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Lamps can always be found while thrifting. There are ugly ones that can be made over. Then there are the ugly ones that you need to walk away from. Beautiful ones that make you question why they are donated. And vintage ones that although the electricity is questionable you tuck it in your basket. This…
I absolutely love vintage and antique furniture – the functionality, character, and how well built the pieces are. I’ve had my eye on a vintage apothecary cabinet. But even with all my thrift store shopping, estate sale visits, yard sale adventures and antique mall wanders I have not found one that was in my budget. …
The only love letters I’ve received are from my daughters – sweet notes and pictures on construction paper when they were younger and now an even shorter version in a text. But I love them all and will go back and look through those declarations of love often! I created a love letter DIY for…
The most popular blog posts in 2023 embody the “fifth sparrow no more” idea. That idea is to find thrifty ways to make the furniture and décor pieces in your home the fifth sparrow no more. So these pieces won’t be discarded, worthless, seen as less then and certainly not put out on the curb! In…
It’s a fair bet that my kitchen / dining room will be decorated with a gingerbread theme this holiday season. It was last year, it is this year and will most likely be next year! And although I do the same theme each Christmas season, I always have so much fun mixing it up and…
My Nativity set is pieced together from a multitude of sets – the animals from one, the angel from another and the wise men, Mary, Joseph and Baby Jesus from another. I believe the shepherds have come and gone to tell others of Jesus’ birth. This is because I cannot find them anywhere – they…
