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.
In addition to being a hodge podge of stuff (like always), this post is a hodge podge of several different thrifting outings that I’ve done recently. Check out the video of this batch of finds here: https://youtu.be/_8I4YehFAuA
Finding lots of vintage goodies also means I’ve had new materials to use for making new vintage-inspired creations. Take a look of some of the new “100% recycled” projects I’ve completed:
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?
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.
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!
Happy New Year! I hope the year is off to a good start for you, dear reader, and I want to give a very special shout-out to my Mother and Father in Law who sent my husband $30 to give me to spend at the Goodwill. I made two stops this past weekend and landed at $29.30 ($32 with tax) and a cart full of goodies at my first stop! And I found a few more treasures at my second stop as well. A thrifted gift is my very favorite kind of gift…as are all of these amazing new salvaged finds.
At the end of this post I’m going to add some pictures of some of the things I’ve already crafted with my finds. And feel free to visit Unearthed Relics on Facebook to see a recording of me sorting through my entire haul https://www.facebook.com/myunearthedrelics.
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Thrift finds from October – including treasures from Salem MA and Indianapolis.
I had multiple opportunities to visit Goodwill Outlets over the weekend while staying with my husband and some of his friends from High School for their annual reunion. We ended up staying at a home that was formerly a store that the creator of Raggedy Ann and Andy visited as a young man – and that happened to be across the street from his childhood home (which was torn down to make way for the Interstate that runs through the middle of the city). As such, that made the house we were staying in the de facto headquarters of all things Raggedy Ann related in Indianapolis. So you can only imagine my surprise and delight to find a Raggedy Ann doll on my final shopping trip. I decided to leave that doll as a gift for our hosts because (as you’ll see in the second video) they didn’t have quite enough Raggedy Ann memorabilia in the house. It also seemed like a fitting place for her to be.
Take a look at the video on the Unearthed Relics Facebook Page: https://fb.watch/gdkoLY650x/
And then check out a video of the Raggedy Ann Historic home site below.
With just a few minutes to hunt through the bins at the Goodwill Outlet in Indy (while my husband waited in the car) I managed to find a few treasures, including a few books from the late 1800s and some from the early part of the 1900s. I found one older book peeking through a large pile…and then kept digging and found several others. When I got home I looked up a few of them to get a sense of value. So far I think the Scarlet Letter is my winner…with similar versions (i.e., of the second printing) retailing between $400 and $800. I think it is a beautiful edition, so I’m keeping it, but it just goes to show that it can really pay off to do a little digging through the bin.
The Thrifty Sisters 