I Dream Yard Sales!

After I hit the mother load last week, I had planned on taking a week off.

However during yard sale season I tend to wake up one of two ways.  It always starts out the same way.  I arrive at the most wonderful sale.  Everything is just what I am looking for and the prices are incredible!!!!

Then either I am the only shopper there and I pick up item after item and have plenty of money to buy all the goodies I want.

Or when I arrive there are hundreds upon hundreds of people there and every time I reach for something someone snatches it (oh just thinking about makes me shudder).

On top of that, we are redoing 11 year old and three year old daughters room and 11 year old would like some "new" stuff  for her room and asked me if we could go thrifting.  How could I resist!

So Friday morning when the hubs and I woke up we had a conversation that went something like this.

ME: "Can I please have just $20 dollars to go out yard sailing this morning."  Batting my eyelashes.  "Please "

Hubs: "What"

Me: "Oh pleeeese A really wants to go out."

Hubs(laughing): "You want $20 dollars"

Me (sheepishly): "Yes."

I now go downstairs thinking that I am not getting out this morning.  A couple of minutes later hubs comes downstairs and hands me a small pile of ones and in the middle of them a TWENTY!!!  YEA!!!  He says"I planned that you would want to go and saved it out for you."   Twenty Five dollars, I can so some serious damage with that!

So off we go and even though last week totally rocked, I did manage to find some good stuff this week too.

The first sale was pretty much a bust but I did manage to find this.

A cute egg dish and salt and pepper shaker set for Easter.  It was $1.00.

The next sale was pretty good and for $5.25 I got all this.

Two brand new shadow box frames, decorations for my Easter tree, eggs to decoupage for Easter, a book, Friskers circle cutter with extra blade, smidge, pinch, and dash spoons, a vintage hand mirror and.......

The next sale was also really good. 

A dress for myself.  Bad picture great dress.  I wore it to church today and got soooooo many compliments on it.  It was $1.00.

 

This ticking which is a Roman shade...$1.00.

  Wood Nativity set with the $10. price still on it for $1.00.

Vintage Scrabble game for crafts $1.00.

 

I also got not pictured(my children ran off with them).  A Dora chair, the kind that goes in a bag minus the bag for .25 cents and two Lacrosse sticks for $1.00 each.

Then on to a few more sales.

.50 cents for flowers.

New candle also .50 cents.

Then on the side of the road I found a free pile.

Next onto a really good sale.

I found two pairs of pants for myself.

Jeans $1.00.

Red pants .50 cents.

All of this.  Buttons $1.00, enamel pot .50 cents, milk glass candle holder .10 cents and wreath for free.

AND........

 

15 pieces of brown transferware.

This is vintage but only slightly, it dates to the 70's.  It is Fair Winds and was made by Alfred Meakin Staffordshire England.  The whole set was $5.00

Then at my last sale I found......

Coffee pot $1.00, book from 1918 about WWI .25 cents, box of sea shells $1.00, small red topped salt shaker came with the shells, vintage card holders .25 cents, and tole tray .50 cents.

 

My neighbor picked on me but I just loved the colors and the graphic of the cover.

11 year old also managed to score some bargains with her money.

A huge basket of vintage musical instruments for $2.00(some of them aren't even pictured because her brother was playing with them).

Swinging dolphin $1.50, earrings  .25 cents and a vintage canasta game with cute little kitties for $1.00.

Well not bad for an off week.

Do you ever dream of going to yard sales?

Linking up to:

Thrifty Treasures at Southern Hospitality

Nifty Thrifty Tuesdays at Coastal Charm

A First Taste of Strawberries!!

I have wanted to write this post for a while and thought Rednesday at It's a Very Cherry World would be the perfect time. 

A  few weeks back we got a notice from our electricity company that they would be doing work on the lines and would be shutting off the electricity for about 5 hours.  So we decided to make a day of it and go to the lake and picnic and then go strawberry picking.  Our youngest daughter doesn't remember the last time we went and this was the first time for the baby.

He really likes Strawberries!!!!

He had just started to walking.

The biggest one of them all!!!

Even Daddy got in on the action.

It was so beautiful.  We found such a nice patch that was not commercial.  We were the only ones picking besides the farmer and his wife.

And what did we do with all those strawberries well many ended up in those little tummies, I made 10 jars of jam and..........

 

It was so yummy!!!!  i wish I could have given each of you a slice.

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Rednessday at It's a Very Cherry World

Family Treasures and Thrifty Finds!

I found so many great vintage items this past weekend that I felt that it was time to do some rearranging.

The table in our entryway has pretty much looked the same since after Christmas.

The only thing that has really changed is I added the shell dish and starfish a couple of weeks ago.

The only thing that really needed to stay was the lamp.

So I took the soup tureen from this post.  I wanted to use it with something in it.  I went to my yard sale stash of artificial flowers and just dumped them out on my lawn.

I started with a base of floral foam that was left over from other projects some more that I recycled from yard sale finds that were made over and plastic grocery bags to fill in the rest.  I also stuck the lid in.

The next step was to add greenery for a base.  I used a bush in the front and some eucalyptus in the back.  I then added in some white.

 

I then found this flower and knew that it would be my primary color.  I then just kept adding things till it looked right.

Once I got that in place, I added my vintage Underwood typewriter also from this post.

To the typewriter I added a letter from my great uncle to my Grandparents.   I have a special little stash of letters that he wrote to them in the early 1930's.  I originally selected this one because it was written in August and was written on stationary from Lake Tahoe in California.  Afterwards I noticed it was dated August 18th 1931.  This is special to me because my youngest child was born last year on August 18th.  I put the envelope in a carpenter's ruler which is very fitting because my Grandpa was a carpenter.

I love that you could mail a letter from California to New York with nothing more than a name and city and state!

I put back the starfish and shell dish and added some shells to the dish and some roses that I ripped off the topiary in this post.

This also came back.  Just a yard sale apothecary jar filled with dried hydrangeas that were in a free pile at a yard sale.

The little blue and red tins are old typewriter ribbon tins.

The photo of the two gentlemen is not my grandfather and uncle but two strangers from my bounty of photos from Saturday which can be seen here.  It is sitting on an upside down Weller pot that I got in a bag sale at a rummage sale.  It ended up costing me about a nickel!!  The books were all yard sale finds.  The Great Expectations is not old but that is my Dad's favorite book.  I didn't pay more that $1.00 for any of them and I am pretty sure they were each a quarter.

Here is a better shot of the blue tin it was $1.00.

The black shell belonged to my Grandparents.

The lamp was a quarter from a yard sale.  It is a vintage glass lamp.  The lamp shade I won in an eBay auction from the Nester!!!  I won three of them for $7.50.  They are really nice quality silk.

  The vintage American Rifleman also came from a yard sale and was $1.00.   I am really happy with the way this turned out.   I think that it will carry me into fall when I will get the urge to shake things up again. 

My husband thinks that I am crazy to display pictures of people that we don't know.  I use photos of our family that we have but like to fill in with ones that I have adopted.  What do you think do you buy photos of people that you don't know?

 

Linking up to:

Vintage Thingie Thursday@Colorado Lady

Show Off Your Cottage Monday @ The House in the Roses

Trying to make a donation.

Well like I said yesterday this was a big week for me and thrifting.  I stopped at the Salvation Army on Thursday to make a donation and had to stop in to see what they had.  Well I had $7.00 and some change in my wallet and this is what I found.

I love decorative balls and this one was just $1.00.  It is cement like.

This star picture holder which will be getting a makeover it was also a $1.00.

This Pyrex plate for .50 cents.

Six of these bowls for .50 cents each.

They are English Ironstone!!

And last but not least.....

another Enocch Woods transferware plate.  It was $1.50!

Had I remembered that the route 90 sales were on Saturday I wouldn't have stopped but I am glad that I did!

This week really makes up for the time that I took off  from thrifting.

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Nifty Thrifty Tuesdays at Costal Charm