Night Stand to a Little Girl Kitchen

Nightstand to a little girl's kitchen

This was JJ's project. It was one of the first treasure haul finds that started the treasure haul empire that we have today. (ha ha) She found this little night stand, sanded it, painted it, spray painted the hardware, and cut a hole in the top for the sink (metal bowl). We found the knobs and the faucet at restore. The faucet was actually just a piece of pipe. So cute. She even used chalkboard paint for the side. Perfect for a little girl. Great job JJ. 

Very Hidden Treasure

Very Hidden Treasure
This was another Treasure Haul find that was quite a transformation as you can see from the before and after pictures. It started as this. It had all the pieces there but had a broken drawer and some just plain ugly issues.

But Jessica sanded, painted, sanded some more, painted some more and spray painted the hardware and Mikeal and Dad fixed the drawer and  look at the transformation.

Picnic table top to kitchen island

Picnic table top to kitchen island

Ok so one of my favorite projects lately started when Jill found me this picnic table top out of the treasure haul.

I got the idea from the pallet island found on beyondthepicketfence.blogspot.com. So JJ and I cut and stained the wood indoors because it was cold. Here is JJ getting nice and high from the fumes.

We used the 2x6’s from the picnic table top for the top and sides and then used pallet pieces for the shelf. We stained it with my favorite red mahogany and put a bees was on the top to seal it and make it food grade quality. The hooks on the side were from the dollar store and we spray painted them with the same copper patina spray paint we use for all hardware. The towel rack is my favorite feature and for that we got an old crib out of the treasure haul and cut and stained one of the rungs and then attached it with curtain rod holders that I had laying around. Here is the finished product. It was beautiful, easy, cost 5 dollars for the screws and sold for $120. I almost pulled a Mikeal and tried to keep this one.

Get great bargains on ebay

Hi Y'all Cheapskates

I just wanted to give you my tricks for finding some killer bargains on ebay. If a seller on ebay lists an item and happens to misspell the name of the item that they are selling, then buyers that are searching for that particular item will not find it. Here's what I mean, I buy a lot of airplane stuff, if the seller of an airplane picture misspells their item as "airpane picture", it will not show up in my search since I am not looking for an airpane picture.
What does this all mean? If You do search of all possible misspellings of your key word i.e. airplan, arplane airpane arplsne etc. you will find many items that many other buyers will never find. If you are the only bidder you will get the item for what ever the minimum bid is. It doesn't work every time but it puts the odds more in your favor. I have made some really good deals in my day.