#SwapItLikeItsHot: Flea Market Swap Meet

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The time HAS COME!!! #SwapItLikeItsHot, folks! A quick recap… Nine of my bloggy friends and I and were in kahoots to send each other fun, unexpected, flea market and thrift store finds. Nothing more than $10-15. We added a degree of difficulty by specifying a material: wood, metal, glass, ceramic or fabric. Fast forward a few weeks to today and we’re all sharing our fun repurposed items!! After chatting with everyone for so long, I can’t wait to see what magic everyone made with their goodies!

bloggers swap thrift store finds and work to makeover their treasures.

Wanna see what loveliness yours truly worked? I received my fabric items from the amazing Danielle at 2 Little Superheroes.  She gave me LOTS of options which was a problem. So. Many. Ideas!

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bloggers swap thrift store finds and work to makeover their treasures.

After a failed attempt at making a fun fabric necklace, I landed on this cool project.  If you like the looks of this, go HERE and check out the tutorial I followed. Lisa from The Red Thread was way more articulate than I could ever be so go show her some love.

bloggers swap thrift store finds and work to makeover their treasures.

I cut this plain jane jersey knit pillowcase into strips for this project and was able to weave my way into two adorable little containers.

bloggers swap thrift store finds and work to makeover their treasures.

bloggers swap thrift store finds and work to makeover their treasures.

I nested a glass ramiken in the smaller one and will use it as a fun hors d’oeuvres bowl or something.  Olives or nuts or candy or dip maybe.

bloggers swap thrift store finds and work to makeover their treasures.

The taller one is holding a plastic water bottle that I cut the top off of and I can use it to hold flowers or pens and pencils.

bloggers swap thrift store finds and work to makeover their treasures.

I love the color and the texture of these containers!  I used two strips of fabric for the taller container and then 3 strips for the smaller bowl… I’d love to experiment with a thicker coil to see what else I could make!

bloggers swap thrift store finds and work to makeover their treasures.

Danielle also sent over this red, white and blue, scarf which was too good to pass up for some festive 4th of July decor.

bloggers swap thrift store finds and work to makeover their treasures.

Just like I did for these plates, I used Mod Podge to cover a $1 vase from Goodwill.  Because the fabric is on the outside, I can use this for flowers OR just to corral summer party favors.

bloggers swap thrift store finds and work to makeover their treasures.

So those are my #SwapItLikeItsHot transformations.  I have one more AMAZING piece of fabric that I have plans for, but I needed to do a  little more intel before sharing the results of that with you.  Mysterious, much? (Update: I made THIS with it!)

Now comes the good part.  Go check out what everyone else came up with!  I mailed something to Melody at My Passion For Decor and if the sneak peak she sent me is any indication, you’re going to be amazed.  It’s good, y’all!

Lindsay from White Buffalo Styling Co.
Jen from Chronicles of Home
Jessica from Gourley Girl and Guy
Dena from Hearts and Sharts
Jessica from Decor Adventures
Melody from My Passion For Decor (she got goodies from moi)
Bee from Windgate Lane
Danielle from 2 Little Superheroes

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12 Comments

  1. Awesome, awesome, awesome!!! So much fun seeing everything – and of course, love what you did!! xo

    1. Thanks, Jen! Sorry for the delay… just noticed my blog comments have started going into spam. Boo! These were a fun little Real Housewives Viewing craft. 😉