Ugh. It’s cold and there’s old snow on the ground (so different from new snow, white and fluffy and hopeful) and I am convinced that I will not be warm again until May. Which, I’m afraid, isn’t far from the truth. I was looking at old posts on my wall in Facebook yesterday (looking for an old post from a friend) and I found yard sale photos I posted on June 20th — and I had written that that was the first nice weekend of the summer! June 20th! Was the first nice weekend! Of the summer! OH NOES I cannot take it. It doesn’t help that thrift pickings have been MIGHTY SLIM lately. The Brown Elephant on Clark re-organized their sales floor and walking into it for the first time I felt betrayed. How could they change something so familiar to me? It’s been several weeks and I am still not used to it. And I haven’t found anything good in there for a while now. Same with the Salvation Army, which has been strangely crowded lately. I went tonight and managed to find a few things, but none of them are very exciting.
Do you think this hat stand is from a department store? Surely no one had a monogrammed hat stand. That is TOO ridiculous. I know I’m not supposed to be buying hats anymore as I’m considering getting rid of my current collection, but I HAD to buy SOMETHING.
I thought this was vintage but those flowers are most decidedly not vintage. But it’s kind of fun and outrageous, so I bought it.
This one is definitely vintage. And sweet.
This is cool, right? Or is it? I couldn’t decide. I was extraordinarily inexpensive so I thought, what the hell. The wood is pretty dinged up, but I definitely don’t want to go to the trouble of refinishing…should I maybe paint it? Or would that be terrible? I can’t decide how old it is, but the needlepoint is in perfect shape.
I got a metric ton of this green tasselfor $2. I know the color is a little… off-putting…but I figure with the right fabric, it could dress up a funky pillow. I’ve never met a sewing notion I didn’t love, whatever the color.
That’s IT, folks. I’m taking tomorrow off so I might get out to a few more thrift stores…but I’ll be dreaming of yard sale season.
by Lara Jo
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