THRIFTY THURSDAY....MY GREATEST FIND YET!

Okay Im going to try and contain my enthusiasm, BUT OMG.....this has got to be one my greatest find yet!  Do I even need to tell you that I found it on Craigslist...yep sometimes my addiction pays off in a fabulous way (at least thats what I tell Big Daddy J) lol

Isnt he beautiful...I would say she but it has a masculine touch to it I think

Love the matching bolster pillows and the wood frame.

Here is the bottom detailing

This sofa is over 93" long and it fit in my mini van (i hated buying one but have come to discover a new found love for it)  She serves my junking trips very well.

The center cushion has already been reupholstered in a very nice green chenille fabric.  They wanted to reupholster it all but then decided to buy a new one instead.

Isnt the side detailing so pretty

This is the fabric and it's in fairly good shape...the cushions need some TLC but the fabric on the frame is OK.

I love the side wood detail too.

This is the back of the sofa...she how good he looks.   Dont mind the big tarp...we got rain yesterday and it is on my front porch so I had to protect him from the weather.

I just want to say that Im so happy that the owner D was so sweet enough to hold this sofa for me while I went away and let me pick it up yesterday.    It was her grandfather's and she wanted it to have a good home.  You all know that I love to find treasures and re-purpose them and sell them to new owners...but this handsome specimen will be staying with me.  I've wanted a long sofa w/wood detailing for ever and to have been so lucky to get one like this I cant even think of letting it go.

-MJ

THRIFTY THURSDAY....THE COLLECTION

So lately Ive been bravely sharing my secret love for junking here on my blog.   It's not as popular up here in the Northeast.   Only old men in pick ups drive around looking for scrap metal up here.  But Ive been brave and Im now coming out to you all.   Anyone who knows me in my world knows that I'll do a drive by the night of yard sales and night before bulk pick up.    I also scour Craigslist for FREE finds as well as small tickets items...and Ive been extremely lucky.  My house is literally created from Craigslist items!

I dream of owning my own brick & mortar shop one day but until them I love Etsy and Facebook to showcase my creations.   Im going to share with you items that are new to the shop and some that haven't even been listed in Etsy yet.    Some have found a place in my heart and my home too.

They're made from old, vintage, junk items that I've repurposed or just tweaked in my own little way to give it that Lucky 7 style.

A new Etsy collection made by me from old junk

Wall Hook Set w/vintage hardware

Shabby'd switchplate created by me for Etsy shop

Distressed white shelf brackets

Round Wall Hook Set made w/ vintage hardware

Re-purposed gold frame now crackly, chippy white.  I created a mirror mat for an old family photo, this is a shop item without my photo of course. lol

Vintage pie tins & handmade shutter star for Etsy shop

Vintage beverage box from PA

Fits perfectly into this totally vintage display...whole thing might be moving to a shop soon. 

FREE Craigslist chair (thank you Peggy)

It's a home in this corner with other CL finds like the elephant table and vintage birdcage.  

Solid Brass candlesticks from yard sale

Perfect on this vintage cart displaying old tin serving trays and 20+year old Lenox platters.

Another CL find...Vintage sewing cabinet paired w/ old makeup case (Peggy again)

Purchased this display mannequin but she's now become my Book Worm Muse (she's wearing my new Red Riding Hood necklace) she is covered by the way in pages from an old dictionary...they have a lovely yellow color to them.

Rolling pin (Peggy again), Repainted Chalkboard (Peggy) and the garland I made myself on a shoestring. lol  No literally it's a shoestring with felt and denim circles.  This is going to my June show.

RECYCLE - REUSE-REPURPOSE is the universal 3R's of Recycling, but I think we need to throw in there a 4th REDESIGN!

Joining these fabulous parties this week:

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WHAT'S UP WEDNESDAY

With no internet the past few days, let's just say I had a lot of time on my hands.   Nap time seemed much longer and here is what I was up too.  

Just because I was sitting at home with nothing to do, doesnt mean I need to run out and go shopping (although I will never past up a good stroll through HomeGoods, Target, or Lowe's. lol    I can't sit in a room without looking around and thinking of what I can change, but I want to reuse what I already have in my home.

My recent junkin trips have been so awesome and it's just another way for me to live a more green lifestyle.  Re-using old furniture or old houseware items mean they stay in circulation in our population and not in a landfill somewhere.  

So as I was sitting on my leopard Craigslist sofa (yep, it's recycled) reading my new issue of Flea Market Style Magazine (I also save them to refer back on, sometimes I spare a few mags for the kids school projects) I started looking at the front window area and how it was bothering me and also above my mantle.  Inspiration struck and here is what happened next.

This was my living room last summer....see that hanging between the windows

It was my safari wall decor from Home Goods...well I had to redesign this too.  The animals were not balanced they had 2 dark and 2 light, well it just looked weird.   Now it was going to be repurposed!

This was last Christmas and the beginning of mantle transformation...see the center piece.

Sorry Bed,Bath & Beyond...Im doing some double sided art work.   I flipped the canvas board out...covered it with brown shipping/craft paper I got in a shipment (recycle your shipping materials) and then dry brushed on  an espresso glaze .

Ta-da....this is now above that eyesore of a TV on my mantle.

This is what the mantle looks like right now.....more to come of the Living Room updates.

So this project right here costs me absolutely $0........ nothing!  Be as green as you can, recycle, repurpose, reuse!

SHUTTERLY SHABBY

Excuse the short & sweet post, but we had our teams Autism walk yesterday and birthday party today so this is what I have to share today.  Also try to get to refinishing the furniture pieces I have to put up for sale so I can get more. lol

I've had 3 of these black real wood shutters for years.  When we moved from the old house I took them and they've been in the garage until now.

Very weathered painted black wood shutters

With a new scratchy coat of Valspar Atlantic Gray (it looks like Robins Egg Blue)

Here they are in the new space.....

This is a much better pic, they match the refinished antique bed