Slow and easy Saturday

DH got up this morning and left at the crack-of-dawn to go fishing with a buddy. I woke up at crack-of-dawn thirty wondering where my husband was. I had forgotten and unfortunately by the time I remembered, I was wide awake.

I got up and putzed around for a bit and finally called my mom to see if she wanted to go to garage sales with me. She agreed and we got around and were out the door by 7 am.

After a leisurely breakfast, we hit the first garage sale and found nothing. Absolutely nothing. It wasn't until our fifth garage sale that either of us was tempted by a single thing.

I found this old bowl for 2 bucks. It's not particularly valuable or anything, but I like it and I'm the one that lives with it.

We tootled around and finished the garage sales by 9 AM, went to the greenhouse and decided to try Statuary World for bedding plants. Well, if we're going there we might as well go to Hancock Fabrics too. See how these things get out of hand.

I must be coming down with something. I just wasn't tempted by much today. LOL. I picked up a set of fat quarters, a triangle ruler, and this book.
Statuary World was a bust. They've been picked over pretty well. We came home and went back to the greenhouse and Mom got what she needed and bought me a couple of six-packs of Zinnias for the Mum bed.

Now I'm ready for a nap. My old eyelids sure are heavy. I hope everyone is having a wonderful Saturday and enjoying the nice weather.

Latest acquisitions

The best bargain of the day. This Pyrex flask sells for anywhere between $145 and $160. We use them in chemistry lab and have a very real fear of breaking one and having to pay for it. I'm going to use it to root plants.

















Remember hankie babies? I had one when I was little.













6 yards of this fabric.













Dritz skirt marker. It looks brand new.


















A smock apron with huge pockets and buttons in the back.

A shopping we did go

On New Year's Eve, Mom, little sister, and myself went shopping.

I brought all kinds of good stuff home that I now need to find a place to stash.

I went in search of muslin. For some reason I use a ton of the stuff and I have a real aversion to paying more than $1 a yard for it. I found a 15 yard bolt for $13 and was tickled.

A new pair of scissors, several fat quarters, a rotary blade sharpener, stabilizer, and embroidery thread all followed me home. Funny how that happens. I'm sure there was other stuff, but can't recall what right now.

The embroidery thread was a great deal at Hobby Lobby on clearance. Regularly $3.49 a spool, I found this for $1.33 and $1.22 a spool and got one of each color.

Did I share that my dear husband bought me a small embroidery machine for Christmas? I think I forgot. He did and I love it.

Thrifting

I haven't been to the thrift store all week. Something about a dozen ridiculous papers looming overhead. Anyway, I turned in the last one yesterday and drove immediately to the thrift store where I was rewarded with all kinds of goodies. My total bill was $6.75 excluding tax.

9-1/2 yards of this fabric for 50 cents a yard. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with 9-1/2 yards of this, but I've got lots to play with. Hey! I could make curtains for the kitchen or something.












An embroidered piece with tatting around the edge, an old scissor keeper, and a length of trim.








Various lengths of eyelet and lace trims.














A nice piece of wool fabric and blue calico










Zippers. The one on the left with the orange tag says 'TG&Y'. Anybody remember TG&Y?

A couple of things

Here's the wool that I'm going to turn into a snazzy handbag. I'm awfully confident aren't I?

For some reason, I thought this was a hounds tooth, but it's not. It's just a little check. Even better. I think I have the perfect thing to use for lining.















I found a little bag of old wooden spools at the thrift store. So cute. I hadn't seen some of these shapes or colors before.

Sewing notions

I cleaned my living room today and had to dust my bowl full of sewing notions. It lives on the treadle and boy was it dusty. I took everything out of the bowl and group it up to share with all of you. These are things I've gathered over the years.
























Pst! A can of air is the only way to clean stuff like this. It's fast and easy.