Joy all around!
This book has sold, but we have many other vintage books, available here.
Photo via The Destiny of Things
Here is the surprise email I received:
Hi There.
I think this book looks really cool.
I am going to give it to my sister in law as a gift.
She converted to Judaism and just had a Bat Mitzvah late in life.
I think she will really like this.
Best,
a fellow Etsian
I think this book looks really cool.
I am going to give it to my sister in law as a gift.
She converted to Judaism and just had a Bat Mitzvah late in life.
I think she will really like this.
Best,
a fellow Etsian
I just love it when someone sends me an email and lets me know that joy is being spread! Not just from me to her and her to me, but even to her sister in law! I thought the book looked really cool too and mainly kept it because it just looks vintage and I love deckled paper edges, so I had it listed as a book for crafting for either the pages, the black and white photos and/or for turning it into a junk journal, but I'm so thankful someone is going to read it first!
Of course, I wish I had some way to find out how informative and entertaining the book was to her!
This book has sold, but we have many other vintage books, available here.
Photo via The Destiny of Things
Here's what I wrote back:
Hi fellow Etsian!
I'm so happy to hear it's going to a nice "forever" home as a gift to your sister in law. Thank you so much! I hope I can use your story on my Hoarder Rehab and The Destiny of Things blog.
Thank you for helping me let go of some of my hoard!
Kind regards,
Kennedy
I'm so happy to hear it's going to a nice "forever" home as a gift to your sister in law. Thank you so much! I hope I can use your story on my Hoarder Rehab and The Destiny of Things blog.
Thank you for helping me let go of some of my hoard!
Kind regards,
Kennedy
Here is an example of the black and white pictures and you can also see the deckle edged pages.
This book has sold, but we have many other vintage books, available here.
Photo via The Destiny of Things
Saying Goodbye: I am so thankful this book found a new life and forever home with someone who will appreciate what's written and the photos in it! Because I had other plans for it, if it didn't find a forever home!
We usually take a photo of the back of each listing, but not this time!
What I Learned:
1. As a recovering hoarder, it's very difficult for me to say, "No!" to a free book or for that matter, almost anything free because as soon as I see it, my little hoarder crafter head starts spinning into action. For example, I was going to use the pages for collage and use an ek tool paper punch out the photos and make little tags! And then list the back and front cover for someone to make into a junk journal. And most likely, none of those things would have happened!
2. I've been more discerning about what I actually take home that's free now, but it's very difficult. For example, my mom sent me a box of boro (boro is Japanese vintage scraps of fabric or clothes or blankets mended with scraps, but in our family it basically means, "rags") and then later asked if I wanted another box and I could not refuse! Then she asked if I wanted some scraps of light wool, tenugui, ikat, kuba cloth and felted wool!
My head was rolling into crafting mode and I thought I need to practice to saying, "No!" to free stuff, so I said yes to everything but the felted wool and then a week later I found some holes in my Hudson Bay blanket and kicked myself very gently and then patted myself on the back for at least saying no to one free thing!
The photo above is an example, my mom sent me a medium and large Priority boxes squished down and chock full! As a recovering hoarder, I love my boro scraps so much that I can't figure out which ones to part with first, so I'm listing all the boro I can part with, which is mainly silks from haoris and Japanese remnants. Silk sleeve pieces from haori, listed here at Hoarder Rehab.
3. I'm still sorting through her boxes of scraps! Sorting through more off then on because I started a new project that is more time sensitive. I have been working on some vintage spring to Easter patches and textile brooches from an old quilt with baby animals, like fawns, puppies, cubs, elephant and rabbits.
I've been experimenting with different colors of scraps of thread and embroidery floss, much in tangled bunches, which I have no idea where they came from and randomly using which colors untangle first. The baby animal patches are so worn and faded that it's like embroidering on those iron on transfers from the old days! As a child I loved learning how to embroider using iron on transfers. I hope others do too!
I will start listing the patches and textile brooches next week, as either DIY patches and textile brooches and show some of the ones I've embroidered I'll use as examples of inspiration and ideas of how to use them. I got so carried away with the embroidery like iron on transfers that some took me days to complete!
These small thin boro art patches are from a custom order from a t shirt patch I made years ago. It took me 2-4 days and 13 patches later to get it so it looked like the custom request!
Photo via Hoarder Rehab
Thank you Etsy buyer for ordering from The Destiny of Things and letting me know how you are spreading joy. I hope your sister in law is enjoying it as I write!
I've still working on a Farmer's Market bag, but haven't had much time to stitch on it with the new baby animals patch and brooch project started. I have been mending some other bags and my pile of mending is growing. We didn't take any photos last weekend, so hopefully we'll take photos of the FM bag this weekend, so I can see how it progresses.
Is there something in your life that is so what you love that it takes you to a place of timelessness? Many times once I start stitching, I could do it all day and night!
Here are some thicker quilted art slow stitch patches that are worn to nothing in some spots, that you can patch, but still have some life in them to patch up some jeans or jackets! One is obviously a mending heart and the other one has a blueberry on it! I mended over most of the weak spots, and left a few areas for the new person to mend. Available here.
Photo via Hoarder Rehab
My goal of listing on each shop until each has 180 to 181 items had been reached at all 4 shops! but more hoard has sold! So I'll be new listing again this weekend. We are continuing our 20% off sales at all our shops at the moment. They are kind of rolling shop sales, which just seemed to happen, so I think JunkDrawerAndMore's sale will be ending soon.
I've been trying to adopt this new way of thinking, "Be willing to forgo all perceptions of gain, desire or profit and thereby be willing to be of selfless service to life in all it's expressions," but it's really difficult for me and putting it in to practice is very wishy washy for me. Anyone out there have any suggestions? Anyone out there practicing it too?
My new love for making textile art has been a most joyful experience in a way I never imagined and I'm doing less shopping now or at least trying to do less shopping now. I need to practice and realize that I probably have enough projects for another life time! Some of it's on Hoarder Rehab in the handmade by me section, here.
Click on the shop names to visit new hoard listed weekly: HoarderRehab with 180 items, The Destiny of Things- 181 items, VintageToGoEasy - 180 items and JunkDrawerAndMore - 180 items.
Maybe you'll find something and give it new life and a new home! Thanks for looking!
Here are some tiny small patches that didn't as much time to stitch and are priced as such. I left room for you to add on or color in with embroidery, available here. I have several more batches of patches to list in beige boro with black embroidery too! Photo via Hoarder Rehab
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