I love this blog, it has introduced me to so many new and exciting people. Attached to this little slice of the internet is Flickr where I store many of my pictures. I started a Salvation Army Refurb Flickr Group which I have renamed THRIFT STORE REFURBS a while back and a woman by the name of Bridget Navoda Giunta joined. Yay! I am constantly inspired by her vision. Bridget finds broken down unloved items and gives them a life grander than those items could ever have possibly longed for. Am I being too wistful? Too bad!
That crown/doggy tray makes me swoon. I want to put my earrings in it before I go to sleep. The chair? She found for $8, painted it the most awesome color blue and attached the front from a needlepoint pillow for the seat. Love it. Don’t get me started on that blue nightstand with the bird paper decoupaged on top, I could go on all night. The shelves to the top right? Was a falling apart hutch. She paid $1 for it. Now? Gorgeous book cabinet. the upholstered bench? It was previously a headboard/footboard.
Chicken wire, I can’t stop you.
Have you see this chandelier at Anthropologie? It’s $798.
I bet Bridie could whip one up for $20 with stuff stashed in her kitchen drawers and a quick trip to Michael’s for birds. You’re right, she probably already has the birds.
May 20th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
Love it! Thanks for hooking us up with other great blogs.
Am going to Miami area this weekend? Any thrifting spots I have to go to? Any at all?
May 20th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
Awesome! I kinda sorta make resale stuff like this for cheap, but when I try to get the big bucks (and I’m talking under $200) people don’t appreciate the amount of time that goes into it. People suck. And I’m drunk. So I shouldn’t be posting right now. Edit please if you need to. Thank you.
May 21st, 2009 at 5:07 am
I so had that light on my summer DIY try list – isn’t it awesome?
May 21st, 2009 at 7:24 am
What a great group, I joined. I hope they let me post finds from other thrift stores, like my $2 Habitat for Humanity chairs, yea! I heart redone furniture.
May 21st, 2009 at 7:28 am
Jessica – Thanks for joining! I’m the Admin. on that group so no worries about posting things from other thrift places/tag sales, etc. I should have named the group something else…I wasn’t being very creative that day! LOL
May 21st, 2009 at 7:32 am
those dressers are gorgeous. outstanding.
May 21st, 2009 at 7:34 am
I changed the name on the group, took out SA.
May 21st, 2009 at 1:55 pm
Wow I wish I had that kind of talent.
May 21st, 2009 at 3:18 pm
Very inspiring. Love that stuff!
May 21st, 2009 at 6:02 pm
I’m going to be in West Palm Beach but I suck at SA shopping. I would walk right past something you’d buy, Jean. That said, I will give it a shot and call you if I see something possibly worthwhile…
May 21st, 2009 at 6:07 pm
Yay!
May 22nd, 2009 at 6:41 am
The dog tray looks like John Derian! The other things are fab. I am jealous.
May 22nd, 2009 at 10:32 pm
Danny Seo just made a knockoff of that chandelier, and I immediately added it to my to-do list! (http://www.dailydanny.com/?p=1373)
I’m coveting that bookcase too!
May 27th, 2009 at 8:55 am
What a fab idea for a flickr group! I’ve never flickred (I know, I know…the horror) but I should get together some of my crafty thrifty bits and hop over there with them! Yay…more time sucking fun for Laura!!
May 29th, 2009 at 5:30 am
WoW…thanks! Oh my, that light fixture has my name written all over it, gotta make one! and yes, i do have lots of tiny little birds stashed in my kitchen, my studio, my office, my mind!