Category Archives: Before and Afters

30
April
2012

Tags: Before and Afters, DIY, Family Life, Giveaway, Refinishing, The Trio, The Vintage Market, Thrifty

Fun at the Market

We have some exciting things lined up for the market next week!

We will have live music by Carson Parks! He will be playing from 9-11 and will have his new CD available to purchase.

Cover Photo

Karen Scheffe from Elan Photography will be at the market running a vintage themed photo booth! It is free and all you have to do is pay for your prints for only $15! This is an unbelievable price that she is giving just to our Junk in the Trunk shoppers and friends. Christmas cards anyone?? You won’t want to miss it! She is amazing and this is a great opportunity to capture fun memories with your family and friends!

We are also offering DIY Demos throughout the day.

At 11:15 Trouve will be demonstrating how to use Annie Sloan paint! They are trained and willing to share their secrets with us!

At 12:15 For the Love of Old will be demonstrating how to distress furniture to create that awesome old, chippy look.

At 1:15 Mandy from Mable Dear (and our wonderful guest blogger) will be demonstrating how to create those Zinc inspired letters, perfect for your kitchen.

All of these are included with your admission ticket!

As well as each admission ticket purchased will get you a ticket into our hourly giveaways from our amazing vendors! More on that later this week. So stay tuned.

Students from Young Life will be there raising money to go to camp. They will be available to help carry all your fun vintage finds to your car! We will also be raffling off this amazing mining cart from Modern Manor to help them raise money for camp! Make sure to stop by and purchase your raffle tickets!

See you Saturday!!!!!

16
April
2012

Tags: Before and Afters, DIY, Estate, Giveaway, Home Decor, The Trio, The Vintage Market, Thrifty

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Shopping for a Cause

I had the privilege today to join 80 wonderful women helping send teen moms to camp to learn about Jesus. We had our annual YoungLives tea fundraiser and it was so powerful to hear from these young moms and the way YoungLives has changed their lives and their family trees. YoungLives is a group in the Young Life organization for teen moms where they can come and feel accepted and loved for who they are. And guess what? You can help too! What do you have to do you ask? Well, just come to our market!

A portion of all ticket sales will help support Young Life of Paradise Valley. Young Life is a non-denominational Christian organization that reaches out to adolescents in the greater north Phoenix area through caring adults that spend time with youth in order to empower them to see that their lives have great worth, meaning and purpose.

If you want first dibs on all the goods, early entry starts at 9am and is $8. General admission is at 10am and is $4. 12 and under are free and after 3pm admission is free.

More exciting news…Modern Manor graciously donated this amazing industrial cart that will be given away at our show! Raffle tickets will be sold for $1 and all the procedes will go straight to Young Life!

Most vendors will accept credit cards, but some can only take cash so there will be an ATM on site to use!

10
April
2012

Tags: Before and Afters, DIY, Home Decor, Organize, Refinishing, The Vintage Market, Thrifty

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Card Catalogue Desk

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter! We had a wonderful time with our dear friends in town and had both sides of our families over for Easter! We felt so blessed to celebrate our Lord together. I set up a beautiful vintage table setting and forgot to take pictures . My friend said she might have some in her camera, so if she does I will show you all next week.

I wanted to share our latest project we finished last week. I have wanted a card catalogue for our home for a while now. I haven’t found one that I loved that was a good price (meaning under $1000!) Crazy! One of our wonderful readers showed me hers that she had for sale and I knew I had to have them!

I bought two of these babies…

We used the barnwood shelves we got from an old railroad station in Arizona as the top.

We love it and I can’t wait to decorate it!

02
April
2012

Tags: Before and Afters, DIY, Estate, Family Life, Holidays, Home Decor, Refinishing, Thrifty, Uncategorized

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Busy weekend

Well, it is only Monday and I need the weekend to be here already. We had quite a busy weekend around here. On Friday night we took the boys to the rodeo in Cave Creek and they LOVED it! Every time a cow got roped, Broden would ask if he was dead and start to cry. It was so sweet. He was happy to see that every one of them got up and trotted out the gate.

On Saturday my dad and brother came over and we tackled painting the living room, dining room and hallway in 4 hours! I had to sit and rest a lot because I was having contractions, but my wonderful hubby, dad and brother were super stars! It was dark when everything was put back together so I will post pictures another day.

There was one wall I was able to get some pictures of. This is the entry wall before…

Sexy right?!

Sorry for the crazy light reflecting. We needed a lamp and I didn’t realize it did that until I uploaded it. I will post better pictures soon

On Sunday after church, my wonderful hubby finished all the trim while the boys slept and I went to a baby shower for Adrianne from Dream Book Design! I had so much fun praying for her sweet baby boy coming (we are due two weeks apart!) and showering her with love! I got home and got my painting clothes on and tackled a few things.

This is a vanity a friend of mine bought from me and asked me to paint for her. I fell in love with it and wish I could keep it!

I also tackled a dining room table and my buffet that my parents gave us.

Sorry for the bad pictures. It was late and the lighting was awful.

We have dear family friends coming into town this week and we are so excited they will be here celebrating Easter with us. This is a very special holiday to us and it usually gets skipped over pretty quickly. We really want to cherish this time as a family and focus on celebrating Jesus. It is also my husbands birthday coming up soon so we have lots of celebrating to do!

We hope you have a great week and a happy Easter!

28
March
2012

Tags: Before and Afters, DIY

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A Little Bench

Alright, so I have a fun little project for you today. I am a little late getting it up today, because I was having some issues deciding on paint colors and didn’t like how it kept coming out. So here is a great little bench I found a couple weeks ago.

My mom has been visiting while my husband is working crazy long hours during tax season, and one day found this great vintage curtain! It was definitely my inspiration for this fun bench. After trying many different colors of yellow paint and distressing, this is what I ended up with.

What do you think? I love this fabric. I think I might make some Easter skirts for my girls with the same fabric.

Lindsey

19
March
2012

Tags: Before and Afters, Fashion, Giveaway, The Trio

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Awesome Deal just for You!

Local Phoenicians, this one is for you! I have great deal I get to pass on to our wonderful readers! I actually went to a salon for the first time in a very long time! It was time. I got to talk to the owner and was bragging about you, and she wanted me to pass this deal on to you!

Before I share the deal, here are some pictures of her wonderful salon in North Scottsdale.

I think this room, besides her amazing talent, is what sets the salon apart. After my highlights were added, I got taken to this separate room with dim lights, candles, and spa music. Every hair service includes a 15 minute scalp and shoulder massage. I have to be honest, I almost fell asleep it was so relaxing! I didn’t want it to end!

She finished the service with a dry cut that was outstanding. My hair feels weightless and it is so easy to style! She also tinted my eyebrows to match I have never done that before. Looked great! I asked for a low maintenance color because I am a busy mom and don’t have time to go get a cut and color every 4 weeks. She really listened and got a client for life! Here is the finished product…

Ok, so I made you wait long enough. She is offering our wonderful friends 15% off any service! Call the salon and ask for an appointment with Jennifer. Tell them Junk in the Trunk sent you and enjoy the new you! http://www.jenniferandresalon.com/

Thank you Jennifer for this wonderful deal! Make sure you post pictures on our facebook page of your new do!

*I did not get paid to post this and all the opinions are my own.

12
March
2012

Tags: Before and Afters, DIY, Estate, Home Decor, Refinishing, Thrifty, Uncategorized

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Bathroom Update

So as most of you know we have been working non-stop on up-dating our main bathroom. If you recall the plethora of wallpaper I wrote about here. Well, we had very little budget to update the bathroom, so it was all hands on deck. I removed the wall paper on one wall and my dad came over and mudded that wall. I tried to remove the wall paper on the opposite wall and it was not budging. So, we just mudded right over it. It actually was an easy project and the whole bucket of mud only cost $7! We still have quite a bit left.

Then we added the bead board…

One sheet of bead board cut in half…$20

3 boards cut for wainscoting…$30

This was a fairly easy project too, with my dad’s help of course! We actually measured correctly the first time and all our cuts fit perfectly! That has never happened to us!

I went through about 50 colors of grey (who knew there were even that many!) I got sick of paying for paint samples, so I went to the store, picked one and bought a gallon! We ended up with Grey Owl by Benjamin Moore and I love it! I had it mixed into Ace Hardware’s brand of primer/paint in one. Covered like a dream and looks awesome!

Paint… $20

Bought this awesome shower curtain from West Elm…

$40

Stripe Shower Curtain

My biggest challenge was matching this tile.

It is not my favorite color and I really wanted to do a fun yellow accent, but I knew if I did I would be so antsy to remove the tile (which was not in the budget!) So I decided to embrace it.

I bought a can of Anne Sloan Chalk Paint and painted the vanity. I will post details about that next week

Chalk Paint…$40

And now for the dramatic update… Drum Roll please….

Before

(Sorry, this was the only before picture I could find.)

After

It is very hard to take pictures in the bathroom. You can’t see the wall color very well, but trust me, it is beautiful! The total reno cost $157! Not to shabby for a big transformation!

So, what do you think? We love it and we love the fact that it is DONE! The main stuff anyways. Now is the fun part and I get to add the fun decorative stuff. I will show you when I get it decorated.

Check back next week for details on painting with the Anne Sloan Chalk Paint and hopefully decorations for the bathroom!

Have a great week!

07
March
2012

Tags: Before and Afters, DIY

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A Chalkboard Door

Today I have a fun project that my husband and I have been working on. A couple months ago my husband came home with this great door! I was very excited about all the windows! And we knew right away that what we wanted to do with them. So we got busy, first painting the whole door blue. Then we taped off the blue and painted the windows with chalkboard paint. And we did both sides!

And then I did a light sanding on all the edges to add a distressed look. What do you think? This would be fun just as a decoration leaning in your house, or hanging on a wall or in an office, or in the kids area, or even for a headboard! So many fun ideas.

And you can look forward to seeing this at the upcoming Junk in the Trunk Vintage Market in May! Have you marked your calendars yet? May 5th at WestWorld!! The Lord has blessed us with some AMAZING vendors. And in the next couple of weeks we will be revealing those lovely vendors to you. Are you as excited as we are?! I hope so because you won’t want to miss it! And if you are interested in joining us as a vendor you can apply using this link.

Lindsey

29
February
2012

Tags: Before and Afters, DIY

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A Coffee Table

Today I have a fun little project for you. I found this great tourquoise coffee table and distressed the legs. My husband actually had the idea to make the top into a chalkboard. A great activity table for kids or just a fun coffee table. So I taped off the edges and used a chalkboard spray paint and got busy.

And here she is in all her glory!

What do you think? Kind of a fun project. It will be for sale this weekend at the Junkrestore Vintage Market. On Friday & Saturday the Junk in the Trunk Trio will have a booth out at this market. If you get a chance we would love to see you all this weekend. 648 E. Lehi Rd, Mesa, AZ from 10am -4pm.

22
February
2012

Tags: Before and Afters, Home Decor, Refinishing

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Dining Room Before and During…

Yes, there is another project not quite done, but I had to show you our progress so far! Here is our dining room before we moved in.

Do you recognize the table?

I laid out my frames on the floor, but wasn’t exact because I wanted to go for the more random look.

Of corse as I put them up the layout changes a lot!

Do you like the strapping young man in the big gold frame? I found him at a garage sale and knew he would fit right in with our family!

Don’t mind the dropcloth under the table Told you I still have a lot of work to do in here!

Happy Hump Day!