Fix it or Trash it: Project #3

Okay, I can't tell you how many I've crammed this hat from box to box. 7 + years. Somewhere around that amount of time, anyhow. I purchased it at a yard sale (as usual), with the intentions of "fixing it" (again, as usual). 

This was a project on my 2012: Creative Overdrive is On list to be done. Here's what it looked like in the beginning and then, my finished product:

Plain Old BORING Sunhat

FABULOUS Dark Blue Sunhat with White Pearls

Much better, I think! I feel like Miss Daisy in it! You think Andy will chauffeur me around?!?! Yeah, I know....my imagination gets carried away with me on a regular basis! 

Fix It or Trash It: Project #2

So, I bought this adorable vintage candy dispenser at a yard sale years ago. As a matter of fact, I couldn't tell you how many years ago it was. It has $3 on the bottom is Sharpie Pen, but I don't think I even paid that for it. I HAD to have it (if you're a yardsaler, you know that goes). It's been in pieces since I bought it, underneath my hutch. Since I've started couponing, I needed more room to stash my stockpile, so it was time to Fix It or Trash It! 

Owen loves marbles, but my feet do not! I had to find a home for the marbles and so it goes....

Fix It or Trash It: Project #1 Finished

Yard Sale Find: Before

I'm notorious for picking something up at a yard sale, Goodwill, Salvation Army or a local consignment  shop with the intentions (the best intentions) of "fixing" it and it making it mine. I've always had a knack for putting my spin on an otherwise unusable object. I used to make clothes for my Barbie Dolls out of my old clothes. The thing is, it takes me forever to get around to it; whatever it is!

I made a deal (with myself), fix it or throw it in the trash! Well, this is Project #1 and I think it turned out pretty cute. The frame was really cool, but just didn't measure up (to me) with plain wood. The plexi-glass is a little scratched up, but you really can't see it too bad. I painted the frame black, washed up the glass and inserted my favorite subject --- Owen.

Tadaaaaaaah!

Yard Sale Find: After

It only costed a couple of bucks and it's cute now! I've had this frame for five years or more, crammed into whatever space I could fit it in without bending it! Finally finished =)