Pallet Furniture Collection

Great Ideas -- DIY Inspiration {5}

{Transform your stairs with this DIY Paper Bag Technique @ Lovely Crafty Home}

{Change up your Room with Painted Floors @ Little Blue Chairs}

{Make PVC Pipe Mirrors @ Thrifty and Chic}

{Find out how to make a DIY Fabric Rug @ Simple Home Life}

{PB Knock Off Windowpane Lanterns for free @ Three Boys}

{Make DIY Inspired Blocks @ The Casabella Project}

{Make a DIY Metal Wall @ Moore Minutes}

{Beautiful DIY Table Makeover @ Beneath My Heart}

{Make a DIY Plywood Rug @ SugarBee - Craft}

{Kitchen Makeover for under $100 @ Landee See Landee Do}

{Transform a plastic stool into a Ruffled Footstool with fabric and some imagination @ The Country Chick Cottage}

{Embellish a Desk with ribbon @ Funkymom Cards}

{Make DIY Roman Shades @ Natty By Design}

{Transform an Entertainment Unit into a Play Kitchen @ My Insanity}

{This Beachy Plank Ceiling is incredible @ Beach Cottage in the Dessert}

WOW - over 800 projects linked up this week.

I am so amazed at your creativeness!!!!

Thank you for sharing your talent and inspiring so many each week!

And the winner of the The Answered Prayer from Last Second Miracles book is:

Trina at Living The Dream

Congratulations!!!

And it's Friday!!

Come link up tonight for another fun party!!!

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Welcome to Vintage Finds, a new blog about ideas, inspiration, insights, finds, and all things design. Come along with us as we repurpose vintage finds. It's all about giving an item new life. Our finds are sold at our store, Jarman Interiors & Antiques.

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Here is an example of repurposed architectural finds. This desk was made my one of our clients, he used an old pocket door and two 140 year old porch columns that he bought from our store to construct this desk. Great idea! I love the end result and how rustic it looks. Just add a piece of glass to the top for a finished look. The Windsor chair also came from our store.

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A very small but perfect cottage in the Stockholm archipelago

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Only a short post today. Just wanted to share how excited I am that I found this beautiful tiny cottage near Stockholm, which we've now booked for a week this Summer. I love the painted white wooden walls and the eclectic mix of furniture. Yup - right up my street. It's got a beach, kayaks, a barbecue, a sauna and gorgeous views onto the archipelago. And still within cycling distance of the city buzz (yes, bicycles also come with the cottage!). Bring it on!

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A very small but perfect cottage in the Stockholm archipelago

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Decorating a wall for all seasons -- Spring Specimen Wall Art!

Do you have an area or spot in your home that you like to change out seasonally?

I don't an entry way buffet or table to display seasonal items, so I created a little place in my kitchen that I love to change out during the year.

At Halloween I created these Halloween Specimen Art frames...

During the winter I made some Felt Snowflake frames...

And now that Spring is upon us, I thought it would be fun to create something new for that space. The other day I was tooling around Tai Pan {a really cool home decorating store in Utah/California} and I came upon this $10 frame.

{Check out what she my friend My friend Ellie G. from Less Cake {More Frosting} did with the same exact frame --

Simple Spring Frame.}

It's long and skinny and I thought it was the perfect shape for my kitchen wall.

And then the another night was at Ikea and I found these super cute, inexpensive frames that I fell in love with.

I combined the two and something exciting happened!!

The first thing I did was I painted the silver frame white with some glossy craft paint. Now don't laugh at me, but I didn't even know that glossy craft paint existed until about a month ago. Can you believe that? I love it!

Once I painted my frame, I went to work on the gallery frames. I found three coordinating scrapbook papers and cut them out to fit inside of the frames. Then I decided to do three different things in the three frames.

The first frame I used a Canvas Corp. tiny burlap-wrapped canvas. I met PSA essentials at CHA this year and they were sweet enough to send me the awesomest customized stamp pad. I love it! More information to come on that {as well as a giveaway} but suffice to say that I love it.

I used their alphabet letters and made a "h" to represent our last name.

I used a circle stencil to cut around the stamp and then I sealed it with Mod Podge and used Plaid's Dimensional Magic to create a 3-D look. After that dried, I hot glued a giant bottle cap from Bottle Cap Inc. to the canvas with the "H" on top to the first gallery frame.

I wrapped the burlap frame with some pretty Maya Road ribbon that they sent me. I love the lace look of it. And I also attached a pretty ribbon flower, also from Maya Road, at the top of the frame.

The second gallery frame I added scrapbook paper to and then some Washi tape.

Do you know about Washi tape?? It is the coolest stuff!!! I am working on some projects for a Studio 5 segment and I am loving it!! So cool! You can buy Washi tape on etsy --- like here.

I added the Washi tape to this second frame. And then a birds nest to the center.

The third gallery frame I added the third scrapbook paper to and also some Washi Tape.And the I put the glass on top of it and then I wrapped some twine around the glass and tied the twine . I did this two times at the top and bottom. Then I put the glass and paper inside of the gallery frame. I used some tiny little black clothespins from the Canvas Corp and attached some B&W family pictures to those. So that third frame is a little photo gallery that can be switched out. I really love it!