I buy an Ansel Adams calendar every year(after Christmas, of course, when they’re 50% off!) and this past Christmas, as I was getting ready to recycle the calendar, it occurred to me that it’s kind of a shame to throw away these lovely black and white pictures, which are on nice, heavy duty paper. [...]
Filed under: Frugal Home Decorating, Frugal Home Improvement, Painting
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Tags: reusing
It’s spray paint this time, though. Spray paint and I go way back….I was spray painting stuff long before I got on my latest furniture refinishing kick. A number of years ago when we lived in our townhouse, I changed all the doorknobs to a brushed nickel finish. It looked great, but [...]
Filed under: Green and Frugal, Painting
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Tags: reusing
My daughter and I both had a pair of khaki pants that had some pretty darn near irreparable damage done to the knees…more than I was willing to mend, at least! A while back, I found a link to a site with a how-to on turning jeans into a skirt, and I figured that it [...]
Filed under: Sewing
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Tags: reusing
