Love on the Side

I'm really into vintage handkerchiefs right now. I don't really know why. They have nothing to do with the rest of my work. I picked up a few when I went antiquing with Keith LoBue several weeks ago, but I'm still not sure what I'd like to do with them yet. I think there's a bad pic of them a few posts back. Here's some much prettier pics, all found via Flickr.

Saturday Finds

Jewelry artist Keith LoBue is visiting us in Greenville this weekend and yesterday I had the opportunity to go antiquing with him at a few of the wonderful junk shops here in town. It was a wonderful outing full of great furniture, lovely rusty things and just all manner of stuff. I got some beautiful vintage linens and these really fantastic old needle cases (I'm a sucker for a needle case!). Later, after I purchased them, I discovered that each case was full of sewing machine needles! They're all different sizes, though I'm sure none will work in my more modern machine, but they were a nice surprise!