Copy Me Challenge - FJI Style

I wanted to join in the fun over at

Donna's Copy Me Challenge 

Funky Junk Interior Style

Donna has a way of  taking an item

that she is drawn to

that has some history

 that another person would throw in the trash

or

has thrown in the trash and makes it

work in her home

beautifully

I worked in yarn textiles for 26 years

so

I am drawn to anything that was used in a mill

I can almost envision someone

using these bobbins to doff yarn off a spinning machine

Now

I enjoy them in my living room with a picture of me and my Dad

I just hot glued on a small clothespin, which I aged with some glaze

If you have some old spinning bobbins and they have painted tops 

 that is the way yarn operators could tell their yarn counts apart

Since most yarns are white, you use different colored bobbin tops 

so no yarn gets mixed

Next

How could you do anything Funky Junk Style without some rust

A rusted egg scale holding a speckled egg

and some flowers made out of carnival tickets

I posted on these flowers yesterday

So

It's kind of a repeat with just a few different angles 

I actually bought my carnival tickets at Walmart, 

glued the ends together

added a button

it's quirky, it's fun, it looks like something Donna would do!

This lamp is actually an antique oil can turned into a lamp

I bought a pair...yes, a pair of these at a yard sale

 several years ago

I.love.them.

I use them to display tassels at my craft shows 

and at every show

someone ask to buy them

Down below my display,

 I brought my dairy milking jug inside

I know Donna leaves her outside so her cats have fresh water

And I normally do to

but today it is filled with boxwood 

and enjoying it's place beside a basket filled with 

grainsack pillows

What do you have that you can 

re-purpose

re-use 

re-cycle 

in a funky junk kind of way?

I am linking up with:

Funky Junk Interiors

Copy Me Challenge