Okio B Designs

We've had these lanterns on our porch steps for years. I originally bought them at Home Goods. They were looking pretty beat up after being in the elements year after year.

I love the shape of them though so I didn't want to toss them. So I picked off some of the rust and gave them a quick makeover.

Keeping with my beachy/nautical theme for the porch, I gave them a couple of coats of white spray paint. Then I used some red acrylic paint for the stripe.

Finish up with a coat of clear spray paint, and they are good to go! Quick, easy and total cost: $0.

Jeanine

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Last Saturday, my husband and I celebrated our 12th wedding anniversary. We treated ourselves to a night out for Chinese and a little saki. The bottles were so cute that I tossed them in my handbag once they were finished.

I decided to use some rub-on transfers for them and thought these number signs would be cute.

I also added some tea-stained seam binding to the tops of each bottle. I rolled up some French poetry book paper for one. The other will likely be used as a little vase.

They are happily residing on our kitchen windowsill.

Jeanine

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I'm just about done with the finishing touches on our beachy porch theme. I have a few more things to add like Dollar Store sand buckets, candle holder jars (with sand), citronella candle buckets and the anchor plaques. Here we are as of today.

We spend a lot of time on our porch swing. I bought the cushion from The Christmas Tree Shops. It's not included in my $100 budget as I bought it before I set my budget/theme. It was $29.99. The pillows are from Pottery Barn outlet. We picked them up last year.

I've shown this table and some of these pieces before. Excuse my husband's beer cans in the FIRE bucket. Doh!

Here is the whale my Dad made. Pesky shadow in the photo doesn't do it justice. He did a great job and I love it! The hanging fish are from Gina at The Shabby Creek Cottage's Etsy shop. I bought them in watermelon and blue a couple of years ago. I love both colors but chose to use the watermelon ones for this theme.

Other side of the porch. My Target Threshold ottoman ($35.99 with 10 percent off) landed today. Yay! I love the pop of color it adds. The starfish pillows are also Threshold for Target. They were $14.99 each.

Another ottoman view.

I really love the color it adds to our porch. The green siding with the black LL Bean rocking chairs left it looking a bit dull but now it screams color! And I'm happy that I gave myself a budget and stuck to it.

Jeanine

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My beachy porch theme is slowly coming together. I'm just waiting on a few more items and then I'm pretty confident I've reached my $100 budget. Here a few new pieces that I added yesterday.

I originally had my starfish tucked in a little bucket with starfish decals. Didn't completely love it, so I added them to this urn instead which I'm loving much better now. It got a coat of paint to match the lanterns I did a few weeks ago. The urn was a Goodwill find.

I used this great anchor image from The Graphics Fairy for this twice upcycled watering can. It had some funky 70s design on it originally. Then I painted it pink and the other day I paint it white. So much better now. I added the anchor using waterslide decal paper.

I gave this little clipboard a chalk paint makeover. I originally had it in the kitchen.

Last up is this little starfish tea towel. I used a Dollar Store flour sack and some transfer paper.

My Dad is bringing the whale over today and I can't wait to see it! I also have to add my little anchor plaques that my sister, Kathy sent. And I have an outdoor ottoman scheduled to land today from Target.

Jeanine

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I'm a firm believer that if life hands you lemons, you make lemonade. Case in point, my broken dress form peat pot.

I bought some rub-on transfers from Joann's a couple of weeks ago. Now, I'm no expert on rub-ons. I've only used them a handful of times. After rubbing for what seemed like forever, this transfer just didn't seem to be happening. So I kept at it.

I must have moved it while rubbing because it didn't exactly come out intact. As you can see, it looks, well, broken. Rather than toss the whole thing and move on to plan B, I decided it still had personality and potential. So I added some French book paper, a little flower bling and some shredded sheet music. To me, she's perfect now!

And these are a few more I did with a little less drama. They are in my Etsy shop.

I wouldn't say I've mastered rub-ons but I have it down to an inexact science.

Linking to Knick of Time Tuesday.

Jeanine

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We had such a crazy busy weekend that I wasn't able to take in any garage sales. Boy, am I itching! I did pop into our local church thrift store and found these two goodies.

Not sure how old the jewelry piece is but I found it to be interesting and unique. Thinking about painting it white.

The old compact doesn't have too many markings but it's in great condition for an old piece. I love the fabric and embroidery on the top. It says Elgin American. I'll have to look that up so I can find out a bit more about it.

Not bad for $2!

Jeanine