Surprisingly Artsy Crafty

Happy New Year! I’m grateful to have this creative outlet and friends who support it by reading and engaging with my ramblings.

So let’s waste no time and get right into my ramblings this week!

I ordered a hot glue gun from Amazon, and I fear it has made me too powerful.

She’s pink and she’s perfect.

I’ve never been an arts and crafts type of gal, though I admire artsy and crafty folks so very much.

But…has this hot glue gun made me artsy and crafty? Perhaps you can be the judge.

I initially ordered the hot glue gun for my mom, actually. She needs it for a project, but once I had it in my possession, I quickly realized that the possibilities are vast.

On literal Christmas day, I took this hot glue gun into my bathroom to renovate our struggling towel hooks, because the thought had been scratching the back of my mind ever since the Amazon package arrived and I could wait no longer.

Here’s how the towel hooks looked before:

Woof. Chipped and broken.

As you’ve learned by now, I’m really into shells and have a lot of them laying around my house, so I thought: why not hot glue some shells onto these broken towel hooks?!?

So, that’s what I did:

This experience was so intoxicating, that I took my hot glue gun and shells to a picture frame I thrifted during my Denver Goodwill trip in October:

I’m obsessed. What will I glue next?!

Last week’s thrifted ‘fits:

>> Highlight reel of the thrifted Christmas gifts I gave to family on my Instagram profile! <<

Zara top from Goodwill West Palm Beach
House of Harlow dress from Goodwill West Palm Beach
Gorgeous necklace made of thrifted fabric, charms, and shells by Sarah Bray Bermuda
Dooney & Bourke bag from Goodwill West Palm Beach
Baby girl’s Christmas eve dress from Goodwill West Palm Beach
My Christmas day sweater and linen slip dress from Goodwill West Palm Beach
Vintage, secondhand Lilly Pulitzer caftan purchased at a nonprofit event
Baby girl’s Lilly Pulitzer romper from Goodwill West Palm Beach
Woven bag thrifted and gifted from a friend!
Sweater layered over a white sun dress – both from Goodwill West Palm Beach; Necklace made of thrifted materials by Sarah Bray Bermuda; Ring from A Timeless Treasure in Northwood Village
Sam Edelman sandals from Goodwill West Palm Beach
Sunglasses from Goodwill West Palm Beach; Top from Nearly New Shop West Palm Beach
Can you believe my mom found this bag brand new at Goodwill?! She gifted it to me for Christmas.

I hope the new year brings you many thrifting adventures, friends!