more textiles and kids books

Super weird/cool baby quilt

The motif is of animals on a merry-go-round, whose shadows appear to be different creatures

Goat with pig shadow

Terrifying 

More $0.10 kids books - this one is from the U.K., beautifully illustrated about a mouse and a wren

This one is great, with really psychedelic illustrations - subject matter is a bicyclist who falls into a magical world and becomes covered in flowers  

This one is about a messy mouse 

notes: lots of quiche recipes

I am always hunting for vintage vegetarian cook books, here's one from 1980 - the handwritten note at the top of the cover is the name of this post.  Predictable 70s era heavy, delicious recipes and sweet spacey illustrations of kneading bread and vegetables. I think food processors were fairly new at that time.

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