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Redress: Pillows Part II: Recycled Stuffing Material
Last week I posted about my fight with pillow stuffing and how I’ve gone on a quest to figure out what works best.
Shredded Paper
Shredded Fleece
Plastic Bags
All Sorts of stuff – bits of yarn, thread, fleece, paper, and dryer lint.
After making 4 small pillows and stuffing them, I think I’ve finally got it down. Here is [...]
Apartment Redress: Basket Touch Up
Two weeks ago I posted about the color dilemma with the basket. Dilemma 1: the basket is not a color I like. Dilemma 2: what color to paint it! I decided to go with the yellow over the red.
Often, with cheap spray paint (which is what I have), it’s so transparent you can actually layer it. [...]
Apartment Redress: Basket color up, what color?
Jason and I are always loosing our keys/phones/wallets/etc, we needed a solution. A key basket right by the front door was the perfect solution. The only problem is that it’s a little tacky. It looks okay, but is a little too… um… pink pastel for my liking. I was thinking an easy solution would be [...]
Apartment Redress::Patio Set::Part II
Last week I showed you the chair and table set I have out on my patio. I really wanted to go with bright colors and patterned seat cushions, but was torn with the more practical gray and bright cushions – more timeless, more options with less hassle - want a change, just whip up some new [...]
Apartment Redress: On the Patio
Last week I mentioned the chairs I wanted to protect against the rain. They are in reality dining room chairs, but both being pretty water damaged, I felt okay using them outside. They match the little table my dad and I made together (it folds up, pretty sweet right?), so I’m not sure how to [...]
Apartment Redress: Vintage Lamp Rewire Finished!
We went to the hardware store and picked up all the parts to replace every electrical related piece on this little guy + we added the feature of a snazy little clicker on the cord because “Kristin, you can’t reach the top of the frig, how are you going to turn that on?” Truer words [...]






