Rescued Ponies This year the attention was on the two “rescued ponies” who live through the gate. Elizabeth keeps them there along with other horses. When we first met them, they were very neglected but today they are chubby and shiny and anxious to be touched. The ponies’ names are …
(Quirky Quincy) Changing The Photo Booth From Year-to-Year Each year my grandchildren tell me that they love to dress-up for photos. Each year I prepare something different and thrift different clothes and props. The first year it was rather bland as I look back. I was still learning what I …
Tim loves to paint in a Maynard Dixon style. He likes bold colors and shapes and you might imagine how touched we were to receive this gift for our 50th anniversary. This is the home we raised our children in, for the most part. He is a dedicated thrifter …
journal entry: Thrifted bird cages. Quite difficult to find. Most are very ordinary cages but I continue to hope I will find an unusual cage along the way. The cage on the left was already this color when I found it at Deseret Industries. It was $5 dollars. I used …
My friend is moving. She didn’t really want to. She is making the best of things. I admire that in a person. She is kind of a crafty, retro, sentimental person so I was quite sure that she would like a full and funky USEFUL apron for her new kitchen. …
My grandmother always wore an apron. Usually she wore the kind that covered the top and bottom of her house-dress. I don’t believe that it would have occurred to her to go around without one. When it was time to go outside and walk around the neighborhood where she …
It isn’t Christmas without the beauty of Handel’s Messiah. Handel’s pen wrote the music but these words come from Isaiah. King of Kings. Lord of Lords. The Mighty God. The Everlasting Father. The Prince of Peace. I have collected a few “crowns” from thrift stores. Most were once …
Time to decorate for Christmas again. Old things in new places. One year it is a village of bird houses. The next year it is a globe collection with a Joy to the World plaque. Bottle brush trees and ornaments and tea light candles can be strewn about in so …
I think that Paper Whites are wonderful during the Christmas season. Grandpa started calling them “stinky bulbs” years ago and so my children call them by the same name. He says that he is just teasing, but I’m not so sure. When they all see that I have planted some, …
Now and then I prowl the thrift stores. I say now and then because I used to do it with some regularity. I have long been inspired by the accounts of our “mothers’ from the past, otherwise known as ancestors, who never wasted a single thing and made-over any piece …
