From the Weekend

This past weekend was full of thrifting (again, I know!).  Annie and I had scoped out the NC State Surplus warehouse last weekend and came back for our spoils.  This weekend, I ended up with a 6ft by 4ft green old-school chalkboard. It's awesome and currently leaning against my wall and busy keeping my life organized.

The picture on the left there is of the garland I made. It's pink, yellow, black (with a yellow and pink floral pattern), and blue circles glued together and attached to some string. I love it. It's so simple and yet so cute and colorful.

Annie picked out some awesome vintage (read: old but awesome) file organizer thingies (seen in the photo on the right below).

**Please note that that little file thingy holds only about 1/3 of our "Craft Library". Yes, we are crazy like that.**

Also of note are our twenty ReadyMade magazines we found at another thrift store. Here's how we acquired them:

Me:   I'm going to go look at the magazines.

Annie:    Oh, look! A ReadyMade. I love these.

Me:   Reaching for the five that are in view. They look awesome. Let's get them! I start grabbing all that are on the shelf and begin furiously searching for more whilst piling them all into mine and Annie's arms. 

Annnnnnnd five minutes later and we have twenty lovely ReadyMade mags ranging from 2004 to 2010 in our arms. Needless to say, they were an excellent investment at a whopping 99 cents a pop. I highly encourage you to visit their website. It's basically a DIY-ers dream as they tell you how to create nearly everything in the magazine and give you plenty of ideas for other projects. (Think Domino but cheaper and way more DIY than buy.) Here's a few lined up all beautifully thanks to Annie:

All I can say is that we spent another weekend successfully spending a wee bit of money on wonderful second-hand things. There's nothing as grand as a good deal of someone's vintage goodness!