Yard sailing: went to one sale, a massive moving sale held at a nearby church. There were no prices, you just picked up the stuff you wanted and gave them however much money you felt like giving them. I ended up with:

A large rectangular lap weaving loom, already strung for a placemat (which I will probably re-purpose for other sorts of fiber arts, possibly sprang, because, um, I find almost all lap weaving ugly. Probably due to the prevalence of scratchy, coffee-stained brown-and-orange exemplars at my grandmother's house.)

An old-fashioned rectangular embroidery stretching frame.

Two small jars of even smaller nails (for nailing medallions to my hiking stick)

A mini spiral notebook of heavy drawing paper.

How To Make Paper Flowers from the Dennison Publishing Company, 1922. Because one day, kyabetsu is finally going actually throw a wedding with that guy who she agreed to marry, and on that day, I will give her a bouquet made out of comic books. Even if she doesn't want it any more by then. :P

Campcraft ABCs by Catherine T. Hammett, 1941. This seems to be a different recension of the 1950 Campcraft paperback I was looking at earlier, only published in a larger and more DIY format by the Girl Scouts of America. And since the little paperback is falling apart, and also full of neat stuff, I grabbed this one up.

Nature Crafts by Ellsworth Jaeger, 1949: I don't usually pick up nature crafts books, because they almost always consist of "creative ideas" like putting pinecones on a cardboard wreath or gluing googly eyes on a pebble. And the front cover makes this one look like more of the same. But no. You open it up, and the first 'craft' is how to make a hexagonal thatched hut as as your workshop. Then it moves on to stools, benches, and tables to furnish the hut, how to lash together a frame loom to weave grass mats as wall-coverings for the hut, and an old design for a folding portable chaise lounge made of willow-shoots. And just keeps getting awesomer, ending with several designs for temporary wilderness pottery kilns and how to make inks, paints and dyes from gathered materials.

I have to be honest, I am kind of in love with this book.

I threw in $5 for that lot, which was probably too much, but I combined my load with Mom's and she had an armload of Sunday School teacher books, so it more-or-less came out right.