Sew and sew!

This week, seems to me like I am in sewing mode! well not quite, but I have yet to pick up a sewing needle, but I have come across some brilliant finds! On Monday I found an amazing tin full of mother of pearl buttons, and on Wednesday I was looking at Freecycle ( the best forum in the world for finding unwanted goods) and someone very kindly was goving away some sewing machines. Now, don't get me wrong, I have a sewing machine, which is perfectly good, old but good, touch wood, and which I use when necessity takes, but I have wanted a sewing machine for the workshop, which really I can set up and leave and which requires no knowledge at all, and I am hoping I have found it. It is old, but not electric, so I can use it without plugging it in, and it will do simple stitches. ( excuse the pictures as they were taken in situ, amongst what used to be known as my kitchen! as we opened it!) But the most amazing thing about it, is what was with it!

 There hidden in the end box was a VERY large mother of pearl button! This baby is 65cm wide, and next to it is the smallest set of needles in the most gorgeous of paper covers. Added to this was some old lace, and I have yet to go through the rest of the box. So even if the sewing machine is useless, it was worth it for the finds!!

So go on tell me what you have found recently.. would love to hear...
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