Vintage Bucket September Thrifty Style Team

There's a hole in the bucket Dear Liza, Dear Liza.....

Well not really.

The vintage enamel bucket below is very solid with nary a hole and I'm giving it an update for the September Thrifty Style Team, along with a second update using the inside metal cylinder from an antique ice cream maker.

You will find links to the other Thrifty Style Team members below, so stop in and see how thrifty they are this month.

We are fortunate to have an auction house about thirty minutes away, where we can bid on estate sales or other junk online in the comfort of our jammies, then since it's local, go pick it up the day after the auction closes.  But many times the auction house will group things together, so if there is something specific in the photo prompting a bid, you have to take the whole lot when you arrive for pickup whether you want it all or not.

You might ask, why not just leave the shitola you don't want right there at the auction house?  Well, because they have your credit card for the online bidding and they will charge you a hefty disposal fee for anything you won at auction and leave behind for them to get rid of.

Sometimes when the junk I might not have been bidding on gets home - lets call that stuff the tagalongs - I look at it in a different way, and occasionally it isn't so junky.  Such was the case with this old bucket that tagged-along in a box of other tag-alongs. 

The bucket landed in the garage and every time the word bucket would cross my mind that old song crossed it too, and each time I walked by the bucket I found myself singing 'there's a hole in the bucket dear Liza'.

The lettered bucket now puts a song in my heart (is there an emoji that rolls it's eyes, like Oh Brother? If so picture it here).

I hoped people would get the humor in it, but I might be the only one, which is ok because it cracks me up!

Liza's thrifty redo cost about a buck.  A buck-et.

And what about that other planter to the right in the background there, the Route 66 one?

That started out as the center of a wooden antique ice cream maker.

A tall heavy metal cylinder with a lid that had a metal/wood churning paddle inside.

In spring I planted some cilantro in the cylinder and promptly killed the cilantro after the first harvest, which means only one batch of salsa was made from the cilantro plant.  I'm obviously no green thumb but I don't think that's how it's suppose to work out.

The ice cream thing turned planter then sat in my kitchen window with nothing but dirt, till now when a nice little container of purple mums fit right in.

When I planted the cilantro I used the wood and metal churn part as a trellis - that part was like brand new, so not sure if anyone ever made ice cream with it.

Fusion Mineral Paint was used in Casement, with Ash for the letters.  Fusion paint holds up great outside.  Since I will be spraying water from a hose at these planters on thirsty plant days, I did put a clear spray over the paint for extra protection.

Both Liza's bucket and the center from the ice cream churn-turned Route 66 mum holder- sit on the steps by my mudroom door.

The black ash bucket at the bottom, mostly out of view, was also a tag-along from the auction sale and I'm still thinking on painting that, but for now it's holding a spider plant I never got around to putting in a larger pot.

Feel free to copy Dear Liza's Bucket. Although I could not find another Dear Liza's Bucket out there, so it might be an original.  If you see it at Target or Hobby Lobby remember you saw it here first.

What is on the list (bucket list?) from the rest of the Thrifty Style Team?  Well I don't know either, so lets go check out their thriftiness.

• OPERATION HOME PURGE...SAVE MONEY BUYING & SELLING ON FACEBOOK by Redhead Can Decorate
• FUN HALLOWEEN CANDY CENTERPIECE DIY by Chatfield Court
• VINTAGE ENAMEL BUCKET by Bliss Ranch
• COZY FALL BEDROOM DECOR IDEAS by DIY Beautify
• UPCYCLED DETERGENT POD CONTAINER PUMPKIN CENTERPIECE by Salvage Sister and Mister
• THRIFTY BOHO STYLE PILLOW TUTORIAL by What Meegan Makes
• 5 WAYS TO UPGRADE A BATHROOM ON A BUDGET by The Creekline House
• DIY LAKE HOUSE DIRECTIONAL ROAD SIGN ON SCRAP CEDAR by Unskinny Boppy
• EASY DIY LEATHER PLANT HANGER by The How-To Home
• COUNTRY COTTAGE CUBBY MAKEOVER by Cottage at the Crossroads
• TURN A SUMMER WREATH INTO A FALL ARRANGEMENT by Duke Manor Farm
• VINTAGE HALLOWEEN PRINTABLES by I Should Be Mopping the Floor
• PAINTED PLASTIC JACK-O-LANTERN MAKEOVER by 2 Bees in a Pod
• EASY KRAFT PAPER AND PAINT TABLERUNNER by Jennifer Rizzo
• THRIFT STORE LAMP UPDATE by The DIY Village

Bliss Ranch Quick Links:

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 Easy Spray Etched Metal Door Makeover

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Vintage Wood Tool Turned Shelf 

Trash To Treasure Sliding Wood Barn Doors 

Glass Light Globes 

Wood Bow Ties

Thrifting Places & People 

Updated Door Mat 

Vintage Table Top Lap Desk 

End Table Bottom Shelf Updates 

Route 66 Beer Tote 

Painted Little Cedar Wood Box  

Rebar & Barbed Wire Birdhouse 

Stenciled Shoe Storage Crates