Button Art!

per erin's request here's the picture of the button art. this was inspired by an article in ReadyMade magazine... this house i really loved that's in dallas. i loved pretty much everything about it... there's color everywhere, which is my favorite! sometimes i think our apartment looks like color threw up in it. :) i've posted the link to another web site, inspired by the same article in ReadyMade. http://curbly.com/apronthriftgirl/posts/8313-how-to-make-a-vintage-button-art-display

here's my version:

decoupaged ART!

and now for the pictures not attached to the last post.... du-nu-nu-NUH!!!!!

you can decoupage anything

well, just about anything. a while back i got on a decoupage kick and nothing in our apartment was safe. everything i looked at had the potential to be transformed by the powers of decoupage. first it was the TV trays i think. then the pencil holder, then the toothbrush holder, then came the magnets, and the jar lids and finally, when i decided that we had enough decoupaged stuff.... framed decoupaged art!!!! 

Convert an old trunk

Inspired by this project we saw in Readymade magazine (http://www.readymade.com/), Ryan and I converted these two army trunks into bedside tables. We got them for $15 each at the flea market and brush painted the insides yellow. We had shelves cut at Home Depot and then had to figure out how to keep the shelves in. The trunks already have holes in the sides (I don't know what for) so we decided to glue pegs in the holes to set the shelves on. Worked ok. The original inspiration, http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/dc/diy-trunk-to-rolling-bar-project-readymade-online-109662 is slightly more fancy, but these serve our purpose.