Sprung sprung a leak

Nature is busy reminding us that yes, it IS spring now but it's still the winter end of spring, thank you very much. Sunshine one day, black skies the next....three. Jolly good. What to do when it's crap? Go to the thrift shop and buy more stuff to fill your tiny house of course! And when I say small I mean 100 square feet. I so need to (nearly wrote that I need to stop shopping lol) throw out some stuff soon.

Todays treasures included a metre of burgundy velvety suede fabric and this booklet:



I'm torn over selling/keeping/giving it away right now. I *had* to buy it but I just don't think I'll use it anytime soon. Go figure.

Grrrrrrr

Please excuse the typos etc. It's been a longer than long day. Ginga, the cuter but more annoying cat (extremely deaf when he wants to be) woke us at 4am and 5.30am. Why? Was he busting to go out? No. House on fire and he's heroically warning us? No. Just wanted to wipe cat snot on us and claw our faces until we patted him. Cats apparently produce a lot of snot at night too. Just so you know too now.

And this evening Dave comes inside to say that Ginga has been in a huge cat fight with a feline intruder, and is bleeding and covered in mud. We spent nearly an hour doctoring his wound, removing the other cats fur from his claws and coaxing him to drink warm milk. Now I could do with a stiff and preferably flammable drink.

My Pay It Forward things are all finished, just got to find the money to send them out. It costs a small fortune to mail anything. To change the pace around here I am embroidering something on felt. I'm making it up as I go along so who knows what it will be when I finish with it. I also have more felt for teddy bears including one piece so bright I bet you can see it in the dark.


I bought this at the thrift store today. It's got age marks on the edges and I can just imagine this being a prized possession in WWII.

Crafting karma

All my good deeds, giving catnip toys away and doing the PayIt Forward thing etc must be giving me major karma points. I mean how else do you account for the Japanese embroidery book I found at the thrift store today? $4 is about twice what they'd normally price a book like this at, they obviously realised its beauty. But considering I have one of these books that I bought from Superbuzzy for a heck of a lot more....$4 is like pennies for this.

It's different being me

Do you ever have those days that are slightly surreal, not enough to be worth writing about or mentioning (unless you're me then it's a highlight of my week) but just really.....not normal. You can't put your finger on it but life is off kilter.

Being brave I fought through the oddness and to celebrate, or whatever, I went to the thrift store where they've done a major tidy up and all sorts of things have appeared. I could only stagger up the hill with a bag load so I had to resist buying the childs easel. Honestly I have got to get knocked up soon cos I have started buying second hand baby cardigans. Just for the buttons (SHE SAYS) but I took the buttons off one over two weeks ago and it's still here!

The ladies outdo themselves with their low prices sometimes. For $5 I got what I expected to cost me $15. The standout treasures included these:

A mint condition book of Noahs Ark knitting patterns. You can knit Noah and....Mrs Noah? (thats what the book calls her anyway) and the animals. I'll probably sell it because I can't knit and with carpal tunnel I won't be learning anytime soon (in reality my carpal tunnel gives me a chance to bitch and moan but I very rarely admit that its too sore to craft. Do the dishes hell yes, but craft no. I'm just sick of getting my tension so tight the needles wont move!) but I'd also possibly give it away in return for a knitted elephant. Hint, hint.


This was the score of all scores. Apparently it's from 1940 when they were asking people to knit for the boys.



Steady yourselves ladies, I know Errol Flynn here is hot. It's all in the smirk and the girlish cheekbones.



This is going right beside the 1950's Alice in Wonderland in the inheritance pile for my future kids. Everything I got was spiffy and new as a kid and I never learned the value of things. I hope that by sharing these treasures I'll be able to pass on a different message to my future kids.

The thrift gods were kind indeed

I was randomly flicking through books and magazines at the best local thrift store (I keep the good stuff for myself and sell the rest to pay for my fabric addiction) and this jumped out at me. I'm not sure if it's his blinding teeth, sunglasses, dreamy smile, the 80's font in the title but it just jumped out at me. I didn't buy it but I'm going past there today and I'm gonna buy it for sure!



This is what I did get for the huge total of $2.30. Here was me hoping to be under $5. Those ladies are both kind hearted and completely ignorant of the true cost of some of the things they sell.


Despite trying I am not pregnant but I really wanted the baby cardigan for the Peter Rabbit buttons. As usual I have nothing to use them on but I'd hardly let that stop me. (Him:"what are you going to use that fabric for?" Me evasively:"mumble mumble stuff")


Amongst the treasures was this huge mint condition transfer sheet of teddy bear images. Oh my.


Token shot of my button jar where only the elite buttons go to die. These buttons are the ones that are too good to actually USE. I need professional help. You know I do and I haven't even revealed my ribbon jar.