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Thrifted Midi Skirt and Vintage Crop Top

  Did you know that thrifting can take you all over the world?  This shirt's fabric is from Germany, while the actual shirt was assembled in Mexico.  100% Rayon, because who doesn't love fake cotton?  That 100% Polyester mustard colored skirt?  Vintage + 'Merica, baby!  My thrift finds (the shirt and skirt) were less than $15 dollars in this outfit.  The body chain was hand made in Texas.  I was ma[...]

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Architecture | Denton, TX Courthouse

Properly, Denton County Courthouse-on-the-Square. This baby was built in 1896.  Real old, y'all - and I love it.  I cannot properly explain how giddy I get when I walk into old buildings, but I shall try.  It feels magnificently invigorating to stand in a building that conceived by the minds of those that lived so long ago, and built .  There is magic in history, and architecture is a major indicator of the t[...]

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Little Chapel at TWU

Followed my sis to a graduation photo shoot for a Texas Woman's University student.  This amazing thing was just sitting there, all pretty like. Little Chapel in the Woods The University's Conference Services provided this floor plan layout on their website.  Read more about the building here. For more pretty places that I've photographed and shared, check out my "Travel" page. Until next time, Ci Vedi[...]

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Bill & Hillary’s First Home – Fayetteville, AR

If you missed the first installment of my Bill home tour (it's really not that fancy, y'all.  I just love architecture and Bill Clinton, and he has just so happened to live near where my family and I live), see my tour of Bill Clinton's Birthplace in Hope, AR.  On to Fayetteville, AR, where Bill purchased a home that Hillary loved just so she wouldn't say no to his marriage proposals anymore.  Talk about love![...]

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Old Town Lewisville, TX

Exploring yet another historic part of a Texas town.  Although the town really only has one block of older repurposed buildings, the area is very beautiful. This poster was hanging in "After Glow," a furniture restoration shop that I accidentally happened upon while trying to find more buildings to photograph.  There I met the owner, from whom I gained much knowledge about great historic places to visit[...]

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Visiting Bill Clinton’s Birthplace – Hope, AR

You know how you live somewhere your whole life, or your whole family is from some place, and there are some local attractions that you just take for granted?  Yeaaaa..  The Clinton Homes that are in Arkansas are in my hometown (Fayetteville, AR) and near my family's hometown (my family is from Nashville, AR, Bill's is from Hope, AR).  But... Up until recently, I had never explored either.  And I'm a his[...]

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Hello from the garden today. Lots of visitors probably due to the heavy rains.
Hello from the garden today. Lots of visitors probably due to the heavy rains.
Hello from the garden today. Lots of visitors probably due to the heavy rains.
Hello from the garden today. Lots of visitors probably due to the heavy rains.
Hello from the garden today. Lots of visitors probably due to the heavy rains.
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Hello from the garden today. Lots of visitors probably due to the heavy rains.
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Happy Earth Day 🌍🫶🏾🌱

I used to think “let me just get 5k followers.. 10k followers… one day I’ll have 20k followers…” to help people live more sustainably with the blog posts and social media posts I created. 10+ years of that led to burnout. And it never felt the same as when my friends and family started to live a little more sustainably because of something they learned from me. 

I hope you’ll be the inspiration for someone in your life to be a little bit more sustainable today. It’s such a good feeling to see the people closest to you thrift more, consume less, and think differently — more sustainably — about how we treat our world. 

Don’t push it, just live it. 

Happy Earth Day 🌍🫶🏾🌱
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Happy Earth Day 🌍🫶🏾🌱 I used to think “let me just get 5k followers.. 10k followers… one day I’ll have 20k followers…” to help people live more sustainably with the blog posts and social media posts I created. 10+ years of that led to burnout. And it never felt the same as when my friends and family started to live a little more sustainably because of something they learned from me. I hope you’ll be the inspiration for someone in your life to be a little bit more sustainable today. It’s such a good feeling to see the people closest to you thrift more, consume less, and think differently — more sustainably — about how we treat our world. Don’t push it, just live it. Happy Earth Day 🌍🫶🏾🌱
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🥶❌🌱 Not my plant babies! 

It’s been cold in Texas the past few days, so I acted accordingly to protect my little backyard garden that’s barely underway. 

Using thrifted sheets (once back drops in my “thrift fashionista style content” days lol) and thrifted clothes pins (I knew they would come in handy! 😆🙌🏾), as well as some old jugs, bottles, containers, and twigs. Hopefully they help keep the plants from getting too cold to survive.
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🥶❌🌱 Not my plant babies! It’s been cold in Texas the past few days, so I acted accordingly to protect my little backyard garden that’s barely underway. Using thrifted sheets (once back drops in my “thrift fashionista style content” days lol) and thrifted clothes pins (I knew they would come in handy! 😆🙌🏾), as well as some old jugs, bottles, containers, and twigs. Hopefully they help keep the plants from getting too cold to survive.
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Finally got a migrating bird LIGHTS OUT sign 🤩

Turn off your lights (outdoor & indoor) to limit light pollution and to protect migrating birds 🫶🏾🕊️

TURN ‘EM OFF! (in my Teddy Pendergrass voice 😂)

#lightsouttexas #lightsout #lightpollution #migratorybirds
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Finally got a migrating bird LIGHTS OUT sign 🤩 Turn off your lights (outdoor & indoor) to limit light pollution and to protect migrating birds 🫶🏾🕊️ TURN ‘EM OFF! (in my Teddy Pendergrass voice 😂) #lightsouttexas #lightsout #lightpollution #migratorybirds
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Do you reuse gift wrap?

Here are some things that I’ve thrifted to reuse as gift wrap each holiday season:

⭐️ tablecloths
⭐️ napkins & handkerchiefs (matching napkins sewn together can be used for larger gifts)
⭐️ Scarves (like from @wrappr)
⭐️ Cloth bags (like the ones your sheet sets come in)
⭐️ Pillowcases
⭐️ Curtains (can be used as gift wrap or to cover larger gifts like bikes or toy kitchens)

As long as you can fold the fabric into a square before wrapping the gift, it works well when using the furoshiki style wrapping technique. 

Comment WRAP for a few tips and tricks to wrap gifts in cloth fabric.
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Do you reuse gift wrap? Here are some things that I’ve thrifted to reuse as gift wrap each holiday season: ⭐️ tablecloths ⭐️ napkins & handkerchiefs (matching napkins sewn together can be used for larger gifts) ⭐️ Scarves (like from @wrappr) ⭐️ Cloth bags (like the ones your sheet sets come in) ⭐️ Pillowcases ⭐️ Curtains (can be used as gift wrap or to cover larger gifts like bikes or toy kitchens) As long as you can fold the fabric into a square before wrapping the gift, it works well when using the furoshiki style wrapping technique. Comment WRAP for a few tips and tricks to wrap gifts in cloth fabric.
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