Trash to Treasure | Ugly Thrift Store Haul Upcycles Projects for Resale | Flipping for Profit

Hey guys, my name is Nicole. Welcome back to my channel. So today I am upcycling some of the glassware that I got in a recent thrift store haul. It was quite possibly my ugliest thrift store haul I've ever purchased and I got a lot of different things so I thought I would split up the DIY videos, my upcycling videos, into two different sections. So today I'm going to do all the glassware that I purchased which is everything you see here and then for my next video I'll do the other odds and ends that I purchased to upcycle for resale. So I have an antique booth called Green Onion Vintage and the goal is to upcycle all of these, sell these in my booth for a little bit of a profit. I'm not exactly sure what colors I'm going to be using yet but I do know that some of these need primed first so I'm just going to start there. Let me share everything really quickly. This was a gigantic hideous pitcher for six dollars but I paid three dollars because it was half off that day. This is another pitcher. It has like a basket weave texture to it. I paid three dollars for this one. This is a pink pitcher. I paid two dollars. It's like a light pink and I might actually paint it pink again. I just want to take kind of the shine away but I'll figure that out later. This canister set was six dollars. It's a really dated dark blue. I'm not exactly sure what I'm going to do with those yet but I'm sure they're going to turn out great. I got this little glass vase. I kind of like that it resembled like the shape of an old milk bottle. Don't know what I'm going to do with that yet but I'm sure the inspiration is coming and then I got this tiny little crock colored canister with a lid. I paid a dollar for this. I didn't tell you I paid a dollar or two dollars for this little jar. So right now I am painting the big pitcher. Just an old chalk paint that I found in my basement. It's in the color latte and I thought it'd be nice to use up for this project because it's kind of like an old crockery color. I like that it wasn't super bright white and I think with the white wax at the end it's going to look really pretty and I just like that it's a chalk paint so it's going to stay nice and matte and not require a lot of prep work even though I did prime this just in case you saw me do that with the slick stick from Dixie Bell. Now for the added character for this piece I'm going to be making my own faux decal using the Iron Orchid Design air dry clay. This clay is so easy to work with. I'm really really enjoying been doing projects with this for several different crafts. So what I'm going to be doing right now is making this clay nice and thin and then you see that stamp there that's also from Iron Orchid Designs. It's a crockery stamp and I'm going to use that stamp to make like a faux crockery label basically. So you're going to see me push it in there really hard. I'm kind of using the rolling pin to make sure that my font is going to be nice and clear and then when I lay it back down I'm going to actually just cut right around the stamp and eventually you will see me glue that directly on to the picture and the final result is really cool. I hadn't used this method before where I used the stamps and the clay but it was actually super easy to do. I know it looks like kind of a tedious process but it really was not bad at all. Like I said that clay was really easy to work with so it was actually pretty fun to do it like this. So right now I'm just figuring out the best placement for the picture and once I kind of get that figured out I just use the Gorilla Glue that you can get at Home Depot. I actually got like a three-pack at Sam's once for a few dollars and I'm going to use the glue to make sure that this clay really does adhere well. You can see my three-year-old back there eating cereal. It's like his favorite food of course. So I attach that on there and then once that's kind of dried quite a bit, which only takes about a couple hours to dry, I am just painting it the same color as the rest of the picture right now and I let the paint dry for probably about 30 minutes. You know chalk paint dries pretty quickly and once that is dry I go back over it with the Dixie Bell white wax and the white wax is what's really going to make this come to life. So I go really heavy-handed on the white wax and just apply a lot because I really want to fill up all of the crevices of the stamp and especially all of the lettering so that it just looks really nice and nice and crisp and clean and I was so happy with the result. This was definitely a bit of an experiment but overall really happy and then I just go ahead with the white wax over the entire body of the picture just to antique it a little bit more and also give it a little durability. So this was a super fun project. If you're new to crafting I think you could handle this and you really would be amazed with your results. Here's a final look at those three ceramic pictures. I think they came out really beautiful. Taking the shine out and just making the colors more subtle and neutral. I think did a world of good for these pictures and really gave them a new life and a place in a home in 2021. I think that they were pretty outdated and now they look appropriate for the times. Really complimentary to like today's style and just really cute and rustic. I'm really enjoying kind of playing with the white wax. It's something I've used before but just never very much and never for smaller crafts. I really only use it on furniture but I love how it picks up the details and it just makes everything look older and antiqued. Just gives things like a really authentic feel. So this is how the basket weave turned out. It's so pretty now. I really really like how it looks now. You can see how the white wax picked up the detail on the handle too. So I love that I got to use up some of my older paint and this color really ended up being perfect for what I was envisioning. I don't think I showed you this but I also got this at the Goodwill that I got these other pictures at. I'm not going to do anything to it. I really on trend. I just stuck a little topiary in there for now and then a wreath at the base. Now these paperback books that you're seeing here those have been like a new experiment for me and I really really enjoyed making those this week. So basically this was a paperback book that I tore the cover off of and then I'm getting these bike images with these vintage bicycles from Cavallini Paper Company. They sell these posters that are really beautiful. I actually call them I think wrapping paper online but they're so pretty. I've sold a lot of them in my booth as a poster. I really can't imagine like just using them for gift wrap because they're so beautiful. There's a ton of different options. So maybe I'll find some Amazon links for you for those because those posters have been really popular for me to sell in my booth especially if I put it on a frame like this one over here in my kitchen. I'll show you. So this is actually a magnetic frame that you can change out the posters in and that's this is a Cavallini poster right here. I love that vegetable one for my kitchen. Swinging you back around. Let's stay on topic here. This is how the pink picture turned out. I'm still not super comfortable with selling pink. I just have never really tried it before. I do think that it looks a lot more modern now that it's not shiny and I just love like all the detail that the white wax gave it. So I will try to sell this and see how it goes. The pink is definitely an experiment for me but I think with like the soft flamsier it looks really cute. And then I really love how this big oversized picture turned out. I went really heavy on the white wax for the label so that all of those words would turn out really well. And I just look how like clean and crisp the font came out. I'm really happy with it. I've never done this before with the white wax. And then I did a white wax just to finish all the way around. And that's going to take a couple days to cure. It's still a little tacky. And I will say that the Annie Sloan wax is a lot waxier than the Dixie Bell wax and I prefer the Dixie Bell wax for sure. It has like a little bit more of a color saturation but it also doesn't leave as much as a sheen. So the Annie Sloan wax it just seemed to make it a little shinier. It's hard to tell on camera but there's definitely like a sheen to this one that this one does not have. And I only used Dixie Bell white wax on this one whereas on this one I did Annie Sloan and Dixie Bell just because I was trying to use up my Annie Sloan. So just a little product comparison for you there. If you want to try Dixie Bell's products we actually just started offering it online in our Etsy page. I'll link that below. We're brand new to like that kind of retail scene so we're still kind of working out the kinks but I think that it'll be fun for us to sell paint as well. Okay I feel like I've been working on these Crocs forever. They are just kind of been a pain to paint which I kind of assume but I think I also made a mistake in using that old kind of clunky paint which is not going on very smooth. But I think I'm at a stopping point with the paint for now. I'm going to go ahead and put my stencil on and then when I white wax it at the end I think it'll look really nice even though it's not like the most perfect finish ever. I think they'll look pretty cool still. When I do my stencil I always use the Waverly chalk paint and ink if I'm trying to do a black stencil. This is from Walmart. It's probably about 10 bucks for this size but this lasts me a really long time and I always use the Waverly for crafting especially for stenciling because it's super thick so I don't typically have a lot of problems with it running underneath my stencil. Now I think I might have said that I was planning on using those crockery stamps for these but I've actually changed my mind since I've already showed you how to do the stamps in this video. I'm gonna do these stencils that are also from Walmart. It was like a couple dollars for a pack of alphabets and number stencils and they have a bigger size and a smaller size on each sheet. And I just wanted to do this so that if you don't have those crockery stamps you still have like an option to make a really cool farmhouse set of crocks without spending the 20 some dollars on that set of stamps. So this is just another option for you for a couple of dollars. I guarantee these are going to turn out super cute too and you haven't spent quite so much money on supplies. So I'm going to go ahead and stencil these guys and then white wax them. For this guy I think I'm going to paint him my new Dixie Belle color drop cloth which is like an off-white and I'm going to put just a bunch of twine around the top of it and I'm going to do a crockery stamp on this so you guys can kind of see that effect and just put a couple stems in it and this one will be done. Alright guys that's going to be it for today's DIY upcycling video. I know I didn't give you a play-by-play of every single step that I took and that's just because it was starting to take forever for me to get everything done. So the little crock um let me just grab it. I ended up doing like a faux paper label on this one. I don't know that it's like amazing but it was definitely just like a little bit of a trial. It's only focusing on me right now and not on this. Can you really see it? I kind of aged the paper. So I don't know this was an experiment. I think it looks pretty cool but I don't know if it's like the best look ever. I think I could probably get this paper off if I really worked at it and wanted to try something different but I thought I would feature that for this video. If you don't have the stamps you could also print off um just a stamp picture off the internet onto white paper and you would get a really similar effect and it might even be better that way because you wouldn't have the risk of like bleeding of the black paint which I had a little bit of trouble with but that was an experiment. I think it's pretty cool um so I'm probably gonna leave it like that and I mean the crocks turned out super cute and farmhouse-y. I like the one two three. All I did was wipe on the Dixie Bell white wax and it's such a good wax because it's really saturated but it doesn't have a lot of gloss that comes with it so I really have been liking using the Dixie Bell white wax for a lot of my crafts. It kind of brightened up the taupey color that I had accidentally painted them and it gave more of a farmhouse look and it also helped them be a little bit more durable so I think that they turned out really cute. And then the last project that I have here is this jar and I think this turned out really nice actually. I do I'm having trouble like with the black paint but I actually have an ink pad coming tomorrow from Amazon um and if that ends up working out I will link that one for you guys so that you can see if that works better for you than using the black chalk paint. It's just it just didn't transfer like super cleanly but it still looks nice and antique-y. You saw me like wrap the twine around there and then this is just a little box wood pick from Walmart for like a dollar. I distressed the edges a little bit. Sometimes the paint was coming off and I was okay with that and I also white waxed this so it should be pretty durable once it cures. So nice and cute. I like this little piece of decor. Super vintage-y. It's inspired um yeah all good. Okay guys I don't know which video is going to come out first but you might have noticed that during the process of me doing these DIYs that my hutch changed colors. Maybe not. You might want to go back and see. My boys have spent the night with my parents and so I have like all this time that I know I need to be so productive so there's a few things that I was waiting to get done. I got it all done while they were gone. Well not all of it but some of it and this is one of those things. So I'm gonna have that video coming out really soon of my process of painting that green and using the Dixie Bell paint and then really soon I'm gonna have the second half of that ugly thrift haul upcycle projects because this was just the glassware. I have many more things that I got from that same Goodwill haul that I need to upcycle and put into my antique booth and hopefully make some money. So that is the plan. I'm trying to get a lot of this stuff done before the baby comes. I'm like 34 and a half weeks right now and time is ticking. It just feels like you know I'm getting down to the wire at this point. So I'm enjoying doing all these projects but it is getting a little harder especially with doing furniture at the same time. So just trying to get a lot done but I will let you guys go there. I'm sure you guys are tired of watching me paint and tired of hearing me talk about paint. So I will see you guys in the next video. I appreciate you being here so much and supporting my channel. I really, really do appreciate it and I hope you guys are having a great day. I will see you next time. Bye! agents of the other gravel