More Thrift Baby

These are an assortment of thrift and my work. This wall hanging sits about our couch. I wish wish wish I had a cute couch so I could take a beautiful picture of the whole thing, but sadly I have an old hand-me-down that is the exact opposite of everything I love. One day this will be fixed. I painted the tree which sits in the middle. Right now I'm working on a series of tree painting so if you like, you can get... soon. The other 4 hangings are a thrift find, $8 for the set. I repainted and antiqued them but am thinking about painting them grey or white What do you think? I need opinions here. Next we find a beautiful clock that R actually found. It took a bit-o-time unscrewing, painting, and screwing back into place, but we love the ending effect. Plus it cost around $3 and you just can't beat that can you. Maybe one day I won't have shop at thrift stores for everything, but then I just might have too much time on my hands

Vintage Suitcase

I couldn't resist posting again so soon. R just took these pictures tonight of my next thrifty buy, and he did an AMAZING job. We were literally sprinting up a dirt road and barely making it up a huge hill in time to catch the last rays of sun. In about 5 minutes R managed to get about 8 really great shots. These 2 being a few of my favs. This find of a luggage was $2 and I think will look so amazing draped in my hand at the airport. I can't even wait to travel with it! And the perfect thing about it is that it's small enough that I could still use it as a cary-on and not have to pay the extra baggage fee. This will look so much better on me than my old dance team duffle bag.

Homemade + Thrift

My end table with everything on it cost me around 25 beautiful dollars. I found the gold birds in the glass case (where all the most valuable items are locked) at DI and fell in love. R found the vintage camera in the case as well and couldn't resist either. With a $5 vase and some grey spray paint on branches I was able to make the rest.

Making a tree is super easy. All you need is

1. good looking branches

2. spray paint of your choice

3. dirt to plant and also rocks or gems to cover dirt on top

3. paper to make origami or go to Ikea to grab some pre-made

So simple. So perfect.

Aren't these birds just perfect?

Thrift Mirror

I wish I had a before/after photo of this mirror to really show you what I did to it. This mirror cost $10 and is a good size mirror that would have probably cost anywhere from $50-$75 new. It was actually connected to a medicine cabinet which my sweet R helped me take off and add a wire to hang it from. It was also this old school chipping gold color that definitely had to go. When I got this gem I was in the middle of painting our desk grey so I though I might as well just slap a little grey over the top of it. It's the right grey color, which gives it a modern feel, and still has some gold popping out to give it a vintage look as well. What do you think?

PS Excuse my crazy self in the pictures. It's a little hard getting a good angle without being in the photo.

Thrift Store Purchases

I think I'm going to do a series on all of the amazing thrift store, mainly Deseret Industries, purchases R and I have made over the past bit. I have to start with our latest which is a SURFBOARD. Incredible right? Especially since we live in Rexburg, ID nowhere near an ocean. The Board is is good shape and is the same size as my beauty waiting for me in Hawaii. I can't wait to use it when we move next year!