Recycle That Previous Fur Coat into Decorative Home Decor941101
Yes, it is an absolute sin to kill these treasured little creatures to create new fur coats simply so we will look "glam". However what about all the fur coats that hang in the thrift stores? What about Grandma's fur coat that was handed down to us nonetheless smelling a bit like moth balls? What can we do with these items when we are timid about wearing them?
This is the answer! Within the 1970's, when I spied my first "Value Village Thrift Retailer" just after shifting to Seattle, I latched on to essentially the most fantastic feeling, massive fur coat. There it was hanging on the rack.....I couldn't stop my hand from touching the fawn brown fur. The texture, the softness, instantly sent me in to a form of feminine "daze" that was exhausting to explain and that solely a girl may relate to.
I slipped it off the hanger and slipped myself in to it. It is 1940's styling dwarfed me! It was miles to large for me however at such a bargain value of simply $35.00, I needed to have this exquisite feeling thing!
For years I let it grasp in the closet. Then someday, understanding I would by no means put on it anywhere, I decided to re-fashion this mass of fur in to one thing I may actually get pleasure from on a daily basis. I lower it up! That is proper! I took a pair of scissors to the thing! Are you able to imagine it? Nevertheless it was one of the best factor I could have done.
After ripping out the lining and slicing off the sleeves, I purchased an upholstery stitching needle and upholstery thread in deep brown and started giving this tired outdated coat new life.
What resulted had been two wonderful rectangular pillows (created from the sleeves) that laid on my bed for practically 20 years. The body of the coat was so oddly shaped that I decided to trim it in to a fair rectangle that laid over the foot of my mattress for use as a really heat and comforting "throw".
I loved these new decor items for years. That is, until "Sadie" entered the picture.
Sadie is the "different girl" in my husbands life. A putting strawberry blond with large brown eyes who woos and teases him and calls for a lot of us both. Sadie, after all, is our canine and Sadie LOVED that fur! Being "childless", I feel Sadie adopted them as her puppies.
Little by little over the years, she nurtured these pillows and throw as if they were her children. Flea biting them till they lost their fur leaving just the "hide" exposed. Sadly, my fur pillows and throw made it to the rubbish can, never to be seen again. But ah, the memories remain of laying on the throw with the pillow underneath my head, my cheek nestled in opposition to it in comfort as I napped and dreamed of mansions.
The fur objects added texture to the opposite, coordinating bed pillows and I loved the feedback from people as I might present them the adorning I had executed in that room. "Wow!" they would exclaim as they would stroll over to touch the fur and run their arms across it.
So in case you have a fur coat in your closet that you simply dread carrying, but in addition really feel that it's much too good to throw away, take into consideration turning it in to one thing you possibly can take pleasure in on a each day basis. It creates a feeling of luxurious you'll enjoy for years.
