August Tag Sale Finds continued...

Back in August I posted about some tag sale finds I scored. Remember all those ties? Well, that was only part of the wonderful finds of the day. Those were the items that I would be keeping and using for crafting. Here are the items I found that I'll be posting in my etsy shop, Maple Street Treasures, soon:

The collection consist of: 

1 Polaroid Square Shooter camera

1 Minolta Pocket camera (we must have had bigger pockets back then)

1 Kodak Brownie camera

1 very decorative wooden bowl with lid

1 decorative carved wooden bowl

1 small round glass jewelry box

1 vintage linen calendar from 1968

1 set of vintage appetizer plates

1 collection of View Master slides

I had planned to get these items photographed and posted to etsy today, but I sort of pooped out and took a nap instead. I'm headed to bed early tonight, so I should have plenty of energy after work tomorrow to get it done. At least that's the plan... g'night!

Up-cycled Maps

So, do you remember the small stack of maps I picked up at the tag sale a few weeks ago? Well, it’s time to reveal what I’ve been doing with them.

  

I’ve been up-cycling them into wallets.

I am able cut the pieces for two to three wallets out of each map, depending on the size of the map.

I try to lay them out so I get some interesting cities or a variety of colors on each piece. If I plan them out well, I have surprisingly little waste from each map.

Each cut piece is covered with a light vinyl film to make the wallet tear resistant and water repellent and then I head to my one of my sewing machines.

I like to use my very inexpensive, very lightweight, Brother machine for sewing paper and plastic items. It operates almost like a toy, but it really is the best for the job. (I reserve my beloved Necchi machines for my other sewing.)

I sew all the pieces together with brightly colored thread.

     

Sewing paper is really quite fun.

And the wallets work up pretty quickly.

And there you have it! Another lilea b. creation, ready for sale.

A Sampling of Tag Sale Finds

It was beautiful and sunny in my part of the world this weekend. I took a vacation day on Thursday since that was supposed to be the very best day temperature-wise, and it was! Although I worked on Friday, it did give me the feel of almost having a long weekend anyway.

We hit quite a few tag sales Saturday and I got some awesome finds. Here is just a sampling of what I bought.

Some vintage items for my new Etsy shop, Maple Street Treasures.


A great wooden bowl, some kitchen utensils, buscuit cutters, and some books.

Some cool flower pots.
Also vintage although not quite as old as the other items.

I also found a great assortment of craft items. I’ll be keeping some of these and giving some to my fellow “crafties”.

Group shot of the great goodies!

An assortment of zippers... all for just $.50!
Can you believe what a great find this is?

A whole baotload of maps! Can you guess what I'll be doing with these?
I'll show you in a future post.

A bunch of brand new craft scissors in different scalloped patterns.
I’ll check the ones I’ve got and give away the duplicates.

And glitter!

Hmmm, I think I know someone who might like the glitter.

Oh, and I forgot to take a close up picture of the little spool of Daisy trim that you can barely make out in the center of the group photo. This is going to be perfect for some throw pillows I’m making. They will be featured in a future post as well.


So there, now there are more posts for you to look forward to. It seems I have more post ideas than I have time to write actually write them!

Hope you had a wonderful weekend!