Junkin' & Creatin'.....

I have enjoyed watching fellow bloggers create cute pieces from spare dishes. cups, glasses, etc. So of course I had to try it! I have never seen anyone use a coffee cup and I thought the addition of a little handle would be so cute! After a very successful (almost to good) trip to Goodwill, I was able to find a number of pieces in which only one of a set was available. (I find it very hard to break up a set of four of more to use as my art no matter how cheap it is.) At this point I have only assembled one piece. Asking what kind of glue???? E 6000 of course! I thought I would save the rest for one of my classes to use a filler for when paint is drying! For me, this was a very inexpensive project that I know I will benefit greatly from its use.

Junkin' Tour on the 20th...

I love to go Junkin'..... To me a good day of relaxing and doing something that I really enjoy includes stopping at a "hole in the wall" in Timbuktu. I look, move stuff around, always in search for the perfect "charming find" or most instances... multiple "Charming Finds"!!!

As an idea, I thought it would be helpful and FUN to have a Tour of your favorite Junkin' Shops or your latest Junkin' Shop find.... I would love to be able to go to any of the Southeast states in Old Nellie stopping at shops that have already been recommended~

And where better to get my recommendations than here in BlogLand....

You may want to include a photo of the front of the store, address and hours. If you can't include all of that, just let us know the name of the store and the general area of location....Of Course you have to include some photo's of the store itself....

IF THE OWNER does not want you to take pictures of their store, shame on them.....

Explain that you are a blogger and you are going to be featuring their store on your blog for a Junkin' Tour (or maybe say Antique Stores, if you feel they may be offended by the word Junkin') Most of them love the free advertising~And most of all don't forget to include a picture of all of your "Charming Finds" from the day.
Wow... did I purchase all of this for $47.00 . The great thing about it.... I altered one piece (one shoe) and the price tag is $55.00! I purchased this Scrabble Game for $1.50 (I use tiles like crazy in my art).

Bottles will be altered by the end of the month with a $15.00 price tag on them...

Recognize these items from the above picture?

I LOVE JUNKIN'
So, don't forget to have your post ready on the 20th of the month for us all to enjoy!

Hint on posting~ Under post options you can go ahead and publish your post before the 20th by putting in the date of 4/20/09 and time. The only thing you will have to do is link me with your blog using MR. LINKY!

Mr. Linky will be waiting on the 20th for you Junkin' Tour!

Just to encourage you to enter~ I will take all of the particpants the next morning and using a random generator, select a winner of a special giveaway!

Look for the giveaway in the next few days.....

Tristan, My new Favorite Artist, Autism & A Conference One and the same...

http://lysaterkeurst.blogspot.com/2009/03/she-speaks-scholarship-contest-for.html
Is it not amazing how God can place you in the right place, right time and with the right person.... The day before yesterday I went to Vintage Village to look at my shelving unit for my "little" store! I decided to make a day of it, make a circle around the the two counties in which I was visiting and end up picking my husband up at our "big" store and going to visit Grandma at the nursing home. One of the stops before picking up Mr. Charming (my new name for him since I have a store!!!) was to drop by Goodwill (REALLY FAST) to see what was on going on! As I arrived and started to rummage though the "trinkets", I noticed this lady with a plunder of rewards of arriving maybe ten minutes before I did.... She was shopping the aisles before me and I could tell she was my kind of junker!!! She looked at me and smiled at the same time looking down into my cart. I had this beautiful wooden tray with cast iron handles for $4.00. At Michael's I would pay at least $20.00 for a tray this size to use for a project and it would not be half as pretty. She said,"I love the tray"..... I don't know why..... But I offered it to her, she offered me a piece of Milk Glass that I was admiring! From that point on we struck up a great conversation, ending up behind each other in the "forever until eternity" checkout line and then we exchanged information. She contacted me last night, leaving me this website...... It was after I read about Tristan that I knew why I met my new friend Ellen McILwain.
See, I know why God put us together now, Mr. Charming knows why I was thirty minutes late picking him up and why now Tristan Bramblett is now my favorite Artist!!!

Please, take the time to go and read Tristan's story, see how HIS life has changed because of parents who were willing to follow God in faith to do the right thing for their children and see what ART can do in a child's life...

Thank God for Parents & Grandparents

like Tristan's and his sister!

http://www.blueelephantcreations.com/index.html

Tristan's Wonderful Art

That YOU can purchase on HIS website!

That brings me to another quick post~

Faye left a comment on one of my post the day before yesterday about Autism. I somewhat ignorned it until now. That is until God punched me on my sore shoulder yesterday and got my attention to look at it again because of Tristan

(TWO CHILDREN WITH AUTSIM IN TWO DAYS

HE WANTS MY ATTENTION)

Anyways.... I am posting Faye's post about an upcoming post on Autism...

This is meant for someone, only God knows, I am just the messenger....

From Faye's blog~ http://justsomethingnannamade.blogspot.com/

My daughter is announcing a collaborated effort by Unlocking Autism and Great Plains of Kansas to bring their FREE Biomed. Conf. to Rome, Ga. This will be informative for anyone dealing with ADD, ADHD, PDD, Asperger or Autism.Free Biomed. Conf.Location: Unity Christian School, upper campus, Hwy. 53, Rome, Ga.Exhibitors: Doors open at 5 to parents 5:00 to 6:00 PMKeynote speaker: Dr. Timothy Callaghan, certified D.A.N! practitioner; The Specrum and the Bio. Med. Maze 6:00 to 7:30 PMSpeaker: Amy Whitlock; A Families Journey 7:30 to 8:00 PMSee http://www.tendergraces.org/ for more detail.Download flyer from site.....Pre-registration required.amy@tendergraces.org

Also... this is all God... I just visited my daughters blog and went to Lysa TerKeurst's blog to look at the scholarship information. I was not planning on attending the conference with my health problems, how could I. Plus, if Whitney doesn't get a scholarship with our store and the economy the way it is....IT WILL BE BY FAITH that GOD is sending Whit! But when I got there I hit Mr. Linky... LOL So, I also am going for a scholarship! And I might be going also!! Georgia to North Carolina... I can do it ~ If God can carry me!

Thank goodness my post was all about Faith today!

But God knew this all the time!

The joke is on ME!

Goodwill Re-do for $2.00 and a Little Birdie....

Little Birdie~ I purchased these cute little birdies at Hobby Lobby on sale for $1.50! Great Price! But I just didn't like the color~ No problem for me~ Just change it!

Tim Holtz Alcohol Ink and a cotton pad for the base. A little brown ink from an ink pad using a make up wedge to high light some edges and a charcoal pencil for fine details. To finish a coat of spray varnish! YEAH ~ A new little birdie to fly and perch onto one of my projects. Finished Birdie
Birdie birdie before my handiwork.....

Cheese Tray from Goodwill for $1.19! Great Buy!!!!

Apply Scrapbook Paper.......

Sand Edges of Tray and Paint Easter Eggs.....

To make speckles on Eggs, Use Toothbrush with brown paint and flick....To finish eggs I sprayed with Spray Varnish.

For me to get the paint finish that I wanted, I painted the tray four different colors of my choice and then sanded the tray. This made the tray look old and used. I then hit the edges with an ink pad to give it more of an antique look. To finish, I gave it a coat of Satin Varnish.

Bottom of Tray....

Tray with nest and eggs!!

Oh So Sweet!

My finished Goodwill Project!

How about this for about a $2.00 project??

I think Birdie wants to sit by it!

Re-do on a "She's 21 Now" Room....

With my daughter growing up so fast, but still in College at Auburn, her bedroom becomes that place of transformation for me. I have watched the High School cheerleader become the ZTA sorority leader and then the ZTA wants to turn into a beautiful young lady. The young lady who wants to start developing her own taste while her mother still commands the bedroom while she is away. The struggle of Mom wanting some of the child to remain while the daughter wants the childish ways to be behind her and the woman to delightfully bloom ahead! What a struggle. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy seeing my daughter grow up. I have grown up to be just like my mother and I see her doing just the same! She has picked up so many of my traits and habits, many I wonder if I have forced upon her.... But the one characteristic that she did get from me that enables her to deny any forced habit.... STUBBORNNESS!

And I guess that is what makes Whitney, Whit!

Today I share with you her room or maybe I should say our room....The new sheets I ordered from Cath Kidston....

Thanks to the Farm Chicks for recommending them!

I will show you her bed made up together with the sheets next week!Who would have ever thought this would have looked good together??? PART of her bottle collection....

I started one when I was very young also... But I crawled under old houses to get mine!

Beautiful Blue Bottles... I love them!

I won't say much about this collection.....

Auburn University Plate (When Auburn wins a tree is covered with TP on Toomers Corner),

A frame that I made with a picture of Whit and a guy that never made it as a boyfriend,

Papa's hat, Angels, Pictures of friends
Lighting for her room and her grandmother's painting and a friend's painting.

Grouping from Pottery Barn with Whit's pictures in it

Whit's Brown Transferwear

Whit loves to antique, goodwill and thrift! She did get that from me! YEAH!!

I hope you enjoyed this post! It was a little different for me!

Goodwill, Recycling = Art

I love to make theses little bottles!

After going to Goodwill and recycling bottles from the kitchen, I have the perfect match! I tried Dawn's tutorial from The Feathered Nest on printing on fabric! It worked perfect and I am sure that I will be using many more times!

This is a really easy project, basically just gathering materials that YOU like and using the correct glues to glue them on!

Paper - Matte Medium

Heavy Jewelry - E6000

Fabri-Tac - Ribbon and Cloth

Hot Glue - Other

I used a rusting process on the lids, drilled holes in the top and wired them around the top.

And I use the E to sign my work for my Nickname......

AuntE and E

Makeover for Fireplace Mantle....

It was time for a change for the fireplace mantle....

I used my Red Candle Holders and Sphere from Hobby Lobby....

My beautiful Wooden Trinket Box from Big Lots filled nuts and vine balls......

Readers Digest Books from Thrift Stores, Yard Sales, Goodwill and wherever else I can find them for .50 cents or less.......

And to finish it off~ Beautiful dried Boxwood topiary that I found at a wonderful antique store between Atlanta and Auburn University on I85.

So.... How do you like it?

Would you like to come into this room,

cozy up to a warm fire with a book?

Or.... Do I need to change something?

I am always open to new ideas!

Goodwill and more Valentine Images...

Mr. Blogger turned my picture sideways for some reason??? LOL

$12.87 ~

Yes, that is all that I spent at Goodwill yesterday.

I felt like I was blessed with some good bargains,

seen a couple of friends and enjoyed the shopping!

What a wonderful day!

Now, to create with my findings!

And for you my dear friends, a few more Valentine images from some Vintage Postcards that I have cleaned up through Photoshop for you to enjoy in your artwork.