So maybe not exactly number 4,598, but it sure seems like it. I've been showing my thrift store, estate sale and yard sale finds for roughly four years now, so it has to be up there somewhere. Do you see the weird number 8 in my title? Come on down here little guy and join...
Lawn Chair Webbing Wreath
Occasionally there are crafts that start off with all the right intentions. All the right creativity. All the right imagination. But they just end up wrong, ugly and weird. And not something I want on my front door. This is one of those occasions. It started with me finding a package of lawn chair webbing...
Vintage Eclectic Summer Porch Tour
Wow, I love summer! Always have. From the time I was a little kid, when summer meant a whole lot of kicking off my shoes and running barefoot through the grass. Having nothing in the world to do but ride my bike, swim and hang out with my besties. To now, when summer means a...
Summer Garden Planter On Steroids
I know you've all been sitting on the edge of your seats waiting for an update on my festive summer planter I showed you in mid-May. Because you all have nothing better to do this summer 🙂 It's been coming along. Then: Now: The plants are: Canna - Tropical Rose - full sun - grows...
DIY Rustic Farmhouse Flag
I decided to get all Betsy Ross on you this weekend and made myself a new flag. Sure, it doesn't have the required number of stripes. Or stars for that matter. Or the right colors. It's more like a artistic representation of Old Glory. DIY Rustic Farmhouse Flag Supplies Needed: 21" tall x 34" wide...
The Strange And The Quirky And Why I Thrift
What keeps me thrifting? And yard sale-ing? And estate sale shopping? Well, things like this potato chip can. I found it at a yard sale a few weeks ago. Do I need to know they're alkaline? Is that a selling point? I don't know about you, but "scientifically processed" just gets my taste buds tingling....
Chicken Portrait Photographer
I decided to take up a new career. Chicken Portrait Photographer. Did you know that is really a thing? I Googled it. And Google doesn't lie. My older (longer?) readers will remember Frank. A beautiful Siamese cat that appeared on our porch and adopted us a few years ago. I sort of fell in love...
She's Buying Brownies Again!
No, I'm not off my diet. Yet. I'm buying the other type of Brownies. The Kodak variety. I found this Brownie Hawkeye (manufactured from 1949-1961) at our town's annual yard sale last weekend. I think I've decided that the #1 reason I love old Brownies is their bakelite bodies. There's something very sexy about them....
How To Pinch Annuals To Promote Growth
This morning I was planting my asters along the side of my house and I popped the flower heads off the plants, so they will bush out and put on a better show later. My mom always did this when I was a kid and I used to get so upset with her that she...