One woman's quest to salvage the world's castoffs, lock, stock and bauble
I don't decorate much for Easter these days. Primarily because most of my Easter decorations look something like this: I admit I have a huge soft spot for kitschy flocked holiday decorations (which is why I own these chicks in the first place). But I don't do pastels anymore. And most Easter decorations are some …
Old wooden cutting boards are the Rodney Dangerfields of the thrift store. They get no respect. They're generally sitting on the back of a bottom shelf somewhere with a pile of mismatched Corelle and frayed wicker plate holders on top of them. And if you go to the trouble of digging one out, it's probably …
I do NOT collect glass jars or bottles. Really. I don't. If you asked me what I collect, I could easily name 20 things off the top of my head, and glass would not be on the list. I am not one of those crazy people at the flea market buying up every piece of …
Hola amigos. I would like to apologize to all of my loyal readers for my absence from the interwebs recently. (Hopefully you both found something else to read during my hiatus.)The reason I was MIA here: I took a trip South of the Border last week. (And by "South of the Border," I mean "Mexico." …
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Hollywood's got nothing on my mom. The 25 8-millimeter films above are all Joyce Friese productions, shot on an old Kodak Brownie movie camera between 1963 and 1973. Isn't she cute? Mom didn't own the movie camera yet (in fact, she wasn't even a mom yet) when the above photo was taken (I believe in …
Dear Readers, If you ended up here after typing "Wisconsin Magpie" into a search engine in hopes of finding information about an elusive ornithological species -- and now you're wondering why you're up to your binoculars in stories about a woman buying other people's detritus and building toy robots in her basement -- I apologize. …