Treasure Hunting!

Yesterday, I was in Cripple Creek for an Elks event.  With an hour of downtime between activities, I was a bit too antsy to just sit.  A friend and I decided to go and look through some of the stores.  I had in my mind to go into a store that I've enjoyed looking around before, and the store did not disappoint!

It is an antique store, and we weren't very far into the store before Shelly started looking through a basket on the counter.  When I said that yes, I do use beads, she started pulling out treasures:  broken jewelry pieces.  While the jewelry itself can no longer be used, the beads can be re-purposed into various craft projects.  The best part?  Each piece was just 10 cents! 



Thirty cents bought me two unmatched earings and a broken bracelet.

Upstairs, we  discovered a bowl full of lace bits. Some just a few inches long.  Some a couple of feet long.  And, again, all were just 10 cents.

My main splurge for the first visit was a piece of lace from a wall display.  I paid a whopping $2.50 for a piece of "Lace, Shamrock white" that is a little over two feet long by about an inch or an inch and a quarter wide.

And, yes, you saw that correctly:  there were two visits.  Shelly and I wanted to make it back to the awards banquet, but we were only partially through the store.  While I didn't see anything new on the second visit, I did have time to rethink one of the trims that Shelly had shown me (but didn't want to buy herself)--a $5 card of green trim.  I'm thinking a peacock would love to strut this stuff!