Vacuuming in high heels & pearls

Last week I went into JoAnn's to get 3/4 yard of fabric to make Maren's smock and some green ribbon for a swap project. I walked out with that and what you see pictured. (Where's that smiley with the sheepish look on its face?) It seems JoAnn's is resetting their ribbon and trim section, specifically the stuff sold by the yard. It was marked way down; most of the ribbon in the photo was 10¢ a yard! I got tiny black and tan rickrack, brown, orange and blue grosgrain, cream and brown velvet ribbon and lots more. The girl at the cutting counter was not too thrilled to see me roll up with my cart full of spools, I can be sure of that!

In my last post about the smocks, I mentioned that I would be watching the thrifts for cheap fabric & bias tape to make more smocks. It would appear that the Thrift Fairy heard me and granted my wish! On Friday while I was waiting for DH's delayed flight to get in and going out of my mind with anxiety, I visited the thrift to calm me down. (Some people drink or smoke to calm their nerves, I buy old junk. We all have our vices.) It was apparent that someone had donated all of their sewing stuff to the thrift. It was all broken up into individual baggies but as with the blankets I bought, I could just tell that it all came from the same source. The baggie with 23(!) yards of the pretty blue bias tape was 50¢ and over in the fabric section I found this cute vintage pink and blue print for just 95¢. As soon as I can get my swap stuff finished, I'll be sewing Miss Maren a new smock! I found a lot of other goodies too, and I'll post those soon.

And last I just wanted to post a picture of something that makes me happy. I found these cute foil-wrapped eggs at Walgreen's before Easter and had to buy them because of their colors! They remind me of little polka-dotted toadstool caps. They look so sweet on my kitchen windowsill and I will be sad when it's time to put away the Easter stuff and throw them away. Maybe I'll hang onto them just a little bit longer. :) They look more springy than Eastery, anyhow.