Treasure Hunt

This weekend a couple of my friends and I went estate sale shopping. I know, I know big surprise. I woke up at 7am to go which is definitely not something I would usually do. The beauty is that we found some amazing things. I always go into every home with no expectations because you never know what you will end up finding.

The first sale we went to my sister and I found this amazing stool. Well not amazing right now but definitely has the potential to be amazing!

I am going to spray paint the base silver and recover it in an amazing purple hounds tooth fabric. (That is one of my projects for the end of the week!)




We went all over the metro area, past Oregon City, Beaverton, NW, NE and SE. Thankfully my friend Janice had a list of all the places that were having sales.

I found an amazing box of vintage thread, for a ridiculously cheap amount that I just could not pass up. Especially since thread is now $2-6 a piece. I love all the colors especially. So excited because I have so many different colors to work with now!

I also found some amazing vintage jewelry that I really wanted to keep but I have enough already. Here are the pics, you can also find them at my Whimsy blue shop at etsy!

Vintage Jewels

So my sister (Jenna),and I decided collectively that maybe it would be a good idea to go to Michael's Craft store when they were having a giant sale....and on top of the sale we had a 20% coupon for our entire purchase. (Of course) We walk in and think that we will only be there for a half hour...low and behold they are locking the doors and my sister and I quickly dash out with our purchases.

(Here is what happened in between) We walk in and decide that after we get was on our list we will check out if there are any other sales or crafting objects.

Ribbon (check)

Thank You Stamp (check)

Polyfill (check)

Glue (Check)

Spray Paint (check)

I am pretty sure that is all we needed completing this in a pretty quick amount of time. We then go to the jewel making isle, where I personally have never ventured. I am not a beader, but I start seeing pendants, that caught my eye. ( I may have drooled a bit) Then my sister came over and just as we usually do. We started comparing ideas...figuring this could go with that...and almost walking out of there with another $50 dollars worth of stuff.

Long story short...we will be making jewelery in the near and decent future...my sister actually bought a pendant. She made a necklace tonight.

To keep with the topic of jewelery check out some of our finds from this weekend of estate sales. There are some really to die for things.

Girls get all the fun....check out my etsy shop to see all the pics, if they haven't sold yet.

Thrift me a deal!

(I love cheesy titles to my blogs that is all I have to say. Who wants a blog, that when dealing with the topic, it is just named the Subject, boring. I am not writing an essay, this is real life and not so formal)

Okay....so I got on a bit of a tangent.

Earlier this week my sister and I, decided that it would be a good time to go thrifting. Just woke up to the amazing sunshine outside, decided that this was our day to find a find. I think the best way to go thrifting, is to walk in without any expectations of finding something. The reason I say this...in my experience, (and I would say I would be rated platinum member, on the thrifting status.) it is a treasure hunt, so walking in with an open mind and editing eye. (Editing eye- go through all your potential purchases and ask yourself, are you buying this cus it's cheap? Or are you really going to use/wear it?)

Well I walked into the local Value Village, and look what I found!!!!

Only the most amazing pants ever. They were in the women's section of course, the reason being is that I always find more fun things on the women's side.

Think golf shoes, newsie cap with pom pom, sweater vest and polo.

The beauty is that I also found some tapestries and a couple of wonderful fabrics that will be used for future projects.

I think my favorite thing that I found this weekend though, was a, 1950's Light Pink Hostess Ice Crusher. My sister and I stared at the object at first and were confused as to what it was. We thought to ourselves this has to be wonderful relic from the past, so we snatched that up and went on our merry way.

Here are some pics of the ice cruser, hope you like them.

I love thrifting. I wish I could tell you the reasons. The biggest reason is that things are affordable, and the merchandise is always changing so you never get board of the same thing. As a creative person, I can look at something that appears lifeless and see what can be done or improved upon it to create something beautiful.

Finished ten more journals today, here is a sneak peek at one of my faves.


What I love about it is the inside.


You will be able to find this and more on my etsy shop.