Some days luck finds you and a project just lands in your neighbor’s yard trash pile. Driving to breakfast a few Sundays ago, I found one of those willow looking trees that was once a floor light fixture, but now broken and discarded. Luck? Fate? The project gods smiling down upon me? I didn’t question it. I just knew I had to stop and load it up in my car. It was clear to me from the start that the poor thing must be saved and become a beautiful DIY spooky tree.

Within the last year, I have really gotten into working with epoxy. It is quite an addictive and expensive hobby, but so much fun. For several years now I have been collecting vintage keys and never knew quite what to do with them. Epoxy said hold my beer! Using a silicone cutting board mold I took all of those vintage keys and created an amazing skeleton key cutting board.

Flannel, falling leaves, and pumpkins, oh my! It is getting closer and closer to my favorite season and I am not walking, but running towards it. I know I am not normal. Normal people absolutely love summer and do not want it to end. Me? Not so much. Pumpkin Spice season has officially begun and I could not be happier about it. Fall is full of busy schedules with school, football, and a variety of other activities, but take it from me that there is always time for pumpkin pie. At least that is what this DIY Pumpkin Pie sign will say, but really it is quite true.

Some amazing friends gifted me this headboard. I entertained a few ideas before landing on its new functionality. My first thought was maybe a bench, but it was not quite right. It was, however, the perfect height and shape to create a desk. This repurposed headboard would now have new life as a desk.

One of my very first small projects was upcycling a vintage dough blender into a kitchen hand towel holder. I had seen it in a flea market magazine somewhere (I believe it was a Flea Market Style or Flea Market Decor magazine, but it was so long ago I’m not confident on which one) and was pretty sure I could figure out how to recreate it.

As much as I love my Target and HomeGoods (and believe me I really do and should probably not be allowed in unsupervised) I think it is essential to mix new, old, and maybe some DIY pieces to give your home its own sense of style. Otherwise you are left with style: Target/HomeGoods catalog and as much as I love these stores, I do not want my entire home to reflect their catalogs. I love homes that have personality and a story, which is why having a mix of new and old items is important. Your home should reflect you as an individual.

Books are not just for reading or looking pretty on a shelf somewhere. You can actually upcycle them into a really awesome lamp. Now, being a book lover myself I wouldn’t dare use any classics or just go buy brand new books to complete this project. I would definitely just either use old books that are sitting around your house that are collecting dust. You know which ones; those

A while back ago I bought this vintage wash plunger at an antique store, but it is has just been sitting collecting dust. I always saw it as a light fixture of some sort, but just never did anything with it. At one point I had an old jack and thought about trying to attach the wash plunger to the jack in order to make a lamp of some sort, but that idea never really did anything for me. It sat lonely collecting dust for so long, but this weekend I finally gave some new life to it.

This weekend I took an old medicine cabinet door I had and gave it a makeover. I was already using it as simple wall decor, but I had just gotten to the point where I was looking at it and thought, ehhhh. So I decided to do something about it…

In honor of Friday, I’m flashing it back to a project I finished last year and honestly, I think it is one of the most fun projects I’ve completed thus far. On one of my junking trips I found an old birdcage. To most people it probably looked like junk and well, it might have been junk, but to me it looked like a project in the works.