{Collage made by Dorthe}
At craft day on Tuesday, Karla, Mary and I were all a little out of sorts. Mary has been dealing with a cough that won't go away, which makes it hard for her to get enough rest, Karla has been having a "creative slump" and had a bunch of little things add up to make her a bit down and I've been having frustrating bouts of fatigue- they can usually be relieved with a 30 minute nap- but it's not convenient to take a nap at 10 am. I've been using Karla's catch-all phrase of "consumption" to describe what's ailing us.
Karla and I decided that an outing of estate sales today might get us out of our funk.
Yesterday, after work I stopped off at sale that started at 2pm and went until 7pm. It was in a newer house, close to home and I thought it would probably be full of expensive antiques- but I think I've lost some of my ability to read an estate sale ad- because although the house had some very nice true antiques, it was also full of great $1.00 items, linens, sewing stuff, paper- all the stuff I love.
I even thought "Karla will love this sale".
Karla came over this morning with gifts for me- all these pretty trims, a large Charlotte, and some baby Charlottes that are hiding under the trim.
Look at these fun trims that Karla sewed- crepe paper, silk, tulle embellished with rhinestones.
This rhinestone trim is perfect to go with this netting flower I made for the Paper Cowgirls apron swap.
So- back to the estate sale outing. This morning, Karla and I headed out in the pouring rain with the sky almost as dark as night in search of a cure for what was ailing us in the form of other people's old stuff.
And we drove, and stopped, and waited in line, and drove some more, and got wet, and drove some more, went into some really depressing houses, drove over and dragged an orange traffic cone for 20 feet before a gentleman in his 80's grabbed onto the back of my car and said "Pull forward".
Is it just me, or would anyone else be nervous about driving your car with an elderly man holding onto the bumper?
Besides buying a few things for Karla's garden, all that driving, rain and darkness produced was these cute shoes for me.
Then, we did what we should have done in the first place- we went back to the great sale I had been at the day before and found enough goodies to fill up the back of the car. Even though the house was big, and we spent a lot of time there, as we were getting ready to pay, Karla said "Oh, I'm sad we're leaving, that was so much fun".
If we had just gone to that sale in the first place, our thirst for vintage goodness would have been satisfied early in the day, and we could have spent the rest of the day playing.
Because when you can buy a netting petticoat trimmed with little flowers, why would you drive all over town?
The consumption must be addling my brain. I'll show you a few more of my treasures tomorrow- after I go back for half price day!
The collage at the beginning of my post was made by my dear friend Dorthe. Her work is just beautiful and I wanted to share it.
