Ready for a good old-fashioned "thrift store finds" post? It's been a while, but thrifting season is heating up and I'm ready to show and tell. And boogie! It's electric. Boogie woogie, woogie! I started humming that Electric Slide song, Electric Boogie, as soon as I picked up this Philcotron AA glass battery jar last...
Craft Ideas Using Vintage Hankies
Crafting with vintage handkerchiefs is a great way to use those family heirlooms you have inherited. And much better than squirreling them away in an old shoebox where you'll never see them. If you don't feel comfortable using your grandmother's handkerchiefs for crafting you can always pick some up at your local thrift store. My...
5 Minute Craft: DIY Seed Packet Refrigerator Magnets
Sometimes you need a simple, quick and easy craft. Something that takes 5-10 minutes to complete. So you can get in. Get out. And get on with your life. Enter my DIY seed packet refrigerator magnets. I dare you to find something easier than this!
Spring Teacup Table Decorations
How to make quick and easy spring teacup table decorations. Still haven't DIY'd your spring table decorations for Easter? You do have table favors, don't you? What? You didn't realize you needed some? Well Pinterest says you do, so you'd better get hoppin'! (Pansies) Viola x wittrockiana - Full sun to partial shade - grows...
Farmhouse Decorating Style
I'm so excited to be part of a fabulous group of bloggers who are starting a monthly series discussing farmhouse style. Farmhouse styling is hot, hot, hot right now! And like my friend Snoop Dogg says, you gotta drop it like it's hot! What, not expecting a quote from Mr. Dogg in a farmhouse decorating...
Vintage Style Garden Decor
Vintage style garden decor makes my heart go pitter-patter. Which is a good thing, because you really don't want your heart to NOT go pitter-patter. Because then someone really should be calling the paramedics for you! But on a non-heart attack related note, occasionally while trotting around at an estate sale I run across some...
Early Spring Flowers That Can Take The Chill
Put snow shovels away. CHECK. Remove skis and ice skates from front porch decor. CHECK. Dismantle festive and oh so trendy hot cocoa station that has added 2 inches to your waist. CHECK. Ranunculus (Ranunculus asiaticus) - full sun - grows to 12-18" It's official. Spring is actually going to come to the Midwest this...
Mid Century Modern Chair Restoration
Well, it's done. My mid century modern chair restoration project is complete. Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah and alert the media. She's finished a project in less than a year. Oh yeah, it was way back in August when I first showed you this gem of a mid century modern chair I bought at a yard sale for a buck....
Vintage Bird Nest Home Decor
I am totally counting on that whole "March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb" thing. A big, soft, cuddly, WARM lamb that is wearing a bikini and has a margarita in her hand. But until the lamb arrives, I thought I'd do a little bird vignette on my living room...