Thrifty Find and New Hydrangea Bobbies!

Last weekend I went into an antique store for the first time. I had always thought of antique stores as places that had really expensive antique furniture and collector's pieces, etc., so I was never too interested in going into one.

Well last weekend a friend and I went into one...and I cannot believe that I've missed out all these years! It was like a well-organized garage sale, the kind of place where you want to see *everything* because if you don't, you'll always wonder if you missed something that you would have fallen in love with. Ya know those kind of places?

I left with this awesome, totally 70's style sugar and creamer set.

Here's the front:

and the back:

and the bottom:

They're about 4 inches high and I LOVE them.

I also got some more bobby pins made over the weekend...I recently discovered hydrangeas and they are such pretty flowers! I layered the fabric flowers the way I wanted them, sewed a faux pearl to each center, and attached them to the silver plated hair pins. I'm really happy with the way they came out.

Light Autumn Hydrangea Bobbies

That's it for now, hope you have a great day!

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The moving is done! In more ways than one--

Heh that rhymed. I'm a geek :)

Yep I'm all moved and (mostly) unpacked. Pretty time consuming, this moving stuff!

I also made another move in the last month...I moved all my handmade stuff from Etsy to Artfire.
I don't know if this will be permanent; it was just really time to try something new. I won't get onto Etsy-bashing; I like the idea of Etsy and I like how it looks, and I still go there everyday to keep up with what's happening over there. I still have my favorite sellers that I will buy from. I'd like to go back to being a seller there eventually, but only when they make some much-needed changes. **Update: I'm happy to report that Etsy has indeed stepped up and made tons of improvements, and I have re-opened my shop :)**

Within a week of setting up my Artfire shop, I sold one of my nest pins. I was so pleasantly surprised!! I had to *unpack* my packing supplies so I could ship it out :)
So the craft room/studio is pretty much unpacked and organized, and I was able to make a couple new bobby pins over the long weekend. I haven't listed them in the shop yet; they still need some more photos but I thought I'd go ahead and post the ones I have here:

That's about it for now, just some major changes that I thought some of you would like an update on! I hope you all have a great, creative week :)

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