

Now I need to get busy and re-cover the seats. 

Have a wonderful day! 

Gail

Chairs for the Kitchen?

On Saturday, I went to our local Farmers/Flea Market just looking and there was a vendor there that had six cane back chairs for $150.   They were beautiful chairs and in excellent condition.  On my way home, I got to thinking (which could be a bad thing) how much I really liked those chairs and that maybe I would just re-do my table so that the chairs would work in my kitchen. 

So, on Sunday I started sanding the top.

On Monday, I spray painted the bottom white and started staining the top.  The stain I used was Mahogany Miniwax Gel.  This was my first time using the Gel stain and I love it. 

Keep your fingers crossed, I’m headed back to the Market right now to see if the vendor is there and if those chairs are still there!  It’s only open on Wednesdays and Saturdays and I can’t wait till Saturday. 

I’ll let you all know if the chairs come home with me! 

Gail