{"id":1114,"date":"2010-04-17T14:43:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T20:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2010-04-17T14:51:36","modified_gmt":"2010-04-17T20:51:36","slug":"i-love-you-seam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/17\/i-love-you-seam\/","title":{"rendered":"I love you, SeAM."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yarnattacks\/4529206954\/\" title=\"thread score by yarnattacks, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4004\/4529206954_8f44e75d71.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"thread score\" style=\"border:2px solid white\"\/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I may be giving away a big thrifty secret. Or I may be preaching to the Houston thrift-store-surfin&#8217; choir. Either way, I&#8217;ll say it. My favorite thrift store is a tiny little shop called SeAM. It stands for Southeast Area Ministries. Their shop is located in South Houston and almost every other weekend, the whole place is 50% off. There&#8217;s one thing I&#8217;ve JUST learned, despite visiting the place every couple of Saturdays (they&#8217;re closed on Sundays and are only open til 4 the rest of the week): GET THERE EARLY! <\/p>\n<p>Saturday being our prime thrifting day, because Jason isn&#8217;t working, there&#8217;s no school, and no big family shindigs (those are reserved for Sundays), we usually end up saving SeAM for last. Well, today, we had an appointment to view a house at 10am, so we stopped by the store on our way home. It was packed with stuff! I found the above thread in a bag for $4. But wait! Today was one of the &#8220;50% off entire store&#8221; days, so it was only $2! Score! Then, I found a brand-new pack of cotton batting for <s>$2<\/s> $1! And an embroidery hoop and some cotton fabric for under a buck. It was pretty rad.<\/p>\n<p>That said, if you&#8217;re in the Houston area, you should totally stop by this store. Some days the pickings are bleak, but others&#8230;well, others are awesome. Some of my finds include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yarnattacks\/4244889337\/\" target=\"_blank\">these<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yarnattacks\/4020527466\/\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yarnattacks\/4353779129\/\" target=\"_blank\">this garland<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yarnattacks\/3705495836\/\" target=\"_blank\">this amazing granny square blanket<\/a>. And they sometimes have pretty vintage furniture. I never get to get any because&#8230;.well, we lack the space, at the moment. Or sometimes it&#8217;s sold. So, GET THERE EARLY!<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yarnattacks\/4528572859\/\" title=\"rainbow thread by yarnattacks, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4061\/4528572859_01a6cb7131.jpg\" width=\"357\" height=\"500\" alt=\"rainbow thread\" style=\"border:2px solid black\"\/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>That is all. I hope you&#8217;re having a wonderful weekend!<\/p>\n<p>p.s. Some of the thread was actually tangled together in a bag. I was able to take it apart without having to snip any of it. In order to store it, I busted out the rubber bands. The ends don&#8217;t move, now! They&#8217;re happily sitting in a big ziploc bag, but I&#8217;m open to suggestions on how to store them! They&#8217;re so pretty, I&#8217;d like to have them in plain sight. Kind of like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yarnattacks\/4269552182\/\" target=\"_blank\">this thread<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4004\/4529206954_8f44e75d71.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"thread score\" style=\"border:2px solid white\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I may be giving away a big thrifty secret. Or I may be preaching to the Houston thrift-store-surfin&#8217; choir. Either way, I&#8217;ll say it. My favorite thrift store is a tiny little shop called SeAM. It stands for Southeast Area Ministries. Their shop is located in South Houston and almost every other weekend, the whole place is 50% off. There&#8217;s one thing I&#8217;ve JUST [Read More&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,42],"tags":[236,78],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1119,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions\/1119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}