vintage + sea foam green .. WIN WIN!

when I make my 2 or 3 or 4 trips each week to our favorite thrift store, I always depart with a smile on my chubby little face.  The staff is awesome, the stuff is super cheap, and it makes my necessary retail therapy inexpensive and easy.

I left today, with a ridiculous grin & the awesome deal of 2012 .. so far.

my apologies in advance for jealousy brought forth by seeing my seafoam green awesomeness.  please don't show these posts to your boring white/beige/taupe sewing machines .. they can't handle the awesome.

$15 including the case, extra bobbin AND the 1976 manual.
did I mention how awesome I think it is .. ? :)

the teen has already sewn everything in the house she could think of, that needed mending.  I love my family, because they were just as excited as me and couldn't wait to play with it!

paint + barn animals = always fun

I'm not ashamed to admit that many of our crafty times come to us from 'the walmart.'

We live almost 2 hours from the city and/or any of their locations. Even though it's always a hassle-filled road trip to go to 'the walmart' - I try to stock up like crazy.

case in point .. our Turkey day trip to the city yielded these goodies :

I wanted more - but we needed the trunk room for kids' Christmas presents or something or other ...

... I digress !!

Even way back when the high schooler was an elementary schooler; we loved setting aside a night to paint cute little ceramic figurines from the walmart arts-n-crafts aisle.