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Category: Christmas

Posted on November 4, 2022November 4, 2022

2022 Vintage and Upcycled Christmas Booth Tour

My booth is stocked with festive vintage and upcycled Christmas decor. Here's a peek at what's there -- or at least what was there when I flipped it for the holidays on Monday. Things have already been selling, and I expect a lot more will go on Saturday (November 5, 2022) when the mall -- …

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Posted on December 22, 2020December 23, 2020

Brass french horn Christmas wreath

Update an old brass French horn by turning it into a wreath with some modern greenery and berries.

Posted on December 20, 2017September 24, 2020

Crafting | Painting a Christmas sign

To celebrate the holidays -- and the end of my first semester in my second go-round with college -- I made myself a little Christmas present. Isn't it purdy? I've been crushing on the Pottery Barn JOY sign the whole Christmas season, but as a poor college student, I didn't have 59 discretionary dollars to spend …

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Posted on December 6, 2017August 30, 2018

Collecting | Saving the snowpeople

Despite my best efforts, my little collection of snowpeople keeps growing. I never go out looking for them, but (like a lot of other things) they just keep finding me. This is the guy who started it all. He was a Christmas gift when I was kid. (You might recognize him as an Avon decanter; …

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Posted on November 30, 2017September 24, 2020

Crafting | Making a woven wreath

This week's project -- a DIY woven wreath -- has been on my to-do list for about a year and a half. That's when I dragged this wire frame home from a garage sale. Actually when I dragged it home, it was green, but I forgot to take a "before" picture until after I had …

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Posted on December 13, 2016September 3, 2018

Christmas | Silver and gold

One of my favorite things to decorate at Christmastime is the hutch in my dining room. Mostly because I get to open this suitcase...  ... 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 …

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Welcome to Wisconsin Magpie. I’m Lisa, the creator of this site.

A history nerd and profligate collector, I spend way too much of my free time at thrift stores and garage sales, salvaging other people’s castoffs. When I’m home, I’m attempting to use power tools I have no idea how to operate and undertaking craft projects well beyond my skill level. Sometimes they actually turn out.

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