Saturday, July 14, 2012

Estate Finds!


Here is what I got at that estate sale I posted about yesterday. An old campfire girls book! It is full of different Native American words so you can make up your own campfire girls name! i love it! The horse in the hat is a brooch. I justified it to Travis by saying I'll wear it for Mule Day, even though we've never been, haha. I just liked the key chains and I got the doll to go with Travis' medical collection. You know he was thrilled about that.

I've been wanting a kokeshi doll forever! Can you believe I haven't found one before in all my hunting? This one is big, she used to be a lamp! I wish she was still wire. So cute!
My favorite thing was looking through all the boxes in the workshop! Here are the two I brought home. It says "Misc flowers, small birds, bells, etc."
in that jumble...
Looooooove the chenille frogs!
Box full of ideas. There is one of each thing, so I like to think that they pulled it out and looked through to figure out what the perfect thing to make would be.
You know I decided to get this the second I opened the box.
Umbrella made from a hanky, straw, and pins. Weird clips with little buds glued on.
Creepy baby sock doll! pom pom kitty!
There are little jingle bells inside the red bells. And a panda! And look and that old roll of life savers!
This envelope has the pattern for making these little angels....I think I have my project for the homemade ornament exchange next year!
And there we have it, another haul of weird little tidbits!

14 comments:

  1. Whoo....girl. You KNOW you are killing me with that crafting stuff! Wow!

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    1. it made me think of you! especially the pom pom cat!

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  2. What a perfect haul! It is nice to see others so delighted by the tiniest odds 'n ends; yesterday I recovered a bag full of antique googley eyes from an old barn sale. Your green pom-pom kitty is too much!

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    1. awesome! i LOVE googley eyes. i have replaced missing ones on many old weird crafts.

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  3. LOL Yes, those are for sure "Weird Little Tid Bits"! And really cute!
    My favorite are the chenille frogs! I've never seen those.
    Fun finds! :)
    Erica

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  4. I want a campfire girl name. Awesome little treat.

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  5. I had several of those creepy weird sock babies as a child. I think my granny made them. Are you seeing a pattern??? She also made the crocheted toilet paper doll covers. Her house was pure kitsch now that I think about it. You would be in heaven.

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    1. i wish she had been my grandma! i would keep a crochet toilet paper cover if it was from family. ahah.

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  6. Boxes of teeny tiny treasures are the best! The chenille frogs and little nurse doll are just too cute.

    <3 Jackie @ Let's Go Thrifting!

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  7. I NEED some of those chenille frogs! I've already got a million ideas on what I could do with them - the search begins!!!

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  8. Sometimes we think of the old things we have given away- I wonder if others enjoys it as much as you do finding things.
    love
    tweedles

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  9. I love all your vintage Christmas goodies! I wish we had estate sales like that in Australia.

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  10. I loooove the kokeshi lamp! And everything else in this collection :)

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