One woman's quest to salvage the world's castoffs, lock, stock and bauble
Welcome to the new, improved Wisconsin Magpie. The blog, that is, not the blogger. Sadly, I am still the same old angst-ridden, out-of-shape, puddle of indecision and self-doubt that I have always been. But the blog is all bright and shiny and new, thanks to a move from an antiquated beginner-level Blogger template to a …
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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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I know the calendar said summer ended a month ago, but in my mind, it's not over until the last vegetable has been harvested and the ground is regularly freezing at night. I try to stretch out the season as long as possible by covering the plants in my garden and bringing the potted ones …
Hello, Blog! I've missed you. Sorry I neglected you for so long, but it couldn't be helped. In the past month and a half, I've changed jobs, taken a night class and finally, after seven productive years together, had to watch my vintage 2008 Windows Vista PC die a slow, painful, lingering death. The old …
It's taken about three weeks, but I finally have art up on the wall in my upstairs hallway. Here's what the hallway looked like before. It's right at the top of our stairs, and I always felt like it would be perfect for a gallery wall but I just never got around to making a …
I had the day off of work last Friday and just one thing I wanted to accomplish: (finally) hang some art on the empty wall in our upstairs hallway. All of the photos in this post are of thrift store paintings, kids' art and mementos of our travels that I've collected and (sadly) stored in …
Some of you may have heard the town I live in -- Columbus, Wisconsin -- was hit hard by a storm early Monday morning. Thankfully, there were no tornadoes, no deaths and no injuries. Just straight line winds that the National Weather Service estimated blew through here at 90 to 110 mph. I don't mean …
As I was watering my terrarium the other day (for the second time ever), I noticed something new. There are little green shoots coming out of the plant that I call Faux Peas (on the left). It's GROWING, people! GROWING! As are the other plants in the terrarium, albeit slowly. For some reason, I thought …
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Please excuse the lack of blog posts in recent weeks. I was sucked into the black hole that is my basement and, much like Kimmy Schmidt and the Indiana Mole Women, have only recently emerged back into the real world. In my case, my subterranean exile was self-imposed; I was cleaning, sorting, purging and organizing …