An old window remake....

Hi Everyone!  I hope you are having a great weekend.  The weather has been great the last few days...thank goodness.  So I've been able to be out in the shop working.  I have almost a month to go before my first craft fair so I've been busy trying to get ready for it.  I've also had several custom orders which I'll show you later this week.  Tonight I thought I'd show you what I did to one of the windows that my Uncle Bill rescued from a dumpster for me which you can see here.

 Here are two of the four windows that Uncle Bill gave me.  I took the one on the left and spent about and hour and a half cleaning it up on both sides.  It was dirty and grimy and gross.  But I got it clean.

 I taped the edge off with frog tape.  And then sprayed the back with Krylon's Looking Glass Mirror-Like Paint.  I just love this stuff but it's expensive for a 6oz can.

 Once it dried, I painted over it with black flat spray paint to protect the mirror finish.

 I applied some dark wax to the front of the window/mirror to give it an aged look.

 I thought the window/mirror needed something so I made this wreath to hang on it out of a pip berry garland that I had on hand.  It has barn red hearts and rusty keys attached to the garland.  The tag says love is the key.  I thought it was the right size for the window/mirror.

And here it is hanging on the front of the window now turned into a mirror.  I need to hang it on the wall in my studio but I didn't want to wait to show it to you.  I like how it turned out.  What would you have done with this window?  I have three more of them.....

The weather tomorrow is suppose to be good and I have a long list of things to accomplish out in the shop.  Thanks for stopping by.

Linking to:
http://www.myrepurposedlife.net/2012/08/catch-as-catch-can-85.html 
http://www.504main.com/2012/08/tickled-pink-no-111.html 
http://www.mysimplehomelife.com/2012/08/features-simply-creations-link-party-70.html 
http://alderberryhill.blogspot.com/2012/08/make-scene-monday-36_19.html 
http://www.funkyjunkinteriors.net/2013/02/sns-175-what-to-do-with-old-windows.html 

Spring wreath....

Hi Everyone!  I hope you had an enjoyable weekend and a great Easter.  I spent the weekend working on projects and getting ready for the fair at the end of the month.  And I have projects to share with you!  But first, I want to show you the flowers I got for my aunt Marge.  My parents had Marge and Uncle Bill up Saturday night for dessert to celebrate Aunt Marge's birthday.

 I just love daisy's.  They make me smile.  And don't you just love this color of purple?

So now onto one of the projects I finished.

 Now that my saw is fixed, I've been trying to get caught up on all the things I started working on before it quit working.  And this was one of them.  I made this little picket fence out of paint sticks and a piece of 1x2" board.  I cut the paint sticks into pickets and glued and nailed them to scrap pieces of 1x2" boards.  Then painted it white and added a bit of antique medium. 

 Then I added them to a grapevine wreath with green and cream pip berries.

 Then I added a couple of dragonflies and a butterfly that I painted.

I think it turned out kind of cute.  And I'm hanging it on my front door until the fair.  Now I just need to build a couple of wreath holders for the wreaths I've made.  Tomorrow is my day off and I have several benches to build so I'm hoping for a very productive day!  I hope you have a productive week!  Thanks for stopping by.

It felt like spring...

Hi Everyone!  Happy Friday!  Yesterday the weather was glorious here.  It was sunny and warm and it felt like Spring!  This has been one crazy winter.  The old farmers have a saying that whatever day the first snow comes on is how many days it will snow.  It snowed first here on the 4th, I think.  So by their call, we should only have four days of snow.  And I think we are at two so far.  No snow in the forecast any time soon.  So with great weather today, I was in the mood for spring, so I made a spring wreath.

 It's bright and cheerful and makes me think of getting out in the garden.  It screams Spring to me!

 I loved this little doll with her garden gate and just had to have her for this wreath.

And of course there had to be a bird on a wreath for spring.

 A cute little watering can was the next thing that just had to be on a spring wreath.

I made these flowers out of small tart pans.  I painted them apple green with a wooden circle painted cream and glued to the center of the tart pan.

 The whole wreath is on a grapevine wreath with a yellow pip berry garland to give it that punch of spring color.  I really like how this turned out.  I'm not sure if I'll be able to put it up for sale rather than hang it on my door.  But then I have time since Spring is not here yet.  So we'll see.  Thanks for stopping by.