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Today I want to share a thrifted dress project with you. My daughter bought me this dress on her last thrifting adventure. {Isn’t she sweet?} It’s from Land’s End and in great shape. When I tried on the dress, I didn’t like the length of the hem. It’s probably just me, but I think that [...]
It’s fun to see fashion trends come back around. I’ve watched lots of styles from the eighties show up over the last few years, and it looks like we’ve moved on to the nineties now. I wore overalls in the nineties and I was already an adult then! It’s crazy to think that not [...]
Today’s project is an upcycled coffee cozy. It’s upcycled because I used the embroidered part of a thrifted sweatshirt to make the cozy. I’ve been using the $1 reusable coffee cup from Starbucks lately. After I drink my coffee in the morning, I switch to tea, so I’ve been carrying this cup around with [...]
This is a project done by my daughter, Maddie. It’s a pretty simple project, and quite economical for a unique pair of high waisted shorts. She bought some jeans at a thrift store, then found some patches at another thrift store. She had a few patches already, some of which were from my childhood. First, [...]
Every time I think we’ve gotten our household finances as lean as we can get them, I discover something else we can do to make them even leaner. Here are five things I’ve done over the past couple of years that have saved us a lot of money.
1. Make laundry soap. For about [...]
This is my story about how NOT to fix a warped record. Last weekend we spent some time browsing a flea market to find an ashtray to finish off our vintage magazine rack. We found one, and I wrote about it here. We also found a few [...]
Do you remember the magazine rack that my husband, Brian, refinished recently? It belonged to his grandfather. We have never had the ashtray that is supposed to fit in this stand, but Brian thinks he remembers it being a promotional ashtray with a tire around it. At least [...]
You might think this shirt is just a run-of-the-mill {that pun is oh-so-intended} plaid wool shirt. But it isn’t. It’s a vintage shirt that my husband, Brian, bought from a thrift store when he was in college in the 80s. It’s a Pendleton, a real Pendleton Woolen Mills shirt, which has always been [...]
If you’ve been around for a while you know that I’ve been using this vintage wire picture frame to display seasonal wall art that I’ve created out of felt. The first two are here and here. With Valentine’s Day being [...]
It’s Maddie again. My mom asked me to share my latest refashion project with you. This is a denim shirt I found at Goodwill. It’s actually a children’s shirt, so the sleeves are a little short for me, but since I was planning to wear it with the sleeves rolled up, I thought it would [...]
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