Some Thrift Store Fun

I did not go to as many stores as I normally do on a Wednesday but a couple of them lended themselves to some fun stuff and not all of it is pictured here.  I will probably do another post on the other stuff.    I got tired and it was way too hot to be out anymore even though there is air conditioning in most places.  No thrift store shopping today.....I want to work on a couple projects and it is so nice and cool in the house too.   I think the high is going to be 104 today....Ouch.  

I just love it when I come across an old Bingo game.   This one was dated 1960.....good enough for me.   The price was even better considering what they are selling for on Ebay or Etsy.   I got this from a job I don't frequent a lot but I think I did to start going there more often as it is not that far from my house.   And their prices aren't all jacked up like some thrift stores do these days.   That ole' supply and demand thing.

This is an old tin filled with old button vintage.   Way too cool.   Love the tin as much as the buttons.

I am attracted to old boxes, etc. and this caught my eye as it was quite different from anything I have seen before.     I guess that is what I liked about it.  I don't know if it is old or not.   When I opened it up I was really surprised to find a ton of seed beads which all are not showing in this picture.   There were also some more old buttons and a set of 12 vintage crochet needles.  I have never seen them come in a little box like this before.   Way too cool.

This picture doesn't adequately show how much there was in it but it is a plastic grocery bag filled with lace, belt buckle kits, rik rak, seam binding and at the bottom of it was another set of those old crochet needles.   There was a price tag on the bag that said $1.25.    And surprisingly enough that was the price of it.   Another good deal.  

A bag of old metal cars from the 50's, 60's and 70's.   Thought they would work well for different applications  or displayed in a shadow box.   One of the cars is a 57 T-Bird.

One other item I got from this store was a ream of white cardstock which in the retail stores goes for about $14 or so.   That is my favorite kind of cardstock as you can do so much with white.   Combine some ink sprays, acrylic paints and stencils and you have very nice paper to make things out of.   I can spend a whole day just doing this.   The packaging was torn but that was the only thing wrong with it.......all for a mere $2.

These items were all from one store........you know the one I told you that I rarely go to.......well I guess I will change that and check this place out more often.  

When I checked out, the gentlemen looked at me and said.........boy you just got here at the right time as we just put out all of this stuff just a few minutes ago.   And I looked up at the Heavens and said Thank You.

I hope all of you who stop by today have a great day.

IN TEN MINUTES.....

I've thought about doing this in the past but decided to sign up for the Sketchbook Project 2012.   The theme I chose is "In Ten Minutes". I am going to do my pages in Remains of the Day style. In fact I have started some of the pages so hopefully I will keep on track so it will reach its destination in plenty of time. This will be challenging to me in the area of not being able to put bulky embellishments in it but I am looking forward to the challenge.   

What a Great Idea---Make Your Own Tape

Well, I woke up early today.   Guess I had enough sleep so I started to catch up on some of my blogs I rarely get to read and found this.   What a great idea and oh the possibilities.   And she even made some with Ledger paper.   I can't wait to try this.    Go to Cathie Holden's blog and check it out.  

P.S.:   Ten Minutes Later.........the mounting tape is ordered and I will be posting about my own handmade tape as soon as the mounting tape gets here.   And, of  course, I will be using some of my new Ledger Paper and other things of course.

The Principles of English Grammar 1837

This is a little gem of a book.   Dated 1837....New York.   I was going to use it for my artwork but after looking at it at length, I don't think I will be able to cut this one up.  It tells you everything about Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Adverbs and Adjectives, etc. and the proper use of them when speaking and writing. 
  
I don't have a clue why this book fascinated me but I think the reason is because it brought back a lot of memories of an English class I had in high school where we diagrammed a million sentences and learned abut the past present and future tenses, etc.  This book is presented in the same manner that this class was.   What was special (well that's one way to describe this experience) about this class was the teacher.   Her name was Miss Fay Sparks.  She was as old as my grandmother.   She had taught my mother at the same high school and you can be sure that I heard about it too when I didn't get the best grade ever.    She reminded me how smart my Mother was, how smart my brothers were, etc. and, of course, she did it in front of the class.  And of course it worked because then I pulled the "A" just to show her that I could if I wanted to.

Here are some pictures of that book which took me back in time.

Who knows, maybe Miss Sparks studied from this book.   LOL



OH MY GOSH..........

I was just flabergasted at the size of this Ledger and more shocked when I went to pick it up.    It has got to weigh at least 30 to 40 pounds.     It measures 18" tall, 11" wide and 4" thick.   I think it had something like 800 plus pages full of vintage accounting and writings.     I keep looking at it in dismay and wonder.   I love these kinds of old books and the more discolored and aged they are, the better they are.   Wow.  Be still my heart.   It doesn't take much to put a smile on one's face.   I will take this kind of paper anyday over the boughten printed stuff..........sorry......it just doesn't compare in my world at all.   Here are some photos of it.

Boy, this ledger is going to be a lot of fun and afford me many great pages for my Antique Photo Album Journal and/or Vintage Ledger Journal that I will soon be making in Mary Ann's class called Full Tilt Boogie which starts this Friday, June 17th.    There is already a Yahoo Group for this class which is going to be so much fun.   A lot of us have already connected and enjoying each other's blogs, flickr groups, etc.    I will just be using pages out of this ledger.....not actually altering this particular ledger as it is way too large.   I have smaller ones that I will be working with.  

Hope you all have a great day.  

Full Tilt Boogie Class

I just wanted to do a shout out for Mary Ann's latest class that she is going to teach starting 6/18/11.   It is called Full Tilt Boogie and she is using those Vintage Photo Albums and/or the old ledgers.   You can read more about it here.  

I have taken all of her classes and loved them with my favorite being the Remains of the Day class.   I loved the Stencil classes too.   Oh shoot, they are all my favorites.     One of the things I really like is that she has a yahoo group associated with her classes and we trade ideas and do swaps, etc.   Just way too much fun.  Oh, and she has a flickr group just for pictures of what we make too.     To read more about all her classes, go here which is her main blog, http://dispatchfromla.typepad.com/

Not only is she giving a reduced rate to twenty people but she is donating a nice sum of money to the Red Cross.   It just doesn't get any better than that.    

Fusible Webbing.....Who Remembered!!!

A while ago, I posted a blurb about making my own vintage cardstock with Collage Pauge and manila folders and old vintage papers to a yahoo group I belong to called Remains of the Day.   There were two people who I don't remember their names (here we are at that memory thing again), related that they used fusible webbing to bond paper and paper and fabric together.  

After much thought, I remember my Mom doing this with fabric and cardstock for her cards. And actually after more thought, I remembered making Christmas cards using this method many many many years ago.   I used Christmas fabric and then added a silk poinsetta to the top of it.   Oh well, they say the memory is the first thing to go........not to worry.   

Well I finally got to Joann's and bought some and tried it again after all these years.   WOW.......I liked it a lot working with the fragile vintage papers......no drying times, no pressing under the large books, etc.     It is just amazing how it re-energizes those old crumbly vintage papers.   You can fuse it to manila folders, fabric, cardstock or put two vintage papers together such as ledger sheets, Sears catalogs, etc.    Once you do that, you can fold it for pages or die cut it, etc.   I think the sky is the limit really.    I will say that the Collage Pauge method and the fusible webbing method really look the same.........the latter is just faster.

This is the front and back of one page.   The paper on the left is very very old and very fragile but once I adhered with fusible webbing to the 1880's ledger page, you can fold them, etc. or make die cuts out of them.

The front and back of one page.   The left is fabric and the right is old ledger paper.

This is a very fragile page from a Montgomery Wards original old catalog adhered to a vintage hanky.

 

This is a vintage piece of linen adhered to a page from a Sears, Roebuck catalog that was very fragile but not now that I used the fusible webbing.   It is really neat how you can see the catalog page through the vintage linen.

I used fusible webbing to adhere two fragile vintage papers together.....one is an original page from a Sears catalog and the other is a page from an 1880's ledger.   This is the front and back of one page.

I hope this gives you some ideas.   The sky is the limit as to what you can do with this.