Tranquility DeJure, July 24th, 2010.

Bonjour and welcome to the 220th episode of Tranquility DeJure.

Today's show features upcoming happenings and upcycling with Tina Sparkles.

So I found her darling book Little Green

Dresses while perusing this darling independent bookstore in Shepherds Town, West Virginia.

And I had just come from visiting Walter, my beloved pig, not that he's mine, but, you know,

I pretend he is, at the pig sanctuary. And I was in an absolutely ecstatic mood because

that's how I always am after I see Walter. And when I saw this book in the craft section,

I had just had my first or second private sewing class with this lovely woman from bits of

thread that I've been working with. And when I saw this book, I was like,

it's just perfect because it's all about taking items that you have and altering them,

tweaking them, turning them to new fun things. And my whole thing has also just been

learning a lot more about the process. And, you know, she gives some great statistics in the book,

which we talk about in our interview about, you know, the importance of actually taking

items that are out there and reusing them. Of course, it's reduced, reuse, recycle. And another

book that I'm currently reading, which is all about, I think it's called like restructuring clothing for dummies.

You know, and it's just, she mentions how recycles the very last thing.

So ideally what we want to be is reducing our consumption and then reusing things.

And, you know, and that's just what I think is so great about this book.

And the amazing work that Tina Sparkles is doing

is this idea of actually reusing things that are out there in ways that maybe they weren't even

intended. For example, turning, you know, making a beautiful skirt out of linen napkins, you know,

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