Wannabuts Results

Here are the results of my latest round of wannabuts, or items I want to thrift but only for the price I want to pay. This messy yarn lot will need a lot of TLC, which is why I only wanted it for my minimum bid of $9.00. Alas, I lost it in a brief bidding war to someone willing to pay $12.99 for it.

This yarn and fabric lot intrigued me, but only for the right price -- and I won it with no challengers for $8.99!

I've always wanted a DMC floss cabinet, but thrift auction buyers fight ferociously over them. New they retail starting at $50.00. This one seemed to be no different -- I was outbid by another buyer -- but I thought I'd try one more bid with the max I was willing to pay for it -- $14.00 -- and unbelievably, I won it. Now I have a thrifted cabinet that is a dream come true.

Two out of three wannabuts is a very good round. :)

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Stuff

After finding this Caron one pound skein of lovely peach yarn in my thrifted lot I raided my stash for two cakes of Mandala in Pegasus, which matches it perfectly. For practice and hand therapy I'm going to make another Worth Street Afghan with this free pattern , but this time I'll use the yarn that was recommended for it plus the one pound skein. I'm not quite ready to do the vintage/recycled linen quilt I had planned (still a bit too nervous about the idea), so I'm going to use some color therapy and make a quilt from these thrifted green fat quarters. I considered doing another Yellow Brick road patchwork pattern, but I might go with a split rail fence like this one.

Better than Fried

I cut some chives from the kitchen garden to make garlic-chive baked fries for dinner. This is a great side dish for veggie burgers. Click here for the recipe from Taste of Home.com.

The Mercantile

If you don't mind walking 33K square feet in retail space, The Mercantile may be the vintage/arts store you'd enjoy visiting if you're ever in Orlando. I certainly did. Because it was busy I didn't take any photos in the store, but it's absolutely amazing and chock full of antiques and artisan creations, most of which were pretty reasonably priced. For $21.00 I invested in a picture of sailboats for the guest bathroom I'm redoing, and a fairy mystery jar of cool stuff. The jaw was hand-painted and decorated, and utterly charming. I think I wanted the jar more than the contents. As you can see the contents were both generous and pretty cool, too. I finally have some vintage gloves to use for my art quilter bingo challenge!

Rayen

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