Category: OpShop
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GOLDEN PURSE
The bright colours of the doily sitting on my sewing desk kept attracting me so I just had to make something out of it … It’s so nice to repurpose the old embroideries. 🤍 There’s a few more sitting there too 🧵 🪡
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Journal Sticker Book
My REAL hobby is “getting organised for doing my hobby”! Haha!Basically I like getting all the little bits and pieces organised and neat and tidy READY for that ONE DAY when I make something! I ordered a whole lot of pretty stickers from AliExpress … and then had to have something to put them in…
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Peppermint Love
I’ve had a lovely summer holiday. One of the highlights of my holiday was taking mum out for the day. A lovely breakfast at Mount Maunganui, followed by a walk around the shops, and then some opshopping. I found this cute little glass jar with lid for $4 and thought it would make the…
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Jo’s Oriental Jacket
So, with the latest trend being kimono jackets, or bright coloured long jackets, I grabbed some beautiful Chinese brocade out of my stash of fabrics. It had been siting there for years. However, after laying it out on the floor I realised there wasn’t enough for a long jacket, and so I went back to…
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Denim Delight
Oh wow! I love this! It turned out better than I could have imagined. Bought the $6 denim jacked from an opportunity shop with this in mind but didn’t know what fabric I would use. Settled on this white lacy look fabric and then ended up doing the free motion sewing around the cut out…
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Men’s shirt makes cute dress
Some men’s shirts have the best fabric, and you can often pick them up cheap from second hand shops! You can make all sorts of things with them. I didnt have quite enough material with the one shirt so combined two shirts and I love the effect!
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“Grow Old In’ Chairs
JANUARY 2017 Let’s not waste time people! Bought these chairs on NZ’s Trademe website a week before Christmas. My very onto it husband painted them white (of course) and I made some cushion covers out of a second hand duvet. I will eventually get some decent weighted fabric but in the meantime couldn’t have them…
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Cotton Rack
This weekend 14~15 March, I finally painted a little spice rack shelf that I picked up for $8 … yes at my fav Greerton Opshop some months back.
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