Check out a video that shows off my Vintage Christmas Collage Advent Calendar: https://youtu.be/G_AEnSTbG6M
In addition to some close-ups of some of the advent cards, I’ve also posted some of my holiday crafts from this season. Merry Christmas!
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.
After a long absence, I finally got to venture up to the Goodwill Outlets in Indy on October 9th. I was able to stop at the one on Franklin Street and the one on the West Side and came away with a few old treasures. It took me a while to get around to doing my video and post because things got busy again…but at long last…here they are!
Check out the video on the Unearthed Relics Facebook page: https://fb.watch/gdk9T9EiYY/
On this trip I found some amazing old books, vintage photos and vintage postcards. I also found some great craft supplies, and Christmas decorations and vintage linens.
The angels above were in a box marked “fragile” but that warning had clearly not been heeded. Only one was intact and one was in several pieces, but all the repairs looked fairly straightforward and all the pieces seemed to be present – so I took a chance – and I rather like how the came out.
I’m not sure it was my best day ever, but all in all it was a pretty good day. Check out the video of this week’s haul to see more: https://fb.watch/f21r7TUwFz/
As storms moved through the area yesterday it seemed like a perfect excuse to get up to Indy to do some thrifting.
Among my finds were some vintage handiwork, including embroidered objects and doilies, a vintage santa from the late 60s/early 70s that apparently sings and dances, a set of retro tea cups in pastel, a few Shiny Brite ornaments, various pieces of ephemera, a cool looking old doll and doll-head, some fun vintage tins, a chandelier which I’m planning to put in my shed and an Edgar Allan Poe book from 1904 – not a first edition but well over 100 years old!
On my “always on the lookout” list are toy horses for crafts and display (I usually try to steer clear of ones with hair and stick to ones in good condition that are all plastic), vintage sewing stuff (wooden spools of thread, notions, tape measures, etc.), vintage holiday decor (esp. vintage Christmas), paperdolls, Redmon baskets, dollhouse goodies, tea cups, globes, puzzles (old and new), vintage toys and games, old racquets, wooden rulers and cool old frames. I’m sure that’s not an exhaustive list, it is always evolving. I probably need to make bingo cards…but even without the cards, I feel like I’ve “won” a day of thrifting when I find a few things from this “favorite things” list.
I hit two Goodwill Outlet…including one with the entire thrifty sisters crew! The vintage Santa doll looks a little shifty, but the best find of the night was a stamp collection. We’ve been having fun looking up info and values for some of the different stamps…the collection includes stamps from the 1890s through the 1980s. They grabbed my eye initially because I thought I could use them for crafts…but it seems like there might be some that are far too valuable to add to a collage.
My Christmas display stays up year-round in a small spare-bedroom. It is ever-changing as new finds are acquired, but it always brings me great joy to step into that room and feel like it’s Christmas, even if it is the middle of July.
Okay, that was my lame attempt at a play on the “April showers bring May flowers” saying…since this post shows a combination of thrifted finds from April and May. Highlights in this batch include: a retro tiki tin, a cool vintage game board for a game called “World Flyers”, vintage children’s books, early Elvis records, some vintage linens and some fun decor for Halloween and some awesome vintage Christmas finds.
Fun story on the standing Santa: I found his plastic white boot and thought it was something that I might be able to do something crafty with…but then, after a few laps around the outlet, I saw a Santa missing one white boot. Apparently, I scored the Santa because he was missing that one white boot that I’d happened to grab.
This week’s thrifted finds included some olympic treasures (a set of placemats from 1972) and some very timely decor for tonight’s superbowl game. Can you say “W for the win?!”
I love Christmas and I love tea…so I’ve been collecting miniature tea pots and cups throughout the year to make a tea tree to put in my tea room. So simple, and so much fun!
The Thrifty Sisters 