by bramblebabe on Mon Nov 02, 2009 1:12 pm
Love it when new things come in. Saw some MM Vintage Findings on a website recently - any chance of them making an appearance? Wish we had a truly great junk shop here - there are several of those charity places (Vinnies, Red Cross, LifeLine, Salvation Army, Endeavour) but some of them are becoming surprisingly expensive & most of their stuff is much more modern than I'm keen to find. There is also a book shop that sells old books & magazines but again it's fairly expensive, considering I just want stuff to cut up. Must admit, I still struggle with cutting up a junk book. Was interested to hear Marg say the shop kept a large jar of buttons - I'd love to find something like that in a junk shop, someone's old button box with buttons of all kinds. Has anyone tried to get the backs off the buttons? The plastic type snap off fairly easily with DH's pliers but the metal ones can be a bit of a problem. I don't mind lumpy bumpy LOs but sometimes they sit just a bit too high for comfort.