3 Girls in a Pickup Truck!

You know how Joy and I love to haunt our local building material reuse center - Construction Junction. You either love this kind of stuff or you don't! Remember our last trip?

One of my favorite projects has been the Artwork I Created for my Bedroom using an old rusty ceiling tile!

Well, we added another girl to the truck and Marzipan joined us for the first time this week as we sniffed through loads of junk to find a few new treasures.

Let's browse, shall we?

Just look at this amazing round window! They have the stained glass inserts and would only sell this whole, but I would love to have this section of naturally distressed wood mounted on the wall!



I don't know what in the world these pillars are, maybe part of a church? I would paint them all different colors and group them together in a corner.



These cedar panels were just begging for a cool project, maybe two side by side on some saw horses for a desk?



I'm always looking for wrought iron fence to hang on the wall...they wouldn't sell sections of this one.



Check out the amazing condition of this giant double front door. These would even look fantastic leaning against a wall.



This huge industrial sink was calling to me! Only $350 and it appeared to be made from copper sheeting - the natural patina was gorgeous! Just remember this sink when I take you to Anthropologie next week, you will see something very familiar!



Have you found any trash treasures lately?

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Two Girls, a Pick -up Truck, and a Warehouse Full of Junk!

Does this sound like the best day ever? It really was! My friend Joy and I took off on an adventure last week in her husband's truck to Construction Junction, a building reuse center in Pittsburgh, to find some inspiration and a work of art worthy of my spruced up master bedroom project. I left there exhilarated, inspired, and grubby!

Let's go shopping:

Look at this amazing carved pillar tucked behind some wood. It's all naturally chippy and worn (and a little rotted) from the elements. I wanted this for my dining room, to lean casually against the wall. I wanted it Real. Bad. BUT Joy helped me focus and move on. You're welcome, Big Guy.



Next we found a giant box full of burlap coffee sacks for $1! We dug and sneezed...good times...

Just look at this row of school desks! Oh, if my kids were younger. I have a whole school room laid out in my head:



An old panel of ceiling tin, all chipped and naturally aged. Love the bird poop accent. This is cool:



And a BUNCH of vintage stadium/auditorium seats that would be so cool lining the wall of a man-cave style basement. I really loved these!



So, what did we get? Well, that would ruin the surprise, but I can say that I spent $14.50 that day. After scrounging around I was starving...Time for lunch!

What do you do when you're in the city and you're starving and you can't find a parking spot? Find a townhouse that is for sale and pretend you are a potential buyer and use the driveway as a parking spot while you run into Bruegger's Bagels for a sandwich!



Then snap a quick photo of the address for your Number Art project and hightail it out of there laughing and howling!

You still have one more day to join up with the Studio JRU sponsored Linky party! You could win an awesome gift certificate to spend it in Jennifer's Faith-Inspired Art Shop!





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