Welcome to my weekly series called Trashtastic Tuesday. Each week I take something either free or from a thrift store and give it new life. Occasionally I show off someone else’s trashtastic treasures too, if I don’t have something to share that week. You can go to the page titled Trashtastic Tuesday to find all of my trashtastic projects if you would be interested in seeing them. I would love for you to check some of them out!
Last week, we had a snow day, and I decided to knock out a few projects around here. One of them was this gallery wall in my dining room/office. I have been slowly transforming this dining room for several months now. You can see more about my progress here, here, here and here. I have had everything I hung in this gallery wall for a few months now, and have just never gotten around to actually hanging it all until now. The reason I am categorizing it under trashtastic Tuesday is because 4 of these items were purchased at The Goodwill. Can you guess which ones? I’ll tell you in a little while, keep reading! And if you want to know where I bought the other stuff, check that out here,
I am considering changing the mats on the fruit watercolors (at least they look like watercolors to me), what do you think? And the others are actual dried flowers. All of these are signed. I considered changing the gold frames, but I am kind of digging them. I think they tie in nicely with some other gold things going on in the room, like the pencil sketch that I framed using a gold frame. What do you think?
The plates were purchased at Pier One. You can see where they used to be hanging here. I was growing tired of them where they were, so I moved them. I think they look great here. They kind of tie all the colors together.
Here are a couple of far away shots of the dining room.
This room continues to be a work in progress, but it is coming along nicely.
I hope you enjoyed this week’s Trashtastic Tuesday! This wall may change eventually, or things may get added, we shall see. But for right now, I am liking it a lot. I can see this wall from my regular seat in the living room, and it makes me happy, and ready for spring! Please join me next Tuesday to see what else I have up my sleeve that is Trashtastic!
I am linking up here today:
Love the mix of plates and prints – and the goodwill finds are fantastic! Take care, Laura
Thanks Laura! Since I adore your home, that means a lot coming from you!
Great finds Nicki! I love thrift shopping, you did a nice job with the gallery wall! Thanks for the comment on my blog and for following me, I am following you back!
Thank you! I love thrifting too. I wish I lived in an area where I could do more of it! Have a good day! Thanks for the follow back.
found your post on Google+ – I am your newest follower – love the gallery wall especially the bird canvasses – I am a sucker for bird art…I have found many great art pieces at my local thrift store!
Thank you For the follow, I visited your page followed you back, and left a couple of comments. I love that clock on the wall in your bedroom!
Your gallery wall turned out great! Could you link this on my blog hop? I think our readers would really like this! Thanks!!
http://carriethishome.com/2013/03/frugal-crafty-home-blog-hop-15/
Thanks for the invite. I just linked up!
Thanks so much, Nicki!
You've been featured on Frugal Crafty Home! Congrats!!!
http://carriethishome.com/2013/03/frugal-crafty-home-blog-hop-16/