Northwestern student move-out/move-in time. Kellogg students started back this week, so these remains can be attributed to them. It’s not like the end of the month was a surprise. I don’t think I’ve ever seen so much garbage from just a couple buildings. This couple took home a chair. They left the second one behind. This family found [...]
August 29, 2010
Should you friend your kids on Facebook? Nielsen reports that 3/4 of a group of 1,024 parents do, but doesn’t go further to tell us if the parents are friending the friends of their kids, too. All of my five take a such a casual approach to Facebook, I don’t think they mind that I subscribe [...]
August 26, 2010
Today, I thought I’d revisit the do-over of this American Empire Revival chest of drawers. I found it at a neighborhood church sale this spring and had plans first to stencil a prairie style design on the front. This morphed into a different plan for a two-tone effect, but it in the end I just [...]
August 25, 2010
What to do with an old wire planter? With its sculptural quality, this was a no-brainer and a really cheap way to make a light fixture you can’t find anywhere else. Inspiration for this came from the industrial style fixtures Anthropologie offers right now and the 20’s fixtures I longed for in a wonderful lighting shop [...]
August 23, 2010
Below is the After result for a garbage dresser. I took this photo as we loaded it to take to Sunday’s Vintage Bazaar. The black and white is a Nepal paper from the Paper Source, and red paint covers the formica top of the dresser. The dresser sold right away to a woman who lives with [...]
August 19, 2010
There’s nothing like getting ready for a market to motivate. A preview of some of things I’m bringing to the Vintage Market this Sunday, stacked on the front porch. Almost all of my items fall into the categories of redesigned, recycled and rehabbed into fun and functional. PS. I hear parking’s a snap for this location, [...]
August 17, 2010
I carry my existence in one of these zippered wristlets. I like how they’re small and soft enough to fit in a jeans pocket and big enough to grab from the bottom of a messenger bag. They’re quick to lock and load when you need to be out the door in a minute. And speaking of [...]
August 11, 2010
We are scientists in our lab Looking through the microscope Those little glass slides they never lie How can this small mind cope —-first verse of Amoeba by the Adolescents Everyone, I’m taking the week off from a makeover, so thought I’d shine a flashlight on a bit of domestic fluff: housekeeping. Maybe it’s my imagination, but I used to be [...]
August 8, 2010
Some may disagree, but in my book not every circumstance in life should be negotiated in secondhand. Some events call for New This Season or a certain Bloomingdale’s confidence. Looking for these, I went to the mall on Sunday afternoon accompanied by my second opinion. If the U.S. population can be divided into just two [...]
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