Upcycled Farm Cart

Summertime, and the living is easy . . .

It's been a glorious summer in Southern Wisconsin and all that hard work planting the garden is paying off.

My beautiful veggies, more than I can eat! So why not fix up a little cart to give away the excess?

SW and I put our brains and talent together to turn a garage sale find into our very own farm cart. 

Combining an old lawn cart, salvaged wood, and corrugated metal (for roof), along with a little paint and some stencils, we had fun making this cart uniquely ours. A rotating turnstile of trays on the left and a box off to the right for storing bags or other items, and we're all set!

Before

Ok, back to the garden! Stay cool! See you later--Elevated Bag Lady

Pallet Benches

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DURING

BEFORE

 

With a family reunion pending, and the inspiration of Pinterest, SW and I embarked on our first DIY furniture project. Pallet furniture seems all the rage, and why not?  Pallets are inexpensive and easy to work with. 

 

SW and I found our stack of pallets (all of them!) for $2 at an Estate sale.  Granted, they had been out in the elements for a long time, so the wood was a little rickety.  If you were planning to make pallet furniture and take apart pieces to reconstruct you would want newer pallets.  But we did not need new pallets! 

 

After carting the pallets home I printed out several photos from Pinterest to see which ones we might have the limited skill to reproduce.  This is the style that won!  We used a paint sprayer for the final paint job and we were done in time for the family reunion!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Get there if you Can!

I put this directional sign together last summer, but still get a big kick out of it every time I see it.  After perusing Pinterest for ideas, and knowing basically what I wanted, I scouted about for pieces of wood that could be cut for this project. 

After finding various odd boards and having my "handyman" (AKA SW)  cut them to size I then scouted about for leftover paint.  Sounds like I have old junk lying around everywhere, doesn't it?  Well I DON'T !!  But I bet you do.  Haha 

So anyway, I first considered marking the distance to big cities.  But after some thought I decided it was more personal to mark the distance to people I love.  So when I look at these locations I think of specific people IN those places.  When you advertise that this is what you've done, however, don't be suprirsed at all the people who pop up and say, "but my town isn't on there, don't you love me?"  OIY, let's be REASONABLE people.  I love you all, but you can't all be on there.