Some Recent Finds

Lately I have been checking Craigslist every morning for estate sales. This morning I was beyond delighted when I learned of a monthly antiques and collectibles show going on just a few miles from my home. How have I not heard of this before? It wasn’t a very big show, but there were definitely some [...]

My Cypress Knee

If you follow me on twitter or instagram (username misscedar for new ig-ers), you probably already heard plenty about my latest thrift find–my new cypress knee! I have been slightly obsessed with cypress knees since I was a young girl. One of my aunts has the most incredible mid century cypress knee lamp (which looks [...]

Some Recently Thrifted Things

The title says it all. I think I have had some pretty good thrift luck lately.

Decorating our New Home

Things are looking up here. This weekend is our big moving weekend, my ear is feeling ever so slightly better (still not great, but I will take it!), Halloween is just days away, and I am finally starting to get excited about our new home. In the past month I have been thrifting and estate [...]

Thrifting and Baby Artichokes

Friday I went to my favorite thrift store in search of some large pots for my garden. While I didn’t find what I went for, I did leave with all sorts of other goodies. The most exciting of which is this lamp. I had been eying something similar on Anthropologie’s website for a while, but [...]

How to Thrift Like a Pro

Like my tutorial on How to Cut Your Own Bangs, this is an article I wrote several years ago for my previous blog. I have had lots of questions recently about where I get a lot of my vintage, so I thought I would post this and share it all over again. To me thrifting [...]