Tuesday, November 11, 2014

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…

 

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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 Sad smile) 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.

 

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

 

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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!

 

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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”…

 

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And now, the after…

 

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

 

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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

Monday, November 3, 2014

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…

 

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

 

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For the evening parties I used candles for the lighting…

 

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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.

 

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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…

 

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For a tutorial on the burlap pumpkins click here.

 

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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!)

 

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Love old, abandoned buildings…

 

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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…

 

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

 

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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…

 

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The beauty of the lake..

 

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

 

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Happy November, everyone!

 

-Mary