Little Tool Box

Another project made from leftover pallet wood.  You couldn't even tell could you?
That's the amazing thing about pallet wood, just a little sanding and some stain and it looks like store bought wood.

 

 

Josh made this cute little tool box with some pallet wood and a believe it or not an old handle from a broken car jack handle we found on the side of the road.

It seemed a little small for tools but it was a perfect fit for the small amount of paints that I use for all of our projects.

 

Thanks for the new paint holder Josh!

Pallet Trunk

I've recently been obsessed with all of the pallet projects I've seen on Pinterest. So I convinced Josh to get some leftover pallets from work so that I could sooth my obsession.  So this is what I decided to make.

Since this didn't come with directions I figured Josh and I could make it work our own way.

 The first thing I need to tell you about working with pallets is that taking them apart is the toughest part of the whole process.  For us the best way to take apart the pallets and still get some larger pieces of wood was to take a circular saw and cut as close to the supports as possible.  Doing this we ended up with boards about 17 inches long.

For my trunk I decided to use the support pieces (the ones with the notches cut out) as the front and back of the trunk instead of on the sides like the inspiration picture.  The trick with this project was to get the right boards to line up and get to the correct width of the trunk.  This was a little tricky because each of the boards was a different width and we had to swap out boards to make it the right fit.

Add some dark walnut stain....

 



And taa daa  a complete trunk that is perfect for all of my shoes. (with bonus built in vent holes)

Plants I don't have to water!

The first thing to know about me is that I suck at keeping plants alive.  So if you combine that with Josh's welding skills this next project was perfect for us.  Metal Flowers!

This is a metal flower that we found in a local store and we figured we could do this.  It's made up of an old saw blade, a metal rod/rebar, and a spring for the leaves.

Here are our flowers.

 

  

 

We got some old saw blades from the local Habitat ReStore for $1 and used some of Josh's leftover metal from his scrap bin including the rebar for the stems.  After Josh got the flowers all welded together he put a base coat of spray paint on the whole flower and stem.  Then I come in with my craft paint and add the detail lines.

Aren't they cute!