Recent Treasures

I've done a little hunting and gathering of treasures recently. Here's a sampling of my bounty.

I'm using the tin to store my sewing machine accessories. The Paris magazine was a surprising find, and now of course I wish that I had bought them all. I've already used some of the old trim on a project that I hope to share next week. The book is an old copy of Pride and Prejudice. I loved the design on the cover, so I hope to use it in a future project. The black box contains a player piano roll. I've been hoarding the one I bought last year; now that I have two, I can use one of them! The trims were bought for cents!

The one item I'm not showing is a bag full of old buttons that I picked up while visiting my family in NJ. I took my 2-year-old niece with me to go antiquing. I wasn't sure how she'd be. She was an angel! She held my hand and let me look at everything and never touched a thing, until she spied some vintage party noise makers - then all bets were off. Now back to the buttons. We were in the basement of an old mill-turned-antique shop when I saw a barrel full of old buttons and a little cup with a sign "$1/scoop or 5 scoops/$4". I got a little bag and had my niece count out five scoops of buttons (she can already count past 10 - she's such a smartie). When I took them to the counter, the woman wouldn't charge me anything; they were her buttons. She said she loves children and I can use those buttons to teach my niece.

I made a lovely memory with my niece and have a little treasure to go with it. If she behaves herself like this all the time, I'll be taking her with me on more hunting trips.