thrifting

so I am back from a week in Michigan with the parents. my mom and I visited a string of thrift stores one day, where the loot was far better than any Colorado thrift store.

I got a porcupine crewel for thirty cents....


some Easter wrapping paper...


more wrapping paper....


and even more wrapping paper...


a paper sleigh - from the font, it seems like it must be quite old.


and some greeting cards, a quarter each.


I also picked up some Martha Stewart things from Michael's - you can't use the weekly coupon on MS, but the clearance price beats it anyway - I picked up $11 of stickers and notebooks for $4.

some other randomness:

I collected Pez throughout college, putting together a set of two or three hundred dispensers. they are all in a box now packed away. but I almost wanted to buy some today at the grocery store - as they made a new set of Elvis Pez! while Elvis Pezley made an appearance on the movie The Client, it was not a real dispenser then. until recently they actually never had any Pez fashioned after real people.