Craft Show Thrifty Treasures

First I want to say thank you to EVERYONE who visited and commented on my post about the antique door that I acquired from my Dad's childhood home. I spent the day with my Dad yesterday for his 80th birthday and we had a lot of fun reading through all the thoughtful comments. I appreciate the time that everyone spent to leave a comment and the wonderful ideas many of you had on how I could incorporate the door in my own home!

This week is going to be a crazy one.....I am trying to get the final projects finished for this weekend's craft show, the one and only show that I am going to participate in this year. I thought I would show you what I have been working on (some of these have been mentioned in earlier posts). Almost 100% of what I use to create my projects comes from thrift stores, garage sales or flea markets. I like the idea of recycling "discarded" items and it helps keep material costs low.

I have several snowmen I have created using old bottles and salt and pepper shakers. They are embellished with vintage earrings, keys, watch faces, buttons....whatever I have in my stash of goodies. The glass cake plate I have them displayed on was a garage sale find for $1.00.
These snowmen were made using old silverplated salt and pepper shakers.I have several framed key projects that I made out of thrift store frames, burlap and flea market keys.
I found some wood blocks at a thrift store.....with some black paint, scrapbook paper and wire picture holders I made some Halloween picture holders just waiting for a favorite halloween photo. The wood cake plate was also found for $1.00 at a thrift store....some black paint was all it needed.

I recently posted about the pincushions I was making out of old silverplated cream and sugar bowls...here's a few more that I recently finished.

For a simple project I glued silver bales to black Scrabble tiles (game found at a garage sale for $1.00)....inexpensive ball chains complete the necklaces.
Finally, I have several altered bottles for both Halloween and Christmas. I recently posted about these bottles using graphics from The Graphics Fairy.

I'm looking forward to this Octoberfest show.....my mom and brother are both participating in the show as well so we are bound to have a great time....even if we don't sell anything!

I know I'm late.....but I'm linking my thrifty finds with Rhoda @ Southern Hospitality for Today's Thrifty Treasures. Head on over and check it out!