Hi!!  How is everybody?  I have missed you all terribly. I must apologize for the tardiness of posting.   I can hardly believe that I haven’t posted since the beginning of February.  I have to give mad props to all the ladies who can manage to post multiple times per week.  I don’t know how [...]

Some of you who’ve been with me for over a month may remember the finial I found while thrift store shopping the end of September.  Here is what it looked like then… I even mentioned that it had already received a couple coats of white spray paint and was drying as I wrote that post. [...]

These were Goodwill finds from last year.  I know, I know…slacker.  But they are finished now and I LOVE THEM!!    The key is a bold statement piece at 24″ long and 8.5″ tall.  It was originally a yucky old gold color but I sooo loved the detail and shape.  And as usual, I forgot [...]

Easter weekend I went to my brother’s house for a family get-together.  Now… I have to set the stage for you.  Have you ever seen American Pickers?  Where the two guys drive all over the country stopping at every place that looks like it might hold “rusty gold”?  Yards, barns, outbuildings  are all filled with [...]