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No mosquitos breeding in this birdbath. A birdbath repurposed as a small succulent garden. This image was taken using the Lensbaby Twist optic.
I styled repurposed vintage elements into spooky Halloween decor ideas....as blogged about on www.PoeticHome.com
I spent just about the whole weekend in the yard - cleaning and gardening. Trimmed my lilac bush for 2 hours yesterday (it now looks like this again). Clutching trimmers that long means every muscle in my hands hurt bad.
This cooler was Jeff's and he was going to toss it when he moved here (bottom is rusty and leaks) but I told him I wanted it. Good thing too - it's a cute planter for some begonias.
A peek into my home and my favorite vintage treasures...this vintage card catalog was repurposed into a happy bookshelf (and plant holder).
(I'm catching up with uploading as I had to spend the last two months trying to remember my Flickr login info!)
The long, narrow spaces were the most challenging! I split some photos into two, three or four parts for a little twist.
LTEX works on locomotives at this facility in McDonald, Ohio, that was once used by a steel mill railroad.
The first of three patchwork jean scarves I am making for my nephews for Christmas. They are lined with fleece, very soft and warm. My son really likes the pocket.
An old 1913 schoolhouse in rural Warren County, Ohio has a new purpose in life. These days it is the "Plain Folk Cafe". I'll bet the beer atmosphere are outstanding.
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What do you do with an old school bus? Well at Hillbilly Hotsdogs outside of Huntingdon, Cabell County, WV you make it the platform for outside eating.
Morgantown, PA. April 2022.
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Did you know the New York and Greenwood Lake Railway used to serve much of the North Jersey area years ago? Based in Passaic NJ, freight and passenger service would be provided along the now defunct Pompton Line. The line used to branch off the current Montclair Boonton Line in Wayne, intersect the NYSW at Pompton Junction, and continue up to Greenwood Lake and Ringwood NJ. All thats left is some trackage where the Totowa Industrial track is, at Pompton Junction where the NYSW meets the Tilcon quarry, and the rest is just old right of way. Here the equipment is officially moved out of NJ via an NYSW move from PC yard in Saddle Brook to Lackawaxen, PA. Two CSX geeps bring the entire deadline of engines, cars and coaches past the old Erie Railroad station in Port Jervis, NY. Both the station and equipment have now been repurposed, with the station renovated and housing a few local shops for the town center, and the equipment being soon used for the Operation Toy Train organization. There is also word that the turntable and equipment in Port Jervis will be turned into an official museum.
Yuba City, Ca
Never been posted from the files of March, 2010. This may have been a Dairy Queen or Der Wienerschnitzel, I'm not sure. Let me know if you know, please.
The Portland Camera Club resumes next month and an assignment was to bring a print to the first meeting and the category is 'doors and windows';. I am not sure if that means doors or windows or both in one photo. This is one of a few photos for this first meeting of the new season. This was taken at the farm of a classmate of mine in Minnesota. We were there for a 55th reunion picnic. He has a large farm on the shore of Bass Lake. Comments are always welcomed by me.
Coincidentally there is also a fence in the photo that is around the horse pasture.
A Lillyhall based former "Gold" Enviro 400 passes the Wesleyan chapel at Embleton, now a private residence.
Thinly disguised spaceships, they put down right on South Beach and stayed.
Anyone disbelieving the presence of extraterrestrial life in Miami is invited to take a walk around South Beach and see for yourself :)
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Fall Break 2015: "South Florida Immersion"
October 31st: tour d'Miami Beach
Ponce City Market is a mammoth former Sears Roebuck regional distribution center, repurposed as a mixed-use development. The sculpture in this corner of the food hall is itself made of repurposed parts - it contains four of the hundreds of Simplex clocks that had been in the Sears building (the kind of clocks that typically hung in schoolrooms), mounted inside a motor mount from one of the elevators.
Next to the Ponce City Market you can live in the Ford Factory Lofts. Nearby are the Telephone Factory Lofts, the Pencil Factory Flats, the Stove Works, and the Fulton Cotton Mill Lofts. Repurposing is hot!
For the "Repurposed" weekly theme, www.flickr.com/groups/urbansketches/discuss/7215768512714...
Drawn June 21, 2017
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
LOVE these crocheted jar cozies using recycled jars and thrift store yarn. Tutorial found here: www.naturenutnotes.com/2011/01/crochet-votive-tutorial.html
A traditional kneading trough, in Greek "πινακωτή", the long wooden vessel used for the preparation of bread, decorating the wall of a cafe in Milina, Pelion, Greece. The dough for each loaf of bread was left to raise in one of the compartments.
Where many thousands once toiled, the old Massachusetts Mill cotton manufacturing complex has been repurposed as luxury condominiums.
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We continue our series of interview, this time with Joan Stricker from the blog Scavenger Chic, she is also one of our best contributors on 1001Pallets and she's making very original creations out of repurposed wooden pallets. If you think you deserve to be featured in the next interview, please, drop us an email.
Tell us a little more about you? Who you are? Where are you from?
My name is Joan Stricker and I live in Maryland. Happily married to my husband of 31 years. I'm the mother of three boys, 2 of whom are married and the third in high school. Twice a week you can find me blogging at Scavenger Chic with any kind of project that happens to catch my eye.
Why do you craft?
I don't remember a time when I didn't craft. I watched my mom as a kid do her projects, sewing, quilting, gardening... she could do it all. My dad started his own business, but he loved woodworking. When he wanted a ping pong table, he built one, when he wanted a chair to match one he had bought, he built one. With this influence, it just seemed like the thing to do, and I get so much pleasure out of it. I guess it's in my blood!!
When I first began to make my own home, my mom and I went to auctions and thrift stores and refinished and reupholstered to fill my home with furniture at a fraction of the price you could buy new furniture. If anyone had thought about using pallets then, I'm sure my home would be filled with pallet furniture. I wish I had known then that chippy painted furniture was going to come into style, it would have saved me a lot of paint stripping.
How did you learn?
Like I said, my parents were both huge do it yourselfers. I remember as a teenager, if I needed to saw a piece of wood, I would just go downstairs and fire up the table saw. I can proudly say, I still have all my fingers. Aside from that, I also minored in art in college. Working with a lot of mediums led me to believe there was nothing I couldn't try. One of my classes even used the arc welder, though I haven't used it since, that would be fantastic to combine iron with pallets...
Since when are you working with pallets?
I've been working with pallets since 2012, when I finished my first pallet wall. I haven't shared that one with 1001 pallets yet, you'll just have to wait. To date, I've probably used over 100 pallets that were destined for the trash.
What are your can’t-live-without essentials?
In terms of electric tools, I absolutely have to have a drill, palm sander and circular saw. But don't try to take away my miter saw. nail gun or jigsaw or someone might get hurt.
How would you describe your style? Are there any crafters/artists/designers that you particularly look up to?
I would have to describe my style as rustic or shabby chic. That is why pallets are perfect for me, they already have built in character. If you need perfect wood, then pallets are not for you. I love other crafters that are into upcycling and recycling, such as Donna at Funky Junk Interiors or Becky at Beyond the Picket Fence and Angie at Knick of Time. I'm sure there are hundreds more, but these ladies are always using something old, that's rusty and crusty and making it into something new and unique.
How is your workspace, how do you make it inspiring?
I have a great workshop in the corner of my basement which I don't mind getting dirty. In January I gave my workshop a makeover, cleaning, organizing, and painting. You can see a bit of it here. It doesn't have a window though, so if I'm going to be painting or need extra light, I'll bring the project up into the kitchen. What is nice about having a dedicated work space is that I can usually shut the door to prevent the rest of the house from gathering a layer of dust.
What sorts of things are inspiring you right now? Where do you look for inspiration?
Right now I've been on a "vintage" sign kick. Pallet wood is the perfect backdrop to get that vintage feel without using actual old wood. I just completed a telephone sign painted on pallet wood last week.
While Pinterest is a great place to be inspired, I'll usually be inspired by an object...what can I make out of this? That was the case with the pallet wood and bedsprings light...it all started with the bedsprings. Or I'll be inspired by a specific need, such as when my daughter-in-law asked me to make centerpieces for her wedding or the rolling storage bin...I had a whole lot of bits and pieces and nowhere to put them.
We live in such a mass-produced, buy-it-now society. Why should people continue to make things by hand?
Besides being able to say, I built that. There are so many reasons to be a do it yourself-er. It can save a ton of money, especially if you're using free pallet wood. The pallet wood bench, free, the valentine's heart, free, the sign post, free. Things made by hand can also be personalized and they are usually made better than their store bought counterparts.
What is your favorite medium to work in?
Pallet wood has got to be my favorite but I love finding old rusty iron pieces and recreating them into something useful.
What are your tips for people who'd like to start crafting?
Start small and get comfortable with one tool at a time. Don't be scared of tools, they are there to make your life easier. Start with what you feel comfortable with. If you enjoy painting, pick up a paintbrush, if you enjoy sewing start there...but incorporate something new into your project that's a stretch.
What is your guilty pleasure?
Other than chocolate, can I say my nail gun. The reason that it is my guilty pleasure is that it is not really mine, I gave it to my husband for his birthday one year. Nobody gets more pleasure out of using it than me.
What is your favorite thing to do (other than crafting)?
I love a nice hike in the woods, I love genealogy, gardening, travel and spending time with my family.
What do you recommend that most people do in terms of cleaning pallets and prepping them to become something else?
I always tear my pallets apart so I have a pile of pallet wood waiting for my next project. I've found the easiest way to do this, for me anyway, is to take a circular saw down alongside both side rails on both sides of the pallet. Immediately you've reduced the number of nails by two thirds. If the pallet comes apart easily, then I'll just take a crowbar and hammer to it. If it puts up a good fight, like most pallets, then the reciprocating saw comes out to chop off the remaining nails.
To finish, we've seen that you have an active blog. Since how many times are you blogging? Is that a full time job or just a hobby to share your personal creations?
I do have an active blog with only about a quarter of my projects using pallet wood or other reclaimed wood. I wouldn't mind my blog becoming a full time job but since it doesn't produce much income, we'll just call it a hobby right now. I love to inspire other people with easy to follow tutorials, because if I can do it, I'm sure you can too.