Card Table Set Makeover

 

One day this summer we went garage saling with some friends.We took a large van and pulled a trailer behind it. We headed north, toward Lorain,Ohio and hit a few estate garage sales. It didn’t take long for the trailer to fill up! We had a great time and found lots of bargains.

 

I picked up this old ugly looking card table set for under ten dollars…

 

 

The last few days have been unseasonably warm, thus giving me the urge to go outside and spray paint something. (the forecast is calling for a forty degree temperature drop by tomorrow .. only in Ohio ) I went into the shop where I have a stash of junk future treasures and chose to redo this card table set.

 

I started by removing the table top and chair seats.

 

 

 

I used a water based paint and my sprayer to apply.

 

 

This color is one of my favorites, walnut valley haze mixed with a little bit of white.

 

I purchased this vinyl table cloth that I used for the top and seats at Family Dollar. (notice the price!) I think I checked eight different stores before I found one I was satisfied with!

 

 

 

 

Since my large stapler staples would go through the cardboard, I borrowed my son’s little stapler. I also glued the edges. Since the staples didn’t go very deep, I felt the cloth should also be glued.

 

So again, here is the “before”…

 

 

And now, the after…

 

 

Pretty amazing what a little bit of paint and a $3.50 table cloth can do!

 

 

 

 

 

 

I hope you enjoyed this makeover as much as I did, and are inspired to think twice before getting rid of “junk” that may still have potential!

 

Thanks for visiting..

-Mary

Thrifty Fall Table Scape

Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower  -Albert Camus

 

I know I’ve used this quote before, but isn’t it true? Fall never ceases to amaze me with it’s many striking colors!

With any season, I love to bring the beauty of nature indoors. The last few months I was pretty well booked full with tea parties and I decided to use white pumpkins, old wood and some grape vines for the table center piece…

 

 

For the napkins I rolled them up, wrapped a piece of natural hemp around them and added a leaf…

 

 

 

For the evening parties I used candles for the lighting…

 

 

For the tags hanging from the pumpkins, I just printed out the letters and glued them onto burlap squares. I tied them using hemp string.

 

 

All these decorations were very simple to fix and I didn’t spend much money at all!

I have a few other areas in our home that I place leaves to bring some fall color inside…

 

 

For a tutorial on the burlap pumpkins click here.

 

 

On a different note I want to share some of the fall beauty that I captured cruising the country roads in our area. (Holmes county was after all, voted in the top three for fall beauty in the world!)

 

 

 

 

Love old, abandoned buildings…

 

 

 

 

 

A few weekends ago we were down to the lake for a little get away, and I managed to bribe my guys into taking some family pictures. I did manage to capture some pretty good ones, but of course, there were these too..

 

The shoe photo bomb…

 

 

The distracted trio because of an old truck cruising down the road… (believe me, the photographer was a little distracted too.. love historical vehicles)

 

 

 

 

The clumsy photographer vault …where the photographer didn’t make the first jump onto the log in the twenty seconds she had to get situated into the picture…

 

 

The beauty of the lake..

 

 

 

After all the driving around, looking at fall splendor, it was right here at home where some of the nicest colors were!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy November, everyone!

 

-Mary