Thrifting 7.30.11

I usually go to estate sales and thrifting on the weekends, unless I am completely tired or have something else planned. Yesterday there were no estate sales (tear!) and I didn't exactly want to go to thrift stores. So I stayed home a good part of the morning making more market bags. I pulled out my vintage bias tape baskets to coordinate tape with market totes, and I realized that I was out a few colors. So I headed out thrifting. My two fave places to get bias tape from are Angel's Antiques and Harvest Thrift Mission. They are both extremely huge and have so many vintage crafting supplies. Actually both of them are in old Wal-Mart buildings.
Anyway, I headed to the antique shop and picked up a few packs for a few bucks and picked up twice as many packs plus a a few other items at the thrift store for the exact same I paid at the other place. Ha! Plus I get a 20% discount with my college I.D. at Harvest. All in all I accomplished what I wanted which was to re-up on my vintage binding, and lo! did I!

Vintage tapes

I actually bought a few more packs than this but already started using them on the totes.

Vintage buttons

How doesn't love vintage buttons?! I'm all about 'em.

Tiny owl mugs/cups


They were only a quarter apiece. There were 4. I almost took them all, but I refrained seeing as I already have an extensive collection of vintage mugs and cups. (I'll hafta bust them out for you guys one day.)

Lastly I decided to do a little spray-painting.

This little guy was all white with a red bowtie, and honestly it kinda freaked me out a bit. So he got a nice buttercream coat. Funny thing about him: the same day I bought him I saw 2 other animals at another thrift store exactly like him. There was a mouse with a painted bowtie and 3 holes in his ears and an elephant with a painted bowtie with holes in his ears. Does anyone know what they are? I thought incense holders, but I'm sure I'm terribly wrong. If anyone has a little info about them, I'd love for you to contact me.

Anyway that was what went on with me yesterday. Don't forget that I'm hosting a giveaway!

My fave antique booth

We don't really have a lot of antique shops around town. However we do have this one large antique mall called Angel's Antiques. I usually visit it on Sundays when I'm bored and there is not a lot of anything to do. Well I decided to go after class Wednesday night because I had not been in quite awhile. This one is my favorite booth there: it's called Time to Go!

An overall view of the tiny booth

Some handmade blankets she has for sale

Some craft and cookbooks and other textiles beneath

An amazing assortment of bias tapes and trims

Vintage pyrex and tea towels outside the booth

Vintage buttons along the back wall

Rows and baskets of vintage fabrics

The goodies that I brought home:

4 cards of vintage buttons

spool of yardages of vintage cotton twill tape

Actually 3 of the button cards I purchased from this booth; the card on the farthest right with the five blue buttons I bought from another booth. The spool of tape was only $5 and the buttons from this booth were only $0.50 a card. The buttons from the other booth were $2.50, but it was well worth it!

-A!