oh god; where do I start?!! scavenging for ‘found good stuff’ is one of my favourite and most satisfying activities. so let’s see...my most recent find is last Wednesday, which is Garbage Collection day in the res. area behind my office. I scored two beautiful brass pots, into which I will probably insert some healthy happy green houseplants. On the drive home from work this summer I scored a really cool leather chair tied into a doweled wood frame, sitting at the end of the laneway. I have collected many a picture frame, and furniture, and even clothes...I think I need to write my own post about this, because I could go on and on...Yay for the fun of scavenging!

i found a le creuset dutch oven at a garage sale for 5 bux...does that count?  when i was a kid i used to find clothes discarded or washed away on the beach and wear those.  remember my “sex wax” tshirt?

i also found - and toted home and up the stairs - an antique singer sewing machine, complete with it’s wooden cabinet and all original warranty cards, etc.  that thing moved around with me for years till i sold it for good money at a garage sale.  it had been built in 1934 in edison, nj.  odd tidbit: my husband’s maternal grandfather worked at the singer plant in edison, nj in 1934, so he could have made that very machine.  pretty cool, huh?

I’m not so much with the scavengy, but my dad is. Coolest by far though was the yellow ceramic teapot we dug out of our flower beds when we replaced our fence. First we found the lid, and while weird, we didn’t think much of it. When we found the actual teapot (full of hardened dirt but completely intact, no cracks or chips) we were all dumbfounded.

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