I am very blessed to be great friends with my mom.
She lives about three hours from me in western North Carolina.
I was able to spend two days with her last week and
like always, I came home with goodies.
Two barb wire wreaths were some of the goodies from this trip.
Some time ago, my brother had been visiting with her
and was helping my dad with some of the fencing.
There was some old rusty barb wire they tore down and didn't need,
so rather than disposing of it, he rolled it into wreaths for her.
My makeover Monday project for this week started off
as a plywood cut out silhouette of a running horse.
I found it at a thrift store for $3 and thought it was neat,
but I had no idea what I was going to do with it.
(it wasn't painted when I bought it, it was raw plywood)
This horse had been stashed away in my workshop for quite a while and then...
...inspiration struck!
I decided to create a Livery and Boarding sign,
using the horse as the focal point.
I've been giving a lot of thought to establishing some weekly series blog posts.
My thoughts are going kindof like this:
Makeover Mondays: thrifted finds that were given a new life
Tending the Garden Tuesdays: gardening projects, ideas and tips
What We're Up To Wednesdays: current projects around our cabin
Tasty Thursdays: a recipe using something in season from the garden
Frugal Finds Fridays: my favorite frugal find(s) that week
With that said -
here's my first official Makeover Monday project:
A wood bread box from my dads work.
He saved it from being thrown away because he thought I might be able to "do something with it".
Remember a while back I made a beautiful winter wreath from an old horse harness?
You can check it out here.
I used horseshoes as part of the decoration for the wreath and I had a few extras.
I also had a rescued chunk of rough sawn wood, that I saved from our burn pile.
I knew that I wanted to make the wood piece into a candle holder,
but the idea to add the horseshoes came when I laid the chunk of wood on the counter in my workshop next to the box of extra horseshoes.
