'Do It Yourself' Girl...

I've always liked making things. I enjoy pretty much anything to do with the arts. I especially love taking something that most people would throw away and turning it into something beautiful.

My mom introduced me to "garage sailing" when I was little and I would tag along while she and her sisters spent their summer Saturdays 'garage sale hopping'. What can I say? I'm a chip off the ole block and I like to find good deals. More recently, I've become a craigslist addict.

I've recently moved into a cute little yellow house with my friend Vanae and needed to buy some furniture, do some interior designing, etc. So here are a few things that I've done around the house along with some other projects that I've undertaken...

So I bought this mirror at at garage sale for $5 and it had a nasty brown plastic frame that was supposed to look like wood. I spray painted it black. It's so classy :) This is what it looks like on our living room wall...above the SWEET couch that I bought off of craigslist for $20:

I know, I know, it's awesome. Next...

I bought these frames for $0.50 each. They had ugly pictures in them so I took them out and hung them picture-less. Tell me what you think because I like it and I think it's artsy but some people have thought differently...what do you think? tacky? cute? Our wall paper is pretty crazy already so I'm kind of working with what we have here. Ha.

I've made two mosaic mirrors. This is the first one.

And here is the second one...I took old china (most of which I got for free at a yard sale) and smashed it (it was quite fun actually). And then I used tile glue to glue them to the mirror frames then used grout in between the pieces of china. So lovely.

My mom spotted this while we were 'garage sailing' together and bought it for me for like $1 and i spray painted it black. I hang it in a corner on my wall in my room but there was better lighting for me to take a picture of it on the floor :)

My most recently learned skill: Crocheting! The girls at work taught me and I'm making this wicked sweet blanket...it's about halfway finished.

I am also trying out painting. This one i made for my sister, Molly. It's in acrylic on two separate canvas. All of my paintings right now are pretty simple but I like how this one turned out!

This is my most recent project. I bought this antique table from a lady off of craigslist for $3. I like it. It's got character. It definitely needs some fixing up and I'm not sure yet what I'm going to do with it. Any ideas?

Well that's it for now! If you have any cool ideas please share!