One woman's quest to salvage the world's castoffs, lock, stock and bauble
Here's my new Ohio Star quilt square chair. Here's how it started. It may have been a curbside rescue. If I was the sort of person to pick up other people's trash. Which apparently I am. One of the spokes holding the legs together was missing, so I bought a dowel that was the same …
Like a lot of things, I didn't set out to collect vintage briefcases and portfolios. I just stumbled upon one at a thrift store that I loved. So I bought it. Then I found another. And another. And another. The great thing about this collection: It's useful. I take one of the cases to work …
Here's a little post on something I don't do often enough: polishing my shoes. In our throw-away world, we tend to just toss things out once they start getting battered and worn. But a little polish can make your old shoes look new again and actually preserve the leather. Plus, shoe polishing is good for …
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Hello from sunny St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. I wish. My husband and I spent last week there, but, against our better judgement, we returned home to reality (aka Wisconsin) on Saturday. Sniff. I would go back in a heartbeat, but since that's not going to happen anytime soon, I thought I would take a virtual …
After a week of vacation -- during which time I read/saw/heard very little news -- I sat down at my computer this morning to catch up on what's been happening in the world. Â As I was reading a story about Saturday's elections on vice.com, I noticed the writer was referring to Donald Trump as …
I love stenciling. It takes time and patience but absolutely no special skills. Anybody can do it. And you can make almost anything. Say, for instance, you wanted a dish towel with a retro black-and-white Santa image printed on it. You probably wouldn't find one in a store, but you could stencil one. You'd just have …