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More Pumpkin foolishness…. Necktie Pumpkins

October 24, 2011 26 Comments

Today we’re recovering pumpkins with  neckties! I picked up a couple of neckties at Goodwill that I thought would fit in with my Halloween decor. I used a seam ripper to dismantle them and a rotary cutter to cut them into strips. With a dab of hot glue on the bottom of the pumpkins, I […]

Filed Under: Autumn, Before and After, cheap and easy, Crafts, fabric, Fall, Franken-Crafts, Goodwill, Halloween, Holidays, Pumpkins

A plaid pumpkin? From a thrift shop flannel shirt? Yep!

September 13, 2011 71 Comments

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I was in the Dollar Tree the other day and I picked up a few of those cheesy fake pumpkins.  There is also a Goodwill a few doors down… so of course I had to stop in.  (If I were a dog and Goodwill was a fire hydrant, there would be no way I could […]

Filed Under: Autumn, Before and After, cheap and easy, Crafts, Fall, Goodwill, Pumpkins, tutorial

Pink cabbage is just plain wrong.

April 26, 2011 90 Comments

So the other day I was in my local Goodwill  (Yes….  The one that sells rocks…)  and I came across this. It clearly had a lid at some point in its life, but the lid was missing and there was a chip on the top of it.Oh.  And it was pink. Who has ever heard […]

Filed Under: Accessories, Before and After, Crafts, Goodwill, project du jour, spray paint, Spring

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