Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Craft and thrift.


Craft

Two girls and two boys living in our nest means a lot of shopping and designing and crafting to make their little twin nests their own.  Ponytail holders once adorned the girl's bathroom curtain and played their part as a quick solution to tie-backs.  Now, thanks to two spools of ribbon, the girls now have a more stylish solution.  I could have punched these out in a day, but with our current sickness quota, it took two nap times to get this Ribbon Flower Garland finished.  Small felt squares were used to sew the ribbon onto and a long strand of green ribbon functioned as the garland...

Thrift

Boys!  True to the nature of boys, my little gents are in love with this wooden airplane rocker I picked up at a consignment/thrift store.  The price tag:  $15.00!  Mr. T spends countless minutes playing with the propeller.  I can only imagine when his legs are long enough, how much time they will spend on this baby.
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Mark your blogging schedules for Wednesdays, when I will be writing my craft and thrift posts. Sometimes the craft will go with the thrift and other times, it won't! Two things I love to do, posting now on Wednesdays!

Do you find yourself thrifting more with the current times?
Do you consign?





6 comments:

linda said...

I'll look forward to sharing Wednesdays with you!

I actually started thrifting when I started blogging. I truly was a thrift store snob before, wouldn't have stepped foot inside of one. Boy oh boy I didn't know what I was missing! I love it so much that my son and I are probably going to open one up ourselves. We are in the process of investigating, making a business plan, and gathering stock right now. He isn't into school and needs a little direction as far as a career goes so this just may be the thing.

Melinda said...

I hope you will teach us how to make those darling ribbon flowers!

Cristin said...

Love your craft project...
and a good thrift find is always a highlight! I enjoy shopping in thrift stores...but have to be careful to only bring home what I REALLY love...

austin said...

Your ribbon flowers are very cute! Wish we had more kids thrift stores here. There is one I like to go to, but sadly most of their clothes are too small for Danica.

donna said...

so cute!!!!

Lauralee said...

super cute! love them