I went shopping yesterday with some friends from high school (J, B, A and S). We walked around a lot and our first stop (after the train ride) was to my utmost favourite fabric and notions shop. It’s a great place, they  have a lot of basement bargain pricing for a lot of their things and I always have a blast there. The catch is that they only take cash or debit. Thank goodness for my debit card, but I didn’t spend that much anyways!

Mini-fabric store haul. I got 3 spools of ribbon ($0.25/each), 6 fabric remnants that are between half and a quarter of a fat quarter size ($0.25/each), 2 spools of Coast Transparent Nylon thread ($0.25 each) and 1 ball of Regia Stretch sock yarn ($1.99, 50g). I was really impressed that I could find that many fabrics I liked out of their remnants bins (it’s the only places I generally dig through, I buy fabric for sewing doll clothes and I never need up to a whole fat quarter as I don’t want to make six of the same dress in the same fabric, nor do I sell the dresses that I make, so that’s a-okay with me!). Total cost was under $6, after tax.

The complete DVD collection of The Mr. Magoo Show from HMV for $14.99. I used to watch this sometimes on tv when I was younger and was surprised that it was out on dvd since it is so old (my older sisters recognized it, but they never really watched it, I don’t remember when I watched it, but it was sometime in the early 90s). All the episodes and includes a reprint of a comic book, yay.

One of my favourite stops was this great used bookstore that sold books in English, Japanese, I also believe Chinese and maybe Korean? Anyways, I somehow managed to find the craft section in the Japanese magazine aisle and found the only doll clothes sewing book available. Bonus was that all the clothing is for Licca dolls and that’s a bonus because Blythe happens to be the same body size as Licca (despite having a much larger head). I was pretty excited to find this for $2.00.

I went to volunteering for the first time in a while. I missed last week and the week before. I lost my voice one weekend and I had a mild fever the other weekend and because I volunteer with generally much older people who have weakened/poor immune systems, I always stay home when I’m even remotely sick as I don’t want to chance getting them sick. But I went in today, as I was feeling great, and had a wonderful time (despite the fact that I attend “church service” and literally know none of the words, or the tunes, or anything like that) and helped out and got a lot of smiles.

How has your weekend looked like so far? What’s something fun that you did?

I had initially planned to go to the craft store for other sale items – but nothing ‘spoke’ to me, and then my sister pointed out bins of small strands of beads marked for clearance at $0.25 each! So I picked out a few.

2 strands of beads of 2 beads each (yeah, super small strands, lol) – glass.

6 strands of beads (top 4 strands have 4 beads each, all glass, bottom 2 strands have 8 beads each, all glass).

Now then, the game is this: How much do you think the strands of beads were initially priced at if I bought them on clearance at $0.25/strand? Keep in mind that all of the beads are glass and that I live in Canada, so prices were in Canadian dollars.

Price for large rectangular milky glass beads?
Price for the strands of 4 beads (blue and green)?
Price for the strands of 8 beads?

Closest guess gets the knowledge that they accurate guessed the original retail value of the bead strands! (I still need to look up the laws and such on doing giveaways on blogs, heh.)

I may have went shopping today. And these photos may be photographic proof of what I bought today…

Round Multi Jump Ring Mandrel (by Beadalon! My crimping pliers are by them as well).

2 pieces (obviously) with the following diameters: 1.5mm, 2.0mm, 3.0mm, 4.0mm, 5.0mm, 6.0mm, 7.3mm, 8.2mm, 9.0mm and 10.0mm. I commonly use 4.0mm, 5.0mm and 6.0mm. Bought this on clearance for $5.38. I don’t use as much jumprings as, say, someone who makes chainmaille, but I use enough that buying them premade from the store gets to be a little bit (okay, VERY) pricey after a while. I have wire already and I’ve made some before so I figured I’d give this a try. (Just so everyone knows, wrapping wire tightly around a wooden dowel and then trying to slip it off without hurting yourself is a difficult task – keep bandages around.)

3 vials of beads at $2/each. All glass beads (striped glass, they sort of remind me of candy; matte white glass; frosted rainbow assortment of glass seed beads, all very uniform in size).

Shell beads! ‘Taupe’ coloured flower-shaped shell beads (the label says ‘taupe’, I say ‘honey’ or ‘caramel’) and rectangular pink shell beads. On clearance at $0.99/strand (16″ long) from $12.99.

Swoons, my favourite part! Vintage silver bead caps (10 pieces), vintage spacers (haven’t counted, but it’s 20+ pieces) and teeny little flower spacers (swoons) (too many pieces to count just yet, hah). All three bags for $5 (which I honestly would have paid for just the vintage bead caps alone).

So all in all, a good day. Didn’t buy anything essential (for instance, I really need a new pair of roundnose pliers!), but I love having new components to work with. =)

Hope everyone had a lovely day.