Handmade Ornament

Saturday, February 28, 2015

There is Fine Art in the Thrift Shops

This amazing acrylic on canvas by Fred Draper has me stunned. A gem from the great Thrift Shop Beyond that has found its way to me. I immediately hung it up on our living room wall. It is almost criminal that I paid $6.25 cents for this high quality piece of art, marked $12.50, it was half off day at hospice thrift.

Acrylic Glendole Grange #168 Moumouth Cty

Link to my i-dearly-love-maxfield-parrish find.

Included with the Draper delight were these clothes (the lot for less than $20). I score at these types of sales because I look for offbeat or professional suit type pieces. A three piece black Pendelton suit/pant set, an unmarked beaded sweater (detail shown below), Studio Collection houndstooth pants, and a Woolrich gray shirt.

I will replace the yellowed buttons and affix the loose beads on this sweater.

The second stop thrift shop finds were remnant material in a little black office cube with a ladies cape and two retro sewing books (images from those will find their way into my AtoZ posts).

Other recent thrift shop finds were a Christopher & Banks embellished sweater and a Coldwater Creek plum knit top.

A to Z preparation continues for the April event. As of this blog post, there are over 2,000 bloggers participating with the sign-up list now closed.

Saturday, February 7, 2015

I heart YOU

First up is Beverly at How sweet the sound for her weekly Pink Saturday linkup. I have been image gathering, and as always with Beverly, I promise to behave myself (and am not always successful).

Continuing with the pink theme, I am showcasing my recent thrift shop finds of this embellished silk/cashmere sweater labeled Suzabelle Resurrected Couture ($2.50) and Luna Claire knit skirt ($3.99). One reason I so enjoy shopping thrift is finding unique pieces like these for just a few dollars. Helloo to all of my Visible-monday visitors!

The Leaning Tower of Tami

Finally, I Heart with Anne of Spygirl-amb.blogspot.com and her 52-pick-up weekly prompts.

A body positive shout out link on a Huffington Post article about super-women-super-models-fashion-ads. The focus being on models who are not the "usual" models, one being Ruth Bader Ginsberg.

1987 Pink pattern of the day

Two thrift shop pinkies that I didn't buy - the beautiful beaded purse and the pretty pink picture.

I am gathering steam for the two month deadline for the Blogging from A to Z Challenge in April.

Signups are still open a-to-z-challenge-sign-uplist-2015. This will be my third year participating. As of this post, there are over 500 bloggers participating.