Another neighborhood walk this morning that yielded trash I turned into a treasure. It all started with this pile of pickets from a fence I found on the side of the road.

🎶 Do you want to build a snowman? 🎵 I just love snowmen so I make them with junky pieces any chance I get. It's kinda funny because I am definitely not a winter person and I don't like snow... but building a junky snowman, now that's my idea of winter fun!

Another great thrift store find that turned into a beautiful DIY project for the holidays. This large old sign was $5 at the thrift store and though it was super out of date, I had an idea for an easy repurposed project. 

This cute little quick project was copied straight from the pages of Organized Clutter. My friend Carlene is a DIY genius. I love her work! I'm copying her junky tree idea but my project will be created on a tiny Weatherwashed pallet.

I started out with small pieces of wood that were not stained or painted. I dipped each piece into a bucket of Weatherwash, it's a beautiful way to age wood and it comes in several colors, it's like barn wood in a bottle. 
Today, I am using the color Oaked. I waited overnight for the wood to dry then built a small pallet by laying the wood pieces side by side then wood gluing a couple of cross pieces to the back to secure all the wood together.

I gathered all kinds of junk from my workshop and laid them out in the shape of a Christmas tree. I used k…

Getting ready for Christmas always makes me want to create an advent calendar so we can count down to the special day. This year I'm repurposing an old project to create the perfect advent calendar for the Christmas season. 

I save a lot of jars, bottles, and thrift store salt shakers throughout the year just so I can make these amazingly easy and adorable Christmas snow globe ornaments.


Some are made with recycled jars my favorite being the Trader Joes Everything But a Bagel jar. 
Salt shakers are another favorite and I hit the mother load one day at the thrift store when I found 8 of them all the same. 

It began with a lucky find at the thrift store. A box of small white ornaments that could definitely be used for something! It didn't take long for me to figure out what that was. 

I've saved these light covers for a long time. They came on an outdoor set of string lights. When the lights burned out I kept the shades and they've come in pretty handy!

This weekend I created a little home office for myself. It's nothing much, a folding table and a large monitor are going to make my life much easier.

Here are two projects that just made me happy. Repurposed from another old light fixture. While I'm not a big fan of snow, I do love the beauty of snowflakes. 

When my clock died I saved the parts.  I knew they'd be good for something some day and for some of those  lucky parts, that day is today! 

Everyone loves a good Lazy Susan. You're going to love this group of DIY Lazy Susan tutorials I've gathered for you today.

If you saw the pile of red dominoes I found at the thrift store recently then you know I'm full of ideas for them!