Our first official blog post- who would have thought it would ever come this far?
If you would have asked me 6 years ago if I had ever thought that this is where we would be, I would have laughed at you. Our business began in our basement as a hobby. Turning one man's trash into another's treasure. Where my heart it. I love taking something that is drab and turning it FAB! So let's down to the nitty gritty.
Recently one of my friends found a cute little metal birdhouse at Goodwill. I told her on her Facebook post that I LOVED it and would be totally copying her. Flash forward a few days to my next trip to Goodwill with my daughter. We found this little bird house and my daughter turned her nose up when I grabbed it and put it in the cart and did a happy dance.
So we finished our shopping and ended up filling our cart of amazing finds. I think we paid a whole $1.88 for this. I did have to pick up a $1 bag of moss at the Dollar Tree, but I have plenty of that left over for more projects.
I also used some of my favorite paint that I had on hand. Rethunk Junk in the color cloud, you could probably use any white craft paint.
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We prepped our bird house by cleaning it with the Rethunk Junk Prep and painted it with 2 coats of paint. As you can see from the photos below it was not the cleanest.
And I am probably the most impatient person you will meet, so I didn't even wait for the paint to dry before I started hot gluing the moss on. Looking back It probably would have been wise of me to glue the moss on first before I painted the bottom. Since the paint was still wet the loose moss stuck to it and I ended up having to put a third coat on the bottom.
I have almost and entire bag full of this stuff left- now to find other crafts with it or else just make more birdhouses. I think this project took me less than 20 minutes. And I couldn't be more excited with how it turned out! Especially for spring time right around the corner.
The before and after- well worth the 20 minutes and $2.88
And that folks is kind of how this crazy business of ours started- turning nothing into something.
I hope this blog inspires you to maybe look at things a little differently and see the diamond in the rough. Feel free to leave us a comment on your thoughts. Happy creating! xoxo