Different Sort of Wkend & More

The wkend started out on Friday with a lovely gratis presentation about pearls in classic Hollywood costumes in the Mikimoto Pearl store in Beverly Hills.  And after we drank champagne!  (Think I was invited to this from signing up on a Mikimoto site for a contest??) I had decided that I had to get OUT more - and freebie events was a way to start.

Heard that there was another costume exhibit by the same Deborah Nadoolman Landis at the relatively new Pickford Center in Hollywood. As we were in town, we checked it out on Saturday (the only day the public really has access there) . It was about costume in color and in its own way was a revelatiotion.  I was most impressed by a dress from a Star in Born (mid 1950's)-  I had thought that the colors of those films came from the saturated nature of the film - but the COSTUMES were actually in saturated colors!! That dress was an almost blinding saffron!  At the same time I signed up for the events at the Motion Picture Academy (they do the Oscars.)

We scored at the bargain table at the  local Office Depot across the street- and got some stationery goodies - some to use for work and some good deals on pens (orig. $5.99 reduced to $1) I rummaged through all the dollar bins....Got some little things for gifts - good deals....

We then went shopping at the local 99 Cent Store - and got lots of food - they have produce there now - I always get salad dressing and canned goods and so on and those little packages of pocket tissues - They had a bag of kiwis and a box of strawberries for 99 cents! And tins of imported cookies!  And packages of almonds (for snacks).

Then hubby and I walked up and down Vermont Ave. to see if we wanted to go to the movies - but nothing we wanted to see - we try to go to the movies so often and manage to miss the flicks we would really like to see. So we ended up perusingof offerings of the Skylight bookstore and having an early dinner at a little Greek place right next door.

I went into Squaresville, the vintage shop, to see how much they were asking for vintage 70's colored vinyl Samsonite luggage pieces -  I had gotten a little bag up in in Ventura in a thrift shop for $3?? whereas they were $20 there!  But they had a sale box - and I did find some great bargains - a silk georgette sleeveless top in an orange print and a rayon summer dress and a sequined tube top for $2 each.  (I had seen a similar top on the net for $30 down from $150 or so!) The top will look good eventually under a jacket. Seem to be able to judge my sizes more or by eye - as everything fit well when I finally tried them on at home. (These were all out-of-season things - always the best deals!)

When a woman next to me at the Mikimoto event on Friday asked me what my favorite vintage shop was (I had worn a vintage brooch and silk scarf) - I found myself saying the thrift shops of Ventura, as that's really where I have scored my best deals.  I am sure the antique pickers scour the place, too - to take their finds back to L.A. to be marked up, witness the markup of a piece of Samsonite.

Then that evening I found myself taking out some arcylic fun fur I had gotten at the 99 Cent store months ago and whipped up a little blk scarf with red and grey and pink bits in it.  It was too short - but I put on on a long fringe - which I ended up liking A LOT. 

Taking up my knitting again, I think.  Want just to make some shawls - easy stuff - I have a whole collection of shawls, as they seem perfect for California - I threw on a rose pink one I got years ago over my jacket to go out in the rain to the pearl presentation...I like to have them in all sorts of colors....maybe when I finish with the blue one I started I will do a yellow - don't have a good yellow one. I have an assortment of yarn deals I have gathered and needles, too! Even finally found my yarn needles, which I had misplaced.

There was supposed to be rain this wkend - but they were wrong - just chilly - and I want to get out for my walk before my standing Sunday gig - so gotta go, see ya.  What fun things do you do on your weekends?

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