Create Oil Cloth Lunch Bags (or... Gift Bags): A Simple Tutorial from Skip to My Lou

Photo: Skip to My Lou

The very artful blog,

Skip to My Lou

has a simple tutorial for making charmingly unique school lunch bags...

using oil cloth!

I was thinking they might be cute when made from re purposed vinyl table cloths
or...
even... shower curtains???

It looks like a super simple project and...

while we are (sort of) past the lunch bag phase in our family...

I am planning on using this pattern to make...

frugally luxurious gift bags...

to stock my Gift Pantry TM !!

Please click the link below to view the full tutorial:

Lunch time! « Skip To My Lou

Faith Budgeting: Back-to-School Shopping

Here is a link to another article I was honored to contribute to

on Ivillage!

It discusses simple strategies for staying faithful to your budget

when back-to-school shopping!!


Please click on the link below if you'd like to take a look!
Back-to-school budget: iVillage

8 Frugally Luxurious Ways to Beat the Summer Heat!

Photo: I Village

Here's an article that I contributed to, from IVillage,
It offers some fun and frugal ideas to experience a bit of relief from summer's heat.
Please click the link below to read!

8 (Cheap!) Ways to Beat the Summer Heat

Enchanting the Ordinary TM: Tin Cans & Clothes Pins

lifeinmystudio.blogspot.com

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I was browsing about in Bloglandia this morning only to stumble upon this charming blog...
Life In My Studio

which lead me to some enchanting items on Etsy...

I fell in love with these oh-so-charmingly-frugal organizers made from tin cans...

Created by...

Tinkered Treasures (click below to see her store)...

pretty organized cottage blue by tinkeredtreasures on Etsy

Oh... I am also enamored with her decorated clothes pins!!

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You may also want to take a peak at her adorable blog...

Cottage!

Such fun ideas are fodder for my imagination...

thus...

begetting even MORE fun, frugal, and creative ideas...