AKA Challenge Update Week 39 Nine months have passed since I started my Buy No Clothes in 2021 Challenge. Just as I did at the end of March and the end of June of this year, I want to take a few minutes to look back at the last three months and give myself anContinue reading “Challenge Quarterly Report: Q3 2021”
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Challenge Quarterly Report: Q2 2021
AKA Challenge Update Week 26 Already six months have passed since I started my Buy No Clothes in 2021 Challenge. As I did at the end of March of this year, I want to take a few minutes to look back at the last three months and give myself an excuse to celebrate. Where noContinue reading “Challenge Quarterly Report: Q2 2021”
You should really stop shopping! Part six: But I can’t sew and other objections
It was irritating, it was compelling. It was…and here’s that word again, convicting. It was a book called Serve God, Save the Planet. This book was revolutionary to me. It put into perspective so much of what I was uncomfortable with in my life as a middle-class white American Christian. One, short little sentence thatContinue reading “You should really stop shopping! Part six: But I can’t sew and other objections”
Challenge Quarterly Report: Q1 2021
AKA Challenge Update Week 13 Usually, once a week on Saturday, I do a weekly check-in regarding my my progress towards my goal of purchasing no clothes or accessories in 2021. You might think it should be easy: did you buy anything or didn’t you? But nothing is ever easy with me. As we sayContinue reading “Challenge Quarterly Report: Q1 2021”
A bonafide frumpbuster
A gift from the vintage gods I was in seventh grade. It was 1990 and in our front hall coat closet, I had just found a treasure trove of odds and ends. I don’t know how these things ended up in the front hall coat closet, what vintage clothing gods lefts them there for meContinue reading “A bonafide frumpbuster”
Challenge Update: Week 6
Buy nothing/Don’t Covet My intense creative focus, a snowstorm and a tremendously grouchy little scalawag kept me so busy this week that I barely had time to breathe, let alone covet. I’ll be honest and say this is the first time since December that I didn’t hate myself most of the week for wanting thingsContinue reading “Challenge Update: Week 6”
Psst…Come here!
So. I did it. I mean, it will probably never be more finished than it is right at this very moment. My fabulous brown velvet pea coat with the torn lining and falling-off buttons is now even more fabulous-er with its black with white polka dot lining, bright pink handstitching and buttons sewn back onContinue reading “Psst…Come here!”
Things I should never start
Oh boy. I did it again. I bit off more than I could chew. I got something started and don’t know how to finish it. A million years ago, I remember my mother being asked to line a couple of blazers for one of our neighbors. I remember my mother putting off working on thoseContinue reading “Things I should never start”
The Continuing Saga of the Elf Boots
In this photo, I was eight and a half months pregnant and could no longer tie my own shoes. I could, however, slip my feet into my Elf Boots. Man. I love those boots. The story of Rumpelstiltskin originated in the region of France where I currently live. I mention this because the shoe repairContinue reading “The Continuing Saga of the Elf Boots”
Challenge Update: Week Three
Buy Nothing and Don’t Covet I bought nothing this week. Not even any supplies to make my mending easier. Yay me. I coveted quantifiably less this week. I mean, wow, a lot less. On almost every front. I had sense of pleasure and pride at the little alterations I have accomplished since the beginning ofContinue reading “Challenge Update: Week Three”
Sing With Your Feet 