Horror Monster Vanquished

Niece Leia came to stay on two different weeks in March to help me vanquish Horror Monster, my beloved craft stash.

Leia is one mean organizer!

But I was ready and surprisingly, the junk pile became smaller and smaller.

We have an "L" shaped galley kitchen starting with this ten-foot pantry hall.

Horror Monster had strayed way, way beyond his boundaries. 

There are pantry cabinets across from this area filled with paint and tools.

The main kitchen leads down to an attached breakfast room.

Horror Monster had totally overtaken this space except for the spots for Scout's and Willie's dog beds.

This was the back corner.

Shelf supports held shelves for a collection of tins.

That was the kitchen table under the left junk.

The primitive Hoosier was packed with craft supplies.





The other side of the breakfast room held a pie safe filled with dishes.

The oak dresser is used as a microwave stand for my 1980 microwave.

Fans of my fudge forbid me to get rid of the behemoth.  It makes wonderful candy.

And it held quite a variety of craft paints.

During the day, Leia and I would pack box loads of stuff for donation and for the booth.

All of the boxes were dragged to the den where we worked late into the night tagging and packing.

On the last day Leia was quite pleased with the progress.

In all, we hauled out FOUR truckloads of stuff.

And customers are loving it.

Gone are a box of rubber stamps, most of my tins, all the Brown Bag cookie molds, bags of craft supplies, and piles of vintage kitchenware.

The breakfast room now - devoid of Horror Monster.

Some projects waiting to be completed.

Basically this room is ready for a new floor.  

I am keeping the knotty pine paneling.



Chucks and I actually are the only two people on the planet who love the pine.

And Horror Monster?

Well, most of him resides in the primitive Hoosier cabinet.

A mere shadow of himself.

All the kitchen and dining room furniture is in the living room.

I still have to finish clearing all the cabinets and setting up places for the refrigerator and microwave in the dining room.

Of course I will remove all the cabinet doors and drawers to sell.

Reusing the handles - they are vintage.

I promise to keep you up to date with the changes.

Chucks, Azalee, Miss Peepers, Willie, Scout and I plan to stay in this house during the renovation.

Unless we turn on each other.

Or go insane.


See y'all!

And this is NOT an April Fool's joke.  I really did get rid of Horror Monster!

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Quickies

A different kind of a quickies makeover today.

Years ago I bought a trunk and had to take it as is.

Meaning all the junk inside.

I actually found several treasures in there among old clothes and newspapers.

Like a collection of eighteen rubber stamps from a automobile dealership. 

These seven are for correspondence.

Good shape for their age - 1930's and 1940's.

The wood on most appears to be cherry or mahogany.

The quickie part was cleaning and waxing the wood.

There is some damage to the rubber pad under each stamp.

They print clearly.

I displayed all of them in a big jar for years.

When I changed the decor in the den, the stamps were packed away.

I think I am ready to let them go.

Most were made by the Hartford Stamp Works.

Smith was one of the partners in the dealership.













 

The date stamp is stuck at July, 1941 - about the time the dealership closed.

How do I know?

The rest of the stamps are all about the business.

I plan to put these on Etsy.

Question for all of you:  List them separately, in groups, or all eighteen stamps together?

I am leaning towards keeping them together.

They have been a family for so long.


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Friday Finds

A hunt through Horror Monster, my beloved craft stash, netted a truckload of treasures to take to the booth.

Most of my colander collection is now gone.

Downsized my funnel collection. 

No one really needs thirty funnels, do they?

A few had the star spout.

Let it go!

I found many small bottles and jars displayed throughout the house.

Selected a box of ones no longer desired.


Let it go!

SPOOLS!

Man-oh-man, did I ever have spools.

Found this basket of spools in my bins of fall decor.

No wonder I never used them.

Did not have a clue where they were.

Three bottles of ordinary tiny spools.

A basket of threaded spools.

SPOOLS!

Let it go!

All this was moved two months ago or maybe longer to the side yard from the front porch.





Waiting for me to make a decision about my tool and tackle box collection.

Decided to send away ten of them.

Let it go!

Springs - been around for years anticipating a fantastic craft project using them.

Know what they are?

I left a clue in the middle back.

Let it go!

Finally there was silverware and silverware and silverware and ... 




Bundled like with like and sent them off to the booth.

Let it go!


So Horror Monster has started slimming down.

I am beginning to like empty spaces.


I may have to go hunt down some furniture for the booth, but I have crossed most smalls off my list for now.

There are more treasures to be found right here in my house.

(Am I already missing my funnels?  YIKES!)

Did you guess right? The springs are from old hair curlers.


See y'all!

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Gifts From Horror Monster

Soon Horror Monster will need a new name.

This is a small portion of the items moved out this past week.

Does not include the truckload I sent to the thrift shop.

 
Three large wire golf ball baskets.

Except for the few we use around the house, these are the last of the 150 baskets I bought when a local golf range closed.

They were great sellers in the booth, and I wish I could find some more.

Unfortunately, driving ranges are using plastic baskets now.

At one time I created gift baskets.

I donated several large garbage bags of excelsior, Easter grass, and ribbon.

The paper twist I decided to sell in the booth which led to customers wanting to know how to use it which led to demonstrations.

I probably should have just donated it! 

This project grew from discovering a box of pint canning jars, a huge canister of buttons, and a bag of wooden spools. 

Put them all together with a purple torn cotton ribbon ...

And a nifty little stamped tag.

Voila!

I found a box of china and ceramic items from an auction in 2005.

I remember buying them.




This particular auction I loved attending because the auctioneer was FAST!

Every Friday night for several years.

Robert would hold up an item and start the bidding at $50 and then say $1.

He did that auction talk for about thirty seconds before putting the item over on a table.

You had to bid as FAST as he was auctioning.

Once the table was filled, he started bidding on the table - starting at $1.

You had to buy the entire mess of items, box them yourself and get them out of the building as FAST as you could.

I had lost out on some small wooden benches.

I was not FAST enough to get my bid in.

So I had to buy the entire table to get the benches.

 
Luckily most of the items sold.

But I never even attempted to sell these.

Do not even know why I kept them.

Back then you could not give an owl away.

I sorted through the box, donated some and have these to sell.

I miss Robert and his FAST auction style.

Back into the depths of Horror Monster.



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Friday Finds

Willie is so confused.

All the vintage and antique items are going OUT the door and none are coming IN the door.

There are no piles of junk to sniff.

There are no new paths to wind his way across the living room.

Willie hides his toys under the dining room table so they do not disappear.

Yes, another week of shopping my house!



 
This is my current obsession.

It is my original craft closet.

Once tidy and organized.

It is the birthplace of Horror Monster who has grown by leaps and bounds. 

The right side is almost cleared.

This is what I found.

Tons of old hangers.

My hotel advertising hangers.

I selected one or two to keep.

The rest have gone.

There was a stack of small metal buckets.

They will be repurposed.

I once loved this drawer front because there was only one handle.

I turned it into a hanging rack for kitchen towels with a spoon hook at the bottom.

Back in the eighties!  Way before Pinterest or blogs.

Yes, we did projects in the stone ages.

Gone!

If you have wondered where have all the office baskets have gone, they have been shoved into this closet.

Eighteen of them and counting - I cannot see the floor yet.

All but four at the store.

Chucks had to have four of them.

I gave him an ultimatum.

If they are not in use by Monday, they are gone.

A tiny portion of my shoe stretcher collection.

I kept one pair.

The rest are at the store, but I have not tagged them yet.

There was one refrigerator basket with close to 300 macrame' beads.

I once was the Macrame' Queen, but never again.


The beads will definitely go, but the wire basket may be kept.

They are too useful.

The New Booth Update

I did hang some burlap to frame the entrance.

I hung crib springs on either side of the door.

I have a collection of frames hanging about.

The hydrangea dresser took the place of the gray dresser that sold.

The vintage ironing board holds a basket of hangers and a suitcase filled with vintage crochet thread.

I dumped boxes of leftover fabric and made quilt bundles.

A collection of restaurant china displayed on the Morning Sky cabinet.

I bought a tall display shelf from Jerry. Read about Simply Shabby & More HERE.

Well, actually at the present time it is stolen because he did not send me the bill yet.

Perfect for a collection of bottles, trophies, and wall pockets.

And that's it!

I am managing somehow to keep the C-23 booth sparse.

BUT if you just have to plunder, visit my Booth W-10.

It is packed full with goodies and I added a few treasures at fantastic prices.

You just have to find them.

Well, I am off this weekend to North Carolina to visit my niece who is a counselor at a camp.

She has planned two days of fun, thrifting, eating, and book-buying.

I am taking a brief vacation from my NO JUNK BUYING rule.

There may be an explosion of junk coming your way next week.

Have fun this weekend.

I know I will.

See y'all!

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