Upcycling Twilight

When she was a tween my favorite person fell in love with Twilight, so I pre-read the first two books in the series so I could see if they were age-appropriate for her (and they were.) We actually raced to get a copy of the final novel while we were on vacation, which made her very happy. Then followed a few years where she and her friends completely obsessed over the movies.

Anyway, I am not a fan of this series or any sort of YA myself, but anything Twilight-related brings back some lovely memories for me. When I saw two sets of the themed journals in tins go up for auction, I decided to bid on them, and won.

Here are the two sets of journals when they arrived, unpacked. The journals themselves are all in pristine condition and need no upcycling, although I may make fabric covers for them. The tins were in slightly rough shape, so I decided to rehab them.

I decided to use a metallic silver spray Rust-oleum suitable for metal to paint the tins.

First I sanded them, and then I took them outside to spray paint them.

It took a couple of coats to cover up all the damage and make the tins look like new again.

Here they are. One turned out a little better than the other, so I may do more with the lesser of the two. For now I'm happy with how I was able to rehab them.

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Better than Fried

I cut some chives from the kitchen garden to make garlic-chive baked fries for dinner. This is a great side dish for veggie burgers. Click here for the recipe from Taste of Home.com.

Stuff

After finding this Caron one pound skein of lovely peach yarn in my thrifted lot I raided my stash for two cakes of Mandala in Pegasus, which matches it perfectly. For practice and hand therapy I'm going to make another Worth Street Afghan with this free pattern , but this time I'll use the yarn that was recommended for it plus the one pound skein. I'm not quite ready to do the vintage/recycled linen quilt I had planned (still a bit too nervous about the idea), so I'm going to use some color therapy and make a quilt from these thrifted green fat quarters. I considered doing another Yellow Brick road patchwork pattern, but I might go with a split rail fence like this one.

The Mercantile

If you don't mind walking 33K square feet in retail space, The Mercantile may be the vintage/arts store you'd enjoy visiting if you're ever in Orlando. I certainly did. Because it was busy I didn't take any photos in the store, but it's absolutely amazing and chock full of antiques and artisan creations, most of which were pretty reasonably priced. For $21.00 I invested in a picture of sailboats for the guest bathroom I'm redoing, and a fairy mystery jar of cool stuff. The jaw was hand-painted and decorated, and utterly charming. I think I wanted the jar more than the contents. As you can see the contents were both generous and pretty cool, too. I finally have some vintage gloves to use for my art quilter bingo challenge!

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