My Scrappy Creations
Written by admin on August 15th, 2008Yesterday afternoon was fabulous. I completed all my grocery shopping for the week, had accomplished my trip to The Scrap Exchange (having found exactly what I was looking for and then some), and came home to a quiet house in which to finish two projects.
Here is what I brought home from The Scrap Exchange. It’s like opening Christmas to take it all out!
Believe it or not, this big thing (or something like it) is actually what I had hoped to find. It is the perfect thickness and texture to cover with fabric and use as a bulletin board, and as much as I was not going to do a big bulletin board in my office after the re-decorating, I’m gonna have to. My children are just going in too many directions for me to remember everything without help.
The lamp shade was 75 cents. I’m not sure yet what I’ll do with it, but I like the vintage look with the metal around the top. And that’s my grab-box of words. It had a few cute things in it. And the greeting card I just liked enough to buy to put into my stationery drawer.
These books were 1 dollar each, The Country Home, The Country Kitchen, and The Country Garden. They are full of beautiful pictures, among other things!
Their magazines are 25 cents each, so I couldn’t see not getting these, especially since they had a Mary Engelbreit’s Home Companion that I didn’t have.
Oh, the spools! Yes, I got four of them, and you’ll soon see why.
Oh my, would you look at this wonderful fabric? 3 dollars. Yes. 3 dollars. Over 4 yards. And it, too, is what I was hoping to find — for the bulletin board project. You see where we’re going here, I’m sure.
And their loose pencils, through which I rifled around and found some really good Dixon Executive, Ticonderoga, and Berol Eagles. Two for 5 cents. Can you beat that? Oh, and little upholstery pins are great for making doll house stuff. They will screw neatly into a cardboard wall to hang doll art and doll curtains from.
So what do you think? Tell me!
The large board already had a hanger on the back. Could I do any better than ready-to-hang for 3 dollars? It is extremely lightweight but has a great thickness and texture for push pins. The fabric fits in with the roses and birds theme in my office and has just enough redeeming blue and pink to fit into my color scheme.
And last, but not least, there they are – the spools! In my previous post about The Scrap Exchange, in about the 10th picture you’ll see a metal shelf from a shelving unit sitting on top of the stuff in the plastic bin. I had visions of a little table when I saw it.
A walk over to the bin with the spools confirmed that they would indeed fit perfectly into the holes on each corner and stop snugly in the top before pushing through. 4 spools = 4 table legs
I love details like this. I painted the shelf a glossy ivory and then sanded it just a bit after it was dry to give it a bit of an aged look.
I had been wanting a very small coffee table to put my tea mug on when I sit in my living room in the early mornings. I had a foot stool, but nowhere to put my cup of very hot tea. Voila!
All I need to find now is a little vintage coaster on which to put my tea mug. Oh, I bet I have a few put up somewhere. 
So, now, please tell me what you think of The Scrap Exchange?
Have a delightful weekend!!
Lynn
The Hundred Dresses
The Family Under the Bridge
Caddie Woodlawn. With the Wisconsin big woods theme, goes along great with a FIAR study of The Raft.
A Year Down Yonder
A Charlotte Mason Companion: Personal Reflections on the Gentle Art of Learning
Pocketful of Pinecones: Nature Study With the Gentle Art of Learning: A Story for Mother Culture. Sweet fictional story about a newly homeschooling mother who incorporates nature study.
Nature Crafts for Kids: 50 Fantastic Things to Make With Mother Nature's Help
The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
Awakening Beauty the Dr. Hauschka Way
A Redbird Christmas: A Novel
The Usborne Internet-Linked Book of Knowledge
What Your Fifth Grader Needs to Know
for you to leave a comment, but you can also e-mail me at lynn AT thehealthyhomeschool.com
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Wow you work fast….. You put it all together in a wink of an eye..
The Bulletin board looks great and so does the little table ..
Very clever….
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Thanks, Louise! I did work quickly, but it was so easy. Really on assembly involved except cutting the fabric and hot gluing it on. Also, spray paint dries so fast. I really worked on both projects simultaneously. I put a coat of paint on the shelf and came in to work on the other. Went out, put on another coat, came back in… Before long it was all done! Plus I had a quiet house for the day.
Lynn
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I know of the Scrap Exchange Lynn. My granddaughter visited there with her school ‘Odyssey of the Mind’ team to get stuff for their competition entry the past two years. Now I see what they have, thanks to you, and know I must visit myself! You really found some great bargains - and neat items - and instead of stashing them away YOU made something of them, great!!
Love the bulletin board and little table - you are smart. All the bits and bobs will be fun and useful I can see. I love words, cards and books so will definitely head over there for those.
Looking back I’m loving the b/w pics of the children paying that game - how wonderful that they still find time to do things together.
Have a wonderful weekend - hopefully it will continue to remain a little cooler AND perhaps rain more for our poor, dry, sad looking gardens.
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Oh my! I’d be very overwhelmed if I went in that exciting store! I’d probably hyper-ventilate! We have nothing like that around here…what an awsome place!
I love your bulliten board! The fabric is beautiful!
Michele
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Mary, it’s a fun place to visit. You never know what you’ll find! Thanks for the comment on the kids playing the game. They do get along pretty well considering they are siblings!
We’ve had a bit more rain, but I know we need even more.
Michele, if we could go there together we could keep each other from being overwhelmed and from buying one of everything!
Lynn
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Hi Lynn,
I think you are amazing!!! It would never have occurred to me to do any of those things. They look wonderful! Very creative! Enjoy!
Love,
Leslie
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Leslie,
Necessity is the mother of invention, I guess.
Some days I’m more creative than others. Thanks so much for your comment.
Hugs,
Lynn