A Homegrown Family: Simple Yet Basic

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Simple Yet Basic

What do you do with a denim skirt and pink linen dress you found for a steal at the thrift store?

You Open an Etsy Store!

How do you open an Etsy store with those two items, you ask...

Well, I love to sew and I love to find new ways for much loved items that can't be used for the purpose they were made for.

So Repurposed Intentions came into fruition and I now have that lovely linen dress and denim skirt in a cutie pie purse for sale along with another bag and so many others in the works. All made from repurposed items that dearly wanted to be made into new items that will be loved just as much as they were in their original form.

How do I know this? Well, they told me so, sad and lonely and now happy and vibrant waiting for you to take them home and love them.

Best of all because I repurpose these items, I can offer them at prices that are great for the wallet and they are made which much love and thought.

I hope you find a new something that you will want as bad as it wants a new purpose.

Repurposed Intentions

Have a Blessed Day

Erika

1 comment:

AnonymousNovember 4, 2010 at 8:33 PM
Oh Erika,

Your bags are just perfect! Maybe I will purchase the pink with the pretty buttons...let me see if I can by the end of the week.

I am so glad that you were able to come up with that very "nifty" name.

I pray that your birthday was joyful and enjoyable :)

M.
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The Old-Fashioned Homemaker. . .
~Does her best, and leaves God the rest.
~Does not indulge in self-pity, but loses her life in the service of her fellow man.
~Dresses to please her Lord and family.
~Guards her health as her greatest wealth.
~Knows that an apron is a girl's best friend.
~Knows that home-making is an art and a science, and is always learning something new.
~Lets her joy bubble out in song, all day long.
~Lives in His light, not her own.
~Loves Nature, and teaches her children to respect its Creator.
~Never gives up.
~Strives to be self-sufficient.

Thomas Jefferson’s 10 Rules to Live by:
1. Never put off tomorrow what you can do today.
2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.
3. Never spend your money before you have earned it.
4. Never buy what you don’t want because it is cheap.
5. Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.
6. We seldom repent of having eaten too little.
7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
8. How much pain the evils have cost us that never happened.
9. Take things always by the smooth handle.
10. When angry, count ten before you speak, if very angry, count to a hundred.

Ben Franklin’s 13 Virtues
1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.
2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
3. ORDER. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
4. RESOLUTION. Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
5. FRUGALITY. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing.
6. INDUSTRY. Lose no time; be always employ'd in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.
7. SINCERITY. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
8. JUSTICE. Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
9. MODERATION. Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
10. CLEANLINESS. Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, clothes, or habitation.
11.TRANQUILLITY. Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
12. CHASTITY. Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation.
13. HUMILITY. Imitate Jesus and Socrates.