Thrift Store finds

These old checks are super!!! Love the age of them and look at that date! 1896!!

I had picked out 4 of them..he wanted 50cents each..but ended up getting them for free..he forgot to ring them up and said oh heck, you can have them...he had a huge stack of them..that's what I really wanted..but not at 50c each...(these were at a local antique mall)

Gooodwill was brimming with finds for me today!

Found some old books:

The copyright was '46 inside that Emily Post book..

This one was Home Bible studies..had to have it:

You don't see the ends marbled too often..plus there were great illustrations inside too..

I was on the hunt for an old bingo game, but found this instead:

When I saw the cover, I knew this would feed my letter addiction...

Lo and behold..they are super fat and cute and a whole little box full of them!

It looked to be 60's or 70's and must have been in the closet for along time..it was all there..looking as good as new, except the box was a bit worn..but I don't want the box anyway..

This box, I had to get for the insides..but the box is cool too with the metal re-enforcements on the corners and the graphics were a plus too.

These old bobbers will be of some good use in a mixed media piece I'm sure..

HOpe your Labor Day weekend has been a good one!!

later gator~

tee

Good Will finds

Headed off to town. I was going after a hollow core door..hub is making me a computer desk in the studio's closet..we wired it for that when we built but just have not finished out that one little detail of a desk top..well, Good Will is just on the way to the Home Box store..so I had to stop..right?





Do you try to think about what you want to find when you are about to thrift? I do, I was thinking along the lines of a bingo or scrabble game today..


Instead, I found this:

These sweet baby pages came out of a Home Health Encyclopedia that was OLD..maybe as old as some of my friends who were born is the FIFTIES..snicker.. I took the pages I wanted out of it and just pitched the rest of it..I have way too many books and didn't need one full of medical jargon..

Found this cool old Texas tin tray..put it up with all my other collectibles in the kitchen..an older spool of velvet type ribbon..which was wonderfully aged and the red was not bright anymore so that was perfect..

Then the find I was not after:

It's worn and ragged and scribbled in, but for a buck, it was mine!! So, I came away from there smiling and high fiving myself over this little book, everyone lusts after..yea baby!

Have a great day and hope you find some goodies too !

t

Wishful thinking and Goodwill

Maybe this is a bit of wishful thinking on my part, but I've started making the charms for the first 10 folks to sign up for the Paper Cowgirl Retreat.

This is the goodies found at the Goodwill store yesterday:

Who can pass up a Scrabble game, you always need letters for something, right? And the icky silver plated plate will make a good altered something, right?, The flower book just had to be picked up because it's got some great b/w photos to use as backgrounds...somewhere..



But the best find was this box with Russian Matches in it:




Must have been some kind of tourist trinket, you think?? I can barely read English let alone Russian...But they looked cool and most of them were in the box, a few missing..looked on the vintage side too, not too new and brite..

We are having a Wonderful Cloudy/rainy Cool Day here on the Prairie!! Lovin' it!!
Hope your lovin' your day too!
t