My Inspiration Board

Hi again!

In this post I want to share my super-quick upcycled thrift store cork board that I am now calling, My Inspiration Board! lol. Which is basically, well... a board of inspiration! If you are anything like me (which I am assuming you are since you are reading crafting blogs :) ) then you probably also love thumbing through the latest issues of design/crafting magazines, like HGTV magazine, DIY magazine, BH&G, etc! And again like me, you probably see an awesome project that you know you want to try one day, but when that day comes, low & behold you seem to have conveniently misplaced the article :(! If this is sounding familiar than an inspiration board is the answer to your problem. Check out how I transformed a $2 cork board from Goodwill into my Inspiration board:

First of all, I would like to apologize that I do not have a before picture for this project! I just got a new phone (Galaxy S4, yesss!) and although all of my pics from my previous phone were backed up on google + it seems like a couple were lost somehow :(

Anyways!!! All I did to transform this board was to simply make a random geometric pattern with a ruler and a gold paint pen! I told you it was simple, but cool nonetheless! I also added an embellishment to the top:

My Mom found this eagle at a rummage sale along with some other old decorative pieces! Thanks Mom!! I did have to do a little work on it tho, it originally looked like this:

Kind of an off-white, taupey color, and it still had a lot of extra plastic around it that had to be broken off (along with a few pieces of the eagle itself, which had to be glued back on, oops!) But then after a quick coat of flat black spray paint it makes the perfect topper to my Inspiration Board! And how did I attach it you ask? Well, I didn't! It simply sits on top of the board leaning against the wall, that way if I ever want to use it for something else, no problemo! 

So last step obviously is to tack up some clippings from my fav magazines:

I also tried to group similar clippings together, for example this section is all ideas for how to display large groups of like items 

Love it! Now all my ideas are organized and I know right where to find them :)

Liz :)

Wait, That's A What?

As I have already mentioned, I recently just moved into a bigger apartment so I am in the process of decorating aka many of my posts will revolve around this, including this one!

There was a space right next to our front door that I really couldn't decide what to do with, until my bf suggested an entry table (although he didn't use the exact words "entry table" more like why don't we put a table there or something? lol).

So the search was on for some sort of table/cabinet that would fill the space and maybe add a little storage. I began searching at my local thrift stores for a piece that just needed a little tlc. But everything was too big or too ornate or just plain ugly. Until...

I found this awesome little cabinet at a thrift store near by, and at a price of $45, deal! But this wasn't exactly the plain old storage cabinet I thought...

Surprise! It's a sowing machine! That definitely threw me at first and my immediate reaction was to walk away, but my mom convinced me it could be perfect with a little reinvention so we got it! (barely into my two-door Honda).

First step, was bye bye sowing machine! Its definitely a cool old sowing machine but I was not really in the market for one so I detached it:

This left me with yes a hole, but also an awesome conveyor platform thing (where the sowing machine sat) that raises when you flip the top open. I already have some ideas for this!

So, I am going to attempt to pull a "Flea Market Flip"(or in this case "thrift store flip" lol) - for any of you who don't watch that show you probably should!- and transform this old sowing machine into something totally different!

To Be Continued...

-Liz :)