Painted Ocean Basket & Arizona Sandstone.

A beautiful basket and other fine oddities, just the right thing for another funky 2nd hand blog post. I hope you all enjoy.

This basket came as a very nice surprise. I saw it on a shelf and all I could see was its side. I thought, what a lovely basket, and took it down to have a closer look. When I did this wonderful seascape painted lid greeted my eyes. I had to have it! Especially as it was green tagged at $2.99, dropping its price to $1.49. Woo hoo! In the end I liked the painting much more than the basket, as the basket was very cheaply made. I removed the painted lid from the basket, and it now resides on my wall as a lovely painting. The basket was re-donated.

 I have wanted one of these beautiful picture rock, sculpted Arizona sandstone, votive candle holders for ages. When I saw this one the first time I thought I would buy it, but something made me hold off?! Maybe it was the $6.99 sticker price, but lo and behold today's sticker was green, so I got it for just $3.49. Even a small one of these can cost $25, and this is rather good sized. I felt so happy to get it. I will not be mucking it up with wax candles tho. I think a nifty flickering l e d tea light will work nicely instead.

 At 99 cents this lined paper notebook was a good bargain. I didn't notice until afterwards the Corepower YOGA sticker on the front. How funny is that?! Some poor YOGA person gave it up and dumped their notebook...hmmm...I wonder why?

Just at the last, as I was walking by the books, I happened to spy this. If you ever want a good book for your library, and you are into any type of applique, get a copy of this book. Now I don't plan on using it for Machine applique, but the information laid out in this book are good steps for any sewing of any kind. It covers just about everything in the way of how to treat your machine, to different types of machine needle usages, to types of presser foots from different machines, just to name a few. I know I will find this book extremely useful, and the fact it is done in ring-binder style is pure genius. I can't tell you how often I have found the use of a normally bound book so frustrating when it came to usage for a project. Having the book lie flat is so much more practical, I wish more of my books were done in this way. As you can see the price was $3.99 and I was happy to pay it.