Scooby Doo where are you?

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.

Minnesota Model X Sewing Machine
WWII OPA Red and Blue Coins
3 Ruth Reeves Linen Napkins
Nifty Car
Minnesota Model X Sewing Machine

Tiny treasures

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.

Let’s take a trip!

On this week’s shopping adventure I came across to divine pieces of luggage from different eras. I can only imagine the fabulous trips they got to take in their hey day.

Do you know who Inez Milholland Boissevain is? No worries if you don’t, I had to look her up too. Turns out she was a famous suffragette who was a labor lawyer who collapsed while giving a speech in 1916. Learn more here if you are curious.

Good enough

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!

Quick trip, cool finds

March was a busy, busy month but I still found time to duck in for one quick trip to the Goodwill Outlet. …and here’s what I found…

The item above was a collage I made for a friend’s birthday. Nothing says passing time like a clock face…so it seemed fitting to include a few – along with a lovely Emily Dickinson quote.

Parties, patterns, playthings, patches and more!

I had about 40 minutes to pop into the Goodwill outlet on Indy’s east side on Sunday and managed to find a few goodies. I spent under ten bucks this time around but feel that it is priceless anytime I come away with new info. This time it was learning about art with a big eye style. I’ve seen it before, but didn’t know it was a “thing” – nor did I realize it had quite the following that it has. I learned a little from this site http://medeiros.weebly.com/other-big-eyed-artists.html as well as one of the Facebook groups I’m in.

Toys and other treasures

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.

Bingo!

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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