I knew this jacket had to be mine the minute I saw it at my local Goodwill store! It was my size, in perfect condition, and only $5! Thinking it was too good to be true I made a closer inspection and noticed that a few buttons were missing, and a few others were loose. That seemed to be the only thing wrong. (Kind of sad that someone got rid of a perfectly good lime green jacket because of a few missing buttons!) I bought it, washed it, then got to work fixing it. I decided that I wasn’t too fond of the buttons currently on the jacket (kind of boring if you ask me),

and it would be pretty difficult to try to find a replacement button that matched the others so I cut off ALL the buttons. Then I had to decide what type of button to replace them with. I ran across some of this lovely laminated cotton houndstooth print that I had in my scrap bin. The color matched perfectly so I used a button cover kit from Dritz, covered some buttons in the laminated cotton,

stitched them onto the coat, and voila, a practically brand new coat!

I absolutely love this jacket and wear it anywhere I can! I’ve also gotten a lot of compliments on it, so I must not be the only one that loves a lime green jacket! It’s the perfect jacket for spring too!

Happy Spring!!

Erin

by libraryman

While most of the summer here in Chicago has been VERY mild, the last few days have been in the 90′s and without air conditioning in our apartment it’s gotten a little warm!  I decided to whip up a quick frozen treat to help my husband and I cool down.  I thought I’d share with you this simple recipe for making your own Frozen Limeade Pie!

Frozen Limeade Pie

Ingredients:

1 graham cracker pie shell (or make your own)

1 8oz. container Cool-Whip (I use the Lite or no fat one, it works fine for this recipe)

6 oz. container frozen limeade concentrate

2 1/2 cups vanilla ice cream

Here are the super difficult instructions:

Mix up the cool-whip, ice cream, and limeade concentrate, pour into the shell and freeze for about 5 hours.  That’s it!!  (OK, so it’s not difficult at all, you know how I love projects that don’t take long to complete!)  I also added a bit of green food coloring, since the limeade isn’t really lime colored.

*Tip-Try replacing the limeade concentrate with different types of frozen juice concentrates!  I think that a berry mix or passion fruit one would be delicious!  So would cranberry in the fall!

YUM!