Welcome to Thrifty to Nifty Thursdays at A Jennuine Life! This week I made a quick and easy e-reader sleeve out of wool felt from a friend and stash fabrics. What did you make this week? Are you taking thrift store finds or items you’ve had laying about the house and remaking them into something.. {…Continue Reading}
This past Sunday the weather was per-fect for sledding: 40 degrees, sunny, and there was plenty of snow on the ground. So I gathered up the girls and headed to our local sledding spot – the slope off a bridge over a river. Arden’s first trip down a sledding hill: And Hadley and me (with {…Continue Reading}
Thanks so much to everyone who linked up this week! There are a lot of new friends visiting this week – welcome! Grab a button if you were featured: There was so much greatness linked this week that I’m featuring a couple more projects than I have been in the past: Melissa at Redfly Creations {…Continue Reading}
My thing for wool felt is becoming well known. To the point that now I have friends who come to me saying “I’ve got a pile of wool/cashmere sweaters that don’t fit well – can you use them?”. And my answer is “YES!”. My friend and sorority little sister Kim did just that recently with {…Continue Reading}
Lifetime should broadcast Project Run & Play. For real. I LOVE Project Runway, and I LOVE Project Run & Play. I’ve followed PR&P from the very beginning – the first season ran simultaneously with Shwin & Shwin’s Project Toddler Runway and I was a competitor. Shauna from Shwin & Shwin competed in PR&P while hosting {…Continue Reading}
I always enter cool giveways when I’m reading lovely blogs, and lately I’ve been the lucky winner for three different prizes!! Most recently, I won this beautiful hand stamped pewter pendant necklace from My Little Lady Designs on a giveway on Seven Thirty Three. I’ve been wearing this nonstop since it arrived (even to sleep {…Continue Reading}
Welcome to Thrifty to Nifty Thursdays at A Jennuine Life! I’ve been up to my armpits in nautical flags this last week so I haven’t been able to do much niftyfying (I’m so going to start using that made up word!) so I thought I’d share some great recent projects I spotted around the community: {…Continue Reading}
I take a trip to my local Jo-Ann store at least once a week it seems. It’s the source for the vast majority of the material I use in my Etsy shop as well as sewing for my family and home. A few weeks ago, there was a notice on the door that said they {…Continue Reading}
Thanks so much to everyone who linked up this week! I didn’t have time to solicit entries or send a reminder e-mail, so thanks so much for those who remembered to link up and/or spread the word about the fun we’re having turning thrifty into nifty! Grab a button if you were featured: Here are {…Continue Reading}
For the past month and a half, Mondays have been the day I share my project for the weekly challenge for the Project Run & Play sew along. It almost feels odd not to have a new dress or outfit to share given that it’s Monday. So here’s a little recap of Arden and Hadley’s {…Continue Reading}
