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How To Make Drawer Pulls from Spoons
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How To Make Drawer Pulls from Spoons

My kitchen makeover, to rid ourselves of the fifty shades of brown, is trekking along. Until it stopped. It stopped because I could not find handles or drawer pulls in the big box stores that I loved. My cabinets and drawers originally had no handles, pulls, or knobs. Just indentions to open them. I wanted…

A New Purpose For a Standing Mirror
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A New Purpose For a Standing Mirror

While we were attending Vintage Market Days in San Antonio at the beginning of November Amory and I had the chance to meet our cousins in Castroville. Castroville, Known as “The Little Alsace of Texas”  is a small town with a rich cultural heritage just 20 miles west of San Antonio. On the day we went…

Makeover A Pie Safe With An Easy Distressing Technique
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Makeover A Pie Safe With An Easy Distressing Technique

I’m slowly doing the necessary makeovers on the furniture that we took from our old life into this new and wonderful life. This pie safe needed a makeover – it wasn’t my style anymore. I was also excited to try and see if a candle and packing tape method to distress would work. (Spoiler alert…

A Bike Wheel Rim Gets New Life As A Web On This Halloween Mantel
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A Bike Wheel Rim Gets New Life As A Web On This Halloween Mantel

When I created these spiders they needed a home. A place to call their very own. And that’s how a bike wheel rim gets a new life as a web on this Halloween mantel. I actually began with a large embroidery hoop from my craft closet but could not get the middle strings to stay…