Wednesday 10 February 2010

A Veritable Trevor Trove!

I made some new friends at the op-shop on Saturday. Their names were Chadwick...
and Dorcas.
Some of them were much too shy to tell me their names, but I invited them all home with me anyway.


Sometimes, it's great being short. If I were further from the ground, my eyes wouldn't have alighted on a rather unpromising looking John Lewis bag and I wouldn't have ventured over to take a peek and discover these treasures. Just over one kilo (I weighed it on my kitchen scales when I got home) of wondrous old thread, all for the embarrassing price of £1.50! A bag of spinach costs more than that! Some of them, like Chadwick up there, are still in their original wrapping, while some spools were nearly empty. The yellow ones up there feel like silk. I'm not sure how I'll use them all yet, but I'm so happy they came home with me. 

8 comments:

  1. Lovely! Don't you just love finding such treasures! Looking to see what you will do with them!

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  2. Chadwick and Dorcas look great! Love the illustrations and typography on them.

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  3. Yeah, old school thread packaging is way better looking than the ones we get these days

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  4. They're beautiful! GO the shorties. Chadwick Dorcas feels like your firstborns future name. Professor Chadwick Dorcas Wang PHD.

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  5. Team Shorties!

    xxx Prof. Major Chadwick Dorcas Wang, Esq.

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  6. hey joyce babe! HOW ARE YOU!?!?! So glad u found my blog so that we can once again be re-connected. Happy Chinese New Year to you and hope one day I will be in London and yourself in Perth!! *xoxoxo*

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  7. Wonderful! What great pictures you have! Amazing!

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  8. love the picture of the yellow yarn. :)

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