Sunday Show and Tell "Trash to Treasure"

Welcome to Show and Tell Sunday. Todays fun topic is trash to treasure. Our hostess this week is the talented Analise of Sugar*Sugar Take this link to her blog to link up with the other featured treasures.

My first piece is a framed box that I actually learned to make while watching HGTV Trash To Treasure. It is constructed of 6 old picture frames. They are all identical. You wouldn't have to have matching frames as long as they were the same size and thickness. You really need thick wooden frames for this project. Take the frames apart and glue each glass panel inplace, then glue 5 frames into a box shape, leaving the top open. The frame on top is your lid. Attach 4 knobs for feet and one for a handle to remove the lid.

Here is a peek down through the lid to all my treasures. I glued a vintage brooch to the knob on the lid. What a fun piece to make.

This next piece is a mirror embellished with vintage jewelry and an angel. A of couple years back I collected enough jewels to have a little bling party. Several of my friends came with a frame or mirror in hand and we whipped out the hot glue gun and bejeweled them. There was a lot of creativity, wine, and blisters from the hot glue. Definitely a night to remember.

This frame was just one of my fabulous finds that I have no idea what I am going to do with but I just had to have it.

It has a funny but embarrassing story to it.

My Mom, sis and I were junk saling and I spied this at the same time a man (stranger to me) saw it.

I said to him, "do you want to race for it?" He got a funny look on his face and laughed then he said, "no my wife won't let me have it anyway." After my purchase we piled into the car and my mother said, "now that wasn't very nice I can't believe you said that to him." "I said why" and she said, "didn't you notice that he had a wooden leg?" oopsy!

I love this frame, flaws and all. I stained a few spots and gold leafed the tips but other wise I just left it alone chippy paint and all.

My giant bunny is treasure to me but he was trash to someone else. Picked him up for a song because of his chippy paint and rusty ears. To me he is just perfect in his shabby chic condition.

After this you will know just how crazy I really am. I talked my girlfriend's hubby into talking back buckets of our beach sand after one of our seaside trips. We were flying and he was driving. He is so sweet that he didn't ask questions. He just loaded it up and brought it to Michigan. I wasn't sure why I needed it but I have found several uses. In this project I used the beachy sand to cast molds for my plaster cherub heads. They came out with a crushed shell and sand finish on their faces. LOve it! Thanks Jerry.

I am a crazy collector. I don't collect anything too normal, mostly odd things. This is a pic of my table that I made out of pottery shards that I collected from the Atlantic Ocean. The shards mostly came from my travels to New Bruinswick Canada and Maine. Love the book and the shells too.

This is a snipit of my huge barn made out of old salvage. I didn't make it. A local artist did. It is made of so many wonderful materials and so, so unique.

This little gem is made from what I think is an old mother of pearl belt buckle, old tat from a vintage hat, vintage silk ribbon and an angel/cherub button. All things that a picked up on my treasure hunts. It makes a romantic little necklace.

My last trash soon to be treasure is an old cupboard that is in poor condition except the doors are perfect. They are all chippy paint with a look of rustic elegance. My Fav! I am thinking of taking the doors and making tables out of them by putting the matching doors together either hinge side in the middle or latch in the middle. I will leave them rustic and just add a sealer.

Or do you fabulous girls have any better ideas for me?

Let me know.

Thank you for joining me for Show and Tell.

Love, love you all.

-Mya