Mushrooms, and More

I do so enjoy a nice cruise through the aisle's of our local 2nd hand stores. They seem to get in a wonderful array of textiles and art. It makes me smile to see all the different kinds of talent out there that went toward making it. I know what it is to be creative and I can appreciate the effort it took to make the objects I am finding. I can't purchase every piece, but those I do, I know I will cherish and enjoy for a long time to come.

I do love a good mushroom and I fell for this piece immediately. It is tole mushrooms on a funky old piece of pine board. It is the one thing I always wanted to try and never gave it a go, back in the day when tole painting was all the rage. This is going in my new little kitchen, because it makes me laugh to see it. I think it will fit in splendidly. It was $4.99 which was I thought a little high, but the $3 senior discount that day helped.

 I had to snatch up this fine example of a magnifying glass. Even small ones of these on Amazon are $15. This was just $1.99, which to me made no sense at all. The pricing at GW is always strange, but it is getting worse. It's like they can't make up their minds what a thing is worth?! I was happy to get it for such a value because I use one of these a lot. It is great for stitch counting quilts, deciphering old handwriting, or any number of other useful things. My eyes not being what they once were. It's going to be super handy in my studio.

At the last I was so glad to find these decorative rings on a shelf. Now I can repair the Hollie Hobby shadow box that was missing one. I am getting rather annoyed at GW's new policy tho, "Nothing priced under 99 cents." This was .99 and in the past it would have been marked something like .45. I am very tempted to not remove them from their original package at all, these being actual vintage rings from the 1970's. I had to include a picture of the back of the package, simply because I thought it a hoot. Look at all the nifty idea's they gave you for how to use them. I think the mini towel ring the funniest. Towel ring indeed! It's so small it wouldn't fit a dolls hair ribbon. ha ha ha  But hey, when was the last time you saw a package like this with Made in U.S.A. printed on it? This package might need to go into a museum because of its rarity. Just kidding!