Clown Car

This was the car as we left Karla's house.

Looks full right?

Not even.
 We managed to squeeze in 5 more boxes, a hatbox & a birdcage  somewhere between here & there.

If we had gotten in a wreak we'd have smothered.

An avalanche of junk.

Souvenirs from various malls across the flat-lands.

Tobacco tins for a future class, books & frames & this tarnished silver sugar bowl.

I scored some very fun things at Birdsong.

I'll buy Beth & Karla's cast-offs any day.

Kristi was my personal shopper at Marburger, she brought back a Victorian scrapbook, a lamp from Carolyn Westbrook & these amazing fabric scraps

Sweet little satin heart shaped pouch.

I found about 200 old monograms in a booth marked 75% off.

Of course I had to buy every bag.

Beth gave me some early birthday presents.

An old tin type album screaming 'make me into a book'.

And something from my Wish List.

A small album of pressed flowers from Israel.

I have wanted an herbarium for ages & this is close enough for me!

I am in love with it.

Aged, yellowed tissue protects each page of flowers.

 

 

It's too bad the book is in such good shape, wouldn't these be incredible displayed on a wall. 

Can you imagine 20 framed botanicals?

I have a few Victorian scrapbooks, but this one

Kristi found is wonderful.

Then an unexpected gift came my way via Philip's teacher.

2 big bags of goodies.

25 high school portraits from the 1940's,

 found near a dumpster in Massachusetts.

Besides being the coolest kindergarten teacher ever, Gail loves everything vintage.  

The second bag was stuffed with old laces, hundreds of them!

I think a lot of them were samples.

So that night I laid them all out in our bed.

Very carefully sorted.

Neat little piles, short ones together, cards together......

you know.

Kevin walked in & just stared at me for a second,

gave serious eye roll then left.

They just don't get it.