A Wonderful Prize

Today when I went to the mailbox I found a package waiting for me and inside was the prize I won from Suebee's Blog awhile ago. She must be a mind reader because there were three of the cutest polkadot fabrics, and if you read my blog very often, you'll know I love dotty fabrics. She also included some bright zippers ( a person can never have too many zippers!) and some printer fabric for making labels. There goes my excuse for not labeling my work.




We had to go to Portage today (a couple of hours drive) and I know that they have a good thrift shop there. Here's what I scored. the rings with the stars attached were with the shower curtain clips but I don't know if that's what they originally were. I love putting stars on my wall hangings so they will probably be taken apart. The beads are in muted colors that really go well with a lot of what I do. I'm not sure about the roses but at 25 cents each, they were definitely worth picking up. There is also a black and silver bead that might go on the depression wall hanging. The tape is a bit Christmas, especially the green one, but they may come in handy some day. As for the wooden toggle buttons, they might make a cute bag fastening.

Thrift Day Again

OK, I think I have enough beads already. I particularly like the blue necklace in the middle of the picture. The bigger beads on it are really beautiful. I also found some beading wire and some trims. Now I had better get back to making wall hangings that need beads.

Thrifting

Today was thrift shop day again and I got a couple of treasures. I looked at a marble mortar and pestle when I went Boxing Day shopping but decided to spend the $25 on fabric instead. I'm glad I did because this one cost me only 50 cents.

Then we found this little container with tiny little forks in it. It's only plastic (too bad it's not Chinese Jade) but at 25c, just too cute to pass up.



And finally, this green glass jar called out to come home with us. I'm not sure what it will be used for but I'm sure we'll find something. I couldn't get a good photo of it. I should have waited for daylight I guess.


And what is this for? I couldn't resist it.

Thrift Shop Treasures

Yesterday I didn't have much time to sew so I cleaned up the studio so I could get right at it today.


Here are my latest thrift shop treats. The magazines are all fairly recent which is rare at thrift shops. Most of them are from the 90's or earlier. The little iron works but I don't know yet how useful it will be. At $1.oo it won't have to be used very often to be a bargain. It has a teflon sole plate and a tiny water sparyer on the front. I don't know if the sprayer works. I plugged it in when I got home and it heated up. It could be that the thermostat doesn't work but it looks almost unused so I am thinking it will work fine.