hello everyone and welcome to my channel if you're new here my name is deidra and i lots of thrifting
upcycling repurposing and diy content and today's video i wanted to show you all the projects that
i've been working on the last little bit that i finished up lots of inspiration most of the stuff
came from either the dump the side of the road or people have given to me because i know that i
love to upcycle so i have lots to share let's get started the first thing that i want to share is
this metal step stool it was in rough shape it was rusty and i just knew that i could make it pretty
again and i love these colors that i used the red and the turquoise it turned out beautiful and most
people would have just left this and uh not seen any potential in it but i've turned it into a
beautiful spot for me to put some flowers on the steps or to display on my porch another project
that i finished not long ago was i decoupage some fabric on this roadside end table that i found
it um it's so easy to decoupage fabric onto furniture i did a full tutorial on how to do that
if you haven't seen it make sure you check it out because there's so many possibilities with fabric
head to the thrift store and you can get scarves curtains linens and pick out your favorite
pattern and then incorporate it into a piece of furniture so i love the tropical boho feel of
this was a fun project i hit the spindle jackpot i had a girlfriend that brought me three great
big buckets full of spindles and table legs so i've been creating like crazy and trying to find
inspiration on pinterest of what to do with all these spindles i put to do together a really great
video with some of the projects that i've done and uh some of the really cute ones that i did
was that i turned them into little vegetables and you can paint them all kinds of different colors
i've just added some faux greenery from the dollar store stuff that i've collected along the way
a lot of these i just kept the natural color of the spindles because i love them
but imagine that easter you could paint them all in carrot colors and then fill them up in a basket
these were really cute this was a favorite project that i have done in a long time it
was actually found in the dump it was completely raw pine so i had a clean slate to do whatever i
wanted to do with and this is what i've created i love the graphic down the full panel of the door
i did lots of chippy paint i kind of distressed the hardware on it and um yeah it's probably one
of my favorite pieces i've done in a while i also had lots of cut off ends of spindles
i perfect to turn into ornaments and these make really great gifts um i've just saved
all the cut ends painted them some fun whimsical colors screwed in a little um circle hook at the
top to attach the jute to and these are adorable i found an old chair on the side of the road beyond
repair wasn't worth fixing but as soon as i saw the patina on the spindles i knew i had to have
it and take it home and deconstruct it and turn it into these gorgeous spindles the patina on them is
beautiful i had some old rusty wire that i put through the top and these aren't you can use them
at christmas but they would be beautiful hung up anywhere in your home all year round and so don't
pass by those old broken chairs that you know you can't fix because you can take them apart
and turn them into something else this was a dump find an old cabinet door the chippy paint on it
unbelievable the little knob and i also found these hooks in the scrap metal bin and i put it
together and created this beautiful farmhouse frame a table leg i turned it into a coat rack
with some of those old hooks that i had put some hangers on the back but the chippiness i don't
i don't want to paint over stuff like this i just want to keep it as is so i just sealed it up with
some polyacrylic sealer added the hooks love it i'll see my video where i created this cutest
little birdhouse it's an old teapot the lid was missing i added a sign home tweet home a little
piece of a spindle for a bird to perch on and this is a dresser drawer and i put it all together
and this is what i created beautiful birdhouse old head of a shovel i was missing the handle
but i knew i could upcycle it i put on a graphic with my mod podge reverse graphic transfer method
um i first i painted it with some chalk paint put the graphic on and then i sealed it up
with some outdoor poly acrylic sealer and stick it in your garden or stick it in a flower pot
how cute is that anything that's rusty i seem to be drawn to when i found this rakehead i knew i
could turn it into a little hanger and i had some old hardware a piece of old baseboard and i put it
all together and put some hangers on the back so you can hang maybe in the kitchen and you could
hang utensils from it i've got a bit of a theme going on with broken chairs and spindles and this
is another uh sign that i created the seat of a chair and the spindles on the bottom that were
once the back of the chair i cut them down turned them into hooks added two spindles on the top of
the bottom and i love this graphic antiques and collectible and i created a farmhouse size it was
an old scale i found in the scrap metal bin and it was just in really bad shape it was really rusty i
cleaned it up and sealed it with some polyacrylic sealer and it makes a beautiful plant stand or
something to display some farmhouse decor on but how could you leave that in the scrap metal bin
an old coffee canister from the scrap metal bin it just needed to be cleaned up i didn't want
to get rid of the graphics on it or the patina of the rust i added a little knob on the top perfect
to display in a farmhouse kitchen more spindles the back of a chair spindles i used some um hooks
to attach them all together and i created this beautiful wind chime with all these fun colors
and perfect display out in the garden and we've up-cycled all kinds of parts from a broken chair
if you've been following along for a while you know i love to save my glass jars from
the recycling bin paint them with my chalk paint and then do my mod podge reverse graphic transfer
method on them i have a really great tutorial on how to paint glass so it won't peel and chip i'll
put that link down below in the description so you can check that out but what a great way to
make free home decor i love this graphic organic honey that i just created and again you can grab
that in my etsy store if you want to try to make this um yourself but this is just a pickle jar and
i love it and here's some other glass jars that i made i just added some graphics on them these
are really great sellers too and you can do so many different themes and they make great gifts
i also gave a vase and a jug an update with some sand paint love using the sand paint it
can take something that's really dated and make it modern looking again i love the terracotta
i just did a dry brush of the white on top and it makes it look really authentic and just a great
vase that um looks almost like stone and i love the texture that the sand paint i never throw out
any scrap pieces of wood i always save everything even the little tiny ones to turn them into shelf
sitters so ask your friends ask your family to save little bits of wood bigger pieces of wood
and you can turn these into signs and make a little bit of spending money these are my best
sellers and all of these were made doing my mod podge reverse graphic transfer method i have all
kinds of videos on my channel with a real thorough step-by-step instructions on how to do this and
once you get the hang of it you can create so many great projects without a cricket without stencils
and it's really affordable and this was really easy to put together it's just a wooden bowl
a candlestick holder i glued it together really gave it a distressed paint and with the vaseline
so it's nice and chippy and you can put that on your table and put some flowers or a potted plant
in it and it's really cute and easy to put together you can do this in an afternoon so
as you can see i was busy out in my shed here doing lots of upcycling i hope you found some
stuff that maybe was in inspirational or something that gave you some ideas of stuff that you already
have that you can recreate i love making these videos and i love sharing my techniques with you
so i hope you're enjoying thanks for watching have a great day and we'll see in the next video and
if you love this video i'm sure you'll really love the next one here take care have a great day
you