Organized Clutter

I found this old skirt/trouser hanger in my garage recently. I gave it a quick upcycle and now it has a whole new use.

One of my favorite older projects started out with a vintage wooden clothes hanger and an 8" x 10" picture frame.  I still like the project, but I decided to give it a small facelift.

  This garage sale find, a slaw cutter, was one of the items in my  April Junk Finds Blog Post . I paid $1 for it, and the seller had put blue tape on the sharp blade.

  I purchased these three little wooden mini clipboards at Dollar Tree recently. They were $1 each, and I found them near the frame section.

  A thrifted wooden wall notepad holder became a photo display for my grandparent's wedding photo  HERE. Below are 11 more repurposed photo holder projects!

 Frames are usually abundant at thrift shops, however, many are cheap, run of the mill frames that are a dime a dozen. This little orange-y frame caught my eye recently.  I picked it up and paid $1.50.  But it needed a makeover to match my decor.

I found this package of four, round galvanized ornaments in the Christmas Craft section of a Hobby Lobby store.  I don't think they are available online.  They were priced at $3.99, but they were 50% off for the month of November. Of course I purchased them thinking of semi-homemade ornaments, but that's not what happened!

This thrifted shutter was an inside window shutter.  The kind that you put in a bathroom, and the slats open and close.    I removed the vertical wood piece that opened and closed the shutters on the back,  and glued them shut with wood glue.

I purchased two of these vintage cabinet doors at a garage sale recently for $1 each.

 I received this wonderfully chippy old cabinet panel from my Junkin' Friend Jodi!  It just so happened that this thrift shop vintage grater fit the panel's raised center almost perfectly. I love it when this happens! I also love it when my projects are featured in a magazine!

I am kind of our family historian.  I have worked on family histories, and I have a lot of old family photos.  Very few of them are in picture frames.  This  Grater/Slaw Clutter with Rub On Transfers  project above is one of my recent photo display blog posts.   Below are many more of my upcycled/repurposed photo display projects!

 I love old yardsticks.  I once used several for a frame project, and I am sorry that I did. I spotted a plain, new yardstick at our local craft shop.   It wasn't really cheaper than the older ones but I didn't have to sacrifice one of my cool yardsticks for this project.

Do you believe in coincidence?  I had a crazy coincidence yesterday. I picked up these Rub-On Sentiments packages at the thrift shop.  They are rub on transfer words that you rub with a Popsicle stick to adhere them to a surface. Later that afternoon, I noticed this instagram post with graters and RUB ON transfers from q is for quandie. Hmmm.  I just found those rub on transfers!