More Vintage Sewing Notions

I have been needing a couple of things at Smith's and had also seen and heard about the cool vintage stuff they had for sale there.  So today I made the trip over to Arcanum and loaded up!  Talk about Seamstress heaven - this was it if you like all things vintage:)
All that seam vintage seam binding -120 unopened packages of it-$10.  Those huge rolls of lace seam binding? $1 each.  And I now have my first red tomato pin cushion!!  Brings my pin cushion collection up to 5.  Too bad they didn't have any vintage scissors.  There are tons of old buttons there, I'm thinking about calling them and asking what they want for the whole lot of them.
Anyway, I came home a happy girl today.  And I had beautiful new baskets from McMaster and Storm to organize it all in.  I highly recommend these baskets.

More Garage Sale finds

Not much gets me out of bed early enough on a Saturday morning to go somewhere at 8:00.  Or any morning for that matter!!!  But when there is a garage sale listed that has fabric and sewing notions and it's just across town - well you can bet I'll be there:)

I was a little after 8, maybe 15 minutes or so, but don't ya know a sweet friend of mine was there ahead of me and grabbed some fun stuff for me as others were snatching things right and left!!  I ended up with a large bag of goodies to take home:)

Love the packaging on this elastic - it's the old bendable metal.

Fun red buttons

Red white and blue:)

I just love the cards these buttons are on.  Gotta come up with a cute way to use these.

puffy satin letters

Large wooden buttons  fun fun!!

old tools used to put in grommets and snaps, jar of grommets and some iron-on dots.

Iron-ons.  My girls want some shirts with these on them.  Can you see how the eyes move when you move the object?  How vintage!

Bright, vintage fabric

More iron-ons.  Girls want these too:)

vintage lace seam binding. This is the best to fancy up a gift

lots of leaves, florist stems and tape.  girls took off with the ribbon and I haven't seen it since.

Some of the stuff that came out of the bag of leftover scraps from making clothes for plays/pageants.  The Sisters took off with all of that too.  I now see small pieces everywhere.  Must get the sweeper out soon.

Big Sister decorated the living room like this.  They were having a party.  She somehow forgot though, that when the party is over you have to clean up.  Guess what the sisters will be doing tomorrow afternoon??

Little Sister wanted her picture taken.  And since I think she is a cutie I obliged her.

And just a sneak peek of what else was going on around here today.  More to come when I can post pics from beginning to end:)