With the holidays coming up I wanted to show you a quick and easy way to clean silver. Over the years I have bought numerous pieces of silver at thrift stores and estate sales. Some are the kind of silverware you eat with, some are pieces I use to decorate my home. Urns, tea pots,...

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Summer is one of my favorite seasons of the year. OK, so there's only 4 to choose from, but summer not only has awesome weather it has lots of yard sales! And with yard sales comes the opportunity to buy cool stuff to upcycle into even better cool stuff to decorate the garden. 5 Super...

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Or should my title read that I found my head? On one hand I bought this cute/creepy doll head, so in that respect I guess I did find my head. Or a head at least. But man, did I lose my head about how to buy really cool stuff. I even wrote a post titled...

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I've been sort of quiet on the thrifting front this summer. As with all lovers of thrifty finds, my house was getting overrun with STUFF. I joke about it being a hoarding situation, but it's more of a I really shouldn't buy anything else until I find a place to display my last set of...

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If the hood means what I think it does. Otherwise I look like your Grandma who uses the word "groovy" way too much. While out thifting this week I did find some groovy . . . cool . . . rad . . . super exciting things. Like this Thermos brand Icy Hot thermos. I loved...

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It was a gorgeous fall day when the Country Living Fair came to town a few weekends ago. And I was there bright and early Friday morning just as the gates popped opened. There was not going to be a "you snooze, you lose" excuse going on here. I was an early-bird and there were...

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How to clean and restore thrift store finds, so you can LOVE them without buyer's remorse. Including how to clean silver and how to clean vintage linen.

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Weekend thrift store score including vintage plaid Thermos picnic set, mid-century modern rolling kitchen cart and lots more kitschy goodness.

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Lots of stuff has been going on around here lately, so I thought I'd better get you up to speed. I bought a new house. Mid-century two-story with a fabulous nursery. Tin of course. OK, I know this goes totally against the whole KonMari Method for de-cluttering thing I talked about in January (you know,...

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Sometimes a day of thrifting goes right. And sometimes it goes wrong. Oh, so wrong. Let's start with the "thrifting goes right" part though. It's been a while since I've been out and about to some thrift stores and antique malls. Gee, that makes me sound agoraphobic or something, but keep in mind that I am...

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