Organized Clutter

Here at Organized Clutter, I am constantly looking for ways to decorate and repurpose with vintage finds in my home and flower gardens.   My project today is for junior junkers.  Everything is magnetic so the Jack o'Lantern's face can be changed over and over with other junk drawer items.  Obviously not for children under three, but older children may like creating new pumpkin faces and expressions with magnetic junk. With kitchen ware and utensils in steady and ready supply inexpensively at the local thrift shops, I was able to re-purpose an assortment of junk pumpkins this fall.

Are you a baby boomer?  If you are, chances are you remember the Partridge Family and David Cassidy. My Aunt bought some old comics at a rummage sale recently, and three of them were Partridge Family.  This issue from Charlton Comics is dated January 1972, and the price was 20 cents.  (I was in tenth grade in 1972.)  I know I watched the show faithfully but I don't think I had any Partridge Family comics.

Last April I found an old breadboard for $2 at a thrift shop  here.   I still remember the clerk saying to me at the cash register, "I wouldn't cut bread on it".  I didn't intend to cut bread on it either.  But I loved the breadboard's primitive shape and warm worn patina. At the very same thrift shop just last week, I found a baggie of old Bulldog clips for $1.  This one had a nice aged patina too.

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I saved this photo on my Pinterest boards a long time ago.  I loved the clipboards with vintage photos in their original folders. Pinterest Slowly I found three old clipboards at rummage sales, and luckily my Aunt had one to give me too, to make four. Three of them were A & W Crown clipboards. Here are my four clipboards on my kitchen table.

Are you familiar with a vintage dough riser? This is a vintage or antique dough riser.  I fell in love with the cover first.  It was red. (although I don't think it came that way and was painted at sometime).  It's fairly big.  Maybe too big for my small kitchen but I may use it for a kitchen utensil display.  If it is just too big for my house, I will use it outside in my garden.  I paid $19 for it. My great grandmothers may have used something like this for bread to feed their large families, but thankfully I have never had to bake that much bread.  It would hold a lot of dough.  

The last couple days we have seen a dusting of snow already.  I haven't even put my garden bike away yet.  Really I'm not looking forward to snow, but I made another snowman today. I think I have mentioned a few times before that I go to thrift and consignment shops on my lunch hours.  I live in a small town, and there really isn't much shopping here.  We have no place to look for salvage.  I find a few things at an antique shop once in a while.  So I work with what I can find, an abundance of kitchen utensils and bakeware/cookware.  I started with three mismatched pot lids.

When I go thrifting, I often see zinc jar lids for $1 each.  Hmmm... What could I make with zinc lids? I punched a hole in the middle side of the three lids with a larger nail and a hammer.  Just look at the great zinc patina of these vintage lids.

I think that almost every woman in my small northern Minnesota town either collects snowmen now, or has collected snowmen in the past, including me .  I have purchased and/or crafted hundreds of them.  Though their heyday has past, snowmen will always be a winter and Christmas decoration here in the Northland.  My collection of snowmen is very small now.  I used to keep them out all winter, but the past few years, I have put them away with the Christmas decor. Now, I dream of spring as soon as Christmas is over.  Too bad winter lasts until at least April here (and until May 1st this year).  The older I get the less I like snow, and truth be told, the less I like men too (or at least have much less patience with them), so snowmen have lost most of their appeal with me. Then why did I make a snowman today?  Because when I saw these layer cake pans at the consignment shop, they screamed snowman.  (Just like the other cake pans screamed pumpkin t...

Welcome to Organized Clutter, and welcome to Junkers' United first round up!   I jumped at the opportunity to join this team of talented DIY women, including our fearless leader, Funky Junk Donna. If you are new here, I call my blog, Organized Clutter, because my hobby is hunting for vintage bargains, and using them as home decor.  To manage all of my collections, I need to be organized.