north winton arts festival.

the dirty birdies are setting up shop here at the local North Winton Arts Fest this Saturday. it's super-duper convenient since both of us live here in the North Winton Village.

Come one, come all! We'd love to have visitors, although buying visitors are the best kind! (no pressure though)

Have you heard the other great news?! The other dirty birdie set up an ETSY shop for our stuff!! What's not to love about etsy?! It's the handmade Ebay!

the dirty birdies went the Chili Craft show today to show off and sell some of our homemade TREASURES. we have quite the cute setup, just check out our pics! and if you need any of it for your home, just give us a holler!

free table.

i forgot to update my projects page with the free table project last month! sondra and i scored a free table - so I paired it with some crafty scraps I had laying around the garage. i thought it would be cute to do a place setting for two theme (with plates, flatware and glasses) but I ran out of room. (it's a SMALL free table).

I never got a final pic (i know, i know) because it SOLD at a dirty birdies sale! hah. you can check out the pics I DO have at my kodak gallery projects page.

picket fence flag.

I've been DREAMING about picket fence projects ever since we scored all the fence scraps from our neighbors. Keeping the picket momentum going, and since it's July, and considering our patriotic vacation in DC - I'll let you connect the rest of the dots. So here it is, our latest picket project - a Picket Fence American Flag!

I researched the dimensions of the American Flag because there is a science to it's size, but decided to wing it a bit when the pickets wouldn't cooperate at their full width. I'm very excited about this one, McAllister hung it from our pergola in the backyard and I think it looks FAB!

Who knows, since our picket fence planter boxes were such a hit at the Dirty Birdies sale, these may be up for sale too!

pickets, pickets everywhere.

Our neighbors down the street put in a new fence. To which I say 'good for them and GREAT for us'. Great for us because we took some of their old picket fence scraps that they were junking.

With all the fence scraps in our garage, LOADS of 'picket-fence' projects are running through my BRAIN. Let's see... I could make garden fences, planter boxes, a cute wall shelf, picket fence headboard, picket fence bookcases, a picket-fence shoe rack... the list is ENDLESS. You could add a picket fence to almost anything and it will ooze cute, shabby chic-ness.

First project up - PLANTER BOXES. McAllister put his new handy-saw to good use and built me my first prototype. They are now up for sale by the Dirty Birdies.

The how-to pics are on project page, check em out! And, because most of you will never make your own, if you're interested - just holler with your color of choice!!

dirty birdies live.

Sondra and I went to the Rochester Public Market last Sunday to sell some 'Dirty Birdies' junk treasures. We were received pretty warmly from the crowd - we sold some items and handed out a bunch of cards. You too can have a fun garden fence or picket fence planter box for your yard, just holler and the junk birds will make it happen.

I don't know if we had more fun selling our JUNK, or running around from booth to booth buying other people's JUNK.

dirty birdies.

Everyone knows how much I like JUNK. Well Sondra, my junkmate in crime, and I decided to take our junking habits to the next level. We're selling some of our most popular junk creations under the clever brand name - DIRTY BIRDIES.

Last weekend, we gave some of the creations a trial run at Sondra's garage sale and we were PLEASED. We got great feedback, sold a few items and even took a pre-order!! Fancy that. Sondra made us those super-cute labels (above) that doubled as 'biz' cards for some interested parties wandering on through!

Our garden fences and planter boxes seem to be customer favorites and we also sold my large ruler easel that I made a couple months ago. I'm surprised the book vase didn't go, it's one of my FAVES. I have some pics online of our creations.

We're going to be selling some of our trash treasures at the Rochester Public Market this weekend for Garage Sale Days. If you are in the area - stop on by!!