Last week, Scott stumbled across an ad for a Mid-century Modern warehouse sale way south on Western Ave. We woke up bright and early Saturday morning, assuming there’d be a big long line around the building, only to arrive 5 minutes after opening and find that we were two of, oh, maybe six people! Better […]
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Fabric Picking + Chair Rescuing
Soon after sharing our pairs of chairs, I began the process of ordering a handful of fabric swatches for our recent estate sale find. There was some definite push back on keeping them as-is (even having family give us a ring and claim that they loved them, just the way they were!), but! Allow us […]
The Dandelion Chair
Remember when we picked out fabric swatches for our to-be-tweaked living room? We successfully used the white vinyl on that $2 chair, we’ve yet to make new pillows, and we waffled on the grey we chose for the reupholstering of the lovely chair. (But hey, we got 1 out of 3, and that ain’t bad.) […]
The Fabric Game
Do you ever buy an item online and proceed to checkout, only to find that if you just added $5 to your cart, you’d get free shipping? Then you realize that if shipping costs $7, of course(!) it makes sense to scrounge around for a low priced item. It’s a fun game, right? But by […]
A Patio Start
On a whim – well, a whim that had me perusing Fabric.com for hours (one mouse click off the beaten path, and before you know it, you’re fifty pages deep in web land) – and with Scott’s approval of color and pattern, I bought one yard of each of these (top to bottom: Swavelle Water […]
Maybe Crazy
Oh, hey, so the crazy lady in me went and ordered two new fabric choices for the now-infamous ottoman. You know, just to see. How unvery thrifty of me. However! Each yard of fabric was on sale for $4 (first pinned here, and bought from Fabric.com. It’s since gone up in price). But then add […]
Pink Poppies
Fabric shopping is hard. There were times where I swear I saw the same print in ten different colors on twenty separate sites, only to find out they were in no way the same, they went by thirty different names (no, the math does not check out), and some were so much dinero, I’d have […]
How Not to Dye Curtains
Not every project we take on has those perfect, shiny results we hope for. And in this case, our results were pretty much as opposite as you can get from the original goal, but as luck would have it, we actually think it worked out pretty alright. More importantly, our “client” and friend Penina (whose […]
DIY: A Place To Perch
This past June, Scott and I packed our bags and headed south to Cincinnati. Every trip home includes a few of the same rituals: Skyline chili, Graeter’s ice cream, and the Peddler’s Flea Market. Surely, you’re not suprised at my mention of the flea. At this point, I think you’re catching on fast that this […]