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Thrifting Fun

I recently went on a “spending spree” in my neighborhood thrift stores.  Our little corner of DC is lucky enough to have three right along the same street within 4 blocks or four-tenths of a mile of each other (I will list them at the end of the post)
So here is my haul:

And here is [...]

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Thrifty Grocery Shopping Tips

Should have posted this a few days ago for Healthy Foods Thursday.  Oh well…
Here are a few tips that I’ve started employing.  I don’t think they’re new, as nothing is new under the sun, but I like them and I want to remind people to use them.

1.  Buy frozen orange juice concentrate instead of bottled [...]

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Swatch Booklet

Things have been crazy around my house, in good and bad ways, and if I’ve had time to make and work, my projects have been mundane with a lot of assembly line production.  But this swatch booklet caught my eye as I was working and I thought I’d share it with you.

I took small index [...]

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One yard in, one yard out

I know I have too much fabric already – see this post for proof – but I was faced with some rock-bottom prices in New York this week.  I paid about $2.50 for some lovely shirting cottons, and that’s including tax.  So I bought 11 yards.
You’ll probably see them in future projects and blog posts, [...]

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