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Holy Moly Holiday Garage Sale Stuff

October 21, 2012 / BY Okio B Designs
I hit a few garage sales and the local church country fair Saturday morning.  I hadn't intended on it, but I came home with a ton of great Xmas stuff!  Super cheap too - just the way I like it. This candleholder needs to be cleaned up a bit.  I may paint it white, but I definitely want to keep the faux berries.  This was $1.  The little snowman ornaments were also $1 for the set. ...

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Upcycled Ikea Jar

October 20, 2012 / BY 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...

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White Wednesday

October 17, 2012 / BY Okio B Designs
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...

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Seeing Stars

October 15, 2012 / BY Okio B Designs
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...

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Some Random Thrifty Finds

October 13, 2012 / BY Okio B Designs
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...

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And the Winner Is...

October 12, 2012 / BY Okio B Designs
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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