Mini holiday makeovers

Was scrolling through photos

this morning and saw a couple shots

that I thought might be fun 

to share with you all.

As I mentioned in my post

from yesterday, our little antique shop

does one show a year, a holiday show,

at a local girls' high school.

We shop from June through December

 to get ready 

for the show -- to find interesting

vintage and antique pieces to sell.

We occasionally mix in some new

or handmade items also.

Months ago my client/friend 

gave me this huge

3 foot wide iron frame clock

that she "inherited" when she

bought her home a couple

of years ago.

It is not old

but it had a nice shape 

and "good bones".

I thought it might be fun to include

 in our holiday sale.

Here is the clock before

the holiday makeover.

It had a printed cardboard face.

 I came up with the idea

that it might be fun to 

decoupage a vintage or old style

Santa Claus face on the clock.

That idea quickly faded when

I soon realized that Santa may end up

with a clock hand centered

in his eye or nose! 

Not good.

So I found this fantastic

poster/wrapping sheet for 

under $4 on Ebay.

Here is the link

But it came and it was not nearly

as large as I needed it to be.

So I took it to Kinko's and within

an hour they blew it up for me

on nice heavy weight paper.

I was able to cut it down

to a 35" circle and 

decoupaged it to the face.

Here is how it turned out:

 

Then I was at a holiday boutique in November

and a woman was selling newly made 

plaid pillows

that she had constructed using clean 

but old wool tartan throws. 

So I bought a couple.

A week or two later, 

I found these ultra-suede handmade cut-outs 

of a bear and a deer head at a flea market. 

The seller had cleverly machine stitched them 

to a heavy black wool felted backing.

I decided to attach them with super duper fabric glue

to the fronts of the red wool plaid pillows.

Look how cute they turned out!

Then, the final make-over

is not much of a makeover,

but kind of fun.

Our shop is called Blue Cardinal Vintage.

I walked into Hobby Lobby last month

and this cute sign was on clearance.

I grabbed it and brought it home.

It is on a base and stands about 4 feet tall.

You can see the base here in my shopping cart!

Bought a couple little bottles of paint

and 

voila!

We have a blue bird perched on the sign!

Ended up being the perfect piece 

to use at the sale.

And here it stood at our booth at the holiday sale!

That's it for my project sharing.

(Made the plaid pennant shown above for the shop too.)

What projects have you 

been working on?

:) 

~ Alison