Another cute bag rescued from the thrift store. I wash these and give them to new members in our knit and crochet for charity group for their projects.
Yikes! I didn’t notice it was reversible with a nice pocket for row counter, stitch markers, etc.
Welcome Renee!
This cute bag was in its last week at the thrift store. Destined to become a rag. ☹️😟
Now it has be rescued, washed and given to the newest member of our knit and crochet group to hold her latest project.
One of these hats for disadvantaged children this fall!
Welcome Karen!
A small food bank run by a local church near me has an even smaller free library for the families and homeless people it serves.
No children’s books!?! Gotta fix that! Children need books to nourish their minds For less than $15.00 these books will fill the lower shelf of the small library for those kids!
One of my favorite things to rescue from the thrift store is cookbooks. I read them like other people read books but I don’t ever cook anything out of them. I have quite a stack of books.
Matthew over at his little free library gave me the idea of putting some cookbooks into the little free library in the parking lot at my work. Cookbooks are popular reads in their library. Mathew’s Little Free Library
Bon Appetit!
Found: one package of premium origami paper.
Cost: $0.99
Use: donated to church.
The church has two uses.
The candle lighting area for concerns or celebrations. The small dish of folded origami crosses, take one after you light your candle as a remembrance.
The monthly card ministry. Each month’s recipients receive an origami surprise.
I love to rescue random things from the Thrift Store.
I love reading Stephen King.
Somehow I missed reading this novel “Under the Dome”. I have discovered it was also made into a tv series.
When I saw it at the Thrift Store, no brainer, rescue it and when I finish reading it I’m putting it in the Little Free Library aka Book Exchange at the end of the parking lot at work.
When I got home I found this picture tucked inside the book.
A real mystery, nothing written on the back. A mystery picture inside a Stephen King book deserves a story, don’t you think?
Meet Mark and Julia, happy here but will that last?
Mark cannot resist buying anything with an “M” on it, hence the green cap from Michigan State University. He someday hopes to go to Michigan State, Montana State, well you get the picture.
Mark does not understand the allure of a good mystery, horror or fantasy novel. He loves autobiographies followed by biographies. Before Julia met Mark she read all of Stephen King’s books.
After she met Mark she took up making jewelry, specifically necklaces. She made the necklaces worn in the picture.
Mark loves to run and he takes his dad’s German Shepherd Max for a run almost every day. The morning this picture was taken a hooligan squirrel chattered at Max from a tree and Max instinctively ran in front of Mark tripping him up with the leash. The emergency room visit revealed no broken bones but a badly sprained wrist from throwing his arm out to break his fall. The sling is just to keep that wrist quiet for a few days.
Mark and Julia had a huge misunderstanding which led to mutual agreement to give their relationship a break. One of the first things Julia did was to purchase the latest Stephen King novel, one she was dying to read “Under the Dome”. One of the heroines in the book is named Julia and she was intrigued.
This picture was pinned to the cork board in her hallway, a place where she could see it every day, but now she removed the picture to use as a bookmark….
Mark has called Julia and invited her to lunch. He mentioned that during their break he got hooked on this series on television called Under the Dome which is based on a book by Stephen King. Isn’t that the guy Julia used to read all the time? He thought perhaps, as a shared and bonding activity, they could read Stephen King novels together. As Julia was racing out of the house to meet Mark she tucked the book Under the Dome in her bag along with the matching his and her necklaces she had just finished making.
As Queen of the Design Feature I have many responsibilities.
Two of which are:
I responsibly and thriftily (Not an easy word to read, is it?) went to the thrift store to find something that would keep my yarn from tangling and rescued this bright and cheerful bag.
Not as cute as one of those special yarn bowls but it also only cost me $1.50. Just ran it through the washer and it was ready to go to work.
My sister used to collect butterflies. This bag caught my eye when I stopped at the thrift store to look for knitting needles for our knit for charity group. Instant smile! Ran it through the washer and I am going to use it to cart my lunch to work every day. Hey my sister used to frequent thrift stores too. She would be happy with this find.
Found some perfectly good knitting needles too! Yippee!
Christal Chapman was my favorite artist at the Lafayette Peach Festival, and she was fun too!
She rescues scrabble, dominoes and mah-jongg and other small game pieces from thrift stores. She then turns them into the bases for her works of art these adorable, creative and fun little pendants.
This is a very small sample of her work. She tells me that sometimes her projects take over her house. I hope to go and maybe watch her while she’s creating some day soon but at least go and pick out some more pendants!
She also rescues magazines and books for their art and to incorporate into her art.
Her mother also does some amazing paintings on these itty-bitty toy pieces, I was dismayed when I got home and realized I forgot to pick out one of her mother’s painted pendants. A lot of detail on a small canvas. Definitely need to hook up with Christal soon and I hope I can find and rescue some dominoes and mah-jongg pieces from the thrift store for her artwork.
My sister love butterflies. I bought myself a membership to the Butterfly Pavilion here in Colorado. Hang out with live butterflies! The gift shop had these neat little butterfly trinkets.
They had these cute little bumblebees too.
I needed something to put them in, I wanted to see them every day to just keep my sister close. I planned I’m looking for a fancy little bowl somewhere but my sister was so thrifty I tried to thrift store first. Here was the perfect little glass butterfly dish which I rescued from the thrift store for pennies. My sister would’ve been pleased!
So these little trinkets are on my desk at work to just put a smile on my face when I need it.
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