The latest post at the Steam Wench's Salon is a really quick and dirty post on tricking out a thrifted skirt (cost me 90 cents at a charity shop that was closing) with trim on the hem and button and ribbon accents.
Details are, as usual, in my blog:
http://steamwenchsalon.blogspot.com/2011/05/quick-and-dirty-tricking-out-thrifted.html So I basically took this:
and turned it into this: