This month:
Ended up with Sea Lavender.
Went to Goodwill yesterday in search of a backpack for my upcoming trip. Found two, at bargain prices. Resisted the yarn and puzzles (Yay Me!), did find a pack of 3-D dog erasers. Best find was a GladLock container full of jewelry-making stuff, including a pair of round-nose pliers and a pair of wire cutters. Only $2.86 for the whole container, so I bought it.
While I waws there, I saw a set of dishes, in a familiar pattern. Mikasa Studio Nova's Adirondack pattern. Now, 25+ years ago, I bought two cups and saucers in this pattern for my college dishes. Always liked the pattern. But I didn't buy them yesterday.
Yeah, I went back today. For $75, I came home with I believe 8 dinner plates, 6 salad plates, and 6 sandwich or luncheon plates. Plus four plain white bowls that are very deep, just the way I like them for soup. I didn't buy the serving bowls ($15 each), the coffee cups and saucers, the $10 salt & pepper set, or the wannabe sugar & creamer set that was actually a creamer and a coffee cup on an oval saucer.
I've had a Fisher Space Pen on my "someday" list for a while, but more in a "that's cool" way than an "I MUST have it" way. But this week, I lucked into a free one. I needed a pen at the Habitat for Humanity rummage sale last week, and was loaned a neat little pen by a fellow Library volunteer. I complimented the pen, and found out it was a Bullet model Space Pen, which is shorter. Turns out, he had multiple Space Pens that he'd received as gifts, and offered me one. Lovely!
So my new Space Pen is a metallic blue Bullet pen, with a tiny nick, and no clip. It had an annoying development, because the refill was loose in the barrel and it retracted a bit every time I tried to write with it. Google revealed something about spacers and springs, but I went with the lower-tech solution of putting a tiny bit of balled-up paper in the stylus end of the barrel. Problem solved.
And now I have the perfect pen to carry in my purse, because the cap won't come off, and since it's not a click pen, it won't accidentally write all over the inside of my purse.
The library and a local craft group have a craft swap about twice a year. So far, I'm doing good about taking more than I bring home. This time, I took about a bag and a half of stuff, and came home with about a bag. Only one cone of yarn, though.
Highlights:
A tatting shuttle - saves me from buying one
Beads for someone's friendship bracelet fascination, and I'll keep the jar.
A vintage, made in the US, pair of pinking shears with the original box.
A bead kit for a necklace that L will probably love.
Had some luck at one of the local auctions this week. For $15 (plus their 12% commission), I got a 1st-gen iPod Nano, 7th gen iPod Classic, and two Wyze security cameras (V1 and v2).
The iPod Nano charged up and worked fine at first, but then went dead and isn't charging at all anymore. Darn it.
But the iPod 7th gen, a 120 GB model, seems to be doing fine and have decent battery life, in spite of the sticky grunge on the front.
Haven't done any reading on the Wyze cams yet, but maybe I can make a birdfeeder cam with one of them.
