Yep, I bought this dress 32 years ago from a thrift store for $2.50 in 1993, shortened it with a hand-stitched hem, and it still fits! 😂 Vintage is forever.
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For under $50 and just a weekend or less, you can make a large canvas for your wall, and then blow up an image to decoupage to the canvas! Here's how! - Be sure to enter the $1,000 Arrow giveaway and challenge! See @thriftdiving link in bio to enter!
Materials:
✅ Drop cloth
✅ Pine boards (1" x 3.5")
✅ Hand saw or circular saw
✅ Arrow T50 stapler with staples
✅ L-brackets
✅ Wood glue
✅ Drill or Arrow screwdriver
✅ Gesso to prime and stiffen the canvas, brush or roller.
✅ Acrylic paint for canvas
✅ Mod Podge (decoupage)
✅ Blown-up printed image
✅ D-rings or hooks
STEP 1: Iron the canvas.
STEP 2: Measure and cut your pine to length. Mine is 4-ft x 5-ft.
STEP 3: Glue corners and staple joints together with T50 stapler. Attach L brackets for added strength
STEP 4: Staple canvas in center at top and bottom.
STEP 5: Pull tight towards corners, stapling as you go, removing any wrinkles. Neatly fold and staple corners.
STEP 6: Apply 2-3 coats of gesso, sanding between coats.
STEP 7: Blow up any image using free tool at Rasterbator.net. Print out image (can use FedEx, too).
STEP 8: Use Mod Podge to decoupage image onto canvas. Hang, and you're done! 🔥😍
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BEFORE & AFTER: Home office makeover, with nearly everything thrifted, DIY'ed, or from Facebook Marketplace. 🔥
#diy #homedecor #decorating #upholstery #reupholstery #thrifting #thrifted #homeofficedecor
🤔 You know how you think your efforts aren't paying off because the scale isn't moving? That had been me--cursing at the scale because for the last 2 months, I have been doing double workouts, skipping sweets, skipping alcohol...but not really seeing the scale moving...wanting to get back to the level of fitness I had 2023. It was frustrating that it wasn't happening.
But I used peri-menopause as an excuse. I stepped on the scale and thought that my body should be on MY timeline for seeing results. I thought that my 75 Hard Challenge wasn't working this time because I'm older now (48 and a half, thank you very much).
I was so wrong; my body was changing. I just couldn't see the change when all I was focused on was a stupid number on a scale. 🤬
Well, today is Day #64 of the challenge. I've not started over once. And today was the first day I saw the progress.
It's working.
Now if I can keep this going for the rest of my lifetime....
@fabletics
#thriftdiving #fitness #strongwomen #fitover40
Just got back from Utah for a Duluth Trading Company photo and video shoot. I've taken solo work trips like this before, but this one was different. I feel like I grew in a way no other trip has done.
You see, after I was done shooting, I had an entire day to myself, not flying out until after 5 pm. The whole day was mine.
No work.
No kids.
No soccer practice.
No grocery trips.
No DIY projects begging for attention.
No obligations at all.
I went where curiosity took me.
From Cedar Springs to Salt Lake City......from ancient Parowan Gap's petroglyphics carved into rock...to Yuba National Park with sparkling blue water.....then off to Red Butte Gardens & Arboretum.
It was just me, a rental car, Google Maps, lots of healthy snacks, gops of coffee (some decaf), and unexpected hours of country music (new Morgan Wallen fan here! 😍).
I realized that everyone should take these trips. The world isn't as big as your backyard or patio. When we only see what's around us, what's familiar, we can lose our sense of wonder. And you don't have to go as far as Utah. You can drive over to the next city, the next town. Take a road you have never been down. Try a new restaurant. Sign up for a hobby that you never considered before.
All of these experiences teach you things about yourself, expose you to different ways of life, other ways of living. What's fascinating is that you uncover more things about who you are than what you'll ever learn by staying in your own backyard.
The 10 lessons I learned are below in the comments.
#solotravel #utah #saltlakecity #thriftdiving
I'm in Utah right now, wrapping up the Fall 2026 Duluth Trading Company photo and video shoot! I became a @duluthtradingcompany Woman and customer in 2015. They asked me back again for their upcoming season,and of course the answer is YES! Here's a quick behind-the-scenes! 😍
#thriftdiving #duluthtradingwomen #utah #gardening #farmlife
#ad - Today is the last day to enter the Arrow "Go for the Goal" Giveaway! Win a $500 gift card along with an Arrow Tool Group tool bundle! There are 3 winners. Hurry and enter before 11:59 pm ET! Tick, tick, your time is running out! Link in my bio @thriftdiving and @arrowfastener
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⚽ So which one is correct? Is it "SOCCER" or "FOOTBALL"? 🤔 Hurry up to enter the Arrow "Go for the Goal" Giveaway by May 6th to be one of three winners to win $500 and an Arrow tools tools bundle! Link in bio @thriftdiving . Enter daily. No purchase necessary! 🥅🏟️
DAY 4: Sometimes it takes a while to get started on a project. And when you do, you can't believe you waited so long, because it's actually turning out. Like, really. This is WORKING! 😱😍 (Tutorial coming soon on my channel).
#thriftdiving #diy #gazebos #backyard #outdoorliving
DAY #1 of my 100 Days of Creativity Challenge. I barely made it! But I forced myself to start today, even though I was pulled into so many different directions today. Go, me!! Where do you find color inspiration?
#thriftdiving #100daysofcreativity #diy #colorinspiration
Tell the world you love tools. Want me to make you some laser engraved earrings hammer earrings, too? Join my email list link in bio @thriftdiving and you'll be first to get your hands on a pair. 🥰
#laserengraving #jewelry #crafts #diy #thriftdiving
Sometimes you don't need to know what you're going to use it for; you just need to buy it! You'll figure it out later!
And I did.
I found this $8.00 thrifted glass jar that I couldn't walk away from. I didn't need another random thing in bring into my house. But it was too nice and inexpensive to walk away from.
Now I have the idea!
I'm reading a book called The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life. In the book, the author mentions how she was inspired by a professor who assigned her students to do 100 days of creavity. So the author decided she would journal daily. (Her daily writings ended up becoming a book, by the way).
I decided to be inspired by doing my own 100 days of creativity by using my gorgeous jar to put creative ideas inside it, drawing one per day.
My rules:
✅ 15 min minimum, daily
✅ No pressure to have it be a "start to finish" project. Just literally something that taps into my creativity.
✅ No need to film it, unless I want to. The goal is my own creative play without the pressure to post any of it.
⁉️ Want to do it, too? Give it a try and let me know how it works for you! I'll update you on my progress, too!
#thriftdiving #creativity #100daysofcreativity #100days #thrifted
