hello youtube friends and welcome to my channel if you're new here my name is deidra from our
recycled life and i do lots of thrifting upcycling repurposing and diy content i love new crafting
friends so make sure you like subscribe and hit the bell for notifications so you don't miss any
great diy content you all really enjoy my weekly wrap-ups so this is another one i've done lots of
stuff uh the past week maybe a week and a half and i put them all together and i'm going to show you
today what i've made hopefully you find something that will inspire you and you can create something
like this yourself okay let's get started i did a video last week i reached out and asked you
guys to help me because i had some projects in my shed that i was trying to upcycle and i was just
drawing a blank i was having a hard time getting inspired and know what to do with them
you down in the comments blew me away i got so many fantastic ideas was so much fun i'm gonna
do another video like that because it was a lot of fun and you all said that you really like that
format but i'm gonna show you today what i created in that video i upcycled this tray it was dark
green around the outside really dated wasn't that pretty i decided to do some pink chalk paint and i
used some e6000 and glued some vintage handles on it's perfect now for out on my patio this summer
and i had a wooden shelf that i decided to take apart
and it turned into three projects out of that one shelf and this is what i created with it i took
off the top and i made a bath sign the middle i made a little tray that you can hang or a little
stand that you can hang in maybe your kitchen or your living room put a little knick-knacks
um you can put spices on them turn that into a little rack and then with the other end of that
shelf i created this sign i had a scrap piece of wood
and i nailed the top piece of the shelf on top of it and made a fantastic farmhouse sign
and i use my crackle paint technique if you've never tried that that's really fun to try it
makes a fantastic base for all of your signs and i did my mod podge reverse graphic transfer on that
and if you want to see the full tutorials on these i'll put the links down below in the description
and you can watch those after um you see everything that i made here from that same video
i also upcycled this clock i decoupaged a napkin on the inside i took the hands off decoupaged
and then put the hands back on did some chalk paint around the outside and distressed it
looks way better than the before picture i found this metal sign in the dollar store and
i picked it up because i thought that would make a fantastic door sign for a store we're open we're
closed i used my cricut with some permanent vinyl cut these out and um it's great for a
business i love finding vintage jewelry boxes at the thrift store and this one turned out really
cute i always like to take the yucky material out that's on the inside it's a little bit of a job
certainly worth it in the end and then i decoupage some scrapbooking paper on the inside and it looks
beautiful and put a really beautiful quote on the top these make fantastic gifts for keepsakes
and you can put any sort of quote on the top and it's just chalk painted distressed and then i
sealed it up with some polyacrylic sealer i always pick up old sand saws when i find them all those
people in your life that are hard to buy for dads grandpas uncles these make fantastic gifts
and you can customize them with any name workshop garage and it's so simple the trick to this is the
rust leeches through on the saws so you want to make sure that you seal it up with a really good
primer first and that's what i did with this and then i painted it with some homemade chalk paint
did the mod podge reverse graphic transfers on them and i love making these they're also really
great at christmas time and you can put um i've done them where it says cut and carry or christmas
tree graphic on it they look beautiful i did a video this past week on a one-step paint recipe
it works fantastic if you've never made it before you need to try it out really durable and you
eliminate that prep work of your wood and then the top coat and i decided to test it on some glass
also i painted this pickle jar and it is on there hard it is not going anywhere it worked fantastic
and these make really great little gifts too i just did three coats of that one step paint
put a little jute along the top added one of my hand tags that i i love to make and that i put
my little quotes on and it turned out fantastic i never throw out any piece of wood you can make
anything out of even just a little tiny little piece of wood you can make a little shelf sitter
save it all so today i'll show you a few of the signs that i made last week just for scrap
wood that i had i made a kitchen sign i made a little do more of what makes you happy i
put a little bit of jute string on to hang from i had bought this at the thrift store
i love the scallop edges on it i put my t graphic on it makes a perfect little sign
i did my poly acrylic transfer method on some bare wood made a little hangtay with it
you are enough and then these little pieces were from a shutter that fell apart these
are the slats off the shutter and i just turned them into little shelf sitters never looked back
a nice little coffee and tea one that would look great in a tiered tray
and on cork and unwind i also like to like have shown you before i'll drill a little
tall uh hole in the top and turn them into hang tags this one says uncork and
unwind this would be perfect to put on a wine bottle if you're going to give it away as a gift
i've had these canisters in my shed for quite a while the lids were that reddish kind of stained
color that really dated them i stained them down almost to the bare wood but not quite and then
resealed them up with some poly acrylic sealer i got my cricut out and i made some cute little
graphics for them and i think i picked these up at the thrift store i think they were 2.99
and maybe 1.99 a piece and they look fantastic now i just finished a video on how to diy your
own beads when you buy the wooden beads they're really expensive and if you have a lot of projects
that you want to do with them it can get kind of pricey so i made up some of my own beads using my
um my air dried clay they turned out fantastic and then i painted them with um if you've never seen
how i paint my beads so fast and it's so easy and that's what i did with this add a
little bit of texture to them did my homemade tassel and made a hang tag for the other end
made this beautiful garland and just with a little bit of air dried clay and some scrap materials
i'll put the link down below for the full description on how i made this and you can check
that out and i saved the best for last valentine's day is right around the corner and i did all kinds
of valentine's day themed stuff this past week the first one i'll show you is a coffee canister this
is a tim hortons empty coffee coffee canister made it into a cute little valentine's day
um you can put cookies in it you can put treats in it give it away for a gift i cut out a wooden
um top for it added a handle was really easy to do full tutorial on that one i'll put down in the
bottom and another pickle jar that i added a valentine's day theme graphic on you can fill
with some fresh flowers added some twine around the top and i love this one i made some hearts out
of some air dry clay did some imprints on them and attached them to just a scrap piece of 2x4
and added one of my kissing booth valentine's day graphics that i made if you want any of these
graphics that i've used in any of my projects that you're seeing today they're available by
etsy store you can grab them make sure you use the code save 50 so you can get 50 off all of
the graphics in the whole store whenever i'm out thrifting anytime of the year if i see any heart
cut outs wooden ones i always grab them and tuck them away until this time of year and then i turn
them into valentine's day decor and that's what i've done with all of these pieces pick them up
along the path maybe in august or september tucked them away and this is what i created this is just
a wooden heart cut out and i decoupaged a piece of scrapbooking paper on the top that turned really
turned out really cute and these little hearts these were attached together in a string i took
them apart and turned them into two little ornaments added a bead some jute i decoupaged
some scrapbooking paper on top and i think they turned out adorable i also broke out my jigsaw i'm
not very good on the jigsaw but i like practicing and learning and usually when i'm practicing i'm
making hearts and these are just scrap pieces of pine that i've saved turned into hearts i've made
them nice and chippy and rustic kind of layered up some paint on them this one i put a little bit of
scrapbooking paper on it and they're adorable to display at valentine's day if you've ever worked
with scrapbooking paper you know it's really thick and it's hard to decoupage with sometimes
i have a great little tip and technique that i use working with thick papers check that out if you
haven't watched that video i'll put the link down below in the description and we're almost there
i made some bigger valentine's day signs just with scrap wood that i've had laying
around this is a great little shelf sitter happy valentine's day i love this graphic i think it's
adorable kissing booth pucker up again just scrap these for i think all this wood came
out of we bought a trailer that had a wall of pine cupboards in it and we didn't want them anymore
pulled all the cupboards out they weren't really good for anything so i dismantled them all and
i saved all these little pieces of wood and now i'm making them into signs it works out fantastic
valentine with a little arrow and this is just painted with my homemade um chalk paint and then
my mod podge graphics on top it's a little bit more difficult doing it on a colored paint than
just a white chalk paint when you're doing this transfer method but if you're finding that you're
seeing the outline of the mod podge on a little bit you can just get your paint brush and with
the red colored paint paint around where it's kind of showing through and it blends in beautifully
i love this one just a big chunk of wood that says february 14th just distressed some paint and
this one i added some twine on and made a be mine sign
and a big red i love us okay that wraps up today's video i had a lot of stuff that i've been working
on it was all a lot of fun i'd love to know down in the comments what was your favorite
hopefully you found something that was uh has inspired you to create something yourself and as
always i'm so thankful that you're here spending some time with me and i appreciate all your
support on my channel thanks for watching have a great day and we'll see you in the next video
and if you love this video you'll probably really love this one take care