freebies and not-so-freebies!

so in the last week or so, i have continued accumulating more crap that i do not need...
b u t . . .
it is all totally awesome so check this out! here are some treats from the hoarding house:

i did need more tracing paper, and i am a total sucker for packaging...


and this cool-tool for marking patterns without destroying them with a tracing wheel!


a button spacer (awesome!) and button holder


seriously- its like they invented this for carpal tunnel. if you have it, you need this tool!


and the best. apron. ever.

and then i went estate/garage sale-ing and to the flea market with tyler and i snagged up these treats and more:

$10 for all these hats!


tons of new brooches and pins and sweater clips... even though it is currently 100 degrees outside with a heat index of 4,000, they were all maybe $15 total!

and i also got 4 skirts from the 1940s, an evening gown from the 1930s, a party dress from the 1950s, a robe from the 1940s, a fonzi puzzle, some necklaces and a chef hat!
now, here is the BEST FREEBIE EVER IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE:

i KNOW! its friggin' awesome!!!!!

the woman who i am cleaning the hoarding house for *gave* this to me this weekend! pretty much made. my. life.

just wanted to brag....

procrastinate much?

yes, its true. i am the biggest procrastinator possibly of all time. deal with it.
so since i've been at home enjoying the unemployed life, i've been working on quite a few sewing projects! so, here it is, about a month's worth of sewing!

i made this out of some yard-sale fabric for a wine tasting tyler and i went to:

spadea s-391

this one used to be a bed sheet, but i needed a fancy croquet dress:

simplicity 4982

actually i made this a while back from one big-ass sheet but never photographed it:

the super-sized pockets are the best part!

i can't find the pattern number! ugh!

some more yard sale fabric:

advance 8524

my pretty purple blouse from yard-sale fabric:

simplicity 6276
and my first britches! sailor ones from an old tablecloth! ahoy:

simplicity 3688 (i drafted my own sailor flap)

and this really quick little blouse from a pillowcase:

simplicity 4438

not too shabby, eh? there is one more dress but it's in the laundry... and i am currently working on one more for myself which may or may not be the worst dress ever, and i am making a super business wardrobe for a friend of mine who will be working with the U.N. next year... photos to come!

...eventually.

oh good god, i really got a treasure chest!

for realz. so for realz that it has to have a 'z' at the end, i am starting this blog out with a post about the most awesome of the garage sale treasures i have had TO DATE! (by the way, thats a lot of garage sales to compete against)

so good ol' tyler and i set out for a nice day of post-thanksgiving garage sale hunting this past friday... and wouldn't you know it, the very first listing for north central sa was friggin' amazing.

best thing about it was it was one of those tricky ones where you get all irritated because you cant find it in the labarynth of a neighborhood, and then you pull up to the house and it looks like 1 dresser and a box of old shoes, so then youre all like, "WTF!? all those twisty turns for this?" and so you go in so atleast you didnt totally waste your gas and it IS all dressers and crap and so you turn around to leave and there. it. is. THE TREASURE CHEST!
i got this bad ass old trunk from this bad ass old man full of bad ass old stuff for like, $35. let me give you a list of awesome things about this thing, in no particular order:

1. its a big ass chest! i totally need one of those, who doesnt?
2. i can put all my ass loads of fabric in it
3. it doesnt smell bad!
4. it has wheels- BONUS! i have retard-o arm problems so that is a plus for my lack-o-muscles
5. there's stuff in it? i get that too? (sales guy says 'oh yeah')
6. the stuff in there is even better than the trunk its self!

heres list of the trunk's contents... a.k.a. a list of awesome-ness... (listy day i s'pose)

1. a world war one red cross hat
2. an early 1900's sleeping bonnet
3. a 1920's dress that i might have to eat my way into fitting
4. a vintage slip
5. 3, count them, 3 severely handicapped mink... part of a shawl maybe? i hope so.
6. a pristine fur capelet
7. whaaaaa????? another pristine fur capelet!
8. WHAAAAA????? a friggin' fur shawl too! perfecto!
9. a weird black square piece of fabric? pfffft, thats going in the scrap box.
10. possibly part of a jester hat, or purse, or pants... i was confused and threw it away...
11. a STUNNING fascinator with curly little red feathers, and
12. extra molty black feathers!

now, is that a treasure chest or what?! PLUS, its not a haunted chest. i know this, because the guy told me so. PLUS PLUS, tyler got a huge box of antique books for $10, with a promise of money being hidden in the pages! so, pretty much he got books o' money. rad. PLUS PLUS PLUS, now that i think about it, maybe it IS haunted because he did say that kinda suspiciously... and if thats that case, perfect! kathy and i have been plotting some sort of ghostly seduction/kidnapping of ryan from paranormal state.
we already think our closets are haunted so im gonna lure him in and tell him "the ghosts only come out when someone is in the closet playing 'seven minutes in heaven' and woah, well look at that, here we are...." then i can have his overly religious ghost hunting babies and all will be good with the world.

especially if i can get the trunk ghost to babysit.