Full disclosure: we totally stole this idea from Heritage Salvage in Petaluma. But we did make it ourselves. Actually Steve did all the work. I just helped choose the spools and the board. These are antique spools from some kind of industrial sewing machine. Heritage Salvage has bushel baskets full and they make these really [...]
Archive for June, 2011
How to make a vintage spool coatrack
Posted in Designing, Scavenging, tagged DIY ideas, Heritage Salvage, salvage coat rack, vintage spool coat rack on June 28, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Don’t gotta tell ME twice!
Posted in Building, Gardening, Scavenging, tagged garden ideas, how to build a path, landscaping ideas, outdoor path on June 23, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The first path I made at the Schoolhouse, which tamed a steep area from the driveway down to the house, was a success from a budgetary perspective, in that it looked great and was made entirely out of things I’d found or gotten for free, but it was a dismal failure in the water management [...]
How to frame art on the cheap, part 2
Posted in Building, Designing, Scavenging, tagged cheap frames, frame art inexpensively, how to make picture frames, paint by number on June 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »
My first big framing project involved vintage postcards and photographs and I was pretty darn proud of the sources I discovered and of how cheaply I got everything framed. But for my paint by numbers gallery, I wanted to go even cheaper. As in, free. And guess what? It’s not actually that hard to make [...]
“The second best time is now” – paint-by-numbers and me
Posted in Designing, Shopping, tagged art, mid century fad, paint by number on June 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Let me be clear – as with investing in California real estate and seeing Bruce in a small, intimate club, I missed the boat on collecting paint by number paintings by a good number of years. The time to do it, REALLY do it, was before I was born, when they were in disfavor and [...]
Why my husband thinks I am a scary freak of nature
Posted in Designing, Shopping, tagged antiquing, consignment stores, home decor ideas, junking, vintage art on June 4, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Last weekend we took a new route and passed a funky looking consignment store we hadn’t seen before. My husband didn’t want to stop but I pouted so he turned around and we went back. It’s called “Great Finds” and for anyone traveling in Sonoma County it’s 6140 Highway 12, just outside of Sebastopol. It’s [...]
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