Yesterday was a day of treasures! We started the day visiting the farmers market and hitting a few yard sales. Nothing caught our eye, so we stopped at The Salvation Army store where Dan found a pair of wading boots for Hannah for $5!
Next we decided to stop at an antique store, where we saw all kinds of neat treasures, but the one that followed us home was a vintage milkshake machine. My dear husband has wanted one of these forever, but they are hard to find and can be very expensive! This particular store had TWO, and the one we purchased was on sale for an additional 20% off! I love the minty green color of the base.
And yes, we had milkshakes for lunch!
The other treasure of the day was a beautiful 45″ Leclerc loom! I have been wanting a new loom for a while, but finding one in my price range and near enough to pick up has taken a while. It was definately worth the wait! Not only is this one the size I wanted, it can be upgraded to as many as 12 harnesses, which is way more than I will probably ever use! Of course, this treasure was not so easy to get as the first was. We had to rent a Uhaul trailer and drive to Connecticut (2 hours), disassemble the loom, load it up, drive it home which was plagued by a fuse that kept blowing out leaving us with no tail lights –NOT a good thing at 10 o’clock at night, unload it and return the Uhaul all before going to bed!
Of course, that meant first thing this morning I had to get up, clean house, take down all my sewing stuff and move it to odd corners of the house and reassemble the loom. It actually went fairly well and it now has a place of honor (and most of the floor space) in the front room! I can’t wait to start weaving on it, if I can just figure out what project to do first!
