Reclaim Dames' Blog — repurposed

When I decided to quit my full-time, good paying, corporate job and venture into being a business owner, my family thought I was crazy!  But this is something I have wanted to do for years.  I have always been able to take the unusual, or the forgotten, and repurpose it. I painted and "upcycled" stuff before it was cool.  Mainly because I was a single mom on a tight budget and had to make something out of nothing.  It was my creative outlet for a very stressful job and I loved reclaiming items.   It only really hit me about 5 years...

The first idea I had was a fun, nautical table.  I took a very ugly 1990’s side table, sanded and primed it. While walking on the beach during a recent trip to Florida with the family, I had a lot of time to think and it gave me great inspiration to do nautical pieces.  I came up with all these great ideas and couldn’t wait to get home to put them in action. The first idea I had was a fun, nautical table.  I took a very ugly 1990’s side table...   sanded and primed it.... I then painted the...

I'm not one for making New Years resolutions. Instead, my January is filled with lists of what I wish to accomplish throughout the coming year and to finish projects that I never got to the previous year, which lately seems like quite a few! On the top of my list are these vintage theater chairs - actually, they came out of an old synagogue but I'm going to repurpose them into theaters chairs by simply taking off the back "book" rack, recovering and re-staining the beautiful wood. These chairs will be in an upcoming webisode in which I traveled to...

Check out this month's webisode of Reclaim Dames. It's Corntastic ya'll!  

No one is more spoiled in my house than my dog Lucy.  She pretty much runs the place and I must admit, I kind of let her rule the roost.   I found this old suitcase at a yard sale for $2.00.    At first, I didn't know what I was going to do with it.  It had good bones but it was ugly as sin! I knew I wanted to do a project with bright lime green paint which is a hot color right now. I primed the suitcase white and then painted it with this fun lime green...