Trash to Treasure: Drop Cloth Book Ends

This week I have been looking under beds, in closets, and in my garage gathering stuff up for a yard sale this weekend. The purpose of the yard sale is to earn money for our Bible Study (can not wait for it to start.) Now, I realize I am a pack-rat. I seriously have boxes under beds that have been there for YEARS that say...Yard Sale." I have not had a yard sale in YEARS, nor do I plan on having one. I have issues-but now I am happy to help raise money for our Bible Study.

Going through the boxes I found these. I remember buying them about 6 years ago for $5.00 and thinking..."maybe I will make my husband a poker room one day." Never happened. Never Will happen. Not sure what I was thinking!


I pulled then out of the "yard sale box" and decided to keep them. This time I determined to do something with them.

Watch the magic in process...

I printed out an "F" taped it to freezer paper and cut carefully out my letter.


I decided to give it lots of texture and painted the "F" on to Drop Cloth material. Yes, I love this stuff. I was hoping others shared the same love and would join me on Friday to show me their projects, but apparently I am the only one who know how cool this stuff is, (or maybe next time I will advertise a little but more.) Kimm from Reinvented knows how cool this stuff is! She makes something with drop cloth all the time!!

Here is the F in the process of being painted. Tip: Freezer paper can be reused 3-4 times. However on highly textured material it can only be reused 2 times max.




Then I glued the material on over the ugly King of Hearts! Then for added texture I added Jute to the trim.




The matching pair. WOW, big improvement! I can't wait to put these somewhere...now I need to find some books!







Today I am participating in Kimm's Trash to Treasure Tuesday!


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