Thursday 13-Creative Ideas from Yard Sales

THURSDAY 13

I don’t have to browse yard sales.  I get creative ideas from the customers who stop by ours.  I often ask them what they plan to do with the items they’re purchasing and gain some wonderful ideas:

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1. Beads for various crafts and for school projects
2. Buttons for Christmas stockings, fabric art, and decorating boxes.
3. Old tins to decorate in a variety of ways
4. Canning  jars for drinking glasses, to decorate for pen holders, to use as vases.
5. Old table cloths for collecting and to cut for fabric art.
6. Crayons to color paper and coloring book pages for gift wrap.
7. Broken jewelry to recycle into new jewelry
8. Children’s board books to use for altered book projects
9. Keys for mixed media art
10. Spools with and without thread for art projects
11. Old lunchbox to decorate as a memorabilia shadow box
12. Jeans and denim skirts for tote bags
13. Small boxes to use for fairy houses

What do you do with the items you collect at yard sales?