Current Mood : Sleepy
Spent on books : $3.78
Spent on star : 54c
Spent on embroidery supplies : 54c
We were gifted with a gloriously beautiful afternoon, after more overnight rain and a foggy, humid morning. The sunlight is like honey poured all over everything, and everyone's lawns are waaay overgrown.
Since I'm kinda booked tomorrow and Friday, I decided to run whatever errands needed to be done today. Needed glue for the craft project, so that was first, then I hit Dollar Tree - snagged a cool Disney ‘Cats and Dogs' coloring book for Dearest Son, along with four brand-new t-shirts for me to embroider on ! I love getting him brand-new clothes for a buck, and these looked great. He has green, blue, orange, and grey now. No adult sizes, except ‘small' and ‘extra small'. Oh, well.
Beloved Hubby and I got to have breakfast together, but it used the last of the bread and eggs. No problem - those were both actually on ‘Customer Appreciation' sale at the grocery in the strip. Also got some orange soda and some odds and ends.
But I really had fun at GoodWill. Scored four new books ($3.50), a new thread rack (50c), and a hand-sized wooden star with a tiny matching shelf mounted to the front (also 50c). It'd display a thimble quite nicely ! I was gonna paint it, but the back is stamped ‘Japan', which is rare these days. It might be fairly old. So I just added it to the Wall o' Stars outside the Lab, as-is.
The thread rack is pictured above. Actually, I'm not sure what it's supposed to be. Even the cashier asked me what it was. I don't know what it was made to do, but I know what it'll be doing - holding thread spools in the order I need ‘em when I'm embroidering. The chopstick pictured with it was used to replace the missing pin, using the new glue. It'll hold ‘em straight up, or at a 45-degree angle. Since many of the designs I have use ten colors or less, this is just about perfect. And it can double as a railing in doll pictures, with clever editing and support ! You can hardly tell which pin was replaced. The rest of the chopped-up chopstick went back to the cup where it had been resting, to continue its as-needed job of holding washed baggies open to dry. Yes, I even get the most out of take-out chopsticks...
The books were all great finds. I got the 19th Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, a manga volume for Beloved, Wicked Women by Fay Weldon, and a 1963 version of The McCall's Sewing Book. The illustrations are beyond cool. It was the most expensive of today's GWill finds at $1.49, but still a bargain - the published price was $6.95 ! I'm not sure why, but sometimes I find older books are easier to understand than the latest-and-greatest. Especially on the basics. Let's face it, they didn't have to explain machine embroidery or how to use 147 different stitches in 1963 ! Although that Necchi cam machine I had seemed to have that many, if not more...
Well, anyway. Hope your day had some sun in it - and maybe a few new (or new to you !) books in it !
