Cork Board Transformation

It's Metamorphosis Monday and I have a small transformation to share with you!  Please be sure and stop by the previous link for more wonderful changes all over.


Last week I shared my latest thrift store finds with you here.  Amongst all the goodies was this ordinary plain bulletin board that I purchased for my craft and sewing room.

First I gave it two coats or ordinary white craft paint.

Then I gave it one coat of Mocha glaze from Valspar to bring out the character of the wood.



Then I chose some fabric from my scrap box.   Because my cork board was so well mounted into the frame I decided not to remove it to staple the fabric on the cork board.  Instead, I used a slim edge scraper to wedge the fabric under the frame securely.  It was tight enough to do this with just enough space to get the fabric under it securely with careful maneuvering.

Then I adjusted the wires on the back and hung it on the wall beside my desk.

And here is my finished cork board all ready for notes, photos, etc.

This was such a simple and adorable change that only cost me $1.50 for the board from the thrift store.

I just love it! 

Thanks for stopping by!  Hope you are having a wonderful start to a great week!

Mary

Pirates and Ghouls

Last Sunday I shared with you an unexpected find, the silver room, on our visit to the SC State Museum.  This Sunday I would like to share with you the exhibits and festival we were expecting to see.  We went in anticipation of viewing the temporary exhibit of Pirates, Privateers and Buccaneers.  This exhibit was supposed to have ended already but was held over by popular demand. 


I am excited to be joining Seasonal Sunday today to share this with you!  In addition to the Pirate exhibit, on the day we went there was also a harvest festival being held outside the museum with crafters, food and music.

My husband, and son are anxious to get inside.  Slow down yall, I want to check look around outside first.

Very cute pumpkin display surrounded by local artists. 

Metal art made from a local artist using scrap metal.

I loved this shark!

There were all sorts of tents with many different types of artisans.

I knew you'd enjoy seeing these beautiful burlap pillows.

This guy had several tables of hand carved utensils.

Of course the Mr. and son headed straight to the tractors.  I am still trying to get used to my son having hair this short.  He just had it cut this week prior to going to the museum, he usually has thick wavy longer hair.  LOL!

Upon heading inside there was booth set up to purchase drinks and caramel popcorn.  Yummo!

Also a quartet was singing outside of the entrance.  I wonder why this great big banner was still up.  I guess that display was extended longer too!  Love what you catch on film after the fact.

Inside at last, and we are all set to see the pirate displays.  There was lots of information around and several actual artifacts that I did not photograph.  Instead I only took photos of the wax pirates displays.

Depicting the daily life of a pirate.

Sleeping Quarters

Two of the most notable women pirates, Anne Bonny and Mary Read.

Common goods pirates would have plundered to sale on the black market.

Sadly, the gruesome fate of a convicted pirate.  Arghhh!!!  This exhibit caught me off guard at first.  Little did I know it was preparing me for the rest of the museum exhibits. 

 

Another unexpected find on this trip was how several of the usual displays though out the museum had been decorated for Halloween.  Hope you are prepared for the rest of the tour and have your wits about you today!

A typical rural SC backyard exhibit is rather enhanced this time of year.

This is an antique hearse!

This guy actual turned his head and eyes, rather disturbing!

The old railroad train is crawling with spiders!  Yuck!

Now that's one creepy looking clown!

Looks like some poor souls just can't seem to leave their beloved automobiles behind!

I think I'll skip the train ride, and walk thank you!

How about you, up for a ride?

Thanks for visiting today!   I hope you enjoyed your visit to our state museum.

Be sure and let me know if did!

Have a blessed Sunday!

Mary

More Thriftie's

Yesterday while out searching for my new glass nut jar, see previous post here, I couldn't help but swing by one our new thrift stores.  Yes, I was a busy gal yesterday.  I can hit quite a few stores in one afternoon.  LOL!


This new store donates a good bit of it's proceeds to help children with cancer.  I love that!  They also are very large and priced well.  While they are mostly clothes right now, they do have a nice area set up for home goods as well.  I am joining Debbiedoes Garage Salen party to share my latest finds from yesterdays adventure.

Here's the whole stash!  Not a bad haul for $14.98

Let's start with the Christmas tree.  I love Christmas and decorating for Christmas too.  I have two tree and one mini tree that I decorate.  The mini tree has rotated all over the house.  I have been wanting one that is a smaller tabletop tree to go in the upstairs foyer but not as small as my mini tree.  This one was the perfect size.

It is quite old as you can tell from the box but actually looks brand new.  I don't think it was used very often.  I am so excited about this!  I have wanted one for awhile now but I have not been able to bring myself to pay for what this size of tree would cost brand new.  They certainly are not $14.97 anymore.  That's one old price tag for this size and I know I will not find a better bargain then the $4.00 I actually paid!  Woohoo!

For $1.50 I got this cork board that is in great shape.  It's quite boring now but will look right nice in my craft room by my desk after I get finished with it!  This is going to make a nice before and after project!

This was another one of those exciting finds that is missing parts.  It has the pottery barn stamp on the felt bottom.  It is very heavy iron too.  Can someone please tell me what this originally was.  I am thinking either a potted plant holder or condiment holder.  If you know of a link to show me the original inserts I would love to see it.  I am sure I will decide how I want to use it best soon though.  It was only $2.00.

Then this cute little set got me fussed at.  Urggh!  I just couldn't help myself though.  It was only $6.50 for the whole thing.  I know I will use those bowls for serving pieces throughout the year and the cute little desert plates were the winning ticket.  It certainly wasn't the price that was so objectionable it was the additional dishes and storage space they will require.   I had to promise to now start pulling things out of my cabinets that I no longer use.  I am sensing a Garage sale coming up in my near future, or maybe I should just have a few giveaways!

Seriously, would you have passed these up too.  They are a porcelain teal blue grey (these pics are so bad) with brown and cream.

The pattern is Spirit by American Atelier.

There are three fantastic square bowls, I can really see using these as serving pieces, like condiments.

And two larger round bowls.  I love how oddly shaped these are.  They will make great dip bowls.

I have four salad or dessert plates if you will.

And this one dinner plate, we are just going to call it a cake plate or platter!

Ooops!  I almost forgot!  I also got one more lovely basket to add to my collection!  One can never, ever, ever, have enough baskets!  It's going to get some pretty additons soon too!

Thanks for joining me today, I hope everyone has a great weekend!  Our weather is sure to be beautiful, I hope all of you enjoy the same!

Mary

Nutty Inspiration

This week I was totally inspired by several of our blogging friends over at Sheila's Heart of the Home party.  You just cannot visit so many beautiful kitchens without picking up a few ideas.  Thank you so much Sheila from the bottom of my heart!  I hope you put up a link on your side bar to this post, so we can continuously enjoy all of these beautiful kitchens.  Just a thought!

There was one blogger in particular who's kitchen totally stole my heart!  It was Christie's kitchen over at Three Pixie Lane.  Ladies, if you missed this one you really need to go and check it out.  She has such exquisite style in combining old with new.  I totally loved everything about her kitchen!  In that post, there were a few pictures of her clear canisters that held her nuts and her granola.  When she graciously gave credit to Yvonne at Stone Gable for the granola recipe, I was instantly reminded where I had seen those glass containers before.  I liked them the first time I saw them over at Stone Gable but it really came together for me after seeing them at Three Pixie Lane.  Why?  Because she used her own and her daughters silver baby cups for the scoops!  That's when the light went off for me, and I thought I can certainly do that! 

Yes, that's right we have 5 silver baby cups in our household just sitting in the kitchen hutch tarnishing.  Two for each of my sons and one that was my husbands as a baby.  I never had a silver baby cup, but I've been told I must have born with a silver spoon in my mouth.  LOL!

Every year for Christmas and even before Christmas we receive tons of pecans as gifts.  I even have a huge stash of pecans that are unshelled.  I like the shelled pecan gifts the best.  We never eat all of these even though we do enjoy eating pecans.  What usually happens is we get on pecan overload put them back in the pantry and there they sit forgotten.  Pecans have a wonderful shelf life though!  I have been trying to improve my eating habits lately and improve my overall health.  I have been reading alot about eating more nuts.  Since these are some that I readily have on hand I wanted to bring them out to be enjoyed as a staple item, but the plastic container just wasn't cutting it.

So after seeing Christy's jars I knew I had to go shopping.  I went everywhere looking for just the right jar.  I started at Ross, then went to Marshalls, TJ Maxx, Pier 1, Kohls, and Bed Bath and Beyond.  Some of those places had only sets of jars and some had very thin glassed jars.  BB&B had the closest to what I was looking for but was priced higher then I wanted to spend even with my 20% off coupon.  Luckily for me it is located right next to Target.  So, I hopped on over to Tar-jay!  And there I found them!  Woohoo!

So after washing everything up, I assembled my new nut jar!  I like the sound of that, it makes me laugh.

I decided on this baby cup for my scoop.

I discovered upon closer inspection this one is not silver but actually pewter.
 

I like how much heavier it is then the others and seems more sturdy like a scoop.

I have placed it front and center on my counter for now.  I only emptied the plastic tub and still have a fresh bag to open as soon as these dwindle down.  I have a feeling that won't be to too long from now.

Isn't this just the cutest snack you have ever seen?  I thought so!

I am joining Vanessa for Inspiration Friday today!  It's the party where you get to share all those wonderful bits of inspiration you scoop up all week!  Get it?  "Scoop" up!

Thanks for visiting, I really appreciate you taking the time to stop by.

Let me know if you do.

Mary