Nifty Thrifties.

I'm kidding with that ridiculous title. The other day I was in a foul mood so I got an iced chai and went to check out some local thrift stores. I found all of these great pillowcases. Jake asked if I was going to use them for a craft project. Umm...no, I'm going to use them as pillowcases. I don't know why but it seems like we're always short a pillowcase, the dryer must be eating them or something. 

I also picked up these sheets. Some of which will be used for craft projects. 

I found this amazing blanket and it's my new favorite. People always ask me why I would buy a crocheted blanket when I can crochet one myself. My reasoning is that this was in excellent condition, cost a lot less than the yarn would to make it and somebody else took a zillion hours to crochet it, saving my fingers all of that work.

And finally, I got this great mushroom canister to put my sugar in. It looks so pretty on my new yellow counter. Also, I got this little yellow fire king dish. It's kind of a metallic gold in real life. I've always had a small obsession with gold colored objects. 

Thrifting/Antiquing.

We stopped at an "antique mall" in Newport, Oregon and ended up spending at least a few hours there. That place was gigantic and had two levels. Not everything in there was antique, or even old but we sure had a lot of fun digging through the vendor booths. The way it was set up was like little tiny cubicles of different vendor's items. Each tiny section varied greatly from the ones next to it. I'll have you know that doily love is alive and well in Oregon. I've never seen so many doilies in my life. I will say that I generally like thrifting better than going to places that know the value of what they have because with thrift stores I always feel like I'm getting an awesome deal, antique stores, not so much.

I bought this Needlecraft magazine from 1931 because I liked the image on the cover and we have a lot of wall space to hang things in the new apartment. I liked it even more when I opened it and found patterns for crochet and aprons and all kinds of cute things.

Don't they look so chic? I like the two on the far right the best.

I bought this red floral scarf to wear in my hair and I couldn't pass up this super inexpensive little piece of embroidery.

I got this little pitcher for maple syrup. At least, that's what I'm telling myself. When I go thrifting I try to make sure I don't buy a bunch of stuff I don't need just because it's cute. That's how you end up on Hoarders.

Then I immediately broke my own rule and bought this pyrex baking dish, even though I have a ton of this type of dish. I call them brownie dishes, my mom calls them casserole dishes, potato, potato. Ha, that doesn't come across at all when you type it out. Potahto?

Woo hoo!! I love old canning books. They have so many great recipes in them. I just always make sure that they're still safe and viable recipes. Nobody wants botulism.

This little treasure is for my niece. Little Golden Books have the cutest illustrations (see below).

Have you found any great treasures recently?