Thrift share - books n florals

Joan Walsh Anglund - Morning is a Little Child

Bleargh - black is not a good background color for blog pictures!!

Nevermind - I'll do better next time.



Easton Press - The Arabian Nights

We've been very selective at our thrifting outings lately.

Those two books were the very few brought home.

The Easton Press book has a beautiful leather cover with embossed and gilt details. Numerous color plates throughout too. It's headed for ebay - though I'll enjoy a few more wanders through the stories before it heads off to its new owner.



Stool to refurbish

And this little wicker seated stool was a Goodwill sidewalk sale find for $2.

It'll need a little regluing and a bit of a clean, maybe a color change.

It's a keeper!

Mod floral tablecloth and napkins

 Springy/summer finds include the textile bits above....

Maggi Cerastone snack plates - Mikasa

...and those go well with these snack plates found last year.

Still holding off on any big thrifting outings - it's just so gorgeous outdoors this year that our time is spent outside enjoying instead!

But the indoor Garage Sale at the South Florida Fairgrounds is coming up in a couple of weeks, bound to do some shopping then!!

Joining in today with

Apron Thrift Girl

Flea Market Adventures



Take a Stitch Tuesday - chain stitch

Chain stitch variants - detached, open, wrapped

I'm slightly lagging behind the pace for Take A Stitch Tuesday.

I took more time with  the open stitch version of chain stitch.

side wrapped chain stitch

And explored side-wrapping of chain stitch to see if it added more height.
(sorta' did)

Painted background

And played around with one or two thicknesses of the variegated silk I've been using.

These framed circular motifs still remind me of portraits in an old photo album.

This is one of a pair of siblings.

Raised in the same environment - yielding individual personalities.



the other sibling - similar painted background

And those backgrounds - shall I admit they're the brush cleaning cloths from when I do my Dye-Na-Flow painting efforts??

Nah - I'll just leave the mystery alone....

Take A Stitch Tuesday 2012 is an online weekly stitch challenge hosted by Sharon B of Pintangle.

Each week she chooses an embroidery stitch which the participants then work in any fashion they choose. All levels of participants can join in - stitch instructions are included on the site, along with some nudges in how to use them in your own designs.

There's a flickr group here, a facebook group here, and a Stitching Fingers group here.

Simple Sunday