Joy oh joy!

I have a new laptop! Another HP Pavilion, because I've been impressed with their repair speed (M's Fujitsu once took three months to get a repair). This one is black and silver with a fun bubble pattern. More importantly, it has 4GB of memory and a 12-cell battery.

I'm going to have to replace a lot of item photos, but I'm happy to have a computer again.

... and now to try to get my Sims 2 neighborhood to transfer to a new computer. :p

But on a much more relevant note, M and I were yard-saling over the weekend and we dropped in on a lovely lesbian couple who were selling some fun stuff we could repaint for our hand-altered Halloween village. And also, a big five-dollar bag of fun-looking shiny stuff.

Eeeeheeheehee.

Have a look at some of it:



You're seeing:

-over 50 silver-plated pendant-style cab mounts
-8 traditional coral-and-white plastic portrait cameos
-more than a dozen vintage cab-mount link bracelets in various styles
-5 of same in their original packaging
-a few other, larger cameos; roses and cupids and courting couples
-two painted porcelain half-inch cabs
-fourteen gold-plated giraffe brooches with snap-in cameo mounts
-sixteen goldtone teddy bear brooches with prong-style cab mounts
-various-size pinbacks
-two hinged cab-mount bracelets
-various other bits and pieces in various conditions

You're not seeing:

-about fifty owl brooches with glue-in mounts
-fourteen silvertone butterfly brooches with prong mounts
-some very odd cab-mount hardware (bottle openers and gag tie clips)
-over one hundred vintage screw-back clip-on earring findings
-and a load of other stuff

What a find! Five dollars for all this. I can't say this enough times. Five dollars. I've never worked much with cabochons, but what an excuse to start! I have so many wonderful ideas -- how about buttons in one of the link bracelets, embellished with the polymer and metal flowers you see on the upper right of the tray? -- and can't wait to get paid in November so I can order the other supplies.