Recent Thrifty Finds

I wanted to share with you some of my little thrift store finds from last week.

A New Century Dictionary from 1952 and a beautiful edition of The Favorite Works of Mark Twain  from 1939.

A small rectangular wood frame with an art deco style border and a gilt frame mirror tray (both in the back).

And finally a silverplated tray and a big brass-framed pentagon glass box. I had a smaller version of this box that I made lovely with an old print and modpodge, but I still can't show you the "after" because it's a gift that I still haven't shipped yet. I had been looking for another box for the longest time though. Can you believe 20 trips to thrift stores and yard sales came up empty? Finally last week, probably on my 21st thrift shopping trip, I got this big box for a great price. It has ugly flowers carved out of the glass on top, but that's okay because I've already covered them up. I'll show you what I did with it later this week!

Until then, Love the Beasts!

Emily

Fig. 84. Cat - Skeleton On a Framed Mirror

Etsy is stressing me out! I still haven't "gone live" with my shop because of all the pictures to be taken and descriptions that need to be written. And I'm only starting with about 20 items. I'm new to it so it's probably taking me twice as long as you vets, but man can it be time consuming! And brain-wracking trying to come up with exciting and fun words!

So I'm taking a break from it for the rest of the night and I'll show you another piece I'm listing on the eventually-to-be-open Lovely Beasts Etsy shop.

I took the skeletal drawing of a cat from the 60's Anatomy Manual I've been using and modpodged it to a vintage gold-framed mirror. The mirror was a tray and still can be, but it also can make a really fun and interesting wall hanging!

 

Love the Beasts,

Emily