It's Friday! I love how my workday feels all day on Fridays - the sweet anticipation of days off. Well, last weekend, my mom and I went to several local garage sales - and these were the best I've been to yet! Two were huge yards just filled to the brim with antique treasures, right next door to each other. One of the sales had at least nine long ( Read more... )

It's absolutely wonderful how good it feels to go home each day... I live in the best not-on-purpose vintage apartment around with the boy I love, and I look forward to it. It's the best feeling walking up that last staircase knowing I can step into my space and do the things I want to at the end of the day. Yesterday I stopped before entering the ( Read more... )

I found awesome brand-new scarves at the local thrift store and I instantly thought of a dress I own that I wear everywhere in the summer. I had always noticed how the dress looks simply made, but drapes gorgeously while on the wearer! So I dove head first and bought six of the scarves and went to work :)

I turned this....


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I was able to transform this large shirt-dress into something a little more modern :)

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I had the day off today due to Independence Day so I hit all the thrift stores and started sewing and reconstructing! Here's the less-than-great before pic:

I made it small on purpose... such a terrible picture of me!


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One night a little bit ago, I was bored and in the mood to creat! I had a men's large off-white, plain white T tucked away, and i decided to cut it into a vest - with little-to-no sewing! I love it.

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I bought this huge floor length granny-dress at the goodwill but i LOVED the pattern... and as we all know here, huge pieces with good material is awesome for recon!
Before:

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