Thrift and Antique Store Haunts
Written by admin on October 23rd, 2007I went out today for one of my favorite mental health breaks: thrift and antique store shopping. It was great. I found some unusual things. First, I found a primitive sort of shelf, obviously handmade, that is large enough to probably stand on the floor, but I put it on my sewing table for now. It is already housing some little things that didn’t really have a home.
I like the shelf, but my hands-down favorite find today is a set of three jars of old buttons and thimbles. These are just so pretty!
Actually, purchasing the buttons caused me to want the shelf, because the buttons would need a place to sit. Besides, I already had a jar of buttons that was sitting lonely in a bookshelf. These jars were really fun to go through. In fact, I did not realize there were all these thimbles in the jars until I opened them up at home.
Jar #1:
Some of the buttons are large. Some are cloth. Some are metal. Some do look really old. Each jar had a little something different. Jar #2:
And, jar #3:
Jar #3 was definitely the most fun! The boys were excited about this little metal man hidden in jar #3. I measured him. He is 2 cm tall, but look at the detail!
He was a lost in a jar of buttons, but now he’s out!
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