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 was interested and I could tell that some of the stamps were like my vintage sign making stamps, but what was a full sized tray I asked my self? Well I decided to bid anyway because it was starting out low. I ended up being the only bidder at 9.95 and shipping was 7.75, so for 17.70 I was thinking I would either get treasures or trash. I got treasures man!

Those sign stamps are much bigger than my others, and no, it’s not a full alphabet, but it really doesn’t matter to me. The set in the back I think is from an electric company based on the unique symbols that came with the TWO full sets of alphabets in the holder (on really tiny, and one bigger). Plus I got this:

Another complete alphabet (the standing up one), and then more random, almost a complete alphabet of the same style as in the box thingie. Here’s the cigar box I altered for them:

The “STAMPS” was done with those ones standing up in this box. Phew, so all that for 17.70, man I love eBay. So there you go Liz!

In another cool stuff note: Yesterday I went to a couple yarn shops, my local one, Have You Any Wool, and one in Beaverton called Knitting Bee. I had never been to this Knitting Bee before and I was like drooling like a crazy woman. Tons of hand-dyed, Patagonia cotton yarn, a huge selection of Cascade 220. I knitted last night driving home IN THE DARK I was so excited about this stuff. Taro do you see your black yarn in there for the requested ribbed hat? 🙂

Doesn’t my CarryBag basket look so happy. If you don’t have one of these lightweight collapsible things you need one, and they come in more colors now. I take my packages to the post office in it, go to crops with it, shop at the grocery store with it, basically I use it every day. I digress.  I also got an amazing book called the Stitch Dictionary:

I’d like to say that the fact that all the swatches in the book are done in yummy greens has no baring on my having to have it, but I would be lying. No seriously though, if you like to tweak patterns, or just make cool patterned scarfs you need this book. Of course if I got the Vogue Knitting: Ultimate Knitting Book (on my amazon wish list, wink wink), that would be great so that I could actually attempt all 250 patterns.