Finally Freebies

This is my favorite trade card of the batch. She is like a little thread fairy.

This weekend there is a large quilt show in one of the neighboring coastal towns. I ran into an old acquaintance yesterday while getting lunch who was preparing to show some of her lovely quilt work. We got talking and she asked if I had any old sewing images as she had remodeled her studio over the winter and wanted to hang and use for inspiration sewing ephemera.

I was going to do my freebies totally different this week, but after that encounter I went home and started going through things to see what I couldn't find. I thought I would share some of what I found with you. You might want to be find a place for some of these,also.

Do they make Merrick thread any more? and where is it located? They had very nice trade cards. I made this one into a book mark to use in my sewing books.


This is such a gentle trade card. I love how they call it temptation. What a cute child!

The quilting bee. A time for women to get together and share their love of color and pattern, catch up with each others lives, and come away with some incredible art work. If you haven't read the Elm Creek Quilt series and you enjoy sewing and quilting, you should.


This is such a strange trade card that I just had to include it. I think frog things were very collectible during this time frame....or....it is a great frog though.


No sewing room is complete without a thread holder. I am always on the lookout for one of those thread cabinets that I can afford. My mother has one that we all lust after. The one here is very cool, I also love how the dog is sitting so patient while the little girl plays with him.


Isn't this just darling. I love how they placed the ad inside the spool of thread.

Yard Sale Saturday

It has been several weeks since I have had the luxury to go yard saling. My days have been filled with family and friends. The end of summer activities. Saturday, I had to drag myself out of bed. I knew I would regret it it if I didn't get up. All week I had been mulling around if I would drive to Virginia to the 25 mile long yard sale to meet a friend. By Thursday night I had decided to stay home and not waste the time and gas, but to go yard saling here. I figured in the ride to Virginia and back I would spend enough in gas to pay for a month of yard saling here.

So off to the sales. The first two were rather disappointing. I did meet a sweet young girl selling her books. Her mother had bought her all the best. She had obviously outgrown them, but was having a hard time parting with them. How cool is that? I bought a couple bucks worth of board books. I found the only gilted board book I have ever seen.

Just a round the corner some fellows selling off a women's stuff. I found three old glass bottle stoppers-they must be for all those bottles I bought a few weeks ago-and a darling bird toothpick holder. I also found two pieces of white pottery that weren't white when I bought them. I spent quarters here.

Next a young couple that were bursting with pride over their son. Too cute. I bought the sea glass and two turquoise glass Polish vases from them. A dollar a piece. Yeah, my two collections are covered in less than a mile. Time for breakfast.

The next two stops were a guy moving back to the beach and an estate. He had scary masks and the owls. I have a friend who collects owls and I love the little wooden box. Sold. The estate was hard. I always feel like an interloper. I bought the two pyrex bowls in my favorite colors, two needle kits, the ruler, the beaded purse, the marbles, some bingo pieces, tape measure, a bag of buttons, playing cards and a table cloth. Time to take my finds home. Today I spent $10.75. Not too shabby.