Recycle That Previous Fur Coat into Decorative Home Decor2419760
Sure, it's an absolute sin to kill these treasured little creatures to create new fur coats just so we can look "glam". But what about all the fur coats that dangle within the thrift stores? What about Grandma's fur coat that was handed down to us still smelling a bit like moth balls? What can we do with this stuff once we are timid about carrying them?
Here's the answer! In the 1970's, once I spied my first "Worth Village Thrift Store" simply after transferring to Seattle, I latched on to the most wonderful feeling, large fur coat. There it was hanging on the rack.....I couldn't cease my hand from touching the fawn brown fur. The feel, the softness, instantly sent me in to a kind of feminine "daze" that was onerous to explain and that solely a girl could 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 big for me but at such a bargain value of just $35.00, I needed to have this beautiful feeling thing!
For years I let it cling within the closet. Then sooner or later, knowing I'd by no means wear it anyplace, I decided to re-fashion this mass of fur in to one thing I could really get pleasure from on a daily basis. I minimize it up! That's right! I took a pair of scissors to the factor! Are you able to believe it? But it surely was the best thing I may have done.
After ripping out the liner and slicing off the sleeves, I purchased an upholstery sewing needle and fabric thread in deep brown and began giving this tired previous coat new life.
What resulted had been two wonderful rectangular pillows (constructed from the sleeves) that laid on my bed for practically 20 years. The physique of the coat was so oddly formed that I decided to trim it in to an excellent rectangle that laid over the foot of my bed to be used as a very warm and comforting "throw".
I enjoyed these new decor gadgets for years. That is, until "Sadie" entered the picture.
Sadie is the "other lady" in my husbands life. A striking strawberry blond with large brown eyes who woos and teases him and calls for a lot of us both. Sadie, of course, is our canine and Sadie LOVED that fur! Being "childless", I feel Sadie adopted them as her puppies.
Little by little through the years, she nurtured those pillows and throw as if they had been her children. Flea biting them till they misplaced their fur leaving simply the "hide" exposed. Sadly, my fur pillows and throw made it to the rubbish can, by no means to be seen again. However ah, the recollections remain of laying on the throw with the pillow beneath my head, my cheek nestled against it in comfort as I napped and dreamed of mansions.
The fur items added texture to the other, coordinating mattress pillows and I loved the comments from individuals as I'd present them the adorning I had carried out in that room. "Wow!" they'd exclaim as they might stroll over to touch the fur and run their hands throughout it.
So in case you have a fur coat in your closet that you simply dread carrying, but in addition feel that it is much too good to throw away, think about turning it in to something you can enjoy on a every day basis. It creates a sense of luxurious you'll enjoy for years.
