Handmade Home, by Amanda Blake Soule, came out yesterday and I was at the store and had my copy in hand by lunchtime. I also started and completed one of the projects in it but that's another story for another time. Anyways. Today I went to the thrift store with the goal in mind of scoring some fabulous old things to cut up and sew with. I couldn't find a thing that I could stand to look at longer than it took my eyes to move to the next rack let alone bring home with me. But guess what.
I found something even better!! Sorry, Soulemama, but there's something nearer and dearer to my heart than thrifted fabrics.
Have you figured it out yet?
Old records for my victrola! At 50 cents a record! I grabbed all 8 of them (would have been 9 but that one had a crack in it) I may have come away fabric poor but I came away record rich.
I love how everyone had their 'own orchestra.' This one is Earl Hines. How cool is it that he was from Pittsburgh?? I also found Skitch Henderson, Dick Jurgens, Harry Horlick, Xavier Cugat, and Harry James all had their own orchestras too. Billy Murray didn't have his own orchestra but he had an American Quartet. And Palie K. Lua and David K. Kaili didn't have an orchestra and they also don't have a Wiki entry but hey, they play a mean Hawiian Guitar Duet and that's all I've got to say about that.
