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Becky sends in these 3 projects

This project is from Clydene

The is an old Card Catalog cabinet, it came out of a library, it held the old Dewy Decimal cards you can still see the four dots on the drawers that held the little metal bracket for the index numbers still have them maybe I should put them back on.

This project was submitted by Jennifer

She writes:
Hey margo! just wanted to send a pic of my newest creation took me all week since im so busy but was worth it,this was an old little end table that i was going to throw away before i starting looking at your site,the top was in horrible shape and i found this out in my dads junk i guess its a piece of old cabnet it still had the glass nob so i just took it and made it the top of the table and painted it all!

Tina 56 re-purposed this old dresser into a bathroom vanity

Shamless Plug

This book isn't about trash, although there are a few chapters on various types of crafting. However my DH is featured on page 173 under the Robotics chapter.

Rosemary Submits several of her projects. She's used corbels in her Kitchen

And she has this T2T display on her fireplace

Gayle Sent in this project. She writes this about the clock face The face is actually decopauged onto a circle of wood - I cut a piece of brown paper to size, and printed the numbers on my computer. Then tore them apart and glued them all on the face - very simple and cheap!"
Gayle has another great project on the Lamps page.

Added 5/15/07
Donna Lee shows what to do with an old coffee pot:

I used a old Mr. Coffee Coffee Pot Spray Painted the pot inside and out. Attached Butterfly rub ons then put a string of 35 lights and put artificial flowers on top.