Throughout 2023 our Thrift Store Decor Team has shown many genius upcycling hacks for secondhand finds. It's a true passion of ours to turn ho-hum everyday items easily found at thrift stores into one-of-a-kind marvels. Whether these thrifty projects are creative home decor ideas, outdated furniture getting a second lease on life, or upcycled ideas...
Incredibly Easy Winter Porch Pot Hack
Do you think you have to spend tons of money or hire a professional floral designer to make porch pots for your holiday entryway? Not at all! Porch pots are VERY easy to make and today I am going to show you the absolute easiest and quickest way to throw one together. It takes less...
5 Iconic Vintage Christmas Decor Items
This year, reproduction vintage Christmas decor is HOT at the stores. All of a sudden the stuff we love is going mainstream. Sure, we'd all love to have original and authentic vintage Christmas decor, but what if Grandma didn't leave you all her Christmas decor when she died? What are you gonna do about it?...
Cheese Dome Repurposed For Christmas
A few years ago I showed you how to make an Easy DIY Waterless Snow Globe from a jelly jar. Today we're going to make something similar, although less shakable, with a thrift store cheese dome. It's a cheese dome turned winter wonderland Christmas cloche. Now as much as I enjoy a good hunk of...
Transforming A Wooden Bucket With DIY Waterslide Decals
I found this wooden bucket at the thrift store. It was only $1.99 which made it ripe for a makeover. I'm not sure exactly what you call this. It's similar to a firkin or even a wooden ice cream churn bucket, but it's really a lot more narrow than both of those things (roughly 12"...
Fall Mums Buying Tips (Chrysanthemums)
I am a firm believer you need to pick up at least one, if not one hundred and fifty, mums for fall decor. Whether you plant them in your flower beds or put them on your porch you just can't do autumn correctly without a few good chrysanthemums. There, I said it. The questions most...
DIY Bird Feeder: Repurposing a Danish Butter Cookies Tin
One day while shopping at my local thrift store I ran across a Royal Dansk Danish Butter Cookies tin. Minus the yummy cookies. When I opened the tin I was surprised it wasn't filled with the customary old lady sewing supplies. You know, thimbles, thread, needles, measuring tape, and darning egg. The tin ended up...
Weighing In On Fall Decor: Repurposing a Vintage Scale
I've always had a thing for vintage kitchen scales. I've used them for years in home decor like in this fun fall table decor post from a few years ago. And a few different scales can be found in this post about Christmas thrift store finds. So when I first saw this vintage scale at...
5 Simple Tips For Growing Clematis Vines
Clematis vines, what's not to love about them! Big, beautiful, in-your-face flowers! And lots of them! Some people think clematis are hard to grow or just downright finicky, but that is not true at all. You just need to remember a few things about clematis and you too can grow these lovely vines. BTW, the...