Flea Market Finds and Some Fall Decor

Hello, there strangers!  We have been working on some really fun Fall projects, but we are in working on a bunch at the same time!  So you know that means we haven't quite completed any yet...Soon enough!  We started putting out some of our Fall decor...We are so ready for Fall and the weather has been sunny but nice and cool...It really is great after the Summer that we had and we just love Fall!  We also have a couple finds to share...

We found this adorable Sunnie Miss Toaster at the Flea Market yesterday...We have been wanting one for a long time...It's too cute!  This Kewpie doll we found at a Flea Market a while back and the little treat bag we found at a thrift store.  We are in the middle of making the Kewpie doll a Halloween costume...Yes, we are silly like that!  :)



This is part of our hutch which isn't done being decorated since we just started getting our Halloween decor from the attic...

We have a few different trays that we trade out with the season.  We love how this tray warms the place up!

We found this old milk bottle and this very cool Tonka dump truck at two different Flea Markets a couple weekends ago...The milk bottle is straight from the Garden State! 

A closer look at the milk bottle with its neat cowboy decal...It says "STAY ON TOP with AMERICA'S #1 FOOD MILK".  It will look lovely with some flowers especially a few stems of sunflowers.

Here is a cool Junior Cook Book with a pretty gingham cover and an adorable graphic...The refrigerator booklet looks so sweet with the daughter helping her mother and their matching hairdo's and outfits!  We also love jam jars, and have a small collection going.  We love this little strawberry and couldn't pass it up at the thrift store!

What did you find this weekend?

Have a lovely day,

Laura and Michele

Retro Chair Makeovers!

Hello, there!  We can't believe that it has been almost a month since our last post.  We have been working on so many projects and Grandmom Betty has been up to visit from Florida.  Here is a BIG project we have been working on and my oh my did these need some help!  We really think they turned out lovely! 

We got these three chairs off of Craiglist for $30.  One of the chairs is a rocker.

As you can see they were in bad shape with a lot of rust!

These chairs had 6 layers of paint!!  And there were also holes due to rust corrosion.

YIKES!  We used Bondo to repair the holes and it worked wonders! 

It took us a long time to strip all the paint off of these!  Then we used a wire brush drill extension to take off the rest of it.  We regret that we didn't take pictures when they were completely down to the bare metal because they were as shiny as a brand new quarter.  We were just trying to finish them before Grandmom Betty got here!

All primed and ready to go!

We still have to spray a shiny protective coat.  We just really are in love with these!

Next we are going to repair the cracks on our concrete porch and give it a makeover!

We hope that you all are having a great week!  We are going to try to catch up on some blogs now!!

Hugs,

Laura and Michele

 

Fun Furniture Makeover

Hello, there!  Did you all have a lovely weekend?  We hit some sales this weekend and managed to find a couple of treasures to take home.  We will show you our finds later this week. 

Today I am going to show you what my mom painted for me!!  My aunt recently gave me a nightstand that was in great condition.  I just wanted to change a few things to make it more "me".  It originally was white but needed a fresh coat of paint.  I also wanted to change the knob, and we found a few that we liked.  We finally picked this knob, cowgirl boot s are so cute!!  Then we both decided that it would be a good idea to paint the floral design that was a part of the nightstand.  We are so happy that we did.  I came home one day and my mom had already painted it!!  I love how she realized that the design on the inlay of the drawer looked like rope, so she painted that too!  It turned out so cute.  We hope that you like it too!

Happy Rednesday!

Hello, there!  Today is Rednesday, and we have some goodies to show you!  We got all of these from HomeGoods...They look Cath Kidston-ish! 

We only found one mug...We are hoping to go to another HomeGoods by us and find atleast one more...Since we both love tea!

Pretty red polka dot snack/salad plates...

Blue gingham plates with touches of red...We also hope to find one more square plate, they had two but the other one had scratches on it...

Visit Sue, our host, at It's A Very Cherry World for more great reds!  We hope you all are having a lovely week!

Happy Rednesday,
Laura and Michele

Thrifty Christmas Goodies

Hello, everyone!  It has been such a long time since we have done a post.  Things have been very busy for us.  Finally we have found some time to catch up on our favorite blogs and do a post!  We are very excited for the upcoming holidays.  We were really happy to recently find some Christmas goodies at some thrift stores.  We are also working on some sewing and crafts for the holidays.  We can't wait to show you all!!

Grandmom Betty's Pretties!

Hello, everyone!  We know we are a little late in showing you all this, but here are some things we sent to Grandmom Betty for Mother's Day. 

First we made a card with a cute little banner.  We cut out triangles from scrapbook paper and used string to attach them.  We added a sweet saying inside, which was found here.  We don't remember where we got the image from.  Woops!  If we find it again, we will make sure to give credit!!

Then we made this adorable case for her sunglasses.

Grandmom Betty sews a lot so we bought her button pins!!  They are so cute, we had to buy some for ourselves too!!

She also gardens a lot, and this garden stake reminded us of her so in it went!

We saved the best for last!!  My mom, Laura, made this sweet pin cushion.  It was inspired by the Cath Kidston's pin cushion, and others when doing a search she came across this one  here.  

Later in the week we will show you all what I got my mom for Mother's Day!! 

Have a great week,

Laura and Michele

Tea Time

Hello, everyone!  My oh my, it has been a while since we have posted a project!!  Yesterday we finally got around to finishing one of the many that we are working on!  We find ourselves wanting to be outside in the garden now that the weather is getting warmer and the flowers are blooming.  We will have to take photos this weekend and show you all. 

We found this project in a magazine, tore the page out, and filed it away in our craft binder. We think it was from a Martha Stewart magazine, but it doesn't say it on the page. As you can see, this page has been around for a while. We have so many buttons, and what a great idea we came across! This project was simple, it only involves a little bit of embroidery. What a fun Spring-y/Summer-y project!

Cick on pictures to get a closer view!

Have a great weekend,

Laura and Michele

Finally!! : )

We are done the button project!!  It just kept getting bigger and bigger.  Ideas kept swirling around in our heads and they were nonstop!!  We had originally planned on doing just one pillow, which was inspired by  Better Homes and Gardens and can be found here, and adding it with some throw pillows that would possibly be made from vintage sheets that we have BUT this pillow sprouted other ideas.  
It started out like this...

We came up with different ideas so that we would have four pillows altogether since we have a set of four pillow forms that we regularly change out with different shams throughout the year. We always make them "envelope" style so we can use the same pillow forms and wash the shams! We love to switch them out because it is an inexpensive way to spruce things up. Like we said before, the project idea started from Better Homes and Gardens but from there we made it our own!! We are quite pleased with the way our pillows turned out. We drew up our own pattern for the birds as well as the tree trunk.

Luckily, we had a lot of green buttons and a piece of fabric which had a print that resembles bark.

We decided to add a bird...

Then along came another pillow with a mommy bird and her babies...

This one turned out even better than we expected!! 

Another bird with embroidered grass and flowers, so Spring-y!  Love this : )

Then we thought of this idea on our own!!  This one is a work in progress...We may add more.  Some of the buttons in this picture have a weird tint to them from the lighting...In person they are clear!  We will have to take another picture on a day when it isn't so dreary!  (It has been raining on and off since Friday and there are trees and telephone poles down everywhere.  Yikes!)

Was it worth the wait?!  We hope you enjoy them as much as we do!!

Happy Friday!!

Hello, everyone!  We were supposed to post our button project but it turns out that today was just too jam-packed.  It also just so happened to be one of those projects that grows into an even larger one than anticipated.  And just when you think you're just about done, you notice it needs a little something here and there...  When we started this project we had a certain idea in mind and from this idea it just started to stem into so much more!!  Does this happen to anyone else?  We normally are great at making deadlines!!  LOL.  We are sorry to disappoint anyone who was looking forward to it. We can PROMISE that Monday WILL be the day that we post it. 

Here are some vintage sheets from a stop at the thrift store.  They will be turned into aprons, valances, pillow shams, or something like that...Ahhh...So many projects that we want to do!!

This is our new sewing box that we got from JoAnn's.  It was 40% off and we really needed one!!

Have a great weekend! : )

We have been busy bees!

Hello, how is everyone doing?  Between our Spring cleaning and the numerous projects we have going, we haven't been able to post much.  We are just about to complete that "mystery" button project, so we will be posting that tomorrow or Friday.  Today we would like to share some of our new garden goodies!!  Now, only if it would warm up so we can get to work!!

More Spring Things...

Here are a few more things we added around the house to get it ready for Spring!

A shower curtain with pretty dragonflies...

A sign with a cute bird from JoAnn's Fabrics...

A girl figurine holding a flower.  Speaking of flowers, we can't wait to get out in the garden!!     

Tomorrow we will be showing a project we just completed.  One down...so many more to go!  We hope everyone is having a wonderful week!