Thrift Share Monday on a Tuesday.

I only went thrifting once this week, only to find one of my favorite thrift stores has jacked up their prices!? Went for the purpose of finding more tooled leather belts to weave the rocker seat and back, but only found 3. I even forked over $6 for one of them - more than I usually pay but it had painted flowers and was chunkier than usual, so I had to. A few Christmas goodies, a Versace tie for the hubster, and only one children's book. Seems I've too many books and until I start listing some of them, I must put myself on book-buying-restriction. My mom leaves for Florida in a couple of weeks, so we'll do a couple of thrift-outings before she leaves.




And even though my chair didn't make the top 10 in the Green is Universal/Etsy contest, I'm still caught up in the excitement of my chair sale to Green is Universal...I watched the Today Show yesterday and saw it in the window (in the background, across the street, to the left of Matt Lauer's head, see it!?) during the Water for Elephants interview. Water for Elephants is one of my favorite books ironically. Here's a photo I took of the tv when the chair spotting occurred haha...


I also asked for pictures from them and last night, one of the gals was nice enough to email a few pictures from her phone; she said they'd send better photos when they pull them from their 'team' camera. The chair was in the window for the weekend and yesterday and will be on the floor in the Experience Store through Friday - if you're in NYC/Rockefeller Plaza, stop by and see it :) Who knows, maybe Martha will still spot it...


The sale also motivated me to finish the ladder back and start the rocker. But with the chair excitement, Fiesta in San Antonio (2 parades is all I could handle this year), Aunt and Uncle visiting from Florida...birthday celebrations, end of year school functions, blah blah blah I haven't done any listing. Thought since Ebay starts their free auction listings today, this would be a great day to start listing again.

Great signage as well!

Must go work now! And I just found out there's a 50% sale at my local Thrift Town. ruhroh. Happy thrifting!

This is a link-up post via Apron Thrift Girl btw. Awesome blogger/inspiration.

Earl. Recycled/Upcycled Ladder Back Chair with Woven Belt Seat...

I finished another vintage belt chair, yay! And even better, I listed it immediately in my Etsy shop, yay!

Meet Earl...

One of my grandmother's ladder backs, repainted tomato red and tattered rush/cane seating removed. Seat rewoven with thrifted Guatamalan, western (one "Earl") & tooled leather belts.

Up next. Thrifted heavy-duty wood rocker rewoven with ???? chunkier, tooled leather belts????

I'm linking up this (newbie to Make Share) post with Apron Thrift Girl and her Make Share fun.

More Excitment About 'The Western Belt Chair'

The chair news just keeps on getting better...

They decided to purchase it! After the Earth Week window display, the chair will be showcased in their offices at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. Wow. Pretty sweet. My first chair sale. Dreamed of a sale but this is getting good... :)

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Vintage Aluminum Folding Lawn Chair Re-Webbed with Western Belts. Yee-haw.

I decided to finish my upcycled vintage lawn chair. Finally. So I decided to quickly list it on Etsy as I'd like to make a few more of these pups. And I've never seen a chair like this before...I love how it turned out. And I love it's firepit time again, where I'll sit in my new favorite campfire chair.

Saved from the Dump

Before and after of pottery found curbside.

Recycled Vintage Folding Lawn Chair with Western Belts

Replaced worn out webbing on vintage aluminum lawn chair with leather western belts, some personalized with stamped names, some not.