A bagful of cotton trims. Some are great, some not so much (that geometic along the top is pretty ugly). They also smelled awful, I can't even figure out what it was but they've all been washed and hung out to dry.
An assortment of sewing doo-dads for a quarter each. I probably could have bought more but these were at a flea market and the girls were impatient to move on to the garage sales since they weren't finding any toys they liked. For a quarter it was almost worth it just to get the cards the buttons were mounted on. Several of them are the type of buttons you cover with fabric, I'm not sure how well they are going to work, but again--only a quarter each
A Deluxe edition of Trixie Belden and a another tiny Japanese doll for my collection--this is the second doll I've found at these sales, I found a slightly larger one last year. Trixie Belden was a favorite of mine growing up, but when I became a cash-hungry book dealer 10 years ago I sold all my paperback copies, as well as any other copy I came across while scouting. Now I kind of wish I'd kept a set for myself--although the first 15 have been reprinted and I could get them from the library if I really wanted to re-read them.
Reading the Trixie Belden book was amusing--at one part, her little brother is bit by a copperhead on the toe, thanks to Trixie's first aid he's fine, but needs to stay in bed for a few days. Her dad hires a nurse to help her mother out, as apparently the strain of taking care of one solitary sick child and doing the housework (which supposed to be one of Trixie's chores anyway) is too much for her. The mother comments on how hard it is to keep him occupied --the first few books were written pre-television--as she heads upstairs with her knitting and magazines. Sounds rough! Oh, and Trixie gets five dollars a week allowance?! This first book was published in 1948, isn't that rather generous? She was trying to earn money for a horse, so maybe her parents were really trying to help her out, but still.
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