I went to my favorite consignment/antique shop on Thursday, and oh my god, I must say I found the coolest thing out. They actually have a small sewing section, filled with everything with baggies full of thimbles, to Antique looming thread, to bolts of fabric. It was sooo cool! I never paid that much attention to that part of the store before. I have pursued the fabrics and crafts section of Wal-Mart countless times in the last few weeks, but everything cost more money then I have it seems. So anyway, in the space of about ten minutes I collected an armful of sewing notions and took it up to the counter. And voila!!! Everything in the picture only cost me a mere $10.02! How cool is that! I have a huge panel of cream silky fabric and a panel of white silky fabric that will be ideal for purse linings. I also got that funky blue and white fabric (in the upper left corner), and mucho felt pieces. I thought I might be able to experiment with those and make Christmas ornaments out of them. I saw a how-to on another blog. A lot of what you see on the right half of the picture is various colors & amounts of trim. I got curious after I bought it all &when I was waiting for my mom to come out of Autozone I counted. I have 39 yards of trim total in packages that haven't even been opened yet! Of course, some of it is at least 20 years old, but still looks as good as it did the day it was first sold! Someone must have had LOADS of sewing stuff! Oh yeah, when I was going through the sewing section (in awe)I came across this awesome fabric: Is that not the prettiest?? It's red and is embroidered with red and green flowers. So pretty!! I'm going to save it for when I am very good at sewing and make a pretty dress or skirt out of it. I am only in the very beginning stages of learning how to do it properly and right. I came up with the idea today that sewing clothes and modifying them is like making a work of art that you can wear. I thought that was just a tad bit clever :P So anyway, when I was going through my closet last week, I came up with a rather large bag of clothing that I never wear, and probably never will. I was going to donate it to Goodwill, but decided to save it for the pieces that I can take the zippers or buttons from. Then the rest, I will modify into pieces that I will wear. I have a grey short sleeve top that is made out of sweater material that it's neckline drives me crazy! So I think, I might modify it into a large shoulder bag or a halter top. I haven't decided yet. I also came across my second pair of jean capri's that I didn't wear because the ends weren't hemmed, and they looked rather bland. So I looked at them, and I looked at the strips of lace I had hanging from my mannequin, and back at the capri's. The idea for my first sewing 'project' appeared in my head. I got to work with the lace, the capri's, and my machine. The end result? Rather pretty and I love them now!!!!