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Frugal Decorating

Salvaged Sunday {Metal Mirror Re-Do}

February 5, 2012

  **Sorry for posting late!  Our family, including myself, came down with the sickies!  Don’t miss the BIG NEWS at the bottom!** I absolutely fell in love with Oil Rubbed Bronze Spray Paint last year after redo-ing my old metal dresser. Remember it?   I don’t know why I spaced it at the time, but [...]

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DIY Chalkboard Menu Board {Salvaged Sunday}

January 15, 2012

I seen this project on Pinterest and I instantly fell in love! We have a ton of scrap wood left over from various projects during Project Major Home Addition {I think Project MAD is a better fit! } What a wonderful way to resurrect an old piece of wood! Source: fussymonkeybiz.blogspot.com via Phoebe on Pinterest [...]

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Bucket of Snowballs {Salvaged Sunday}

December 17, 2011

One of my favorite parts of Winter is snow.  I know some people think I’m weird, but I’m okay with that. {I like to think of myself as a limited edition } An impromptu snowball fight on a snow day {or weekend} is great fun! To show off our love of snow–we created a snowball bucket for our front [...]

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DIY Christmas Tree {Salvaged Sunday}

December 10, 2011

  A few years back I was flipping through a magazine and found a Christmas Tree made out of an old Tomato Cage and I immediately tore out the page and added it to my Seasonal Binder for later use. This was also long before Pinterest!  We have a large collection of tomato cages that are doing [...]

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Refurbished Retro China Hutch {Salvaged Sunday}

October 15, 2011

Roughly 9 years ago Willie’s Aunt and Uncle gave us an old retro china hutch to use in our first home together which was lacking in kitchen cabinets.  It wasn’t the prettiest thing in the world, and was actually missing a leg, but it was functional.  Functional was our goal. Many years and 2 long [...]

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Jack O Lanterns made from Recycled Materials

October 8, 2011

Looking around my house, and through my “Oh, I have to make that!” list–I’ve realized that I have bona fide infatuation with pumpkins! I like to eat them and decorate with them. I’m not sure which one is worse, my snowman addiction or my pumpkin addiction! And come to think of it, sometimes I eat my [...]

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Salvaged Sunday–Tin Can Flower Arrangement

September 19, 2011

 I know it’s Monday–but I’ve been trying to post this post forever, to no avail.  Between camera and computer issues, I’m about to swear off technology.  Ok so maybe not really. I’ve been so excited to share this project with you! Don’t let the name fool ya.  A Tin Can Flower Arrangement is rather stunning [...]

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Salvaged Sunday:: Ways to Reuse Formula Cans

July 16, 2011

  It’s time again for another round of Salvaged Sunday!  This week is somewhat of a repeat of a post I did back in March, when I showed you how I made a personalized pen organizer out of a recycled formula container.  But..since then, I’ve found so many other uses for formula containers {or even [...]

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Salvaged Sunday:: Recycling Glass Jars

July 9, 2011

  Welcome to Salvaged Sunday!  Salvaged Sunday has been a brain child of mine for many, many months now–and I’m very happy to have finally unleashed it!  Every Sunday, I will showcase something that was once meant for trash but has been turned into something new.  My hope is that you will find new ideas [...]

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Frugal Dining Room Makeover

May 12, 2011

Considering Project Major Home Addition, along with a few other major life happenings, kept me from posting here for the better part of last year–I thought it was only necessary that I showed you a current update. And from the emails and comments, you all have been wanting to see them, as well. To avoid [...]

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