saturday thrift finds.

Yesterday was a day full of good old fashioned thriftin'.

The very best kind of therapy.

Here are a few of the things I found...

navajo-style belt (not actual beads, but textured to look like it is), $1.30 from The Salvation Army

beaded necklace, $3.00 from Thrift Store With Cars

leaf needlepoint pillow, $2.20 from The Salvation Army

on the other side.

I've had a pretty rough week.

Doc Martens, a gift from my mom last Christmas

On the bright side, I am taking the train home tomorrow night

to spend Thanksgiving with my family.

And chocolate chip cookies straight outta the oven don't hurt either.

i bought him...

because he is just plain cute.

Not to mention he goes perfectly with my little collection.

And he was only 25 cents, despite being marked for $2.

outside the city.

On Sunday we met my boyfriend's family for lunch in a little town

about an hour and a half away.

On our way back home, we stopped in San Jose to hit up some of

the local thrift stores.

Thrifting in an unfamiliar city is one of our favorite things to do.

With map-quested directions in hand, we set out on our treasure hunt.

As luck would have it, there was a whole block of the loveliest antique stores

down the street from Goodwill.

And I got even luckier when I found these little gems in one of the shops

for just $1 each.

a ring (and a tag).

My mom gave me this pretty poison ring last Christmas.

It has a gorgeous lapis stone in the center,

and the most intricate detailing in the gold surrounding it.

I haven't worn it much because the clasp doesn't catch properly,

and it falls open with every movement of my hand.

Today I said "enough is enough" and put a tiny drop of super glue to keep it closed (but not too much, so I will still be able to pop it open again sometime if I so desire.)

And I was tagged by the lovely Starr of a thought is the blossom to reveal

7 random things about me...

1. My mom and I make up really crazy nicknames for our pets, which must be spoken in an equally crazy voice. It's a bit out of control. I think our little poodle Sophee-a has at least 15...and counting

2. I was a cheerleader from age 9-15. And also a dancer from around age 6-14, with a bit of a break in between. I really regret giving up dancing.

3. Pan-fried noodles with a splash of soy sauce equal a little piece of heaven for me. Unfortunately, no Chinese restaurants outside of those in my hometown seem to have the faintest idea what I am talking about when I try to order them.

4. When I was in the fifth grade, my friend and I had this really brilliant idea of attaching a little red wagon to the back of her quad, and then I got in the wagon. Everything was going really well until she came to an abrupt stop, and I fell backwards onto a road full of gravel. I screamed really loud. And I still have the scar on my back to prove it.

5. I am an imdb geek. Whenever I see new film, you can bet I will visit the site shortly thereafter.

6. I read perezhilton. I blame it on my Nana, who has always had a fat stack of the very worst gossip magazines on her coffee table.

7. I have just about a year and a half to go until I have my BFA in Cinema with a Production emphasis.

the sutro baths.

Just a few blocks from my apartment,

along the coastline, there are ruins.

The Sutro Baths, built in 1896, was the world's largest indoor swimming facility.

Home to 6 saltwater tanks, and 1 fresh in a range of temperatures, it was far more than your average swimming hole.

"Five hundred dressing rooms ... spacious elevators and broad staircases ... pavilions, balustrades, promenades, alcoves and corridors adorned with tropical plants, fountains, flowers, pictures, ... the collected treasure of foreign travels... a portico with four Ionic columns and pilasters which lead to a noble staircase, wide, gradual of ascent, bordered with broad-leaved palms, the flowering pomegranate, fragrant magnolias ... [touching] the very rim of the reveling waves.

— Eugenia Kellogg Holmes, Adolph Sutro: A Brief Story of a Brilliant Life

Oh, how I wish I could step back in time to visit such a place!

Yesterday I walked along its shadow...

all that remains of such a magnificent creation,

which was destroyed by a fire in 1966.

.

Read more about The Baths here.

carving.

We carved pumpkins last night...

My boy carved a skull into his. (The Misfits fiend skull, actually)

And I tried to make mine into a sort of pumpkin haunted house.

Here they are shining in all their glory on the front stoop...

Happy Halloween!