I have a friend, her name is Dori and I envy her greatly. She has my dream job. She also has a website. Check out The Junk Refunkery. I will be going to her first sale of the year June 26th and I simply can NOT wait! It'll be my first time going.
I had the pleasure of finding a large pile of old windows on the curbside one morning before trash pick-up. I had no idea what I was going to do with these windows but I could NOT just leave them there to be tossed away, as if they were no longer needed....or beautiful. I stopped my van and loaded them all in. I can't tell you how pleased my husband was when I returned home with them.
I can't tell you because he wasn't exactly pleased. Oh well.
Sadly, however, time & energy were not on my side. Motivation, creativity and space were not on my side either and the pile of windows were left mostly forgotten in our storage unit. Until now...
Now, I have a garage sale coming up and while, yes, I suppose I could easily just dump the pile of windows in the nearest garbage dumpster in town, I just....I just....*sniff*....well, I just CAN'T!
They are beautiful and I'm just sure others coming to my garage sale will see their beauty as well. At least I hope. But hope doesn't sell old, used windows so I needed to do something to give the creativity and inspiration of my garage sale'ers a little push.
This is what I came up with:
I uploaded a few pictures of the kids to Walgreens.com and order four 8 x 10 black & whites. Cost: $11.00. Then, using scrapbooking clear glue dots, I adhered the pictures on the backside of the glass.
I then found a roll of vinyl lettering used for decor treatments on your walls at home. I paid $20.00 for this particular phrase. I was not particularly thrilled with this price but it was immediately available and the size I needed so I went with it.
The stuff was amazingly easy to use and I love how it turned out. Please forgive the shadow of the lettering. I have yet to really figure out how to use my camera without the flash. Someday.
Before I placed the pictures and lettering, however, I top coated the window frame with two coats of decoupage to seal it. I did not sand the window frame or repaint it at all. I love the old, shabby look to it. There's beauty there that didn't need improving.
I love the 'as is' look to the window. I hope my plan works and I sell out of the windows. I have about 12 that I need to sell. I'm hoping to get $10 each for them. We'll see.
The good news is, after all is said and done, I get to keep at least one of them. :) 
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