CELEBRATION PARTY

Dear Friends:

I am so happy, we reached our  "200 th. follower. I am so thankful, and humbled, that 200 beautiful people follow my little blog. Bloggers are great people, usually professional woman, moms, that
have careers or had a career and now they enjoy a second part time career in DYI, decorating, painting furniture with Chalk paint, or latex, making cute chalkboards, pillows, signs, pinwheels, and much much more.  What I really like about bloggers is their creativity, ideas, guts,
and just good common sense.  Why buy new when
you can take something from the past, and make it
beautiful again?  I could never understand people
who buy "new".  I hate stuff from China, I'm sorry, but our furniture, lamps, dishes, rugs, etc.
has texture, character, and will save our earth.

Thank you for following my blog, I enjoy writing
and all of your comments.

I would like to thank one blogger that has helped me and encouraged me not to give up, her name is Denise, from the "Pink Postcard" blog, she is so talented, and sweet, we email each other and exchange ideas, thanks Denise, for being even we live in different coasts, we can be "friends".


I thank you from the bottom of my heart.  As you know I enjoy blogging is better than therapy.I'm not one to show all my dirty laundry, and I don't make any money with this blog, so its just fun,
and friendship with gals that like antiques, vintage
collections, junk, paint, crafts, and don't care if people call us names, and don't understand our obsession with the past.  But to find a little piece in such bad condition, then transform it into a great piece is fabulous

I'm working on this little table with lots of details.
It needs a lot of work, but after the "transformation"
its going to be beautiful.  I'm thinking white with
what else but blue accents, it has a lot of little
thingis everywhere.


Have a wonderful day,

Martha

Beautiful handpainted pieces!!

Dear friends:

I am amazed at this transformation, love it, Stacey from "Embracing Change" did a "similar" chest that
Marion from "Miss Mustard Seed" did about a few weeks ago.  Its just beautiful, she did it free hand or with a stencil, I'm not sure, but the end result is so sweet, I had to share with you.

  Stacey painted this chest and her
inspiration was this,


  This is a beautiful chest painted by Marion, but they are both just very nice.

I admired this stenciled floor, just beautiful:



Another idea is this Morocan chicken stitch stencil, you can find it
here, this was in a Better Homes and Garden magazine,
http://www.royaldesignstudio.com/products/chicken-stitch-border-moroccan-stencil

Love this stencil and paint job Annie Sloan chalk paint.

Great inspiration,

Martha

Katecreativesalvage: From Trash to Treasure

Katecreativesalvage: From Trash to Treasure

Tutorials Pinwheels

Hello friends and happy Saturday. I have to apologize some of you were looking for the tutorial at the bottom of the page, but I forgot to link this page, what was I thinking, this is what happened when you blog late at night. I was on a roll putting a few tutorials together, the videos, and other things that I make so you can make them also. I don't mind sharing, but here it is, hope I link it right. Oh, I'm also trying to go to some parties, be a bit more "out there" its not my style, but in blogland is a what you are suppose to do.

One thing you can do is before you start spray your pages with a sealer to make them stiffer, I didn't because my pages were good. Also if you
like glitter, you can add it on the edges, but I don't like glitter that much, I like things organic, old,original, kind of things, the more "natural" the better.

I made the cute pinwheels and they are so cute, I wanted to share the tutorial with you. I hung them on an old frame I painted, and added some lavender, just for fun. I made some holes and threaded them kind of rustic and organic. You can
hang them with the little clothespin, this is just how I did it.

Materials:

You need: some book pages, ( I used some pages from an old book that is in bad condition)

You will need: scissors, the old glue gun, a ruler, small clothespins, ( I didn't have any, so I used a hole puncher, and made a hole on each one and thread it some old twine. Your choice.

This is a simple tutorial:

First of all cut your paper into a square 4" by 4"

I am a visual learner, sorry

for my light in this picture, but here you will fold the paper into

the two triangles.

Now, we have two triangles. Take the scissors and cut on each triangle line a little bit towards the middle. You will cut four times.

Now you are ready to fold your first triangle and put a dot of hot glue in the middle, be careful, don't get burned.

Now, make the next fold and glue a dot in the middle.

And you are done, very easy and cute.

Now, you need to decide if you want to use the mini clothespins or run a ribbon or twine like I did.

Just make about seven of them and you will have a beautiful unique pinwheel banner that nobody

else has in their home, feel proud and "make and display" you are a star. If you make one please

send me a picture and I will feature in my blog. A great idea is to make one for "Memorial Day"

red, blue, and white, I am motivated and might do one for the barbecue on Monday,

I hope you enjoyed the tutorial, and try it.

Blessings,

Martha

Happy 4th

Dear Friends:

So 4th of July Inspiration.  I did a tutorial on the pinwheels, I just love them, the tutorials are at the end of the blog. Easy and cute for many parties or just to decorate.
These are from the Brown Shed,

From "Country Living"  so cute,




Cute pillows I have the stripe one but I need to make a all star pillow. 


I found these lovely at :
From vignettedesign.blogspot.com

I'm proud to be an American.

Martha