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one of our trash to treasure counters... or cash wrap or kitchen islands...and one of our window creations all dressed up for winter last year...it was so slow today!!! ..so we fluffed and made stuff.....we always have lots of work to do...
thank heavens for trash to treasure
it saves us every day....either selling the parts to our creative customers for their projects or making up things to sell............we get a lot of interesting inventory from good old cheap parts.....we have tons of windows, old doors and old shutters and old spindles and new and old tin and piles of misc!!!
so we make things
...like chalkboards....made with chalkboard paint on old things,
...we have shutters and tons of neat brackets so we make shutter shelves
...wall words on windows
...tin words on shutters........lots of things in the rough room get more valuable with some clean up or a little paint...
...all of the above we can do without carpenter skills.....except for cutting the little shelves out for the shutters...
then,if jon can help we go for more wilder and bigger ideas......hes the only one we allow on the big saw..
.and every week we have the chance to lay out a project like the picture above, for our carpenter who wont buy wood....that big counter is almost totally from recycled parts......
the idea part seems easy...i get 10 ideas before hitting one that really hatches out and is produced and actually sells....we have lots of half done and total failures....hanging around...
one trash to treasure theory we have is...if its small, under 2 ft, it can be made in china for 3$....so why go there....
one neat customer was trying to make me grubify those little electric tea lites.....no way can i use my paid help to add 50 cents to a thing.....it was a good idea tho....for our country room...
so we are busy little bees....and packing things away for the yardsale too...
bought today....
huge railroad chains
little pile of tools
cow chain
beautiful french sofa
fun road signs....men working etc etc
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