Feature Friday ~ Old Window Chevron Serving Tray

I was a little slow to jump onto the Chevron wagon, but now I LOVE it!

This serving tray from an old window made by Eclectically Vintage is no exception!  LOVE IT!


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Old Window as a Picture Frame

I LOVE this old window picture frame I put together for my little sis!

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Reclaim-ologists and Other Crafty Chicks

Today I am SO EXCITED to be introducing you to a group that I am a part of called Reclaim-ologists and Other Crafty Chicks. It is an online Boutique on Facebook.

It is a group of about 15 ladies who Reclaim Furniture, build crafts, make beautiful cakes, crochet, and much more!  It all got started because two of the ladies bought a couple things from each other online.  When they got together they started talking, and decided if they combined their efforts in an online boutique it could be a great opportunity to sell their items.  They invited a few other ladies they knew to join in.  It started spreading around facebook and when I saw it I knew I wanted in!  They were accepting a few additional crafters and I was SO LUCKY to be accepted!

It works great for everyone!  As Recliamers and Crafters, Facebook is a great way to share our stuff.  The group is awesome because then everyone's stuff gets shared with 14 other ladies' friends and friends of friends. And our customers love it because they can "go to" a boutique sitting in front of their computer. Also as crafters we have been able to bounce ideas off each other, share tips, and make new friends!

Below you find some examples of the types of things that are for sale on the page.

I would love for you to LIKE our page!

Click here to visit it and take a look around!

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Put Together Your Own Wreath to Decorate an Old Window

This past weekend there was a craft fair in my town.  I have been doing lots of projects to get ready for it.  I have a bunch of old windows that I wanted to do something really cute with them, but haven't been able to decide what to do.  So I kept putting them off.  

Finally the day before the craft fair I decided I would just add a wreath.  On my lunch break I went to Hobby Lobby hoping I would get lucky and they would have one of those cute little wreaths with berries on it.  But they didn't.  All they had was the plain wreaths.  I just bought some berry twigs (I guess you would call them), and the plain wreath.

Sorry I don't have any picture tutorials.  That night was the town rodeo, so I put these together while I sat and watched it.

I just used wire pliers to snip the berry twigs, and then just shoved them into the wreath.  I was happy with how they turned out.

Here is one of the windows.  This one actually came out of our house when we remodeled the nursery and the rest of our upstairs.

To put the wreath on the window, I just put a screw in the center across the top and then tied jute around the screw and the wreath.

After all that work and scrambling to get things done, it was a bummer that this craft fair got rained out soon after it started.  So we didn't have much time to sell stuff.  This window and a bunch of other things are now in my shop!

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Old Window Engagement Photos

As I mentioned in my post about the Photo Covered Magnet Board, my little sis is getting married this June.  This past weekend I went and took engagement photos for her.  She had seen a photo with an old three pane window and their wedding date written on it.  She told me she wanted to do something like that.  So I asked around a few groups on Facebook, and was shocked within 24 hours I had a response from someone that had one, and even lived on my way home from work!

I picked up this window.  It looked really good aside from the paint on the window panes.

That was no big deal though.  I just got out some paint stripper and brushed it on there.  It says you have to wait like 5 minutes or something like that, but I think because it was glass,  the paint started coming off as I was brushing the stripper on.  It also says on the can not to pour the paint stripper into a plastic cup.  Being the rebel I am though I thought oh it will be fine!  I should have taken a picture of my cup. I got done brushing it on and then set my cup on the porch, like ten minutes later the cup was all bent over and just about eaten all the way through.  Luckily I noticed and hurried and threw it in the garbage.  So make sure you follow that instruction when using paint stripper! 

I let the stripper sit on it for probably not even 5 minutes.  Then I wiped it off with a paper towel, and cleaned them with Windex.  And I made sure I wore gloves for the whole process too! 

I was going to put vinyl on the window with her wedding date.  But then I thought it would be cute if later we put some of her wedding or engagement pictures in the panes of the window, and I didn't really want to deal with vinyl.  Then I looked in my craft cabinet and I had some white window chalk (which I have no idea why I ever had that to begin with,) But it worked PERFECT!

Here are a few of her pictures that we took with the window!

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