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November 16, 2011

Save tons, make your favorite household cleansers

I’ve been seeing a bunch of posts lately about how to make your own batches of your favorite household stuff, like Mrs. Meyer’s hand soap. Mmm. I love Mrs. Meyer’s. Geranium, Basil, Lemon Verbena…I can never choose. And now I can make a gallon of the stuff for the same cost as a bar of [...]

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November 27, 2011

Fixer upper find: Vintage corner china cabinet

I sent a note out via Facebook this morning that I’ve been looking for an old china cabinet to fix up and use for linen storage. Well, my friend Ali pinged me back that she had a corner cabinet that had belonged to her grandmother and it was just sitting in her garage waiting for [...]

Posted in: diy, flea/junk/antique, projects

December 4, 2011

I love chairs

I have no idea where this came from, but I’ve had an ongoing obsession with chairs for DECADES. They can be a sculptural object or a canvas for me to craft into something fresh and useful. Maybe it has something to do with my emotional attachment with my grandmother’s kitchen chair, which currently sits in [...]

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January 4, 2012

Making a flea market shopping cart liner

On my project list for this coming weekend is to make a liner for my folding shopping cart. I use it when I go to antique, vintage, and flea markets. If I can’t be out trolling the grassy aisles in Kane County, I can at least be working toward it in some fun little way, [...]

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January 5, 2012

Creative ideas for using burlap

Has anyone else noticed how much burlap there is out there these days? I’ve admired how people are using it paired with reproduction and orginal graphics, made to look like an old French country feed sack. Lots of folks are doing gorgeous things with upcycled coffee & potato sacks with all kinds of colorful printing. [...]

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January 9, 2012

Easy project: how to make a folding shopping cart liner with leftover materials

I was inspired last week by some folding shopping cart liners I saw online and decided it would be fun to try one myself. I love cruising flea markets on summer mornings and I usually have a folding shopping cart with me, but I hate that smaller items fall through the large holes in the [...]

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April 13, 2012

Fixing up my 1962 Shasta Airflyte

So apparently this fixing up vintage campers thing isn’t a one time thing. It’s not even a 4 time thing. When I started shopping around for a camper to fix up a year ago, the Airflyte was the one that made my heart skip a beat, but I couldn’t touch them at around $3,000, and [...]

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April 14, 2012

Re-webbing vintage aluminum lawn chairs

So, you know, we have this vintage Shasta Airflyte and it just wouldn’t look right to put new folding camp chairs out front. So I’ve been scouring yard sales and thrift shops for old aluminum lawn chairs. You can pick them up for a buck or two and they’re pretty easy to find. The webbing, [...]

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April 15, 2012

Here’s an idea: rock an old clock

Working vintage clocks are pricey, but you can’t swing a dead cat at a flea market without hitting a box full of cool-looking old clocks that no longer work. Those little clock kits at the craft store are about $6. So grab one of those $1 bargain bin clocks and bring it back to life. [...]

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April 24, 2012

Reupholstering the vintage dinette cushions from our Shasta Airflyte

WHEW it is DUSTY in here! I just got finished ripping all the fabric and batting off the frames of our dinette cushions from the camper. The plan is to do a tuck-and-staple job on them since professional upholstery work would run upwards of $800. So I’m just going to add fresh batting, maybe some [...]

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Save tons, make your favorite household cleansers

Fixer upper find: Vintage corner china cabinet

I love chairs

Making a flea market shopping cart liner

Creative ideas for using burlap

Easy project: how to make a folding shopping cart liner with leftover materials

Fixing up my 1962 Shasta Airflyte

Re-webbing vintage aluminum lawn chairs

Here’s an idea: rock an old clock

Reupholstering the vintage dinette cushions from our Shasta Airflyte

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