A little down

I've been really down lately, I think it's because I don't do much outside of work. I don't work a ton, I am over 30 hours this week, barely. A couple of weeks ago, my aunt and I went to an antique mall in a neighboring town, it was fun, but I didn't find much to buy. I have decided, I'm very spoiled with garage sales, I find it hard to spend more than $1 on things lately.

Now, I'm not a huge fan of Pyrex, but I LOVE this color, I may be looking for more things in this color. I didn't buy this, but I did buy a few things,

 Like, buttons, big surprise there huh? I also had to buy the Impala emblem, I love the Impala from the 60's, such a beautiful car. There's also a neat rock in the picture below.

 There's more buttons in the shaker, and a cute little glass.

 I had Sunday off, and I was pretty depressed. I have very few friends outside of my job, and with the exception of one, we don't get together very much. So, I've been bummed about not doing fun stuff with friends. I also decided, I really miss garage sales, there haven't been in any in my area yet, and I keep talking myself out of ones further away. I also had tentative plans to go to a neighboring town's citywide garage sale this weekend, but I don't think that's going to happen. I did find a church rummage sale I've been to in the past, that I think I'll check out.
Today, as I left my apartment to do laundry, I found this gorgeous plant at the bottom of my stairs. Needless to say, I had to stop and take a moment.

What's been happening in your lives?

Bad Blogger

I'm sorry, I've been neglecting my blog a lot lately. I blame it on my Kindle Fire. I can't upload pictures on that, and if you looked at my last post, it's a tiny bit hard to type a lot on it. My last post isn't that bad, but it did take forever to write, the kindle likes to guess what word I'm going to type, and if it chooses that one, it just throws it in. I had to go back and correct a lot.

Anyways, here's what I've been doing since my last post. My mother and I went to an antique mall in Story City on New Year's day to look for strike plates for my bathroom door, ok she went to look for those, I went for fun. She didn't find any, if anyone has any strike plates, or knows of where to find any, let me know.
I found a few cool things that if I had the money and places for them I would have bought, like this gorgeous mirror:
And this cute Christmas tree:

I've been reading on people's blogs about cool vintage Christmas trees, and while I loved this one and quite a few other ones, I just don't have the space for them maybe when I have my own house and more space I'll buy one.
Also found this cool thread cabinet:

This next booth was just filled wall to wall with glass:

I'm trying to cut back on spending money on glass or dishes, so I didn't even look.

Also found this cool picture frame:

And this cast iron piece:

And this neat silver vase:

I did end up buying some things, like these buttons:

They were actually in this cool strawberry jar filled with buttons, I've decided to spend my money on vintage buttons lately.
The booth where I found these buttons had boxes full of buttons in bags, jars of buttons, cards of buttons as well as bags of trim. I didn't buy any trim, but I could have spent all day just going through this booth.

I also bought these cool buttons:

And these:

As well as this tiny bank book from my hometown:

It measures 4 inches tall by 2.5 inches wide. There's nothing written in it, but anything vintage from Ames, IA, I'm always game for.

These are my rejects from the strawberry jar, anyone want some buttons? I'm thinking of selling them on my etsy shop, unless someone here wants them.

This last week, I've just been working, and will be working all this week as well, this is pretty much my only free time this week, as it's RUSH at the bookstore again. We lost another person at the library, so I am again working 5 days a week, I'm not complaining, but it's nice to have a weekday off once in awhile.

I've really been neglecting art lately, after finishing my December swaps, I haven't needed to make anything, so I haven't. I cancelled my December CollageATC swap because we had 2 people interested, and since no one's said anything about being interested this year, I haven't bothered setting up swaps. I haven't seen much I want to participate in in my other Yahoo group, I kinda want to do a Valentine's swap, but more of buying for someone else than making something. Anyone heard of any?

And that's all that's been happening here, hopefully something exciting will come up. I do have to get on my desktop because there's a few things I can't do on the kindle online, so I will try to check back in more frequently.

The Charlie Brown Button Christmas Tree

I put in the top bid for this button tree at a local fundraiser. It's so cute. My boss called it the Charlie Brown Christmas tree, I realized it does kind of look like it, but sparklier and with buttons.
This is the ribbon 'tinsel'

I tried to get some close-ups of some of the ornaments, but they're a little blurry. This one is at the top of the tree, it's layered with a big white button as the background.

This one has a round button/bead on top, and then the others are stacked.

This one has two stacked buttons.

This one has three round buttons/beads shaped kind of like a clump of grapes.

This one has stacked buttons on top, and then a clump underneath.

I love this addition to my home, it might actually stay up all year long.