I love Second Hand Shops!

I've been looking for a crockpot so I can do some dyeing without using the same pans that I cook in and on Monday, I finally had some luck! The Drive-In Mart that we go to (a huge shop of just about anything and everything you can imagine!) had this dinky little crockpot!

There's no way my family can confuse this with our big normal one! A lady had bought it the week before but returned it because it wasn't really what she was looking for. Excellent for me! And just to further make my day, a large bag of blue roving and a smaller bag of some brown fleece, quite soft but very dirty. $20 for the lot, fibre and crockpot. SOooo Impressed.
Unfortunately I can't afford any dye at the moment and I'm beginning to wish very much that I had some of the professional powder dyes used by an awful lot of fibre/spinning enthusiasts!
Sigh, there's always something else to wish for.
Happy Knitting :)

And We SCORE!!!

I went into one of Jordan's favourite second hand stores today because he said there was a spinning wheel and, ever interested in all spinning wheels, I ventured in to take a peek. It was another Ashford Traditional like mine but I couldn't see the price so I went to the proprietor and asked, "How much is the spinning wheel?" and he replied "Oh, they're both $85 each."
Both?
You mean there's another one I haven't seen yet?
Sure enough, tucked away between a couple of other oddments was this sweet Ashford Wee Peggy


complete with 5 bobbins, a couple of brushes,


and a large bag of soft fleece...

for $85!

I've always wanted one of these because they are much more compact than the Traditional and easier to move around if you want to go to spinning events. I bought it and figured since I'll be getting extra work while Emma our Pharmacist is on holidays for the month of November it was a worthy purchase.
Now I have two spinning wheels! I feel so decadent!!!