Happy Holiday Charity Shop Shopping and Crafty Finds.

We were only away for a couple of days at Easter but Lu and I still managed to hit the charity shops of Minehead and I was really pleased with the couple of crafty things I managed to pick up.

Like this large, 26 piece, wooden Peppa Pig jigsaw for just 75p (there was no box or picture, hence, I think, the price), something that was already on my shopping list, as I wanted to make some more jigsaw gift tags/decorations after realising their crafty potential.

These really are big, with plenty of wiggle room to perhaps accommodate much larger stickers and/or embellishments than I would generally use.

However, when I get the time, my first project will be to see if I can come up with a simple but effective way to put one of these festive puzzles that I found in The Works Christmas sale (75p for 6 puzzles) on to a jigsaw piece, to make a novelty gift tag, using a suitably matching patterned paper on the front, then after varnishing both sides adding the puzzle? 

I reckon using twelve of the jigsaw pieces and the twelve puzzles I have, they would work out at 20p a tag, including paper, varnish and a thread to make.

I also could not believe it when I found this bag of jar lids for 99p.  I think Lu thought I had finally lost it when I declared excitedly “I’m having these!”, but there was method in my madness. 

I’ve seen several ways of decorating mason jar lids as Christmas tree ornaments (a bit like my cookie cutter idea from a few weeks ago) on Pinterest, but I remember thinking, where on earth would you find just the lids.  Looks like I found my answer.

In all there were 6 large lids and 14 smaller ones, with their respective discs, working out at just 5p each.  I am thinking of Christmas scenes, perhaps using my Tim Holtz village dies, air dry paper clay, mini bottle brush  Christmas trees and perhaps even a small snowman (not unlike my Christmas tins).

There was also a small collection of plastic lids ……. originally I thought I would just use them as shallow glue pots for Iris and Bertie, but looking at them again, perhaps they also have more potential, so I guess it’s a case of watch this space.

Happy, crafty days!