Check out the YouTube video for this set of finds!
THRIFTY STICKIES!
Here’s this week’s batch of unearthed ephemera turned into stickers for crafting fun! Please note that these are being shared for personal crafting use only.
On this occasion my shopping bag for thrifted finds from the Goodwill Outlet was a vintage suitcase. I thought that made for the perfect container for vintage treasures. Way better than a plastic bag, don’t ya think?!
Check out the link below to my sister site (Country Crafts, where I’ve posted about different kinds of theme parties I’ve thrown and crafts that I’ve created). That posts contains samples of the invitation I created, the menu (with recipes and a shopping list), a seventies-themed scavenger hunt and decoration ideas using vintage and thrifted finds.
I did a little Goodwill Outlet shopping and also did some garage sale and estate sale shopping. Which yielded better results? You be the judge!
First: the Garage Sale and Estate Sale Haul
And here are my finds from the Goodwill Outlet…
I spent about the same on both these hauls. Which one do you think I got more value from?
This week’s treasures are the result of some finds from a few Garage Sales and two of the Goodwill Outlets in Indianapolis. Several of my garage sale finds were a little on the dusty side…but they cleaned up pretty well in the end.
I also experimented with making some “paperdolls” using the cover of vintage record albums. It took a little time and a lot of patience, but I’m relatively happy with the result.
On this week’s thrifting adventure I found a few treasures at the Goodwill Outlet in Indy and a friend’s garage sale…including the print that this week’s blog get’s its name from.
Check out this haul from about four different trips to the Goodwill Outlets in Indy and the Salvation Army in Bloomington (where I found the ceramic rooster planter). Among my most treasured Goodwill finds were a Minnesota Model X Sewing Machine (which seems to have been built around 1912-1913 according to all the great info I found on the Victorian Sweatshop Message Board, some OPA ration tokens from WWII that had apparently been used as bingo markers by the previous owner (I learned more about these from the site: Owlcation), part of a vintage toy car called “Nifty,” some cool metal tins, some Ruth Reeves linen napkins, and a lot of vintage greeting cards and doll clothes patterns, and a life-size Scooby Doo advertising display.
I only had a little over an hour to duck into the Goodwill after a conference in Indianapolis…but I still managed to find a couple treasures that I look forward to using as part of assemblages or other craft projects. I think my favorite finds this time around were the tiny soldier in white and the teeny tiny horse cookie cutter – I have never seen one so small and adore it…as well as the thought of some little person that used it to make tiny treats for a tea party, perhaps.
When I got home from the Goodwill Outlets yesterday, Devin and Chris were watching Goonies…which Devin had apparently never seen that before. I don’t know how that’s the case because Goonies is one of those movies I usually stop to watch at least a little bit of every time I happen upon it randomly on TV. I love the theme song “Good Enough” by Cyndi Lauper…and whenever I hear it it always makes me think of Goonies. My last two trips to the thrift store haven’t given me anything I’d call an epic treasure, but they’ve been Good Enough.
The line art images are from a McCalls magazine from February 1910. I also snapped photos of some ads from Saturday Evening Post Magazines from 1943 and 1963. Among the other treasures were two bride dolls – possible Madame Alexander (but I need to do a little more research). Also displayed are some Easter gifts I made for family members today…all pieces are from the Goodwill (with the exception of the rabbit images I found on the Graphics Fairy website). There’s also a picture of my new doll house (thanks to Evie for finding it up in Indy) and the box of vintage ornaments I found when I went up to Indy for my Dad’s birthday last weekend. All in all, I’d say things things are definitely “Good Enough” for my April thrifting thus far!
Over the last two weeks I’ve managed to make it to all three of the Goodwill Outlets in Indy. I found the toy buggy on a quick trip when I ran up midweek for work and found the doll house yesterday – along with some great holiday decor, a vintage bread box and a Redmon basket that has seen better days but may still have a little life left in it.
The Thrifty Sisters 