I really need to keep this up better! This is a chest of drawers I found at a garage sale for $2. It has some surface blemishes on it but I'll be painting it anyway and can repair at that time. My sister asked me what I would do with it...I think I'll store my vintage linens in it. At any rate, it will go in my craft room.
I got this copper candle lantern at Goodwill. I thought the sticker said $.99 but it was $1.99. I tend to keep my eyes open for stuff I can hang things on, primarily my lace for display, but I also love hanging candle holders. Almost everything I have is wrought iron, which I also love, but I have a small collection of copper pieces if I ever decide to put them all together in a display.
I got this at the Trinity Mission outlet for $.75. It's big - about 6" high and 3" across. My first thought was to put flowers in the shaker holes, but we'll see. I was thinking fresh flowers but I could put tatted flowers in it OR, I could use it as it is designed to be used - as a shaker. Of some kind of foodstuff...or maybe bath salts? Or potpourri. I think it will be many things in its lifetime with me.
I got this small vase holder at Goodwill too. The flowers are part of a bouquet my son & his fiance got me for Mother's Day. I may take it to work. I like something I can just put a blossom or two in. We have so much around campus and I am sometimes tempted to pluck something. ....shhhhhhh.....
This came from Goodwill too. It's nice notepaper for a short note and I also look for things easy to embellish with my tatting. The box will come in handy later for something, I'm sure.
There's so much I've gotten and forgotten about. I happened to walk by this in my kitchen...I think it is a candleholder. I got it at a garage sale too. My intended use for it is to make it into a pincushion with tatted ladybugs.
Now...just to make time to follow through with all those plans!
I really need to keep this up better! This is a chest of drawers I found at a garage sale for $2. It has some surface blemishes on it but I'll be painting it anyway and can repair at that time. My sister asked me what I would do with it...I think I'll store my vintage linens in it. At any rate, it will go in my craft room.
I got this copper candle lantern at Goodwill. I thought the sticker said $.99 but it was $1.99. I tend to keep my eyes open for stuff I can hang things on, primarily my lace for display, but I also love hanging candle holders. Almost everything I have is wrought iron, which I also love, but I have a small collection of copper pieces if I ever decide to put them all together in a display. 
I got this at the Trinity Mission outlet for $.75. It's big - about 6" high and 3" across. My first thought was to put flowers in the shaker holes, but we'll see. I was thinking fresh flowers but I could put tatted flowers in it OR, I could use it as it is designed to be used - as a shaker. Of some kind of foodstuff...or maybe bath salts? Or potpourri. I think it will be many things in its lifetime with me.
I got this small vase holder at Goodwill too. The flowers are part of a bouquet my son & his fiance got me for Mother's Day. I may take it to work. I like something I can just put a blossom or two in. We have so much around campus and I am sometimes tempted to pluck something. ....shhhhhhh.....
This came from Goodwill too. It's nice notepaper for a short note and I also look for things easy to embellish with my tatting. The box will come in handy later for something, I'm sure.
There's so much I've gotten and forgotten about. I happened to walk by this in my kitchen...I think it is a candleholder. I got it at a garage sale too. My intended use for it is to make it into a pincushion with tatted ladybugs.
