A Little Bit of Effort Goes a Long Way

October 25, 2021Michelle Rusk

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The former Coppertone bucket bag turned Chelle Summer handbag moved to the East Coast– where I’m sure it will be living its best life– before I had a chance to post it. #vintagestyle

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Celebrating the 4th of July, vintage style. The dress and hat are vintage from estate sales and I made Chelle Summer Take Everywhere Bag from a vintage dress. #redwhiteandblue

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They are always party ready with their Chelle Summer dresses. Barbie’s dress and handbag were made from vintage fabric as were the girls’ stuffed sailboats. The Take Everywhere Bag was created from a vintage Vera Neumann pillowcase and th

I found a vintage red patio umbrella several years ago at an estate sale. Even though the red didn’t match my style scheme, I had planned to keep it and use it. However, the universe had other plans. When it broke, I knew it was destined to bec

A few weeks ago, I shared about the importance of my climbing to the M on the University of Montana campus over thirty years after I did it with my sister Denise. I sent out a little bit more about this in my monthly newsletter (the “Chelle Let

Working on a bunch of new things to take to @rosecityvintagemarket in two weeks. Taking vintage needlework graphics and turning them into placemats. I’ll also have the vintage pattern and vintage cookbook graphics placemats (of course!). #chell

Because Barbie moved her family into the townhouse, they don’t need the 1968 printed vinyl fold out house I had found at a yard sale a number of years ago. I turned it into a handbag and we made her a new dress (with a fun vintage fruit print)

We trekked up north yesterday to White Rock (next to Los Alamos for my out-of-state friends) for an estate sale. I found some small, but nice pieces of vintage fabric as well as several great vintage cookbooks. On the way home through the Jemez Mount

Sometimes women kept clothing because of the memories of wearing the garment, even when there were stains (coffee seems to be a big culprit), cigarette burns, or snags. This vintage caftan was great for photos in 2018, but now it’s been transfo

#TBT to June 2018- one of the first dresses I made from vintage fabric (plus using a vintage pattern) and the first handbag that led to Chelle Summer style of today. I made the handbag just for the trip, using canvas for the base and to secure the ri

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