Recent Treasures

 I've been shopping. I found these four beautiful Springerle moulds by Laxa at Thrift World-all four set me back ten dollars. I thought that was pretty good shopping (just the heart lists for $75.00) until I found...
...antique Minton. This one set me back $2.99 but it sells online for $275.00!

 The fact that it not only survived without any chips, but ended up in a Goodwill in Ralston, Nebraska is nothing short of incredible.
 I like covered dishes, but I might hesitate to use this one now that I know a bit about it. Yikes.
So that was fun. I did find some lower-end pottery as well...
 I do love a bit of California Pottery. I already had the peach tray, so I had to buy the strawberries. This set me back $4.00, but I'm not complaing. I use my California pottery pieces.

Let's pause for a butterfly break. We saw both of these at Wherespan lake on Friday. It was a beautiful day.
The Fuzzy Headed Twitcher found some sort of unusual sparrow, so he was happy. He's been working so hard, I though he needed a break away from all the baking and paperwork. The 21st is rapidly approaching but *fingers crossed* we're on schedule. He's doing the iced and decorated biscuits on the Nebraska 150 theme, and the decorated holiday ones for Easter. They're elaborate, but once they're baked, spread with a layer of royal icing, and detailed with piping and food markers-they are out of the way. He's entering assorted Christmas biscuits as well which is convenient as I just found moulds for springerle and speculaas. Thank you, thrifting gods! The week of the 13th will be madness, so I want him to get out of the house a bit now.
I wore some vintage, as you do. I've had this skirt for years but somehow neglected to show it on the blog. The Ultrasuede 70's does 40's jacket is a firm favourite, that appears here regularly. There's a matching skirt, but that feels a bit too vintage cowgirl, and it is a bit small as well. Wearable, but not something I'm determined to reunite with the jacket.
Outfit Particulars:
Vintage peasant skirt-Goodwill
Blouse-K Mart
Vintage Ultrasuede jacket (part of a suit)-Goodwill
Vintage Mexican tooled leather handbag-New Life Thrift
Tooled Leather belt-Goodwill
Cowboy boots-K Mart
Cuff bracelet-Thrift World
Vintage shell earrings-Hand-Me-Ups
Silver Sara Coventry bracelet-Thrift World
Butterfly wing bracelet-New Life Thrift
Vintage celluloid covered wagon brooch-Etsy
Fragrance-L.T. Piver Floramye (80's version)
 Poor butterflies!




I am closer to my State Fair outfit. I have a bid on a vintage hat. If I win the auction, I'll wear my red square dancing skirt and white peasant blouse as the hat's such a show-stopper I wouldn't want to upstage it with a dress. I'll know by next week, otherwise I'll work with the hats I already have. There's nine days between Danny's drop-off and my drop-off with the pies, so I'll have a bit more time getting myself pulled together. I made the mistake of Googling images of decorative pie crusts. Talk about intimidating! I'm not doing that again.
I do wonder at the mind that dreamed this up, and executed it so perfectly. I'm going to go with something a bit less elaborate. 
Well...maybe just a bit less elaborate. 

Hope you're having a nice weekend. 












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