Trash 2 Treasure Tuesday Link Party {Nine Red Welcome}

Happy Trash 2 Treasure Tuesday!!

Have you checked out Nine Red, my latest sponsor?

Ohhhh he does awesome stuff, let me tell you.  Actually, let me show you! 

 Here are three of my favorites from Nine Red:

And I'm a little late on the stick sharing this, but he is also offering a giveaway

of ANY string art the winner chooses! 

 You have two days left to enter so hurry yourself up!

Click HERE to enter Nine Red's string art Giveaway.

Let's see some features from last week.

The Post With The Most (views) goes to:

Just A Little Creativity's 10 beautiful chalk paint furniture makeovers.
  My mom votes the doggy bed as her favorite!

I love these kinds of "trash to treasure" transformations.  Pretty Purple Treasures took the ugly and made it chic!
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Hong Kong Chic made the cutest purse out of jeans I've ever seen and included a very detailed step-be-step tutorial so you can do it too!
Now Let's Party!!

Please review the rules before you add your link- THANKS!

Trash 2 Treasure Tuesday Rules: 

1.  Your post must be a Trash 2 Treasure, but I'm not picky on the "trash" part!  

If you took something and made it look better and it's NEW to Kammy's Korner - link it up, Baby! :)

2. Place the Party button found on the right sidebar on the post or somewhere on your blog.

3. Visit the link before you and leave a comment!

 I do try to visit each and every one of them eventually!!!  It's hard with three little munchkins who need attention and hate mommy's computer time. :)

Link up, Buttercup!

Hello. My name is Kammy and I'm a Picker.

My mom is here visiting.  I had a full day of lawns to mow.  I wasn't even half finished with my cup of morning Joe when she was trying to boot me out the door so I'd get done and we could do something fun in the afternoon.  Well, what happens when it's "free garbage pick up day" in Parma and I'm out driving around in a truck and trailer??

I didn't get my lawn jobs done in the morning.
It was too difficult to get the lawn mower off. 

I also had no room to dump the grass clippings in the truck bed....

And that was just the first load! 
 Not even a penny was handed over for all of this wonderful junk! :)  One week ever year, Parma is a Picker's Haven.  And now that I let my little secret out, it's against the law for anyone from outside of Parma to pick.  I may or may not be kidding.

Pretty sure these pulls/handles will look good on my kitchen cabinets.

My lawn mowing helpers (pic is not recent):

Meeting Little Prairie Girl! {Barn Sale}

I believe it was through my friend Laura from Our Prairie Home that I first got connected via blogland to Natalie Meester.  It's a small world out in rural Iowa where I'm originally from, and turns out we have quite a few mutual friends/acquaintances.  Though she hasn't even been having these "barn sales" for a year, they are already "the popular place to go!" Even my dad was amazed at the amount of traffic heading down the gravel road, women flocking to Natalie's barn to buy what only a man could refer to as "junk".  Ohhhhh I love me some good junk and couldn't wait to visit Iowa on a weekend of one of her famous "Barn Sales".   I've been dying of envy ever since I first heard of what she was doing.  It's been a dream of mine for a long time to open up my barn and sell my "junk".  Unfortunately, it's my dream and nobody else's around me! :)  I might come across as "She-man" on here but... uhh, well, errrr.....  

My mom, sister, and I left the kids in the attentive care of the men and headed out to the country to where "Little Prairie Girl" is located.  We weren't actually sure where her farm was, but there was no need to worry.  We just followed all the cars and the cloud of dust heading down the gravel road!  I couldn't believe the amount of people there.  And stuff!  Awesome stuff!  Everywhere you looked - the junk and eye candy and repurposed awesomeness was overwhelming!!!!  I had only seen a small thumbnail picture of Natalie aka The Little Prairie Girl and was searching every face of those I thought looked "in charge".  I finally found her and we got a picture taken together (of course, what good blogger doesn't get a photo with one of their junkin' hero's??)

Natalie the Little Prairie Girl on the left and yours truly on the right.

Unfortunately, I brought my less than stellar camera with me and had a hard time getting photos, so excuse some of the quality of these pics but I hope you can see some of this super great creativity housed in this huge, old, Iowan barn. (So sorry to some of you vendors that I couldn't upload all the photos.  I had so many things I wanted to include, but many of my photos just didn't turn out.  *Sniffle, sniffle*.

Enjoy!

Loved this striped table!  

And check out those letters closely - can you tell what they are made out of??

 Modge Podged shoes!!

A shot of the hayloft.  Loved all the lights strung up! 

Also upstairs there was lunch and coffee served for a super great price.

And look who else I found in a 

corner upstairs - Stews (on the left)!

 Who doesn't do a little "awwwww" when they see

 these little baby goats outside?

 Out in the machine shed was some awesome shabby goodness.  The woman running this area thought I looked familiar.  Come to find out we were neighbors when I was a kid and her daughter rode the bus with me for a year.  I remember her being a feisty little kindergartner.  She was sure she wasn't. ;)   Anyways, here's some of the great stuff I found in Melanie Englelkes's treasures:

 While there is no way I could choose a "favorite item" out of the thousands of amazing things for sale, this "WE DON'T DIAL 911" has got to close to the top!!  I have a neighbor (ahem... Shane...) I should have bought this for... :)

Check out Little Prairie Girl on Facebook HERE

and if you are ever in the Grundy County Iowa area,

this is one of those MUST STOPS!

My Sister's Chic Living Room Makeover

So very proud of my little sister. 

 She was ready for light and cheery and... MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

I managed to sneak away (my hubby and kids leeched unto my leg and snuck away with me) to Iowa for not only Mother's Day to be with mi madre for the first time in thirteen years but also my darrrrrrrling little neice's first birthday.  My sister, Karly, had just finished a major living room makeover so I did a photo shoot of her GORGEOUS new room!  Enjoy this eye candy!!

 I managed to convince her over the phone that the nasty dusty rose colored carpet had to go.  Especially since she knew there were hardwood floors hiding under there!!  She was positive it was going to be way to much work, I was positive it wasn't going to be as bad as she was anticipating. 

*Knuckle rub on chest*  I love being right. ;)

To lighten up the look of her fireplace, she just watered down white paint and painted it on.  She also gave the top a nice new shade of gray.

The new chevron chairs are from Wal Mart and everything else was a "project".  My mom made the pillow covers with left over fabric from her own bedroom makeover, and the yellow table was actually one of the first tables I ever painted (okay so one of the sunday school girls happened to be visiting and I let her paint it) back in the day when I painted everything black.  I think I gave it to Karly as part of her wedding present six years ago.  I think it looks superbalicious in that bright new yellow outfit!

Mom made the rag wreath (following this tutorial),

 and I painted the canvas for her as a birthday gift.

Do YOU need some new art for your walls?

How about an amazing one-of-a-kind baby gift?

Some of you already know him because of his awesome furniture redo's.  

But he's also is a master at string art.  

Meet my BRAND NEW SPONSOR Nine Red and show a little love:

Old Window Inspiration From Kammy's Korner

It's Wordless Wednesday!  So I've lumped all my old window projects into one big post with a link to the original post (if there ever was one) underneath each photo.  Hope this inspires you to do something with those old windows that have been sitting in your stash. :)

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