This is Awesome

So basically I love to collect stuff. Junk, really but it's all in the eye of the beholder, no? Here, you get to see what I've foolishly spent my money on and wither I in fact love it or hate it.

Welcome to the find of the day. A weaving loom.

A few weeks ago I forced my hub to take me to this 'estate sale crap' store. Really great stuff, reasonable prices. The owner had an amazing little teak kitchen cabinet set, some GORGEOUS oak filing cabinets, a real stunner of a lamp shade that I bought for my horse lamp - hey, new post right there! and then he had someone's grandma's craft supplies. An antique Singer sewing machine operated by foot peddle, a spinning wheel and a weaving loom. All in mint condition - someone was buying but sure wasn't using this stuff for the last 50 years. I got all excited and like a big shot got a price on the package deal. All three pieces of junk could be mine for only $350.00. So I went home to Google, and mull and obsess and after a few Etsy searches, YouTube tutorials and castanet scours I decided that I must have a loom.

The ones currently available were either enormous things that need an entire room devoted to them, or some mini tabletop ones. You can only imagine the feelings of.. ahem.. inadequacy I would have if I came home after spending a chunk of change on something so small when it could potentially be sooo big! They ranged in price from $150.00 - $600.00.

I was driving by the junk store again today and at the last second wheeled into the parking lot. Waltzed into the place, checked on my kitchen (gone), checked on my filing cabinets (there woohoo!) and checked on my loom. It had in fact been tucked into a dark corner, that thing wasn't going anywhere anytime soon. I casually asked the guy if the thing was intact and he pulled out all of the pieces. A unicorn appeared and the loom turned out to be the perfect size, it stands on the floor, has a mid sized width and all of the parts are present (well, except for one but still).

So it had a $300.00 price tag on it. I ask the store owner what his real price was, he tells me $200.00. I tell him $180.00. He tells me his kids will starve. I know he has no kids at home, he is a retired divorcee married to a retired divorcee. HAH. Loom is mine for $180.00, and he threw in an enormous roll of white wool yarn for free. Which, as it turns out does not function in a loom.

 In general, I think I love this loom - hate the wool. I must buy something more appropriate. After that well, watch out world, you're all getting scarves for Christmas!

 It came complete with instructions, a bill of sale (ordered on boxing day 1945 at a whopping $22.50) and a letter written to the original purchaser signed by the president of the company! Quite neat.