Leesa Crutcher craft estate sale

Leesa had been downsizing and sorting through her craft supplies in the hopes of selling her house and moving back “home” to California.  Then she had a heart attack and passed away unexpectedly at the age of 49.   Her son, David, now needs to sell all of her craft supplies.  Leesa was an avid stamper, had worked for years at Creative Impressions, worked the craft and hobby trade shows and was an major “collector” of anything crafty.  She was also the owner of Talk About Impressions.  

This is going to be one of the biggest and best craft estate sales you will ever see.  Here’s just a partial list:

Thousands of rubber stamps.  Wood, unmounted and goody grab bags.  Rubber as low as a quarter an image!

Every kind of craft tool you can imagine.  

Sizzix machine and numerous dies

Spellbinders Wizard and Grand Calibur and tons of dies

Cuttlbug embossing folders and even more miscellaneous dies

Cricut and cartridges

Pazzles

Screen printing systems

Paper making, paper presses, flower presses

polymer clay and tools

jar after jar of embossing powder, glitter, and more

paper trimmers

Bind-it-all system, Coil binding system, roll-a-bind system

shrink wrap machines

laminating machines

brads, eyelets, flowers, ribbons

ink pads/reinkers

storage containers

very nice carousel tower retail display, slat boards

dishes, tupperware, kitchen goods, furniture - the entire house, it’s an estate sale

This Saturday and Sunday, October 19 - 20 from 8 am - 4 pm.  Cash only.  No early sales.  1324 Valkenburg Dr, Colorado Springs, CO. 

Again, let’s all help Leesa’s son David.  There will also be a donation jar if you simply want to contribute to Leesa’s Memorial Fund.  As many of you know, Leesa’s beloved husband and David’s father, Terry, died just 2 short years ago.  While the medical record shows Leesa had a heart attack, we all know that her heart was broken and it never healed.

Feel free to email this post to anyone you know that might be interested.  Repost on your blog, share on your FB page and your yahoo groups.  Let's get the word out - I promise it's worth the drive!

Think outside that box!

I think ever since I retired, I have been trying to get others to think outside the box.  But then, that's not really true.  I have been doing that all my life!  I remember the book "A Whack on the Side of the Head" was one of my favorite management books.  My favorite business quote was, "Every rule here can be broken except this one!"

These days, I'm just trying to get other artists to see things in a different light.  For instance, I came across this wadded up, rumpled bouquet of flowers at a garage sale for a dime.  What caught my eye is that these are the old, paper-wrapped flowers.  You can tell that because the wire stems are wrapped with soft paper, not that green florist's tape.  But these did look pretty sad.

One of the essentials of succeeding in the business world is the ability to multi-task and I do that in the art world.  While chatting on the phone with friends, I got my little clover craft iron out and individually pressed every single petal.  I even timed myself.  It took 2 minutes to press a single flower and this little bouquet had a ton of flowers!  But it was well worth the effort as the final results are just amazing!

Would you have "seen" this final bouquet when you first looked at the mess at the garage sale for a dime?  Obviously there were others who passed by it before I got there!  It has become the perfect embellishment for this little arrangement on my shelf.  The Ginny doll was naked and her arms were off when I found her.  Her hair has been reset and the dress was cleaned.  "New" shoes from an ebay auction and she is as good as new!

The hanky was once just a white hanky that I stamped, inked and glittered.  Those are old perfume boxes that I altered and have blogged in the past.  The tiny baby ballet shoes were a more recent find at a thrift store.  But the bouquet...for a dime...is the finishing touch that this little collection needed!

Vintage paper flowers are one of my favorite things and to find this bouquet for a dime just made my day.  But I have to wonder how many others would have tossed it into the trash?  I'm so grateful that there are some who are willing to put things into their garage sales just on the chance that one person's trash is another person's treasure!!!