«Explains how to turn such secondhand items as sweaters, curtains and jeans into hot contemporary tops, skirts, purses, scarves, bags, hats and more, in a book that includes instructions and before-and-after photos for 20 projects. Original.Yearning for a unique look—yet shopping on a shoestring? Learn fashion designer Jenny Wilding Cardon’s secrets for finding the creative possibilities in cast-offs! With a snip here and a tuck there, you can turn common thrift-store items—such as sweaters, curtains, and jeans—into sassy, stylish originals. • Turn secondhand basics into first-rate fashions with over 20 beginner-friendly projects. • Make chic tops, skirts, dresses, purses, scarves, bags, and hats—plus a rug, simple quilt, and more. • View before and after pictures that illustrate the potential of your thrift-store finds».
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Voici encore une superbe histoire de "petite maison" (Tiny House) sur le blog Tiny House Blog «HOMEMADE SPACESHIP: a handbuilt tiny American Dream house», une vidéo d'une durée de 15:24, sur l'histoire de Kyle et Jeannie.
•• Homemade Spaceship - 15:24 ••
They said: «Our story really quickly: My partner, Jeannie and I met five years ago – fell in love the moment we first talked and have been traveling the world together ever since. Well – not the whole world – we’ve mostly lived in India – with a few diversions here and there. The point is we’ve been living out of a backpack as nomadic artist type people this whole time. We’ve just returned from India actually – less than a month ago – and one night while wandering around the internet I stumbled on the Tiny House Blog. Two days later we had bought a utility trailer and have been working at a mad dash ever since to make our home. Actually, we consider our tiny house quite the upgrade from being homeless and living out of a backpack – so in a sense we are different than most as we’ve never had so much space to think about (we bought a dutch oven today – you can’t carry a dutch oven in a backpack). Our plan is to leave Minnesota (where Jeannie’s mom’s house is) and head to Denver. We are going to buy a small pickup truck there – we have use of an SUV like thing until Denver – and then head south and live nomadically on public lands for the next year or two or five or whatever we feel like in our tiny home. We’ll be migrant artists – hitting up craft fairs, farmers markets and every gallery we come upon in order to support ourselves».
Vous pouvez suivre leurs aventures sur leur BLOG et voir leurs créations sur leur boutique à ETSY.
Voici une vidéo de Jenine Alexander faisant visiter sa maison "tiny house on wheels", construite par elle-même, en utilisant des matériaux recyclés... trouvés dans les "poubelles", pour la plupart. J'aime beaucoup cette vidéo, c'est pourquoi je veux la partager afin que de nombreuses personnes puissent la voir... et peut-être avoir l'envie de s'auto-construire ce genre de "maison".
•• DIY home for less than $3,500 - 6:22 ••
«In a town where the median home price is over half a million dollars, Jenine Alexander decided to build her own. "It's a house that's mobile… For me it just made sense because I don't own any land yet. Land is so expensive around here like I don't have access to that kind of opportunity. What do I have access to, the dump, to craigslist". Using resources like the tiny house blogs and the 1950 bestselling DIY book Your Dream Home: How to Build It for Less Than $3,500 (a gift from a friend), Jenine spent less than $3,500 on her home. In fact, she used nearly only materials recovered from the dump or found on craigslist and the only things she paid for were a used trailer and fasteners (nails, screws, hinges, etc). She built it on wheels not just to get around minimum size standards, but mostly because she couldn't afford land in her hometown of Healdsburg, California. In this video, Jenine shows us her reclaimed floors/windows/beams, her ample storage space and her expandable roof and she talks about why living small helps her live simply and more comfortably».
