Here it is, Saturday already and I am just now posting the finds from last weekend. My son gave me a heads-up about a new second-hand shop he discovered a little way out of town. Naturally, I had to check it out. For those of you who are local, it is called
BJ's Imporium and it is on Orient Drive, outside Gresham.
I wandered through the maze for at least an hour. The owner came out to chat and asked me what I was interested in. I told him buttons and sewing notions were my favorite so he took me into the huge barn behind the store to show me a sewing basket. {Love! these walnut-slice buttons!}
The barn was packed. It turns out he has an auction every Tuesday night. He puts things in the store for a while and then they go to the auction. From the look of all the boxes piled high in the barn, I would say a lot goes straight to the auction because I can't imagine how he could fit any more in the store. {This small scrap of embroidered Asian fabric was in the bottom of the sewing basket.}
I'm excited to find out about a local auction that is in my area. I have always wanted to go to one. I might wait for the longer Summer days to venture out on the country roads at night but it is absolutely on my to-do list. {Set of 6 hollow celluloid buttons and a thimble marked "Peirce Spork and Beans". Spork??}
At first I thought this was some kind of hat but once I got it untangled I realized it is a crochet purse. It is sort of an odd pattern because the motifs on the center sides pouch out. It looks like it probably had a lining at one time but I can't quite visualize how the lining would work with the bulgy sides. Just one more thing to wonder about...
That and what is inside all those boxes I saw in that barn!
