Trash to Display Treasure

One Man's trash is another's treasure - I love that saying and for me it's so true. I have been on the look out for new display pieces but I have to keep a very low budget. I love dumpster diving, garage sales,goodwill, and auctions. Thankfully I really like an eclectic look to my booth. My sister found this little gem at a garage sale for .25!

I loved it at first glance - but it needed a bit of sprucing up before I could use it. My darling husband helped out by removing the trims and painting it my favorite apple green. Here is the carriage mid way with the first coat of paint.

This was MUCH, MUCH better. After a second coat of paint is was ready to go as a display piece - here it is in it's final glory - I love how it turned out!

My Baby bib hanger, a new use for a paper plate!

I thought I would share my new use for a paper plate.  I was at a loss on how to display my baby bibs at craft shows, they would collapse when I hung them and were not very attractive.  In search of something that would hang them like the stores I searched online, locally and could not find anything.  I was walking through the store when I saw the paper plates.  The inner circle was the perfect size to fit my sewn baby bibs.  I cut out the inner circle, added notches in the middle to hold the bib, and a plastic hang tag.  They were a little too plain, so viola, the "baby" in the baby hanger was born.  I drew the image with a marker and added pink cheeks.  I think they turned out really cute!