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Cleveland Flea Just imagine vintage treasures, mixed with yummy artisanal foods and handcrafted beer, dotted with lovely handmade goods and surrounded by live music and you will be imagining the bliss that is the Cleveland Flea. It is held on the second Saturday of the month from April to October. I had been wanting to go since April, but we always seemed to… Read More
How to Clean and Reframe Thrift Store Art After unpacking all the boxes we brought to Cleveland, I had some items that I realized we didn’t need in our new home. I took them over to the Habitat for Humanity ReStore in our area. Once inside I couldn’t resist the temptation to browse. I ended up coming home with a side… Read More
Thrifty Finds: Vintage Barware I know that I should not be out thrifting when I should be packing for our move. I know it. I do. I know it doesn’t make sense from a practical point of view. But … stay with me … what if I can’t find a really great local antique shop in Cleveland. What will I do? Did… Read More
One thing that surprised me in the reader survey results is that you guys like to hear about thrifty finds. I wasn’t sure if you enjoyed those posts, but now I know. Each year it is hit or miss with the yards sales. This year there were a lot of misses mostly because of bad weather and Saturday morning conflicts, so… Read More
This antique wooden plane is getting new life as a hat rack. It all started when my husband needed a new tool and asked me if I wanted to go to the tool store with him. I have no idea what prompted me to say yes, but I did, and off we went. As he looked for the tool he needed,… Read More
A few weeks ago, my computer crashed. It just stopped working all together. I took it to the professionals and they gave me a grave look, shook their heads, and told me it was the motherboard, which is the mother of all bad things that can go wrong with a computer. They told me it wasn’t even worth it to fix… Read More
