I went thrifting! We have big news. We bought
a house! You are the first to hear it on youtube,
but yes we bought a house and your girl documented the entire journey,
from house hunting to buying. We're going to be doing renovations
and so Stef and i are gonna be starting our first home
series pretty soon, but for now while we wait
and the thrift stores have opened up for a while now, I decided to take a stop
there. Not that I need to do home decor right now. The last thing I need to do is
add things to my moving list. I've never thrift flipped home
decor before, so today we're going to be thrift flipping some
pieces. I found some really really cool pieces that I feel like is weird to
thrift flip, but nothing a lot of paint and spray paint
can't zhuzh up, so let's get started.
Ohhh the thrift store. I’ve missed every part of it.
I was looking for blue plain and decorated plates.
This one came hand painted in a case, which I regret not picking up.
But there’s a plethora of options as you can see. Otherwise for the rest of my
pieces, I was really just looking out for interesting shapes that I could work with.
Oh my gosh it's so foggy. So hot. I just realized there was no point of
putting makeup on because i just have a mask on. It all
just melted off. So I have my basket of things that I have
sanitized. I've got these two
little ceramic glass stem vases and are you "vaz" or "vase"
because all I hear is vase these days and I've
always been a vase. I love the idea of blue
decorated plates and this one is already decorated,
and it was made for decorating because it even has a hanger
This I'm going to add as an accent but this I'm going to paint.
I have alcohol paints. This clock which I'm thinking of dip dyeing and
then I think the coolest is salt and pepper
shaker. I've been seeing these lumpy vases which
is really cool and I was thinking that I needed to saw this
in order to make an opening to put flowers in,
but I don't think I need to. Worst thing that I have to do right now
is to goo gone and peel all these stickers,
and hope they don't peel awfully. This one is almost, ah.
There are so many stem vases at the thrift store. To keep to current trends,
all you really need to do is update colour. I took a glass and
ceramic one, cleaned off with alcohol and primed.
I was looking for a matte charcoal grey paint, but only came across this black
satin at my local store. If this ended up matte, I’d be ok with
it, but it ended up shiny and black, which is not the effect I was going for
so I don’t recommend this paint. Though for painting ceramics I do recommend
spray paint as it adheres to the surface better and won’t leave any brush strokes.
It looks and feels like black ceramic.
I didn’t really have expectations for this salt and pepper mill, but I was
immediately drawn to the shapes. Turns out, it was not difficult at all.
It just took detaching the mechanisms, much to Stefan’s dismay,
and it turns into hollow containers. It’s finished wood, so I sanded it down for
the primer to adhere to better. You can spray paint for a cleaner finish,
but since they were small and I wanted three different colours,
I opted for acrylics. Most important is to prime correctly.
I’m really liking weird pastel colour combos, and a great way to ease
into it is small decor items like this.
This was my first foray into alcohol inks. It’s perfect for ceramic,
plastic and glass surfaces. Anything non porous really.
It doesn’t chip after drying, and while it’s wet, it’s easy to wipe off with
alcohol if you make any mistakes. For such small designs, I used my nail
brush set linked in the description, along with other supplies that I
used. If you note the way all the pieces are styled, it's that decor
always looks good in pairs or sets. Plates used to be a popular decor choice,
and I think they deserve a comeback. This DIY is a little labour intensive, but
totally worth it. I took an old candle and double boiled
it over the stove. I'm dipping this clock in the melted wax
but please be careful if you're dipping electronics.
Take out the batteries, make sure all flammable or corrosive parts are removed.
I dipped the first couple of times directly into the wax but eventually had
to drip wax layer by layer with a spoon. For a hard line of division, a piece of
tape would have helped as well. I wanted a drip paint effect but paint
would never achieve the results I was looking for.
This is one of those love it or hate it decor items and I think Stef is upset
that I took two functional items and turned them into decor,
but he's not the creative one in this home so he'll just have to live with my
DIY decisions. If you decide to thrift flip your pieces,
please share with me on Instagram or Tik Tok
@letitiakiu. Thanks for watching!