Hand-me-down Coat

When we lived in Michigan we got a lot of wonderful hand-me-downs and hand-me-arounds.  This little coat was in one box.  It cleaned up pretty good after a washing, but it was missing one button and two others were about to fall off.

 Although my little lady loves pink, I liked that the coat was a sweet blue.  The green lining has pink, white and blue polka dots.  Just girly enough.

After digging into my stash of buttons, I settled on a couple vintage green ones from Nonna's stash.  Pink cotton floss for the added bit of "pinkness" and reinforced the buttons that were still holding on. 

 I love that this whole project (even the original garment) were free. It's got me thinking about another year of "nothing new". I wonder if that would be possible here where we don't have friends (yet) with children. Hmmm. Thoughts?