Repurposed kitchen cabinet door projects!  Day made!  A friend called me with a curb alert... well actually it was more like a store alert.  Someone was throwing out the contents of their cabinet store... did I want it? 😳 I was soon on my way and filled up my car. I could have filled up a truck but I had to draw the line somewhere. 
Some of the cabinets were wall displays with doors that opened.  For this project, I removed the door and drawer front from the frame. I'm only going to use the frame this time. I glued and nailed the drawer front to the bottom of the frame. 
Next, I cut a piece of pre-made chalkboard from the hardware store to fit the door space.  I glued and nailed the chalkboard onto the back of the larger space.  This cabinet is a beautiful natural wood color with a clear fini…

This project began with an arched window mirror that broke. 
Straight from the store to home, it fell and the mirror inside smashed! 
So there was nothing left to do with the window but repurpose it... and so I did. 
I began by cutting an old slatted crate in half. 
(You know that other half will be showing up again soon!)

I nailed and glued the crate onto the bottom of the window.
As luck would have it, it was the perfect size to fit around the frame. 
I held the crate in place while the glue dried with antique irons as weights. 


I painted the crate and the window with a coat of casement white by Fusion Mineral Paint.It sticks to everything. 
The only thing left to do when the paint dried was to find the perfect bunch of flowers to wire to the window inside of the crate. 
I added a big buffalo ch…

I'm using what I have in the junk pile today to create a  chalkboard memo stand.
This tree slice cutting board was in the donation pile but I pulled it out to use it for a new project.
The first thing I did was to find a dowel that was the right size to fit into the stand. 



The one I found was the wrung of an old chair.  The stand I'm using was the candle holder leftover from this project. I glued the stand to the base with E6000 glue. I attached the cutting board to the dowel using a few random pieces from my junk supply.  Here's the back: I attached a small piece of Scrabble tray with hot glue to the front to hold chalk.  I painted the entire piece with black chalkboard paintthen added a hook to the top of the board to hold notes or photos.

I was inspired for this project by a photo in a catalogand couldn't wait to see if I could make it myself.
The umbrella wreath for the front door was adorable in the catalog but expensive so I set out to create my own for FREE. 
The first thing I needed was an old umbrella but I didn't have one and on second thought it might be way too big anyway. 
So I used the pieces above and a piece of buffalo check fabric from an old curtain to create an umbrella for myself. 
I attached the table leg to a decorative curtain rod accent then painted it black. 




I cut the fabric into a triangular shape then painted it with Mod Podge and a little water. 


As with most of my projects I set them in front of the fan to dry quickly. 

When the fabric was dry it was stiff, I rolled it and cut the wide end in a …