Knock Off Decor!

So I feel like I should just have a buyer for my clothes and home decor every other month...just to buy the lot and then go sell or keep it themselves. Seems legit.

I go to my closet to get rid of these clothes and then I'm like, "Ohhh...what if I lose or gain weight...I'll need that" or "I'll wear that! Why haven't I worn that in forever?! It's cute...I'm keeping it...I'll wear it!" Do you do this? I feel like it's some sort of "illness" I have acquired. An incurable illness. BUT...there are some things I have let go. Mostly T's and things that aren't so "dressy." If anyone has any good tactics or ways of going about doing this...please, let a girl know! And, I do know about the turning your hangers a certain way when you have or haven't worn the item.

So my mom sent me this link to this website...lots of cute "knock off" projects and ideas. The tabs at the top are different stores or brands of products that are way too overpriced for how cheap you can get them by doing it yourself. I know that thrifting and refurbishing have become really popular since the BOOM of Pinterest...I totally respect and praise thee, whoever ye be!

Knock Off Decor

Like...have you ever been to a Crate & Barrel,  Pottery Barn, or West Elm? I love their stuff...like all of it....I would love to have and own every single piece (esp. from PB), and it might be my young age...but this sh*t is seriously overpriced. Especially the smaller things like plates, lanterns, lamps, holiday decor, picture frames, ect. I get that they need to make a profit...I totally get it. Maybe they're trying to target a much more..."sophisticated" audience. Hmpf, if they are! I can find the same darn plane white plates and bowls at Target for way cheaper!

I don't mean to complain throughout this entire post...But what I am trying to say is that doing it yourself is more fun. To find things in craft store, thrift shops, auctions, at junk days, garage sales...it's cool to say you made it or refurbished it yourself.

My mom has a pretty good knack for stuff like this...as I've blogged about before. My mom and a family friend, Betty, plan to refurbish chairs, tables, ect. this summer and head to a flea market or craft fair or two in the late summer/Fall. When they go up to the lake for the weekend, there is usually garage sales that they hit up and a couple weeks ago was junk days in a town close by. They found an old wooden spool (or a few?) and they got so excited they decided to try one out...here is the outcome (I think it's pretty darn cool)...

A clock! (This is Betty, btw!)

My mom has refurbished a couple things for me that I have in my apartment. An ottoman that used to be an ugly red (p)leather, an ugly round wooden table is now white in my bedroom...she's in the works of a few other things. I'll try to get some pictures soon!

Anyways...my personal favorite and SO simple project on the website above...is this one!

I LOVE beachy things...I need to get on the ball about decorating a certain room or my whole apartment beachy. If only I lived by a beach! This project is cake...

1. Go to Hob Lob...get some star fish...if they're not a certain color you want—spray paint them.
2. Clip boards...you could probably get those at Hob Lob, also. (Paint it a certain color if you don't have paper or a picture to cover the brown.)
3. Good pictures of sea creatures...print them off and clip them on the board!
4. Or look for an old ocean oriented picture book and take the pages out

See...simple! Try a DIY day...print off any Pinterest ideas you've been storing and head to the thrift shop and Hob Lob (or JoAnn, if you prefer)!

Happy Thursday!