Sweater Frames

As soon as I saw this on The Farmer's Wife blog I knew I was going to be making one!

http://thefarmerswifeiniowa.blogspot.com/2010/11/green-gifts-fair-preview.html

Attached a piece of an old sweater on a cardboard cut to fit the frame, used a spray on glue. Then added this ornament with hot glue. I added an ols button to the center.

What is so nice about this project is if you wanted to make it more sentimental, use a sweater fro someones childhood and attach a pair of their out grown mittens.

Also, it is easy to find a color that matches your living room colors and lots of different things can be added to make it interesting.

Well I actually made two......

Glittery words would be fun too!

Merry Christmas!

Snowglobe Cloche

I found this great glass vase at a thrift store for a dollar, I went to my box of snowmen and selected one and got out my fake snow. I taped the snowman to the bottom of the wooden green box and put some snow in the glass cloche and turned the box upside down to get the snowman in the cloche then flipped it right side up. Some of the snow stayed on the glass sides and now looks like a snow globe with NO water added!

To make the glass vase into a cloche I used 6000 glue to add the porceline ring and a 1/2 of a small glass container. I think it was a small candle at one time with a lid.

Happy Holidays

Christmas Ball Wreath

Everyone in the junkin world has seen these already, but it took me a while to find balls cheap enough and all at one place to make the wreath, I wanted to do it multi colored but I found these balls and was hoping to have enough to make a wreath.

I used an old wire wreath form and covered it with gold garlaand from a dollar store, then hot glued the balls in place, I started from the inside, some directions say to start from the out side edge.

The backside▼

special effect▼

Not sure If it will stay on this wall, but will do for now.

I am doing a more simpler christmas decorating style this year!

Happy Thanksgiving

My Daughters First Project

A couple of posts ago I mentioned http://www.newdressaday.com/ website that my daughter was following, theres is only 2 weeks left. But anyway this is my daughters first project, I got a bag of dresses for her at a thrift sale and with her 5 dollar sewing machine I gave her, waalaa! She did the photo herself and posted it on the new dress a day facebook page.

Junk From My Closet II

This used to be an old turtle neck but I turned it into a kind of shrug. I found instructions by searching t-shirt upcycled or reconstruction on google. There is a ton of ideas out there!!

Junk From My Closet

A couple of weeks ago my daughter told me about this website how a 27 year old girl is doing a new dress a day with old dresses she finds at thrift stores and yard sales and has a blog called 365 days,365 items of clothing for 365 dollars, http://www.newdressaday.com/ So a look through my closet I found this blouse I haven't worn for years, it was dingy yellow and the facings from the button front always hung open. I decided to redo it. Firts I cut off the sleeves, sewn down those pesty facings and cut it a v-neck and doubled it over and sewn it down. I was thinking of dyeing it as that is what the girl from the blog does but a soak in oxy clean made it white again. This is a before picture.....

And here is the after......

Close up of the buttons and the front fabric.

Now to my surprise my daughter has asked me for one of my sewing machines cause she is going to give it a try!

Canning Jar Wreath Continued

Here is the finished wreath, I call it "Come In And Eat Some Home Cookin"

Just some random found objects that I have had waiting for the right project. I was thinking of selling it on Esty but have decided to keep it. There was actually other things I was going to put on etsy but never got around to it this summer.

Now with the school year ready to start, Junkin Jane will be slowing down even more. Thanks for the great comments, wish I had more time to look around all the great blogs out there. Sometimes I get to look at them but commenting takes more effort for me. Hope everyone had a great summer!

Canning Jar Lid Wreath

I haves seen these a couple of times here on the WWW and I knew I wanted to make one. I had some but needed more, I got some from my Mom and then one day I found some at a yard sale so I bout them, The lady said as I was leaving "Happy Canning" little did she know...

Held together with a heavy wire and twisted tight to keep the lids in a circle.
Not quite as rusty as I would like, I could let them outside so they could rust up more.
But I decided to do more to it, I will post the other pics later, but for now,

Happy Canning!

Inspiration Photos

Thses are some fun photos I found on flickr I made a mosaic out of it usung flickrtoys...
It helps to keep things together in a group. If you click on the links below you will get to see the whole photo and who took the photo.



Created with fd's Flickr Toys

1. Lily of The Valley Embellished Bottle, 2. Wish box w/lid, 3. vintage photo collage house trio, 4. Inchie Set, 5. Blue and Yellow Daisy Button Bouquet, 6. Fabric Flowers, 7. Higgins & Doolittle - April 2010, 8. Apple Book, 9. 9168, 10. robot sculptures * BUTTONS, ANGRY ANGIE, NATURE GIRL, 11. paper flower on door, 12. Garden_April2010_02, 13. Inspiration board, 14. Junk for Joy!, 15. altered art bag, 16. Curiosity Blocks, No. 1