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[...] , we spent the rest of the day antique shopping and hitting up all the thrift stores on our path as many of them had 50% storewide sales because of the holiday.  Even ran into [...]

[...] 60′s/70′s look a new/old look.  So I had been scoping out craigslist and thrift stores for this kind of furniture and a couple weeks ago, I was thrilled to find a dresser and [...]

[...] hopeless. But I kept working on things for my booth…I visited antique fairs and thrift stores, painted/distressed more items and made more stickers (the top selling item in my booth [...]

[...] (or keep in your fridge for up to a month). I had made freezer jam last year when I had a huge amount of blueberries on hand and we were getting tired of eating [...]

[...] craving fruit salad with the rising temperatures, but because I also need to make more freezer jam as the batch I made only 6 weeks ago is already gone (and we only gave one of the 6 pints [...]

[...] so I’m a happy bird! But…wanted to tell you about my *latest* endeavor! So a couple weeks ago I mentioned that I was pretty much collecting my eggs back from the proverbial baskets I [...]

[...] It’s been a couple weeks since I last posted, but I felt I needed to take a break and do an evaluation. Truth is, I&# [...]

[...]   So I had been scoping out craigslist and thrift stores for this kind of furniture and a couple weeks ago, I was thrilled to find a dresser and vanity/desk set at a great price! Here’s [...]

[...] .  David and I made major shifts in our finances and spending so that I could leave the corporate world and spend time at home, with him and the dogs and live more simply.  Although it started that [...]

[...] for a large bulk order including original artwork, and they commended me for leaving the corporate world to pursue my passion while still young and healthy.  We talked for over a half hour.  We [...]

[...] I’ve been decorating my booth space at The Barn for a couple of weeks now and it makes me so happy to be decorating for my favorite [...]

[...] to find every last project that needs finishing and item that I could possibly place in my booth space while I still have it for the next 3 weeks.  Trouble is, with the thousands of dollars in [...] [...]

[...] later, I started seeing ads for their annual fair in all the magazines I was reading, design blogs I came across…it was seemingly everywhere I looked.  When I saw that the editors [...]

[...] “upcycle” what others might see as unsightly.  I also had been following a lot of design blogs and last summer I picked up a very old school yet cool library card catalog.  I started to [...]

[...] I spent the morning “white-washing” a bunch of thrift store finds; tomorrow I need to distress them.  These types of items seem to be the primary things [...]

[...] (strangely my most popular item there the past two weeks), creating new items and upcycling thrift store finds and painting/embellishing old goods to make them new again.  (Full disclosure, my photos [...]

[...] So holiday decorating is in full swing and this week I finished decorating our great room (it’s not that big, it’ [...]

Wow, I’m doing awful with blogging this month, eh?  Sorry, haven’t been particularly chatty, was trying to keep up with the busy-ness of 3 online [...]

[...] to not feel pressured to follow a blog schedule, but rather blog when I feel inspired.  My new schedule has been fantastic and is allowing me to re-evaluate where I spend my time and what I want to [...]

[...] completed. I hope to have more completed by next week, but I don’t know…my new schedule has been fantastic and with all the free time, you’d think I’d be painting [...]