Merry Crispness

Fun thrifting at the Traverse City St. Vincent de Paul.  70s All About Lovebirds book $0.25

Weird little Christmas Stories book from 1964 with a beautiful cover  $0.10

wickey wickey wickey wickey

sweet 70s heart tin $0.25

Asics running shoes $3.00 - they are drying out after I ran them through the washer 

Great old Christmas cookie theme jigsaw puzzle.  It was marked $1.00, bit if you look closely someone wrote "missing 3 or 4 pieces", a flaw that reduced the price to $0.50

a small moderately attractive apple

A farmer friend gave me a million pounds of golden russet apples

the poltergeist

I've experienced a lot of "poltergeist" activity at this farm over the years, witnessed by both myself and friends.  In the past few weeks, I come into my kitchen in the morning to find one of the lower drawers in the old kitchen built-in hutch open.  These drawers are sticky and are hard for a human to open, so I don't believe the pets are capable of pushing or pulling it open.  It contains a couple of candlesticks, candles, and a few place mats.  They are noisy drawers when opening so I feel like I would hear it.  

I cannot explain it.   

Ms. Sugar

Great thrifting in Cadillac, Michigan today.  This weird garment bag was $1.99

The prettiest dress, with all my favorite details: neck tie, ruffled hem, great print.  Dresses were 75% off today, so it was $2.00

Could it have a better tag?

Everybody should be wearing a love t-shirt.  On the $0.49 rack

Two beautiful children's books - the ABC book is from 1964 and has beautiful color photographs, discarded from Manton Michigan Schools.  The second is from 1962 and is a collection of International folk tales, in which rabbits seem to feature prominently.  They were $0.10 each

A few yards of nice cotton fabric with a turtle eating a green daisy motif $1.00

bionic quilt

I thought it was a sleeping bag.  It was rolled up in a basket of various textiles marked "$2".  It wasn't a sleeping bag, it was a handmade 1970's Six Million Dollar Man Quilt

The back is hand sewn squares in red, white and blue, a mixture of cotton and flannel, nicely done

he's a brick......house

Linens were half off today, so the quilt cost me $1.00

also scored two great pairs of Levi's, $3 each, and a 70's brown turtleneck with tiny pink hearts, $0.50

and a rubber dinosaur mouth, just because

come play upon my harp of joy

My new dog Charlie has been destructive chewing.  5 pairs of pants, countless pairs of underwear, my duvet, the arms of a loveseat.  Here is how she customized a cushion on my old couch last week.  The thing is, I hate that couch.  It came with me from NYC, and was second-hand in the first place. I had it reupholstered, Max peed on it for 7 years, and now this.  I wanted and needed a new couch.

So I went to Goodwill today, where I found this perfect, vintage couch and foot stool in great condition, exactly what I was looking for

Yellow tags were half off, so the couch and stool cost $17.50

I also found this cute little pink bench - the seat opens up to a storage area  $15

Children's books were $0.10, so I got these, the best being the Shaker Peaceable Kingdom book from 1978, which is beautifully illustrated and has thoughtful quotes

It's An Armadillo!

Book rescued from the recycle bin at the Kingsley Library

I love the photo of the author, Bianca Lavies