Reuse, Refresh, Repurpose is now for sale!
After what seems like forever (to me, at least!), my ebook is up and running. Whew!
Ever since I can remember, I've hated to throw things away. I've also always been fascinated with the idea of making something new out of something old, or fixing up something old to make something new (this explains my obsession with painting old furniture!).
These two desires of mine have caused me to be hesitant about throwing out old clothes because I see potential in what other might see as trash. And since I'd love for you to see potential instead of trash, I decided to write a book containing all of my best ideas for reusing and refreshing worn clothes.
I've poured my heart and soul into this book over the past 6 months, and I'm excited to share it with you! I hope that you find the ideas to be inspiring and compelling.
For 24 hours only, I'm offering my ebook to you, dear readers, at 50% off of the usual price!
The regular price is $3.99, but if you enter the code frugalgirl50 when you check out, you'll get my ebook for only $1.99.
This code will expire on 09.09.11 at 9:00 am, so make sure you order before then. And make sure you enter the code into the discount box.
Want to learn more about my book and read what other bloggers are saying about it? Visit the reuse, refresh, repurpose main page.
FAQs
I can't sew!/I don't have a sewing machine! Will this book be useful to me?
Yes! A number of my ideas require only a pair of scissors, and several of them don't even require that. Even if you're a total crafting fail, you'll find something useful in the book.
Do I need a Kindle or other e-reader to buy this book?
Nope! My ebook is a downloadable PDF, so you can read it on a regular computer.
Can I buy it for my Kindle?
At some point, I'm going to figure out how to format it for the Kindle, but at this point, it's just available in PDF.
Does this book contain ideas you've already shared on your blog?
If you've been reading here since the very beginning, you may recognize a few of the ideas in the book. For the most part, though, they're new content that has not been shared on the blog. I'm so excited to share these new ideas with you...it's been killing me to be doing projects and not be blogging about them. 😉
How do I pay for this book?
E-Junkie is providing the shopping cart services for my book, and you can pay for it with your PayPal account. If you don't have a PayPal account, you'll be happy to know that it's free to open one. Just visit PayPal and click on "sign up" at the very top of the page.
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I've tested the shopping cart and the download process several times, but if you have any problems with your purchase, please do let me know!
And of course, I'd also love to hear your feedback on the book. 🙂
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Today's 365 post: Homeschooling with the cousins
You must be excited. I am pretty sure you meant 09.09.11
Hee. This is why I needed an editor for my ebook. Believe it or not, when I wrote the copyright page, I put in 2010 instead of 2011.
I fail at knowing what year it is!
Ah but you succeed at so any other things.
Hi Kristen,
The link to FG365 isn't working. The first couple of times it brought up:
You 404'd it. Gnarly, dude.
Then your washing machine post!!!
Patti
Oh, that's weird! I just re-did the link and it's working for me now.
Now it's working. That was odd.
P
Congratulations on your work. I am just in the procss of buying it now. I hope it proves a hit for you. Love your work frugalgirl ! xx
Thank you so much! 🙂
I just bought it. Click on the e-book main page link, beneath add to cart, then buy it from there.
congratulations on your book, i am very excited in reading it!! will purchase on my computer (i'm on my husband's) a little later 🙂
Kristen,
You did a great job!! Congratualtions. I quickly went through some of the pages. When I get home later I'll read it again. Never thought of the pan idea.
Patti
Yay!! That makes me so happy to hear.
Bought it! Thanks for the half off sale. How exciting. 🙂
Congrats Kristen!! How exciting for you!!
Congratulations on the ebook!
Not to be nosy or anything, but it'd be interesting if you wanted to share how many "copies" you sell in the first week, lol. 🙂
Kristen,
I checked the cart, paid through paypal but it wouldn't download for me. 🙁
I am completely not a techie type person, so I dunno what the heck to do.
Can you e-mail it to me maybe?
~ Eboo
Eboo - If you werent directed to a link where you could dowload, you can also use the link in your email. After your purchase, the link will be sent to the email address you use for your PayPal account.
Congrats Kristen!
When I used PAYPAL they said there would be a 2 day( I think ) delay. It suggested a credit card or debit card which I chose because I didn't want to wait 2 days.
congrats!!!
So happy for you.
Congrats to you! Just purchased it...thanks for the frugal discount code!
Hooray! Congrats!
I'm a craft fail so I can't wait to see what I get outta the book. 😉
So happy for you! Of course, I got my copy. 🙂 Haven't looked at it yet, but will today. Great set up - was very simple to down load and I am excited to check it out! Woo Hoo!
Congratulations! I've just downloaded mine- will have a proper look this evening- off to cook dinner now. Thanks!
I wasn't planning on buying it since I don't sew, but when I saw it was only $1.99, I figured I may as well.
I just skimmed through it, and there are lots of ideas I think I can do.
Thanks Kristen!!
How exciting! Your first book, congratulations....you will be doing others I hope? No rush! 😉
I'm loving looking through the ebook! The pictures are great!
I liked your idea of cutting something off! I recently cut the shorts part out of a skort to make it a skirt. It took me about one minute and I didn't even have to do any sewing! Now it's my most worn skirt!
And I love your idea of covering small holes from the inside. I may have to do that with some of my pants!
I was really only going to buy the book to support my favorite blogger, but just took a quick look and already saw a few ideas that I want to try. Great job.
Big congrats, Kristen! From dream to reality, yay! You are an inspiration.
I have a question that others might share. If I want to purchase it for friends as gifts, is it possible to do it now and give it to them later (at the holidays, on their birthday, etc.), or should I simply wait until that time? Is there a "gift" option in the checkout cart so that someone else could download the book to their computer?
Thanks!!
My issue is that my office has hijacked my paypal account to use for office stuff, so I don't have access to it for my own use. Is there another way I can pay? I'm dying to see/buy it. Totally happy to pay full price!
YAY! All that work, and now the result.
I can't wait to get home to read my copy...and for February to roll around when I might have some time to do some clothes refreshing.
Thanks for the discount, Kristen!
--Sandi
Uh - didn't wait for home, finished it over my lunch break.
Kristen, I have never laughed out loud at an About the Author page before (except maybe Terry Pratchett's, naturally), but this was the cherry on the sundae. (Favourites: "(no, she's not worried about socialization)" and "She's not a big fan of writing about herself in the third person (it seems pretentious), so she's going to stop now." Awesome.)
What great information, too. I'm really excited about the fabric flower - that I remember from the old post, of course - but what really jolted me was the saving the notions from the scrap heap idea. AT THIS MINUTE, I have a Pinterest board full of cute button crafts and little gifts(low impact, low time, suitable for pregnant mother of two with no time)...and a few days ago was lamenting that I have no buttons...except I do!
You've made me look at the clothing donation bag (that, six months after cleaning out my closet, is still in my bedroom) in a whole new way - FREE button bonanza and scrap fabric ground.
Thank you, thank you. As always, you have great ideas and great writing. My favourite combo.
--Sandi
I'm so glad you liked it! 🙂
I think I shared a picture of the fabric flower before, but I never talked about exactly HOW to make one. Hopefully this is more helpful.
Hi Frugal girl,
You inspired me to do an ebook, I read about it on Amazon. Scroll down to where it say Self-publish. Once you click, you will see a Publish on Kindle or something to that effect. I have not tried it, but I set up an account. All you have to do is save your doc as a pdf file using word or open office. I use open office. You can save it as an html using word and once you have set up an account follow the steps to upload it and Kindle provides great instructions. Learn to save a doc as a pdf or html. You must have copyright information and kindle will assign an ASIN. You enter account information for payment and you are on your way. Did you know you can publish your blog with Kindle. Time in publish blog, once you go to Kindle publishing.
Just bought your book -- it's so cute and sweet, with so many do-able projects! Nice job! A quote I think that applies here -- "Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action." Mother Teresa
Kristen,
Here is the message I sent when purchasing the ebook, but I think it bears repeating:
I'm so incredibly excited for you, and hope that this is a great success. Small suggestion: tell readers how many pages long the book is. If I'm paying $4 for 30+ pages: okay; if I'm paying $4 for 10 pages: boo.
Good luck!!! - Vanessa
That's a great idea! I just updated the ebook's page to say that it's 57 pages long.
I think I priced mine on the low end of things for a book that's almost 60 pages, but that was on purpose...I wanted to make it accessible and affordable.
AND you did a great job AND where's the button for your book on your sidebar, ma'am?
I need to figure that out! I designed my front cover myself, and I need to figure out how to somehow condense that into a button-sized graphic that is still readable. Obviously I'm going to need to take out some of the stuff to make that happen.
I'm going to set up an affiliate program too, so stay tuned for that.
Hey Kristen, did you ever set up an affiliate program for it? I can't find a link to join it if you did.
I order your book and pay with paypall.
Do I receive a mail with the pdf??
Kind regards,
Dirkie
You should receive an email with a link to download the book. Let me know if you haven't gotten it!
Congrats on the book. I see several things I want to try soon. I was unable to complete the download from the purchase site, but the link in my email worked fine. The 50% disount was nice too. Thanks so much!
read through mine quickly and think it's great! i've always been scared to use clothing dye, but you have encouraged me to try. And excellent ideas for clothes that are too damaged/worn to donate to the thrift store.
I like the book. I plan to print out, staple and package together with some old t shirts and Rit dye as a gift for my crafty, sewy middle school daughter as a gift.
Oh, what a terrific idea! I was planning on giving it as a gift to a few friends who I know would like it, but I also love the idea of giving it to a crafty middle-school age girl with dye and T-shirts. I'll buy one for my niece as well.
Thanks for this great book! I love it! Awesome and simple tips! Your rock!!
On my way over to buy it now! Congratulations on completing it - I wish you much success, and I look forward to learning even more from you! Thanks for sharing so much with all of us. The world is a little bit brighter of a place because of you, I'm so glad to know you!
Great book! I love the t-shirt bag where you only have to sew the bottom!!! While I actually love sewing, as a new mommy I don't have time for big projects so this is just right :0) Side note, I painted my old-ugly-gold-handle bedroom furniture after seeing how beautiful yours turned out. With some new hardware, it looks great! Loving the frugal advice, keep it coming!
Just bought my copy! Can't wait until I have a minute to read it 🙂 I'm sure it's absolutely wonderful, but I can't wait to see for myself 😀 Thanks for the discount code!
Congrats on your ebook.. I just purchased it (under the wire) I will down load it when I get home from work!
I just purchased the e-book and there are a lot of ideas I think I can do with my limited sewing ability. I'm also not what I would consider "crafty" or "creative" so this helps spark some ideas. Thanks! 🙂
Kristen, I liked your book and it was worth the very low price. I was a little disapointed that it was geared more toward those who aren't crafty and who don't know how to sew. I consider myself very crafty, extreamly creative, and I do already sew. There are a few items (like the flowers and skirt from an old pair of jeans) that I have been meaning to try out (since seeing them on the blog) and maybe this book will push me to not be afraid of clothes dye. I do think the book was well written and cute, your attitude is always pleasent to read. Keep up the great work.
You probably are so crafty, you don't even NEED a book on crafting! (you could probably write one yourself).
Definitely do try out the dye...it's soo much fun to watch the color change, and the suspense of seeing what the color ends up being is great. Love it!
well thats really upsetting i was hoping to buy it for the 50% off price but i was too late no offence but alot of us in pa couldnt get the code in time I just lost 2 whole houses of stuff we were in the process of moving hence the two houses applinces furnces ect for some of us maybe you can put out another code? please?