My Glamorous Lifestyle - Skip-Diving & Rag Picking

You've already seen my up-cycled, second-hand curtain, sheet and shower curtain creations so whatever next? Regular blog readers will know that I just can't bear to let a single scrap of unwanted household fabric go to waste.

I salvaged this frayed 1960s psychedelic hand towel from a charity shop clearance bin last month but it's languished on my fabric pile ever since as it seemed far too groovy for such a mundane purpose.

Using another top as a pattern I re-worked it into a cropped vest and pimped it up with some gold fringing salvaged from a jumble sale lampshade.

Reworked bathroom towel (50p, Cancer Research) worn with Mexican maxi (courtesy of fabulous mystic La Dama), 1970s Madeira souvenir shopper (£1.95, Acorns Hospice) and a stack of second-hand brass bling

Now it's not just visitors to my bathroom who can admire it's technicoloured glory.

Whilst on a mission I thought I'd tart up a couple of things we'd recently liberated from skips (for non-Brits I mean large open-topped containers householders hire to fill with their old junk).This galvanised watering can had a hole in the bottom, useless for it's original purpose but perfect as a funky planter.  

This chimera is cracked to buggery but some strategically planted greenery detracts from the damage.

Sorry about the crabby expression, it must be pre-England match anxiety!

I'm linking to Lakota's Ta-Dah Tuesday.
See you soon.