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yesterday I treated myself to a morning out...at the thrift stores. I hit 3 different ones. When I came home for 'show and tell' I was surprised to find I had a nice pile of stuff....nearly all browns, not usually my favorite color. You can see some cowboy short curtains, a lovely roll of 70s chintz, a 50s apron, one of 10 (yes 10!) skeins of pure merino wool from New Zealand, a Jaeger silk scarf that will go to my sister and a Valentino scarf (well it is beige in the middle) for me.
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Of course, I had to pick up a few more scarves.
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and the brown merino wool was in 3 different packs, so I had to buy these skeins as well! I need more yarn like a hole in the head.
A nice treasury '
treasures from Toronto' featured my vintage fur collar. Sarah, a fellow Torontonian may do this kind of promotion once a week, she says. Yesterday Toronto elected itself a new mayor....a real bozo, I'm ashamed, so the city will need all the help it can get.
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I notice that in my filofax, on the things to do in January 2010 page I had noted
*set up on zibbet (that was a disaster).
*open another etsy shop (yeah right)
*join esty teams....well I never found a team that I fancied until I found etsyexpats, or they found me. What an outgoing bunch they are!
Anakit, took up the weekly challenge and put together this treasury
'miles to go before i sleep' and used a vintage 70s piece of trapunto work from my shop.She is from Europe and makes drop dead gorgeous jewelry.
Underanewlight, another talented jeweler from Montreal, featured my ivy fabric in '
fall can be fun, a bright, tasty list.
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and
moonandlion makes the wittiest, most clever treasuries, this one 'what I learned in my
geometry class' is no exception. Her clever wit is apparent in her shop as well.