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Painting

My Goodwill Pot (which is now much more fabulous than it used to be)

June 7, 2011

I rescued this pot from Goodwill a few months ago. It’s not a supremely fabulous pot…it’s just plastic, I hate the green color, and it was awfully faded and scratched up. But, it was just a few dollars, it was fairly large, and I knew I could make it look more snazzy. How?  With spray [...]

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I hung up some Goodwill frames…come see!

January 25, 2011

Remember these frames? I got them at Goodwill this past summer. I bought them because: 1. They had mats. I love mats. 2. There were 3 matching ones. Frames work nicely in sets of 3. 3. Their lines are simple, which makes for easy painting. The original color wasn’t bad…it just wouldn’t work in my [...]

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Joshua’s newly black bed (for real!)

July 29, 2010

We got this bed back in 2001 as a hand-me-down from an extended family member (Mr. FG’s uncle’s wife’s aunt, I think!). When it arrived at our house, it was stained with a somewhat dated-looking color, and it didn’t go with Joshua’s white dresser at all. So, my younger brother and I scuffed it up [...]

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Aldi + Goodwill = Hanging Baskets

July 13, 2010

I’ve told you before that I’m no master gardener. But, I do like to try my hand at growing food and beautifying the outside of our house with plants, and this year I decided I wanted to put up some hanging baskets. Weis carries hanging baskets, but the cheapest, smallest ones they carry are $12-$15. [...]

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Zoe’s Fish Bulletin Board

June 16, 2009

A few weeks ago I bought this bulletin board from Goodwill for $2. It’s no great shakes, but it wasn’t expensive and it came with some thumbtacks too. I wanted to use this in Zoe’s room, so I sprayed it with some white primer and then some white spray paint and hung it up in [...]

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Want to see my new black nightstands?

March 10, 2009

I’m finally finished painting the two nightstands that I bought at Goodwill recently, so I thought I’d share pictures. First, here’s what our old Ikea nightstands looked like. We had two, and this one was in the best shape. The other one came from an antique store(I know…what kind of antique store sells Ikea furniture??) [...]

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