This weeks Thrift store craft...

Ok, this weeks thrift store craft came about after I was cleaning up the twins room. The little kids love hats. But as I was picking up their room, I noticed how much space they took up in their toy bins. *Light-bulb* (have you ever seen Despicable Me? Hehe) Anyways, I had this idea that I should make something to hang above their toy bins to hang their hats on.

Soooo....

I took an extra piece of wood I had cut to replace the broken bed slats in the older boys room. (Which is why they are no longer allowed to jump on their beds). I rounded up the $1 bag of knobs I bought at the Thrift Store and got to work.

After painting a light coat of dark red on my board. I sanded and then stained the edges. I measured the spots for my knobs, did a little drilling, and voila!

The boys now have a cute rustic place to hang all their dress up hat and more room in their toy bins to place all the toys that are messing up the room!

While I was add it, I painted up this scrap of wood at the same time, put some vinyl on it to make a sign to hang above their Christ picture in their room as well.

Don't forget board...

I saw something like this on a blog one day and wanted to make one. I even had all the pieces, a leftover piece of beadboard from another craft I'd made. A square piece of metal from who knows where, but it's been hanging around for years just waiting for me to do something with it. The ribbon and jute was apart of my thrift store grab bag and the flower was one from a batch I won on a craft blog last summer. I glued some vintage buttons on some magnets I had. I all I need is to still hook a clip on top to hold letters to be mailed. The whole thing cost me next to nothing and now gives me a place to put the things I need to remember before I walk out the door. Perfect.

Thrift Store Makeover #1- Butterfly

Ok, here was my first thrift store craft makeover, my 50 cent butterfly. I had bought it for Abbey's room. Since it didn't require too much, I started with it. Here she is before, needing just a touch of love:

Here it is now!

A coat of red spray paint, three little flowers glued on and tadaa!

She's now ready for Abbey's wall in her room.

Thrift Store Special

So not long after my Valentines day decor deal, I went for the first time to our local thrift shop to check out what it had to offer. They didn't have what I was looking for (a bookshelf to refurbish), but I came across these craft items. The lot of them for $7. The most expensive one was the grab bag of sewing supplies. I'm so excited to put my mind to work and create a new life for them :)

Here's what the craft grab bag for $2.50 had to offer. Everything from the jute, to vintage ribbon, specialty needles, snaps, and buttons. It was so fun to go through. It was almost like someone had taken their grandmother's sewing box and dumped it in a bag. It was filled with a treasure of things from years gone by. Back from a time where they still put price tag stickers on things, and things only cost 10 cents. It was worth $2.5o for me just for the different jute and the buttons.

And here are the buttons. My favorite is the football shaped and the blue square. With them were every spare button from every shirt, pants, and sweater the old grandma bought from Christopher and Banks. I got to empty out more than a dozen of little pouches encasing a button that was saved for a future day. I love people who save.

The other bag was a bag of random spare knobs for $1. Definitely worth it, seeing how 2 knobs cost that much.

Wait for future posts to see what I end up doing with my thrift store treasures :)

Valentine's deal...

There is nothing I love more than a good deal. Well, the other day when I went to Shopko to look for a pair of shoes for my nine year old, I ended up leaving with these. But hey, they were 90% off. That's right 90% off. So what you see here would have regularly cost almost $150 dollars and I got it for $15. Yay me! The plaques alone were almost $30 a piece (I got them for $3), pillows were $15 (me-$1.50), same for the string of hearts and the lights. The valentines for next year were $5 a piece ($.50) and there you go! A steal!