After a year or so of struggling with a hand-me-down serger I inherited from my grandma, I finally broke down and bought myself a new one. It’s a Babylock Eclipse– their least expensive model with air-threaded lower loopers. I hadn’t even really thought I needed a serger until a year[Read more]
Hi friends! This week is Scavenger Hunt’s one-year “Blogiversary,” and in honor of that momentous occasion I’m making some big changes and improvements! First of all, if you haven’t already noticed, I’ve put up my new site design! I’ve been working hard on it (with LOTS of help from Phillip)[Read more]
At long last, I’ve finally gotten some more of my vintage patterns up in the Etsy shop! I chose a selection of fun patterns that are perfect for summertime. Check ’em out!Ever fallen in love with a vintage pattern that wasn’t your size? All is not lost! Check out Casey‘s[Read more]
Hi and welcome to this week’s edition of Thrifty Thursday, where I share my weekly thrift store/yard sale/flea market finds! This week was somewhat slow in the thrifting department- I only managed to go twice this week, though Phillip got out a little bit more. I’ve been focusing on working on[Read more]
The day after we went to Disneyland a couple weeks ago we decided to spend the next day doing something fun down in the LA area, so we headed over to downtown LA to visit Olvera Street, a bustling little market that sells nothing but Mexican wares. We walked around,[Read more]
I’ve been getting lots of fun goodies in the mail the last couple of weeks! I’ve used some of my gift cards from the Laurel Contest to order some amazing sewing stuff. Here’s what I picked out so far: I ordered these six beautiful patterns from Colette Patterns: Ceylon, Rooibos,[Read more]
I don’t have a whole lot of items for this week’s Thrifty Thursday. It has been kind of a bad week for thrifting and both me and Phillip only found a few items worth bringing home (and most of them were found yesterday). We just started selling in a new[Read more]
Phillip and I went on our much-anticipated trip to Disneyland last week and it was so much fun! We made sure to go on a weekday this time because the last two times we went were during the weekend and were way too insanely crowded. It was great for most[Read more]
I made this dress from a sheet I found at a thrift store last winter. I’m absolutely in love with the print and color scheme and I always planned on making a pretty summer dress with it. Our recent trip to Disneyland provided a perfect excuse for a new dress[Read more]
Hi everyone and welcome to this week’s Thrifty Thursday post, where I share some of my thrift shop vintage finds for the week. This week’s post is a little different, rather than thrifting, we were given a huge box full of these amazing head planters by Phillip’s stepmom. She inherited[Read more]