I Love Thrifting and Craigslist Because..

I can find such neat things!  I took a trip a little south of me to Minneapolis on Sunday to check out some fabric someone had for sale.  Very fun - mostly Ikea Children's fabric on small bolts

and Christmas Fabric.  

All the new fabrics are listed in my Etsy shop.  

I also split up all the DS Quilts fabric bundles into individual FQ's since none of it has sold yet.  

While I was in a different area of the Twin Cities, I checked out a thrift shop I have not been to.  

Score!  I found this adorable little teapot.  It is staying right here.  ;)

 Here is another picture with a couple of other teapots I have found at thrift shops.

I also found these 2 small teacup and saucer sets that are stamped "Made in Occupied Japan"

(these are also in the shop).

On the sewing front, I have finished putting my "Little Bites - Drop" squares together.

I need to square them up the 2nd time to 3 inches square and then sew them together.

For those of you who know about my health challenge, things are a little bit better.  

I have more energy and can focus on things better!  But my left hand is still bad and very painful.

I suppose holding a ruler while rotary cutting or fabric while sewing doesn't exactly help.  

But the little sewing I am doing is helping me stay sane.

I was just invited to a baby shower for a work colleague.  

I am going to try to crank out a couple of baby bibs for her before Friday.  Yikes!  

I have more adorable Ikea fabric that will be perfect for bibs when I fussy cut some of the figures.

I hope you are all having a wonderful November so far.  I am reading blogs when I can get time on our laptop.  The old one I was using has died so there are 3 of us who want to share the new one.

Take care all, and

p.s. My one year blogging anniversary is in 3 days.   

Hmmm, wonder what special thing I can do to celebrate?