#live thrifting

[thebestshoppingonline]

Smocked A-Line Midi Wedding Guest Dresses for Women Square Neck Flutter Sleeve Gold Polka Dot Party Dress Ruffled Sky Blue L at Amazon Women’s Clothing store

[shiftythrifting]

MORRIS

[cicadatree]

rust crick by @faeryac

DA: 7167-8664-4413

[linddzz]

The reading/plant nook is complete! Tweaks will always be made as plants go in and out and art/books get added, but I refinished the floor, added more shelves, got my hands on a nice recliner for $30, found a way to hang my Last Unicorn tapestry, and it's finally all coming together.

I gotta shout out @theshitpostcalligrapher for being the source of an embarrassing amount of the prints in here.

And to top it all off: the Dionysian shrine which is only highlighted with a framed "I'm trying to achieve gnosis and free myself of earthly constraints. But I'm dummy thicc, and the clap of my ass cheeks keeps alerting the archons" meme

(edited to add: the nautilus shells are from old captive raised nautili that died of natural causes over a decade ago and I got them when work was getting rid of some old stuff, don't buy nautilus shells)

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was at a thrift store where there was a gumball machine shaped like Optimus Prime. Jack Black came out of the basement and gave me a glass of milk. he talked how he would be playing Link in the Legend of Zelda movie.

[xiaq]

After nearly a year of patience, and multiple “sorry I already sold it”s I found and nabbed a vintage arched globe floor-lamp from FB marketplace (I messaged the seller 13 minutes after they posted it and said I would Venmo them right that moment, lol). She’s perfect. I love her. And the living room is now complete.

[keeperofthehyperfixations]

well that video definitely made me feel like I was sitting in-between my parents as they clean out their closet

[the-home]

[cjgladback]

I went to my first fiber festival this past weekend! Hoosier Hills Fiber Festival; if I'm still in this state come June next year, I'll probably be back and would love to meet anybody else there. Socializing/hanging out/talking to people without feeling like I was obstructing Real Customers was the one thing I missed, though I didn't really get to any of the free lectures so maybe that's where I could've met some people. Since it was an unknown situation with a lot of people and nearly an hour drive each way, I strategized to make sure I'd go:

First day, I signed up for a couple volunteer shifts. Absolutely a recommended strategy.

Got to be helpful!

They happened to have goodie bags, to help me justify the gas and time (I now have a nice tape measure to replace the one that's been vacationing with a missing sewing kit for a couple years and a lasercut wood two-inch gauge window that might help me with consistency versus my suboptimal practice of just trying to knit perfect squares when swatching in pattern)

I got to learn things about the layout and schedule I wouldn't know to ask when answering questions and acting as a gofer -- especially true working two different locations

And of course, some people were pretty much guaranteed to be happy to see me!

Second day, I signed up for a workshop in the morning so I'd be there and able to shop for anything I needed at the end. Ombre yarn dyeing was the class! It's acid dyes, something I'm several years off from wanting to get into enough to commit to dedicated cookware, full pots of dye powder, etc. The room with the workshop was a barn that had plenty of outlets--but they did not represent plenty of breakers. So there weren't quite enough functional heating elements for the class to have sufficiently cooked our yarn before leaving, and I did need to risk a giant stock pot at home for three batches of four jars, almost-simmering in a water bath for thirty minutes each, of the yarn that hadn't proven it was done (all but the two palest greens). I was a little worried the delay/drawn out heat situation would affect the results but if it did it wasn't much; I got pretty much exactly what I was hoping for with my two color gradient and the single is great too!

The single dye gradient is the color Moss, which did some interesting things with the red portion separating out once they were heated. Every skein has redder blotches, so I'm not bothered about any inconsistency -- if anything it'll help my finished product camouflage stains. Though it was definitely a surprise for me and the other Moss user in the class when our first yarn to have exhausted the dye was the complementary color to what it went in as.

The two color gradient used Rhodamine Red on one end, which was one end of one of our instructor's samples where she chose a cool-green for the other end to show how multi-component dyes mix less predictably than most paint. (It was kinda like shading with markers where you can still see washes of the pink and green in what you squint at and call a grey-brown.) The other end was Cantaloupe, which was one of the maybe three colors she didn't have a sample cut of yarn for. But she described it as the flesh of a perfect ripe cantaloupe and obviously I had to see that, and it sounded like it would be fairly guaranteed to combine nicely with the magenta while being just enough around a bend in the color wheel to be interesting--warm orange versus cool pink. As I said, it turned out pretty much exactly as I was picturing. Not anticipated was how much the jars looked like they were full of some delicious dragonfruit-mango beverage. Were I still a barista I'd be trying to recreate this for my shift drink.

Image descriptions under the cut.

[ID: Five images following fourteen small skeins of sock yarn dyed in individual glass jars, in two gradients. One gradient is six skeins from a medium forest green through a pale creamy pink, the other is eight skeins from a vibrant yellow orange through an even more vibrant magenta. The first photo is inside under fluorescent lights, showing the 32oz glass canning jars with metal lids and rings, full of dye and yarn on a table at the end of the class in which they were filled and heated for a short time.

The next two images are animated gifs. The first gif is two frames showing the finished dye jars sitting in grass, with their yarn and with it removed. The green gradient left only transparent blue color in its jars, and most of the pink to orange gradient's water looks more orange without its yarn, aside from the third and fourth jars from the orange end, which shade toward a neon lilac with the peachy pink yarn removed. The second gif is a view of the inside of the bright green wash bucket, with just the pink-orange yarn in it, then all of them mixed up, all as they were after a soak with the rust-brown water, in the first rinse, and that rinse water alone showing its transparent but still brown tint.

The last two photos show the gradients lined up along a weathered wooden bench on the side of a deck. The first photo has the wet piles of yarn bundled in front of each of their respective jars with remaining dye. The final photo has the clean, dry yarn wound into center-pull balls and still vibrant in the direct sunlight. End ID]

[nostalgicfun]

This is probably Too Niche, but to the vivid dreamers out there: do you ever get nostalgic for a place from your dreams that isn't real? I have recurring locations in my dreams that just. don't exist. And I find myself thinking about them or having "memories" about them even though they don't exist and never have. But they're real in my heart even though I'll never go there.

(tell me about these places in the tags, I'm so curious)

[zipthegreat]

“thrifting is so gross” SO IS OVERCONSUMPTION!!!!!!! why do u need BRAND NEW SHIRTS for $30 when you THRIFT one for $6??????? $45 dollar new pair of pants turns into $14!!!!!!!! thrifting isn’t gross thrifting is HEALTHY!!!! reduce reuse recycle!!!!! THRIFTING!!!!

[shiftythrifting]

Things that use ironically inappropriate fonts for sayings are some of my favourites

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Dark, yet colorful, maximalist, thrifted apt. living room idea.

instagram @Ink&Drop

[puppy-wife]

my fucking god damn god fucking shit insurance is the wrong plan for my PCP to be able to accept. so I can't get my prog. I can't do my labs for this month. I have to wait until fucking November to try again. I hate the american healthcare system, eat a dick and choke on it you fucking shit stain of a goddamn idea of a healthcare system. what a backwards fucking garbage dump, I hate it I hate it I hate it!!!!! God fucking fuck why is it so hard to see a goddamn doctor!!!!!! fuck!!!!!! im gonna fucking cry!!!!!!!!! FUCK

[leggeteconme]

Added even more dramatic little wall trinkets to my living room after hitting up my two favorite thrift stores today (and picking up a stunning framed print from Spirit Halloween of all places) ^^

I also bought more books. My favorite thrift store was having a giant garage sale moment today and holy mother of sin there were HUNDREDS of books in row after row after row of boxes. Just… soooo many books 😩 Most were $1-2 ($2 max though!!), but a bunch were one grocery-sized bag for $1. I bought 21 books for $7. I’m too tired to take more pictures and make another post tonight, but dw I’ll share tomorrow ;)

[drawmyhearton]

✨Clean✨

She came with a dress but I'd like to get a different style for her 🤔 ordered some shoes on ebay.