I just thought I’d show you all a little of my house’s decorations for All Hallow’s Eve. I have my mantle dressed up a bit:
The “cupcakes” are actually candles! I love them. I also love my Disney’s Haunted House record that I picked up at a thrift store back in June. If only I had [...]
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I recently visited family for three weeks and during that time I worked on some slipper chairs for a friend. These two were in bad shape when I got hold of them, with one of the springs coming out of the bottom of one and constant dust and degrading batting falling through the torn cambric [...]
A few weeks ago, I went to the Salvation Army Family Store on Rising Sun Ave in Philadelphia while I was out of town visiting friends. While looking for furniture, I found what appeared to be a lovely end table. It ended up being a closed sewing machine cabinet with a Franklin De Luxe Rotary [...]
Satin stitch has to be my favorite embroidery technique. Of course, it takes up the most floss and the most time, but I think the returns warrant the extra effort and supplies.
As I promised here, I would show you a thrifty project soon. I’m using one of the $1 pillow cases and “coloring in” the [...]
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 [...]
I recently organized my sticker collection, mostly leftovers from my childhood, and I found some rad stickers that I probably got as a promotion from Scholastic Books or Troll. I have no idea what I’m saving them for, or what you might use them for, but I scanned some and put them up here for [...]
Hey readers – Just thought I’d share with you a giveaway over at Bitter Betty Blogs. Click HERE or on the picture below to go to the contest page for more details and to enter. Her blog post also has a nifty vintage guide to ironing.
You guys might remember a project I had going here, when they were just stripped and sanded. Now they’ve been stained, varnished, and reupholstered!
The fabric is a cream colored micro-suede or crushed velvet. This was my first project with such a fabric and it was quite perplexing, since it didn’t act like other material in [...]