First are the wool batting and wool flannel I am using for my paletot. I practically stole the wool flannel--on clearance it was just $5 per yard for 60" wide fabric! I almost died. Perfect! Also, I got the wool batting for the paletot for only $10 per yard for 92" wide! I'll be able to use the extra wool batting in my winter hood, too. I am going to be very warm at the Perryville reenactment this summer!
Sadly, now we say goodbye to the paletot fabric for a very, very long time. No offense to you, lovely fabrics, but I have to work on my other things! Farewell until the fall.
I got these teacups at Goodwill for only 50 cents each! They may not be perfect, but they are passable until I can go to an actual antique store and find some more accurate ones. They also are lacking saucers, but again, they are passable without them (and also much more appropriate than my tin cup!) One of these will probably go to Sarah.
I also got my Easter present in the mail today! "Civil War Ladies: Fashions and Needle-Arts of the Early 1860's." It is a beautiful book full of fashion plates, needlework projects, sewing patterns and much, much more!
See?
Wonderful!
Beautiful! :)
And the back of the book :)
I also picked up some movies from Goodwill. No matter how inaccurate the Gone with the Wind costumes are, I still adore the movie! I also got Gods and Generals and Little Women (both of which I've never seen before).
Finally, a nice little basket I picked up at a different Goodwill a week ago. We have plenty of baskets at my house, however most of them are too large and/or too shallow to be of any actual use. This one is the perfect size and just deep enough to hold what I need. However, it didn't even cross my mind that it wouldn't hold my plate! Oh well.
Till next time! Au revoir!
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