Craft Your Environment

Today I went to the Craft Your Environment event at the Iowa City Salvage Barn.

I blogged about the salvage barn before, Here. It's at the same location as the Re Store store. Today was a crafty show of recycled craft items, and fun things for the kids to do too. DD was babysitting for Wyatt and Mason and Will today so they all came out.

 Here's Will and Wyatt planting a sunflower seed in a reused newspaper starter pot. They also went on the reusable water bottle hunt...they all found a water bottle! YAY!

 This crafts person, made lamps and decorative items out of gears, and car parts.

 The girls that had this booth had really awesome re-purposed paper notebooks and comic book covered shoes and all kinds of interesting things. But what caught my eye was the table. Look it was once a treadle sewing machine table. See the foot treadle and belt reel? It's so different!

 

Look at the very back of this picture they made tote bags out of grease rags. I remember those pinkish colored grease rags from  along time ago!

 Over in the Salvage Barn is a lot of really wonderful wood parts.

 It's so great that they do this work to re use the wonderful old house parts.

Look at this pretty fireplace surround. It is awesome. It must have been a really sad day when it was removed from it's home. So with the wonderful weather it was an excellent day at the Salvage barn!

Re Store Store

I stopped off at the Iowa Valley Habitat for Humnaity Re Store Store yesterday.  They sell all kinds of donated stuff that's related to houses. Kind of like Goodwill for houses only.

 They have glass light globes and light fixtures...

 And lots of tiles of all kinds. Stuff is supposed to be in good condition and basically about 15 years old or less.

And they also have some furniture and plumbing fixtures galore! Darn it I forgot to take a picture of the Pink sink and toilet set. And they also have tools and doors and windows too.

But if you go next door to the restore Barn...WOW! All the stuff there is at least 50 years old.

 So much gorgeous wood work and trim.

 And a ton of doors-all those weird sizes that are always in old houses!

 SO  many really pretty wood trims and rails.

 They also have some hardware too.

 But mostly wood.

It was very cool to see all the old wood it really reminded me of the old house I grew up in. They had those light switch plate covers for the round push button light switches. All that old wood will take you back for sure.