Gather. Create. Connect.

All 10 Minute Decorating Ideas Advent Calendar Appetizer Recipe Apron Art backyard Backyard Landscaping Baking barn wood Basement Bathroom Beach Decor Beach House Decorating Belted Pillow Black and Gold Black and White Tablescape Blue Bookcase Styling Boxwood Burlap Business Diaries Business of Blogging Canvas Category_10 Minute Ideas Category_Christmas Category_Cleaning and Organization Category_Decorating Category_DIY Projects Category_Fall Category_Feature Post Category_Furniture Makeovers Category_Halloween Category_Holidays Category_Living Category_Maple Sugaring Category_Our Home Category_Outdoor Projects Category_Recipes Category_Summer Category_The Business of our Business Category_Upcycling & Repurposed Category_Video chalkboard Chalkcloth Runner Choosing Paint Colors Christmas Christmas Crafts Christmas Decorating Christmas Gift Wrapping Christmas Home Tour Christmas Mantel Christmas Table Christmas Tree Tour Christmas Wreath colorful outdoors Command Brand Country Kitchen Craft Craft Projects Craft Room Craft Studio Crafting Crafting with Kids Crafts Cupcakes Decorating Decorating Ideas Decorating Tips Decoupage Dining Room DIY DIY Chandelier DIY Furniture DIY Projects DIY Workshop Door Projects Dress Form Drink Recipe Easter Table Setting Easy Easy Tablescape Elegant and Spooky Embroidery Endust Entrepeneur Entrepeneur Series Etsy Fairy Garden Fairy Gardens Fall Centerpiece Fall Decorating Fall Tablescape Fall Wreath Family Family Room Farmgirl Paints Farmhouse Farmhouse Decorating Farmhouse Fresh Farmhouse Kitchen Finding Fall Home Tours Findings Flag flowers Footboard Free Printable Fun Dip Furniture Gallery Wall Galvanized Garage gift ideas Gift Wrap Ideas Goats Milk Guest Bedroom Halloween Custumes Halloween Table Setting Halloween Tablescape Haven Conference Herb Garden High School Muscial Jr. Holiday Gift Wrapping Holiday Home Tour Home Office Home Tour Homemade hot-drinks Houndstooth Hudson Valley hydrangea Ideas if Ikea Hack Jennifer Rizzo's Holiday Housewalk 2012 Jewelry Junkers United Kitchen Kitchen Layout Measurements Kitchen Makeover Kitchen Renovation Knocktoberfest Laundry LBI Lockers Mantel Mantel Decorating Maple Maple Syrup maple-recipes Maps mason jars Mod Podge Modern Country Kitchen No-Sew Oilcloth Ornaments Outdoor Decorating Outdoor DIY Outdoors Paint Color Selection Painter's Tape Photo Collages Photo Transfer Photography Photoshop Elements pillow Pink Plate Walls playhouse Pool House Pool Landscaping porch Printable Pumpkins Rack Recipes Reclaimed Rustic Wood DIY Projects Reclaimed Wood Repurposed Runner of Thanks rust S'mores Salvaged Wood screened screened porch seashells Sharpie Art Sheet Music silhouette Silk Screen Soap softball Soup stamped silverware starfish Stencil Stepping Stones Sugar House Sugaring Summer Summer Mantel T-shirt craft table setting Tablescape Tablescapes Teen Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Table Thanksgiving Tablescape The Chapel Market The Old Painted Cottage Cottage of the Month The Old Post Road Tips Tips & Tricks Towel Trays Turquoise Tutorial Tweed Tweed Pillow Tween Tween Desk Upcycled Upcyled Upholstered Daybed Upholstery Utensil Holder Vintage Vintage Chandelier Tutorial vintage decorating Vintage Maps Vintage Ornament Wreath Vintage Ornaments Vintage Patio Furniture vintage porch Vintage Silver vintage silverware Vintage Sleds Vintage Windows Walkway Wall Art Washi Tape Watercolor whirligig White Farmhouse Kitchen White fence White Kitchen wicker chandelier Wood Slice wreath Wuthering Heights yardstick Year in Review
RSS
A Sentimental Junker’s Dream

A Sentimental Junker’s Dream

I recently had a reader find a picture of a gift I made using the wood I found in this story. He reached out because the company printed on the...
Outdoor Christmas Decorating: Reclaimed Wood Reindeer

Outdoor Christmas Decorating: Reclaimed Wood Reindeer

The other night, we were all in the car driving home and it started.

We started to sing Christmas carols.

I know its early.  But it was so much fun.  And the only one we all remembered all the words to...Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer.

What is it about him that we all love so much?

And I couldn’t be happier with our version – a reclaimed wood reindeer.

As soon as I saw this picture in the Sundance catalog, I knew it was the perfect use for the reclaimed wood we still had from my Grandfather’s house…

To read the rest of this post, please click here...

Fall Decorating - DIY Reclaimed Wood Pumpkins

Fall Decorating - DIY Reclaimed Wood Pumpkins

Hello fine friends.

I love nothing better than to create something new that would have otherwise ended up in the trash.  And that is truly the case with my reclaimed wood pumpkins.

Do you happen to know what a squash bug is?

I do.

They are nasty little creatures that we have battled for years and they destroy all of our vine plants in our garden.  And if a pumpkin or two manages to survive the onslaught of these buggers, then the rabbits eat them up.

So this year, I decided to be ready.  If no pumpkins make it, no worries, I am making my own.

To read the rest of this post, please click here...