Before 7am on Saturday morning, I was setting up a little garage sale with my madre. I was semi-successful in getting rid of old clothes and stuff. Enough to make me look forward to a future garage sale and de-cluttering the downstairs walk-in, which was the place we hid our non-essentials when we first moved in. Even my son made a couple of bucks selling his toys.
After we finished packing some stuff up, I took a shower and we headed to our favorite thrift store about an hour before close. It’s a ministry shop, so there’s always new things and usually my favorite types–stuff from an old lady’s craft basket.
Sunshine did not disappoint! I found: a little box full of crocheted lace (doilies and collars), a few sets of knitting needles, including 4 sets of DPNs and a circular, and some embroidery floss.
We headed across town to my uncle’s house and stopped at a thrift store we used to go to every weekend. There, I found this old plastic faux-woven box, a pyrex fridgie, a few bags of needlepoint supplies (wool & canvas!), 3 fabric button kits, a polaroid camera, a sun tea pitcher, and more.
It was definitely my lucky day in terms of craft supplies.
Later, I’ll share a new hat! The shape of the week (maybe month, now?) was triangles. Andrew is pretty good with shapes, so I tried getting him to draw one. No luck, but he likes pointing them out, so that’s good. Anyway, I did some needlepoint triangles last weekend and this past weekend I knit some. More details later!
I love successful hunting trips like these. =)
I have so many knitting needles from thrift stores. I always seem to find them. I keep forgetting to look for doilys though. I will have to do that next time cause I would love to make some cushion covers and things with them.
Lovely! I love to find old craft supplies when I’m thrifting, I always wonder what the original owner intended them for.
Ooo – lucky you! Craft supplies are among my favorite things to thrift. That basket is totally fantastic, too!
ooOo i am so dying to go to a car boot sale to find some thrifty goodies! Its always very satisfying ^-^
mega score!! good for you. I find that when I get rid of stuff… new awesomer stuff stuff just lands in my lap.