Show and Tell Friday: Finished cross stitch and recent finds

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Kelli at There’s No Place Like Home hosts “Show and Tell Friday” asking “Do you have a something special to share with us? It could be a trinket from grade school, a piece of jewelry, an antique find. Your show and tell can be old or new. Use your imagination and dig through those old boxes in your closet if you have to! Feel free to share pictures and if there’s a story behind your special something, that’s even better! If you would like to join in, all you have to do is post your “Show and Tell” on your blog, copy the post link, come over here and add it to Mr. Linky. Guidelines are here.

I finished the cross stitch piece I was working on!

Now I just have to get it framed.

I also wanted to share a couple of things I found online recently. Somehow I don’t seem to find much when I go thrift store shopping, but I was happy to “score” some good deals online.

I had been looking for a pink tablecloth and napkins for I don’t know how long and couldn’t find any: then last week I stumbled upon them unexpectedly. Every Friday the Make Mine Pink group of shops have special sales based around a common theme. Last week’s theme focused on kitchen items, and I found these pretty pink damask napkins and tablecloth at Sweet Necessi-teas.

My pictures aren’t doing them justice, but they’re gorgeous! The tablecloth is smaller than my table, but I think I can turn it diagonally and use it that way, maybe over a white tablecloth. I should have tried that for this picture…maybe tomorrow!

Speckled Egg is one of my favorite craft and decorating blogs. I love to go there just to feast my eyes and be inspired. Every now and then she mentions some things for sale at her shop, often little things that can be used on cards or collages. A while back I bought from her a packet of metal pieces that looked like they came from old jewelry. I had looked at it when I first got it, but got to looking at it again this morning while decluttering a couple of rooms in the house. I found what looks like a broken pin that I thought was just beautiful.

Those of you who have been reading here for a while know I love hearts, and I also love old-fashioned-looking jewelry. I think I can ask my husband to cut off the metal pin on the back and I can glue a new one on, and, voila! A vintage-looking brooch! If I remember correctly Anne wore a pin sort of similar to this in the Anne Of Green Gables film sequel in which she was a teacher, only hers was a locket-type thing with a clock in it. I do think it had a bow on top, and the clock was in a dangly heart. Now I am going to have to go back and look!!

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