A few fun finds from the past week. The metal trash can will be staying with me for storage, at least for a while. I am switching it out with one that has a retro wine theme. I prefer the floral, imagine that. I have been working on a little reorganizing in the art room to fit in the vintage toy box I showed you in
this post and you know how one thing leads to another once you start moving things around.
This train case is more square than the typical rectangle. The inside is going to be a challenge but I think I can rescue it to live another day.
This quilt was my favorite find. The roses and colors are perfect in my world and it will be staying with me.
I don't know enough about quilting to tell the difference between the real deal and one made off-shore to look old. If you click this one bigger you can see the hand stitching, which looks sort of clumsy. Either way, it washed up beautifully and is a perfect accent in my guest bedroom so it's a keeper.
I also found two hand-made flannel baby shirts. As if these giraffe weren't cute enough....
A rocket man!! This has to be the most unique design I have ever seen for a baby shirt. I would love to find the embroidery transfers that this design came from!
The wood and metal keepers are the last of the button reveal from the big haul last month. The two painted wooden buttons are pretty worn out but interesting enough to be keepers.
These three are my favorites from the metal buttons. I don't know the material in the background of the one in the upper left but I suspect horn. The other two have fabric backgrounds.
****UPDATE****
A reader named Carlene (no blog that I know of) educated me that those little animal charms in
this post are celluloid and were attached to string bread ties as a premium. That explains what I described as tassels on two of them. That is just what remains of the string they were tied on with. Once I knew what to look for I was able to find out there are all kinds, including some that are hand painted. So much more fun than the plastic and wire ties we get today!
