JMS is my favorite junking/repurposeing site!  I am a "junker" myself.  Many gifts have been made out of "junk", and is always more loved.  The ETSY site has quite a few "shops" that sell these types of items, too.  I never realized the amount of shops that are around that sell reclaimed, repurposed items until I hit the JMS site, makes a person think.

This is one of my projects I made for my niece for Christmas.

   This lamp I made cost me $0.  Everything was laying around in different pieces.

  The base is a car rotor off my niece's car

    The blocks are scrap wood made into blocks

The cord was even taken off an alarm clock that didn't work anymore.  The lamp was in the garage collecting dust, the lamp parts were off of an ugly lamp that had been put in the garage.  I spray painted all the pieces to match.

WV_Hills said:

When I can dig it out from under the pile of “stuff” Mike brings home from yard sales and auctions I post a picture so you can give me a hint.  It is the MOST ugly lamp you could imagine.  I think accidently dropping it would probably put it out of its misery.  I know it would help me.

OH NO!  Everything has “bones” that can be recreated!!!!  Sometimes they don't even have to be a lamp anymore…..and not all the pieces used, those are used for something else that may come to you later……..

Here is my "new" kitchen island I worked on yesterday.  I still have to put some poly on (didn't get to that today :)

It started out as a bright, bright blue dresser that I rescued from the curb.  No photos of that!!  We sanded all of that off and gave it an aged finish with a blow torch and dark stain.  But I never bothered with the  back of it — it was going to be my buffett.

So…..after living with it as my buffet, and my buffet as my island………I grew tired of it.  That's why I love furniture in the kitchen!!  No major house remodel when I get tired of something!!    But I had to finish the back!

This is the unfinished back (it was never painted the bright blue, either!) :

I'd found this old paperback cookbook (probly at a garage sale) that was all browned up around all the edges, so I tore it up and decoupaged it on.  I layered 3 boards (these were indented in) and 4 of the boards I put whole recipes on.  Some of recipes were quite hilarious — I NEVER COOKED BEFORE COOKBOOK

I trimmed out the edges and the 3 indented spaces:

Here's one of the recipes — how to make pancakes – 

Now I just have to add some poly and it's all done!!

That is what the internet is for!  Way too many sites to find inspiration!!!  I found a sale Friday………oh my, I was in dream land!!!  It just had stuff!!  Old stuff, that has so many possibilities!!!  I didn't even get to look through everything……..and I was there an hour!!!!!  Mom patiently sat down and talked with the ladies as I went digging.  Hopefully I'll have some more projects done soon!

Am I the only one that makes things out of something else (junk)???? 

Here's a little holiday decoration I put together.  A tomato cage, an old bowl, a silver gravy boat, some pinecones, and an artificial pine bough made all snowy by spraying with spray adhesive and dunking ends in epsom salt.  Add a candle and you have beautiful!!