August Thrifted Finds

August 31st - Finds - Thrift, Polish, Share

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Laundry Sign Tutorial

Part 1 - August Thrifted Finds

An eclectic collection of thrifted, church sale and garage sale finds this month.

A find from the past - folk art hand carved wood and cut tin fish on hand carved supports on base. Totally in love with it. The primitive wooden frame and straw/burlap and buttons wreath finished the grouping.

 


Remember the sheets? Wabasso Rabbit Bank and two brass swans.

 

Vintage Sundae glass, vintage clothes brush, brass candle holder, large turned and a carved wooden and marble pestle and mortars.

Decorator plate, cream and sugar, vintage decorator boot, small toothpick holder with rooster transfer, candy dish and silver plate spoons.

Northland Blue Dot teapot, cream and sugar, PEI bell and a Queen Anne teacup/saucer. The Lady in Yellow saucer is unmarked but the pattern is familiar.

Vintage Japan, long necked black cat with pink ears and toes - cold painted.

I love tin and copper, vintage metal well used tools. 

The washboard is from my own collection and the very heavy asbestos irons from garage sale finds. I love the green handled soap saver (and I remember my Grandma having one).

Part 2: August Project - Laundry sign 


After finding a few vintage laundry pieces...

I needed to make a LAUNDRY sign. Used a piece of wood picked up at an estate sale some time ago and painted it  CeCe Caldwell Simple White, made the word LAUNDRY on my Cricut (getting better with practice), stenciled, sanded and waxed. Check back here for an earlier larger Laundry sign.

This time I tried a piece of red scrapbook paper for the paper stencil (I have been using letter sized cardstock previously) and I am pleased with the results - less messing around and trying to fit the letters on the 8 x 11 inch paper,  the 12 x 12 inches worked well.

The sequence of making the Laundry sign is below. The board shape is somewhat like a sleeve ironing board shape, seemed appropriate.

Used supplies on hand to make the Laundry sign.

Filled in the 'sliced' letters with a fine tip brush and black paint.

A thrifting bonus this month was several pieces of packaged and in great shape 12 x 12 scrapbook cardstock - at 60% off at the thrift store. More stencils will be made.

Happy Dance happened.

Thanks for visiting.

Featured by:

Michelle of A Crafty Mix Sept 8/17


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