I had such a successful weekend and managed to acquire some awesome finds for free.  The first find was a bunch of spindles.  They are painted brown but I will be stripping them and I can barely wait to use them.  I have tons of ideas for them. I just need to get the time!  Most days, well everyday really, I wish I could be a stay at home mom and craft and create all day, all the time!

Back to my spindles!  I found a lady who was redoing her patio and she had 17 spindles to give away.  I was thinking one of my first projects may be bird houses perched on different height spindles. I have many more ideas for them but I will post everything that I make with them.

My next find was kitchen cabinet doors.  I found a guy who had a trailer full of miscellaneous, solid wood cabinet doors.  You had to dig through the trailer (which sounds much easier than it actually was). I grabbed a bunch, my husband didn't want me to grab too many..killjoy!

My first order of business with these cabinet doors is to make some signs and chalk boards! I've already started with them. More to follow on my next post with this project!

My third great, free find was a bunch of skids or pallets, whatever you want to call them! So many possibilities with these. 

The hardest part of working with these is deconstructing them. After that it's easy peasy to work with them.  I decided to make a friend who is from the U.S an American flag to hang on his wall.  I deconstructed a couple and put it back together in the shape of a nice rectangle.  

 

I've sanded the heck out of it and now it is ready to prime and then paint. I purchased little stars to paint to give it some depth rather than paint the stars on it.  Once painted I will grunge it up and distress it to give it that primitive look. 

I can barely wait to paint it but I will have to wait till the weekend to paint it as that's when I'll have the time. I will post the finished product on Sunday night!