Weekly Treasure Hunt

It happens most every weekend.  I venture out to see what treasures I can find for our home or my antique booth.  Garage sales, estate sales, yard sales, thrift stores - they all seem to call my name about 7:00 a.m. every Saturday morning.

This past weekend, we went to Lakeland to see our grandson play baseball. (His team lost, but what a joy it was to see him play!)
Downtown Lakeland has several great antique shops and they were paging my name to stop and visit... seems that no one else heard this.

 

 

At one of the shops, I found two wooden bobbins, a couple of painted wooden handle kitchen whisks, and this fantastic sad iron.

A recent linen BONANZA from local estate sales

 

 A pink and white dresser scarf, blue napkins with tiny roses, bread cloths and lacey trims - 

all tucked  in a very unassuming plastic bag.  

 

 

I am not sure what I will do with these ecru and cream lacy pieces, but they were in great shape with no holes or rips.... perhaps they just need a good soaking in sudsy water and a day in the sun.

 

 

This "cutter" quilt will make great Christmas stockings

 and circle garland (tutorial to come soon).

 

 These little guest towel beauties just needed a quick rinse and pressing and they were ready to go into my booth.  I am always on the lookout for vintage linens.  I love to find them in pristine shape, but I also usually end up buying the little sad orphan ones to use in pillows, scrapbooking, card-making, journals, or whatever needs a touch of vintage.