When I began my blog in 2006 I didn't sit and contemplate the idea. I didn't think long and hard about a name. Basically I somehow did a search on thrift through Google, found a couple blogs and decided immediately......

Yesterday I had an off day. My mood was blah, my thrifting was pathetic (only one pair of capris) and dh seemed very far away even if it was only 6 hours. I decided that I would take a break from thrifting today, despite my pledge to thrift all week. I dropped the children off at farm camp, arrived ...

I visited Paula's blog to discover that she had a faux magazine cover created. She learned about it from Little Red House. Of course I had to borrow the idea because who wouldn't love a magazine devoted just to thrifting. And while I appreciate the on-line Thrift News of Thrift-a-teria there is noth...

It was an ideal day for this apron thrift girl. I was able to sneak in two hours of yard sales before jumping in the van and heading an hour south to the Renegade Craft Fair in San Francisco. It is hard to describe the emotions of thrifting in new territory but maybe if I tried I would say there is ...

Railway Square, Santa Rosa, California. I don't complain much about heat since for the most part, I don't experience heat. The Seattle area has its few warm days, maybe a couple really hot days but nothing like the predictable summers that much of the country experiences. I must say that I miss the ...

Here's a confession that is hard here to say in blog land, especially when surrounded by amazingly crafty,  bloggers: I haven't touched my sewing machine in months. Yes, you read it correctly, Months! Remember my lovely Bernina I introduced here a year and a half ago. Well she has been sorely n...

Here's a confession that is hard here to say in blog land, especially when surrounded by amazingly crafty,  bloggers: I haven't touched my sewing machine in months. Yes, you read it correctly, Months! Remember my lovely Bernina I introduced here a year and a half ago. Well she has been sorely n...

With the environment, you are sometimes left to make hard choices. I choose to sometimes drive 45 minutes away following a trail of yard sales in order to avoid going to Walmart & Target to buy items that were shipped thousands of miles and packaged in plastic. I choose paper bags over plastic s...

With the environment, you are sometimes left to make hard choices. I choose to sometimes drive 45 minutes away following a trail of yard sales in order to avoid going to Walmart & Target to buy items that were shipped thousands of miles and packaged in plastic. I choose paper bags over plastic s...

I would consider myself a pretty laid back woman overall. I try to go with the flow and take things as they come. When things go poorly I chalk it up to a valuable lesson or an experience that I can grow from. But there is one thing that makes me pretty annoyed is when people are throwing away decen...