More thrifting today.

Shopped again today.  Not a huge haul but a fun one!  And guess what?  All for me!

 

I'm having some luck picking up pants hangers lately!  Got some more today:

Another honeycomb decoration, guess I'm collecting these now!  I think I'm up to 6 now.

Found this book for a lowly .47 cents.  I thought if it had one pattern I liked, it was worth the money:

It had a few patterns I liked!

I'm especially font of alphabets and this book has a few of them!  I love doing them on perforated paper.

I don't think I'd do the dino for myself but thought it was just adorable!

Same with the cowboy:

This hen would be awesome in a kitchen:

And for the best things I got today and now I guess I have a collection of this, too!  Miller Studio Chalkware!!  All from 1971.  Can I say "LOVE"?

The little girl has some damage to her hair but some yellow paint will cover it nicely. And this one:

Remember, I have these hanging in my retro bathroom:

 

Karen

A few things

This little fellow hung out for hours yesterday, I couldn't stop watching him.

I got 2 more Christmas decorations finished, they were harder to finish even though I thought they'd be so easy but honestly, they were boring to do.  Brown perforated paper and white floss.  BORING!

There's nothing like doing the stitching and then having to cut all around it.  Scary!  Could do all that work and with one snip, end up throwing it away because you cut something you shouldn't have!

This idea looked much better in my head!  LOL!

Either this is so lame it's cute or it's just plain ugly, I haven't decided yet.

After my little break from stitching, I'm going right back to it tonight!

Christmas decorations

It's that time of the year!  Time to start thinking ahead to Christmas.

I started working on my decorations and so far, am very happy with them!  Now, I need to figure out how I'm going to display them.  I'm giving some thought to hanging them from vintage knitting needles or vintage rulers or twigs from trees.  I've ordered one of those wooden display trees but really haven't decided how I'm going to do it yet.

Let's look at the ornaments.

This one was done on antique brown perforated paper.  I finished the whole thing and then added the buttons, put another piece of brown perforated paper on the back and added the whipstitch around the outer border to hold the two pieces together.  Then used matching floss for the hangers.

This one is done on brown plastic canvas.  SO simple but SO love it!  Both of these work up so quickly.

I added the hangers but can easily remove them and add something else, depending on how I finally decide to hang them.