One woman's quest to salvage the world's castoffs, lock, stock and bauble
Valentine's Day decorations are generally not my thing. Most of the mass-produced ones out there are way too saccharine sweet and frilly for me. So this year, I decided I'd make my own Valentine's Day decor: something with a vintage industrial vibe that I wouldn't mind actually hanging in my house. I started with these …
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Because all the other bloggers are doing it, I felt that I, too, should offer a Year in Review for Wisconsin Magpie ... So here it is. Let me start by saying, I don't have a whole lotta posts to choose from when compiling my "Best Of" list because I fell off the blogging bandwagon …
For reasons that aren't entirely clear to me, my son decided he wanted a Wisconsin State University shirt for Christmas this year ... which posed a bit of a problem because, as those of you who live in this neck of the Midwestern woods know, there is no such school as Wisconsin State. Apparently there …
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Here's a little train case I picked up at a thrift store ... Except when I bought it, it looked like this ... Cute little case, right? Except for the 1990s floral tapestry. I like to use old suitcases for storage (because a shelf full of vintage suitcases is much nicer to look at than …
One of my favorite things to decorate at Christmastime is the hutch in my dining room. Mostly because I get to open this suitcase... Â ... which contains all of this. Nothing says "Christmas" like a suitcase full of shiny baubles. A few of them end up on our tree, but most of them go into …
In honor of our first measurable snowfall this winter, I decided to put together a miniature winter scene in my dining room. I started with this little thrifted barn. Then I pulled out my small herd of secondhand livestock. I'm not sure if any of them are truly the right scale for the barn, but …
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