Family Thrifting
Posted: November 12, 2010 Filed under: Antique/ Vintage, Home base Leave a comment »I have been doing a little thrifting with in the family lately. My Grandma use to own 2 houses and then a few years ago condensed into one. as a result she has a ton of stuff and is constantly giving it away. Last week she was cleaning out her table linens and she called me to see if i wanted some napkins she had. They were white with lace, i said sure, and casually mentioned that i was collecting doileys if she had any. That comment turned into 4 giant bags of stuff for me, including crocheted blankets and beadspreads. Some of it ended up going to my mom but some of it made its way to my house…..
I got a stack of white napkins, a giant sifter, some heart doiley’s and lace, an old catholic bible (which is slightly different from the protestant bible, which is now used by catholics), a crocheted blanket which use to be my mother’s beadspread (made by my great grandma), and a crocheted beadspread my great great grandma made for my grandmother. I love it! i love all of it, especially the handmade beadspreads, the history, the detail, the hardwork, so much love in them!
Thrifting
Posted: October 22, 2010 Filed under: Antique/ Vintage, Home base Leave a comment »We’ve been doing a lot of thrifting lately, some of it for the craft part i co-hosted last weekend, and some of it just for fun. We’ve been to garage sales, thrift stores, & even an antique store.
I found a wire bowl that i’ve been wanting for a while…
A vase and a candlestick for an antrho inspired project….
We also found a set of 3 suitcases, which we are super excited for. I’m thinking of doing some vinyl detaling on them…
I’m looking forward to some more thrifting with some friends in a couple weeks.
Antique making with hubby!
Posted: March 20, 2010 Filed under: Antique/ Vintage, Handcrafted, Home base, Mommy crafts | Tags: Antique, cake stand, cupcake 1 Comment »
for my birthday my hubby took me to a couple thrift stores and we had some fun. one of the shops we stopped in had a %50 off sale. and so picked up 3 glass pieces. (one you will see soon i hope, its for a project my hubby is making for me) Two are the pieces above which i used to make myself a mini little cake stand. i like it a lot and am looking forward to using it.
a little thrifting
Posted: March 12, 2010 Filed under: Antique/ Vintage | Tags: notions, sewing, thrift, vintage 1 Comment »
I know i’m falling behind on bloging. But we have been doing some thrifting around here lately and i thought i would share some finds! each trip was about $3-5. Trip one was at a little shop out in elsinore that i went to with a friend. i got the sheet there along with a candle stick holder (pictured in tomorrow’s post) and a big jar which I intend to use as a vase but left it in elsinore with a friend for use at a shower until i could decide how i wanted to use it here.
Then a couple weeks ago my hubby took me to a local thrift store where we found some great finds! i found the patterns (i’m excited to make the robe even though my hubby laughed at it) and i found the embroidery hoops. not exactly sure what i’m gonna use them for yet. but i loved the big one! and i am so excited to hang them on my inspiration wall. suggestions on what to put in them?
I did a bit more thrifting for my birthday this weekend with my hubby but you’ll have to wait and see the finished products to see what we found for $3
eggs nests and advent
Posted: November 8, 2009 Filed under: Antique/ Vintage, Handcrafted, Holiday Crafts | Tags: Antique, Holiday 3 Comments »I read this great post on CRAFT about an advent calender made from wooden thread spools, i checked out the blog and found a great two part “Green” project….
First you get our vintage thread spools, i got mine last weekend at the monthly antique fair at Irvine Valley college.
Then you dethread the spools and make this awesome Thread nests.
When your done you then use your wooden spools to make Advent Calendars.
So excited to make them hopefully in the next week or so…
A Time Capsule
Posted: November 2, 2009 Filed under: Antique/ Vintage | Tags: Handcrafted, Me Leave a comment »We spent some time this morning going through some 25 boxes my parents had in their storage unit with my name on it. Most of them were boxes of barbies, collectables and playables (is that a word?). we found my cheer uniforms and old dance shoes, some memorablia from my baby days and some crocheted pieces from my great grandma. but i think the best finds were the books, matching game, and sewing boards i had been asking about. Most of them i had asked my mom about from the moment i got prego with my #1 and i found them in my storage boxes!!! i was so excited. Here are some of the books i found…
I also found some handmade gifts i had recieved for christmas a few years ago. I am thinking of recreating them as gifts this year for grandparents and such…
we’ll see how that goes. We’ll back to christmas gift planning!
Family morning @ Antique fair
Posted: October 6, 2009 Filed under: Antique/ Vintage | Tags: Antique Leave a comment »On Sunday morning before we went about our day we decided to stop by the local community college to check out the Antique fair. I was looking for milk glass to make a cake stand, i didn’t find anything that worked but i did find a couple things to use towards some gifts i’m working on.
I found these great pieces for a cake stand, for a combined total of $5, i can’t wait to make it! ( i have like 3 others to do from the goodwill still)
there was also this great vendor that had book covers, game pieces, cards, goodie bags, all kinds of neat stuff plus also soda crates which we thought about geting to go with the one we have but we have no place for it right now. anyway i went ahead and got a bday card for harvey and a book cover to make my journal for baby #2, another started project that needs to be finished and blogged. 
and i found the adorable hanky, the colors are a little hard to see as the lighting isn’t that great, but its so cute, i’m gonna use it a little as inspiration and maybe actually use it on something for the new baby, we’ll see. either way i love it!
we’ll that was our day @ the antiue fair. now that the move is over i should be back to crafting tomorrow!
Goodwill Goodfinds
Posted: August 9, 2009 Filed under: Antique/ Vintage | Tags: Antique, Goodwill, Handcrafted, repurposed Leave a comment »This week my husband and i spent sometime together, we were both in the mood to create so we headed to Goodwill to see what we could find to repurpose. We had tons of fun just looking through everything there.
My husbands goal was to find an old hardcover book that we could turn into an organizer similar to ones we had seen at a craft fair a month back. He found this awesome set of 3 old cook books, in mint condition ready for us to repurpose. they weren’t priced and we went got to the counter the lady sold them to us for $6 because that was the price that someone had left on from a garage sale. she said that was a good deal normally they wouldn’t be that cheap. Tyler also found a neat pirate book for harvey that was only 99cents.
I found a ton of awesome glasses and dishes. I found the perfect size dessert glass that i wanted to pair up with my dishes from our last goodwill trip to make a cake stand.
I also fell in love with this green bowl and goblet, which i intnded to turn into a pedastal fruit bowl for our coffee table. 
and then lastly i feel in love with this glass dish with its beautiful etchings. i thought about turning it into a cake stand as well by Tyler thought it looked best the way it is, so we are gonna display it as is on the shelves he’s going to hang for my cake stands. it has a few scratches, and tyler asked the lady if we could have it for 50cents instead of 99 she said she would ask but then she thought about it and was like my manager isn’t gonna do that, so she jsut wrapped it and stuck in the box. pretty cool! (picture to follow….. i accidently deleted it)
Overall it was a good day at the Goodwill, ton of good finds all for $14.
and Today i turned my fabulous dishes into their new purpose…..
p.s. the one in pink is last sunday’s antique market $3 find!
Well hopefully sometimes this week we will get a chance to repurpose atleast one book!
Happy crafting!
Antique Fair
Posted: August 2, 2009 Filed under: Antique/ Vintage | Tags: Antique, Handcrafted, repurposed, sewing 6 Comments »For months i have been wanting to check out the monthly antique far at the local community college, but sadly every month i forget! This month i made a new friend through the play group we are in and she is a beginner sewer like me and super crafty. we have been chatting back and forth and i learned that she loves to check out estate sales and garage sales as well so we decided to check out the antique fair together this morning (i actually remembered in time to go )
we decided to go at 7am to get there early, before our families woke up and before we needed to head to church. I had so much fun, if nothing else we got to see some awesome things! i took $20 i had from selling an apron on Etsy and i found some great finds!!! For Tyler i found a pipe case and for Harvey i found a golden edge book of hymns which i have been wanting. 
I also found a ton of vintage patterns, i’m not really sure what i am going to do with them but i liked the idea of having them. the lady had a lot of really cute ones and this one lady was buying a ton! she musta had more than 20! i picked 4 at least until i have a plan for them….
we found one vendor with pillow cases but she only wanted to sell them as a set so i bought a set and leslie bought a set and we each took one of each pillowcase to make dresses with. she also had some trims and i foudn this cute cherry ribbon that i think would be fun on a little girls dress (someday i will have a daughter!!!!) 
i couldn’t believe how many vendors had trims and buttons and sewing stuff i coulda go crazy buying, there was one lady who had a ton of linens and trims but her prices were kinda high she had this cute cloth activity book for kids that was vintage and i put it down telling myself at the end of the day if she still had it and i had money i could buy it, but it was bought by the time i got back. that’s ok though i will make one! she also had a case of trims that would be so cute but she wouldn’t just sell a few she wanted you to by the whole case and it was huge!!!!! way to much for us. my favorite find of the day besides what i got my boys was a glass and dish that i got to make a cup cake stand. the lady was super cute and when she saw what i was gonna make she said one of the glasses was chipped and so she would sell it to me for a dollar instead of 5 like she was asking. the whole thing cost 3 dollars and it was hardly chipped at all!
i did want to find some candlestick holder the tall ones to make some other pedestal stands that i saw but i really didn’t see anything. Overall it was a good day, but before i end my post i have to share the best part….. (well it might be a you had to been there but it made us laugh)
there was one booth where everything was half off and so we took a peak at it and as we are walking out of the booth we see this lady starting at something in the direction of the framed pictures they guy had. and she is really contemplating it like it is a master pieces, hand on her chin the works! she was very deep in thought as we walk past we turn around to see what she was looking at and i wish i had my camera to show you, it was literally a poster of a mouse. the mouse was drawn and there was no background it was plain. it was rather random, but to see her face! HAHA we were both cracking up we were really expecting something rather interesting or at least intellectual but no it was a mouse!
maybe we just don’t know what we were missing!
