tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50016832011-04-21T13:58:00.616-04:00purity guaranteeda blog about thriftin', craftin', cookin', and dogsscgnoreply@blogger.comBlogger261100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001683.post-1156123272498739742006-08-20T21:11:00.000-04:002006-08-20T21:21:12.500-04:00further thrift store reporting:in addition to the fabric for the skirt, today i found a pair of fluevogs! i have found brand new birkenstocks (wearing them right now, actually) and doc marten's but fluevogs have never appeared. i have been trying to find them online anywhere and i *just* exerted a little more google-fu and found them:fluevogs: women's rodeo watsons in burgundythey are TRULY scgnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001683.post-1156122329674210772006-08-20T20:48:00.000-04:002006-08-20T21:10:45.800-04:00skirty skirt skirt...skirt.we went to the thrift store today. it was a sparse day out there on the thrift store prairie but i *did* find two pieces of vintage knit that i liked. i came home and immediately made this a-line skirt using my favorite vintage a-line skirt for a pattern. there was exactly ONE yard of this fabric, which was perfect. if there were more i'm not really sure what i scgnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001683.post-1156119985938450412006-08-20T20:17:00.000-04:002006-08-20T20:26:25.963-04:00sioux-shee!last night i made onigiri and cone-shaped temaki sushi. as part of it i made omelet rolls, which are pretty hard to make. basically the omelet mixture is poured in a thin layer in the skillet, allowed to set, rolled from one end of the pan to the other and then another layer is poured and allowed to set. the second pour is then rolled around the first log and the process repeated a scgnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001683.post-1155523003437356482006-08-13T22:11:00.000-04:002006-08-13T22:36:43.533-04:00deets on the semi-craftival weekend:above 'tis my display. it is largely--and proudly--made up of garbage. the "pillars" are carpet tubes i snagged from the dumpster. i was particularly proud of two things about this display: number one was figuring out how to change up my display up some. when i originally designed/made this display a while back i painted the pillars brown. i felt they werescgnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001683.post-1154919588681920552006-08-06T22:55:00.000-04:002006-08-07T16:46:12.590-04:00last one... this one is one of the first group of pendants i made. it's not origami paper but a scrap of paper i received in a swap from my partner in sweden. i love the pattern with it's little metallic gold dot accents. they really sparkle, though you can't tell it in the photo.scgnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001683.post-1154919295482723392006-08-06T22:51:00.000-04:002006-08-06T22:55:03.026-04:00pearl!the paper for this one came from ancient rice paper napkins i found a year or so ago at the thrift store. the white is actually transparent when it's glued. it has a slight weave-like tooth to the paper when you tilt the pendant sideways.scgnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001683.post-1154918863552344852006-08-06T22:45:00.000-04:002006-08-06T22:47:43.553-04:00green!!scgnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001683.post-1154918573778379892006-08-06T22:20:00.000-04:002006-08-06T23:02:40.796-04:00new necklaces:crap assy picture, i know. glare is the enemy. this one is my favorite and it had to take a crappy picture. meh.remember the origami paper i bought a couple posts down from here? ::points to picture:: that's where some of it went. three of the four necklaces i'm posting today use that origami paper. great stuff.scgnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001683.post-1154310293601203362006-07-30T21:09:00.000-04:002006-07-30T21:47:20.996-04:00dessert! ::drool::last week, i blogged about a chocolate pie and provided no recipe. ::bad stinkycretingurl:: i liked the recipe and many many different ideas came to mind about changing it so i will first post the original recipe from vegetarian times. it was the winner of the 2005 reader recipe contest. my addendums are in [brackets]:crunchy chocolate truffle pie1 cup semi-sweet chocolate scgnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001683.post-1154308145699431942006-07-30T20:51:00.000-04:002006-07-30T21:09:06.163-04:00din din!:clockwise: zucchini patties, lima beans and mashed potatoes. the dark stuff in the middle is balsamic vinegar reduction.the zucchini patties are my favorite method of imbibing zucchini. yum. the balsamic reduction is directly related to the 1.5 liter (that's right LITER) bottle of balsamic vinegar i bought friday evening. it was at big lots, alone and lonely and marked $10.00 and i scgnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001683.post-1154052746528562382006-07-27T22:00:00.000-04:002006-07-27T22:15:47.916-04:00i found several items of clothing, too--a really nice boho shirt i love and a skirt but clothes are so freekin' hard to take pictures of! meh.when i was checking out i saw these tiny bottles of perfume and thought the bottles would come in handy. i just assumed they were cheapo yucky dollar store perfume. they aren't. the one on the right is fantasme by ted lapidus and the other is laguna, ascgnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001683.post-1154052003500578072006-07-27T21:45:00.000-04:002006-07-27T22:00:03.513-04:00today's thriftin' trip!b.f. had to go to the post office and he wanted me to ride with him and chat to catch up for the day. on the way back i badgered him into stopping at the t-store (thrift store), one we had gone to and found *nothing* this past saturday. it's usually feast or famine at that store and i was a little hesitant about going. but we did and i'm glad:crate and barrel vanilla scgnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001683.post-1154051134546003222006-07-27T21:43:00.000-04:002006-07-27T21:45:34.546-04:00decorating with...macaroni??another library bookstore find. speaks for itself. 1966.scgnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001683.post-1154050995369205042006-07-27T21:32:00.000-04:002006-07-27T21:43:15.383-04:00burlap bounty!i went to the library's used bookstore today and discovered several lovely craft pamphlets. i snatched this one up in an instant!i snatched it up because i saw the totebag on the front (in the lower right corner). i had found, over the past year, two tote bags *very* similar to that one so i was intrigued. i opened it up and viola!instructions!and check out one of the bags at thescgnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001683.post-1154050327575006002006-07-27T21:27:00.000-04:002006-07-27T21:32:07.576-04:00radar men from the MOON!yesterday, same store where i got the skirt:99 cents. how could i resist? it has clayton moore in it--the original lone ranger, i believe. no, i haven't watched it yet. but i definitely am. i will report back with a review!scgnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001683.post-1154050065285902222006-07-27T21:17:00.000-04:002006-07-27T21:27:45.296-04:00current thrifting!thrifting has its' cycles--sometimes there are hoards of stuff, sometimes there isn't ANYTHING AT ALL. luckily this week? hoards!woot!first up, yesterday's trip. they have half off every color tag wednesday every week, on clothing only. i found a lovely, boring 80's vintage dress and a *beautiful* 70's vintage top (in the washer so no pic). i also found a skirt/shirt set scgnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001683.post-1153796005156108292006-07-24T22:48:00.000-04:002006-07-24T22:53:25.166-04:00smokey the beari was playing with concept of the smokey eye tonight because i want to dramatize it up for the posh wedding i'm going to soon. i tried pics to document this momentous blip in time but all the pics sucked at showing the smokey eye. i still liked this pic, though. if you click on it be warned: it gets scary giant so be prepared for the big eye!scgnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001683.post-1153711248925149492006-07-23T23:17:00.000-04:002006-07-23T23:20:48.936-04:00pie was gooooood. pie was awesome. pie was vegan and tasted about a billion times better than non-vegan and most vegan pies. very very good pie.scgnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001683.post-1153706684300470682006-07-23T21:53:00.000-04:002006-07-23T22:08:25.610-04:00a dog in a bottleonce again: sucker for vintage. i saw this bottle and was puzzled by the brand "par-t-pak". it also says "serves six" on the edge of the lid. um. okay. i LOVE the shape of the bottle so i was like "it's MINE!!!" 99 cents. deal, maybe? hope it turns out to be worth something to someone because for now it just sits on the microwave, beckoning me to ponder it's mystery scgnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001683.post-1153705998393803772006-07-23T21:44:00.000-04:002006-07-23T21:53:36.270-04:00empress phoneonce again: sucker for vintage:i LOVE this phone's ring. it is the old fashioned bell ring and it's soooo beautiful. love it. having to give it up actually makes me think twice about switching totally to cellular (i probably won't do it anyway). cellphones, no matter how poncy, will never have the sound of this ring and the feel of the handset next to your ear. i found a phone scgnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001683.post-1153705383475387122006-07-23T21:34:00.000-04:002006-07-23T22:07:45.766-04:00suckeri am a suuucker for vintage stuff, for weird stuff, for ugly stuff. i'm not such a sucker for cute stuff, though i did just watch my neighbor totoro last night and very nearly keeled over from the massive dosage of cuteness. anyway--i prefer my thrifted stuff to be weird. however i could NOT RESIST getting the following:29 cents for both, as you can see from the tag. from avon. it saysscgnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001683.post-1153704652641468312006-07-23T21:23:00.000-04:002006-07-23T21:34:12.923-04:00din-din time!another day, another attempt to catch up on the backlog of thrifted items. first, though, i want to start out with what i cooked/ate for dinner:southwestern stewblack bean pattiesboth were TO DIE FOR, if i may say so myself. very healthy and i used a squash from my garden in the stew. YAY for gardens! avocados were on sale, which always makes me founder myself on them. cuz they scgnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001683.post-1153607941527219792006-07-22T18:26:00.000-04:002006-07-22T18:39:01.600-04:00bought this stuff earlier this week:decoupage glue/acrylic mediums. there are two bottles of acrylic matte medium, both full. i love matte medium and it's rather $$. these came in a grab bag priced $3.00.redundant pics, you say? i wanted to show the massive amount of needles that are here. there is every size from 2 to 15, an afghan hook and a set of circulars (unknown size). most all the scgnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001683.post-1153606864558503962006-07-22T17:57:00.000-04:002006-07-24T22:56:59.196-04:00(i'm going to make a different post for each thingamabob so it's easier to comment on them.)i buys a lot o' fabric cuz i have a thing for fabric, especially quality/vintage fabric cuz i makes purses and stuff out of the fabric. and sho' nuff i'll be postin' pitchers of 'dose soon:i bought this today. it was a lovely find because i've been using a lot of denim lately in my latest batch o' hobos scgnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001683.post-1153605071525379612006-07-22T17:22:00.000-04:002006-07-22T18:52:10.976-04:00well, i completely forgot i had this blog...which i think is probably common? i'm glad i remembered it because now i don't have to set one up for my current whim:i realized the other day that i wanted to keep track of things i had bought at the thrift store because i am, as it happens, a thrift store whore. of the highest magnitude. i go with the b.f. at least once and most of the time scgnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5001683.post-882151802003-01-29T12:32:00.000-05:002003-01-29T12:32:45.543-05:00test testy zesty testiness!scgnoreply@blogger.com0