So, Mrs. H&A and i bought a house in April and for the last few months have been making it ship shape. Couple that with European visitors, craft fairs, a trip to the east coast and general unpacking and settling in, and what you get is me slacking on my posts. Let's get this train back on track. Some new flea finds, some new projects and some of my equipment.
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| grabbed 50 of these in Maine last moth. dead stock ice cream wrappers. make great bags for small bits at a shop. i love the design. |
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| my little sis and her beau are fixing up our mom's place in Maine, tearing out the walls and ceilings. look what she found in the attic floorboards. great old army pouch. |
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| close up of pin one the military bag |
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| got 10 of these old shop rags on the cheap at an estate sale. gonna try and incorporate them into some bags |
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| picked up this huge hide at the PCC swap meet last weekend |
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| working on some bags using that same leather |
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| i have a ton of vintage zippers and small pieces of cloth. pouches make sense. |
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| a few made from old feed sacks. soon to be available at horseandanchor.com |
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| wooden nickels are rad. period. i grab them when i can find them. these i got in Maine last month |
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| Lubec is down east in Maine near Quoddy head park on the coast near Eastport |
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| backside was blank |
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| this one is from where i grew up. i need to find out how many other states claim Paul Bunyan as their own. Growing up, we raced horses at the state fairs and race tracks around New England, the fairgrounds in Bangor Maine had a giant statue of Paul Bunyan at one of the entry gates. |
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| Paul Bunyan backside |
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| great set of metal stamps (note the anchor and horseshoe)this is what i used to mark the squished nickel |
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| new (old) juki. a little scary how fast this thing can move. has sped my process up quite a bit, this thing will sew through leather and thick canvas with no problem |
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| bucket of cut straps, just waitin' to be put on some bags |
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| leather washers for the copper rivets, needing center hole struck keeping them in one of my domed lunchboxes |
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| squished nickel from estate sale, 60's or 70's that I'm thinking of incorporating in some projects |
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| picked up the horse stamp at Casey rubber stamps in NYC last month. Great shop on east 11street between 1st and 2nd ave. didn't have it in stock so made on on the spot. took like, 5 minutes. the anchor I've had a while |
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