DIY Jewelry Holder

My youngest daughter just turned 13. She is my partner in haggling at the flea market every weekend. It is a great time we share together. I hunt down china plates and anything that looks interesting to mosaic or paint and she has a love of vintage jewelry. She has collected so many pieces and keeps them in a vintage train case we found, of course, at the flea. They were getting so tangled in there so for her Bday, I decided to paint a canvas that coordinates with her room and added cup hooks along the wood frame to display her finds. I also gave her train case a face lift...gifts of love are the best kind. Don't you think? She was so happy with it and now has a place to show off her finds that is both functional and pretty!

Inspired by her bedroom...

Mother/Daughter DIY Accent Table

My daughter and I found this table at the flea market for $5 and decided to jazz it up some for her bedroom. The inspiration her comforter and hibiscus flowers I painted on her wall.

We gave it a fresh coat of white spray paint. My daughter did the stenciling using left over paint from her walls and a stencil we bought on eBay. I trimmed it out in aqua blue craft paint and gave it a coat of polycrylic. Lastly, we glued on the glass beads we had picked up at Michael's a while back using mosaic glue applied with a tooth pick. Now she has a new to her side table for about $15. Here it is...

Vintage china mosaic table

This is what I love to do...vintage mosaic tiling! I found this OOAK heart shaped tilt table on Ebay, love Ebay, Craigslist, garage sales and esp the flea. I would love to see what you have changed up or repurposed. Wish I took before and afters but will in the future...just love seeing others before and after pics. I am so psyched, in the process of getting my web site up. So happy to have found Susan @ onespringstreet.net. She has been so helpful with her quick responses to my many questions and her designs are beautiful!

Flea Find...Secretary Desk

This was my fab find from two weeks ago when my daughter and I did our typical Saturday, earlier than she'd like "flea run". The price... 20 bucks marked down from 40...what a steal, I mean deal. I didn't have enough cash so I gave the vendor 10 to hold it and bee lined it to the nearest ATM. No problem loading it into my Pilot with the help of the very fit vendor but once we got it home, different story. It wasn't pretty. This piece was really heavy. My daughter, Julia, all of maybe 95 pounds helped me pull it out while I was frantically yelling... watch the bun feet. Now it's safely in my garage waiting like so many others for my attention. After finding him I reached out to the blogging world and found this inspirational post... http://futuredomesticgoddess.blogspot.com/2010/02/wordless-wednesday-secretaries.html Oh the possibilities!!!

I have been enthusiastically reading other blogs for inspiration and love the ideas and camaraderie that goes along with it...so here I am starting my own. I am always involved in more projects than I can keep track of and it blows me away how some of you can bang out something amazing in days and not get sidetracked by life. For all of those bloggers I follow, I want to say thanks for making my world a more productive, inspired and happy one. Peace and happiness to all of you...Sue.