Antique Books & Mixed Media Art
Like most of you who read my blog and create mixed media I have a huge collection of old books that I pick up here and there when I am shopping the local thrift stores. Matter of fact my collection of books that I plan to one day either use the pages or the covers in my art has started to take over my life. When I started out on my trip to the thrift store this morning I told myself that I would not go near the books. I did not NEED anymore books. This particular thrift store is only open three days a week, Thursday being one of them. I don't shop there every week but today I was looking for some clothes hangers and I knew they usually had some. So off I go after I drop my daughter off at school. This shop is very small and can get very claustrophobic if there are too many people packed in there at once. For some reason the store was packed today. I wandered around for awhile checking out the glassware. I usually find some great vintage china there for very cheap so I always chec