Faith Hope and Charity Swapping - My swap goodies

Eeeek!!! What a great way to end Hump day!! It's been hot, and miserable.  All I want to do after work is get home out of the heat.  So today after some reluctant grocery shopping I arrive to my front door, hands full of grocery bags, to a package on my door step.  YAY!!!  It's from Sam over at The Junk House, for our Faith Hope and Charity Swapping Swap. I couldn't wait to...

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Vintage sheet quilt - In progress

Wow!  I've been wanting to post my progress of this quilt for almost two weeks now.  However, my progress has been slow, so it's not like I have gotten very far during that time anyway. Since my lucky win last month I've been working on a vintage sheet quilt, and as I just admitted it's been slooow, but it has been fun. I would love to make a postage stamp quilt, but I don't think I have...

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Thrift Share Monday's - July 25

Oooh!!!  Yay!  What a great productive weekend.  Sewing was on the minimal but I got out and about.  Got some thrifting on and ended my weekend with Harry Potter - The Deathly Hallows Part 2, and what a great movie it was.  I was sooo happy with the movie as a whole and how it was finished off (I haven't read any of the books so I didn't know what to expect).  This series...

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Thrift Share Monday's - July 18

I'm continuing my low thrifting profile.  Buying only what I really....really....really like.  I'm definitely holding back in my outings as well.  I went to two estate sales and one garage sale this weekend, and only walked away with three two Pyrex bowls. No vintage sheets this week....sigh. The estate sale I went to on Friday was at a super nice one million dollar house,  but...

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Utility...

Yay!! Don't you just feel soo happy when you manage to scratch out an item on your long "I want to do list"?  I do.  There is such a sense of content that I finally got around to something I wanted to work on. It was nothing huge, but it served a purpose and it gave me a sense of security.  In a post last week I mentioned I attempted to sell at another, my second, market. ...

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A Request

So, yesterday my sister emailed me a link to an Etsy shop that sells super cute tooth fairy pillows, and she asked me "can you make this? I'll pay you." My reply was "um yeah I'll make it but you're not gonna pay me for it." So this is how I spent some of my evening last night.  Working on my sisters request, drawing up a tooth template, sizing the eyes and mouth (pocket) and whipped it all...

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Thrift Share Monday's - July 11

Wow!  I've been MIA with the thrift shares the last two weeks, and barely... just barely making it this week. I've been a bit overwhelmed with my thrifty finds, and a bit discouraged by the lack of getting items moving along in my Etsy shop.  Therefore I've done the very hard task of steering clear of thrift shops, garage and estate sales, but this weekend I had to get out at least for...

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Gluten for punishment.

So I may be a gluten for punishment.  How does one determine that? I attended my second market, Vintage Market, this last Saturday, July 2.  Hosted by a new, super cool vintage shop The Vintage Vault.  My sister bumped into this shop about three weeks ago and found out they just started markets the 1st Saturday of the month. She mentioned to them what I did, vintage sheet bags, and...

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