Over the years my home bar has morphed from just a few bottles of liquor to a display of beautiful vintage finds with a more grown up and polished look. I found that entertaining can be fun, chic, and not budget busting. Including vintage and thrifted items is a great way to add some pizzazz and sophistication to your home bar. Though my little bar is still a work in progress, here are some tips I used to style mine.
Small Business Saturday is fastly approaching. After the sales of Black Friday, on Nov. 24th to show support of the great local businesses in your community shop small business. As a new small business owner (let me pause and take in the excitement) I have always aimed to do business with local restaurants stores, and boutiques. From vinyl, to baked goods, to beauty products, the small businesses of my community are what makes it unique, intimate, and a great place to live. For more information visit Small Business Saturday on facebook.
As stated in this post, I am embarking on only buying thrifted clothes for 21 days. My weekly goal is to not exceed $50. Hopefully I will keep a little extra in the bank and have more $$ to use towards the holidays. I am a thrifter at heart, so this really just gives me another reason to visit some of my favorite thrift stores.
At the end of last week, I acquired four new blazers: 1 black linen, 1 houndstooth, 1 cobalt, and 1 cream
Each blazer cost about $5 bringing my weekly total to $25, half of my $50 spending limit. These jackets can easily go for about $30 to $60 per blazer, even $80+ depending on the retailer, if I was to find similar in stores. I will be making an outfit post using these blazers soon.
My finds last week, have me excited to see what other essentials I can uncover to add to my fall/winter wardrobe.
At the end of last week, I acquired four new blazers: 1 black linen, 1 houndstooth, 1 cobalt, and 1 cream
Each blazer cost about $5 bringing my weekly total to $25, half of my $50 spending limit. These jackets can easily go for about $30 to $60 per blazer, even $80+ depending on the retailer, if I was to find similar in stores. I will be making an outfit post using these blazers soon.
My finds last week, have me excited to see what other essentials I can uncover to add to my fall/winter wardrobe.
The holidays are fast approaching, well I guess you can they have arrived. Halloween is behind us and Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years are right around the corner. Inspired by this bloggers 356 day thrifting challenge, I've decided to give my wallet a little R&R by going on a 21 day thrifting challenge. I am not allowed to buy any clothing items, outside of lingerie and shapewear, from places other than thrift stores. So outwear, shoes, accessories, pants, dresses, you get the idea, must all be thrifted. To make things even more frugal, I can only spend no more than $50 a week. Honestly I aim to spend even less per week, but you never know when you might come across that to die for shoe or gorgeous vintage bauble. Each week I will post my finds and amount spent. If all goes well, I just might extend the challenge on into December. Wish me luck!!
Is anyone else interested in doing a thrifting challenge or have already done one. Please let me know.