Okio B Designs

I've had this little Ikea jar for ages. Tried to unload it at our garage sale over the summer, but no takers. So after walking past it for the 1000th time this week, I decided to give it a quick makeover. Excuse the dark photos, it's really dreary here today:

I knew I wanted to do something Christmas-y because this is actually going to be filled with goodies for my Mom. I found this perfect angel image over at The Graphics Fairy. I printed it out onto label paper, so all I had to do was peel and stick to the top.

And yes, I still have tons of this vintage lace leftover. This was truly my best garage sale find ever because I think it cost me $1 and I still have yards and yards of it - two, if not three, years later! I used my hot glue gun to add it around the jar. I took one of my French script joyeux noel tags and tied it on with twine. I finished up by adding some German glass glitter to the image.

I plan on filling it with little notes and photos of the boys. I'll probably also add some other little goodies like trial size perfumes, soaps, etc. for her. One gift down!

Linking to The Graphics Fairy: Brag Monday.

Jeanine

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I picked up this little table a week ago from a garage sale. I gave it a quick makeover using some Annie Sloan chalk paint and a French graphic I bought from Etsy some time ago.

I gave it two coats of ASCP on Sunday when it was semi-warm out. Yesterday morning, I took my reversed image and Mod Podged it to the top. Eight hours later, I used a wet paper towel to remove the paper - leaving just the graphic.

Once all my paper was off (or at least most of it!), I sanded it down a bit to give it a more aged look. I then gave the top a coat of clear spray paint to seal the image.

I'm definitely getting better with the Mod Podge transfer method. Wouldn't quite say I'm an expert yet as I always seem to have some random bits of paper that just won't come off. Either way, I'm happy with how my little $5 table turned out.

Jeanine

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My five year old picked out these paper mache stars at Michael's last week. I was really hoping to decoupage them using the tissue paper method, but - sigh! - it was not meant to be. The tissue paper got stuck in my printer not once, not twice but three times. And you know what they say about three times. Plan B:

I used some old French book paper and pages from the Romeo and Juliet book I got a couple of weeks ago. I covered each star with Mod Podge. Then I glued on the ripped pages from each book randomly all over each star.

While the Mod Podge was still a little wet, I added some flat glitter pieces (Martha Stewart Crafts). Once that was dry, I popped over to The Graphics Fairy and grabbed these two Victorian lady images. I added them to the fronts using Glue Dots.

Now, I am not calling these Xmas ornaments, although they will likely end up on our tree. For now, I'm calling them my Victorian lady stars. ;)

Jeanine

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Wanted to share some random garage sale/Goodwill/thrift store finds that I picked up this week.

I love this! I'm not quite sure what it is. The man at the garage sale said it used to go on the floor, on the bottom of the leg of an old radiator. I thought it was something for a garden hose.

Either way, I love it's rusty, chippy goodness! I'm definitely keeping it as is. Thinking of putting a candleholder in the middle. It cost $2.

This little table was only $5. I'm planning on giving it a ASCP makeover this weekend.

It's been freezing here but it might be 70 on Sunday so I really want to take advantage of the warmth to paint.

I'm planning on doing nutcrackers up and down our stairs this year for Xmas. Got the idea from Romantic Homes magazine. The pirate one is from Goodwill. The other is from a garage sale. I only have three so I have to really get moving if I want to take over the stairs!

Last up is this wood tote. Another Goodwill find. Not sure if you can tell but it has snowflakes on it. While I appreciate the snowflakes for Xmas, it's getting a Frenchy makeover.

Hoping to hit a few more sales this weekend. On the hunt for those nutcrackers!

Jeanine

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Congrats to Lisa Clarke! You won the copy of Flea Market Style via Random.Org. Please email me your address and I'll get it out to you super fast! jeanineb4etsy(at)yahoo(dotcom).

Jeanine

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I swear, I'm not making Xmas items yet. I swear! This project happened quite by mistake. You see, I was trying to make a bat ornament of sorts and it ended up like this:

Burlap angel wings! I'm not quite sure what went wrong with my original bat design, but the head just wasn't coming out right. So I chopped it off and have the first of many Xmas projects.

So you see, I am not purposely crazy early, it was all quite by accident! I used scrap pieces of burlap and sewed them together with red thread. I added some tea-stained seam binding so it could be hung. The joyeux noel muslin finishes it up.

I can see a bunch of these hung from our Xmas tree this year in all sorts of sizes. But I'm going to wait a few weeks before starting them. Don't want to be crazy early. =)

Jeanine