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Category: New to Me – Thrifting Adventures

  • I finished two major projects yesterday, as well as Christmas stockings for my step-brother and boyfriend: They were pretty easy once my mom explained to me how the fuzz had to be sewn on. This is the first thing I’ve ever done that was lined, yay! Bits of that red fur are everywhere though. And this came yesterday from eBay: I had no idea it was so big. It’s’ three levels high and almost two feet high! The stamps say the coolest things: “please rush” “certified hand carried” “Please sign” and lots of other cool things. I got some doubles…

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  • Okay so this sweet girl, Liz, from 2 peas asked me about my Quickutz Tags and how I got the writing on there, and what it was and stuff, and I realized that I hadn’t shared my latest eBay stamp find. That right there on the left is an auction I came across on eBay a few weeks ago. It looked like a pile of sticks and it said, “These are photographed on a full size tray. There are 60 larger rubber stamps.108 medium and small loose and 102 in wooden box.They are all letters, numbers and symbols” Hmm, I…

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  • This is one of the best. But first, ode to Halfway. It’s back there some where, we were about half an hour outside of Halfway here, just checking that the car top carrier was on right. If you went over those hills you would see the valley covered in snow, beautiful twinkling snow. It started snowing right when we got to Halfway on Monday evening. It snowed all night and we woke up to snow everywhere, so pretty. Tuesday Sciarrino packed her stuff into the rig and we went into town (the really tiny cute town) later in the evening.…

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