Friday Finds - A Neighborhood Sale

In the fall and spring there are many neighborhood sales where a number of residents have yard sales on one day.

They print a map to pick up as a guide. 

It's 7:30AM and I am off to Aiken Estates to discover what treasures I can find.

The first house was a mother and son selling off her collections to get ready for a move.

It was early but they were ready for bundle deals.

I bought all the Zanesville pottery.

Thanks to Linda at A La Carte for helping me price it.

Four dozen small glass bud vases.

Linda helped with these too.

In fact she did all the research for me. 

A box filled with tiny Occupied Japan figurines.

Not as sought after as years ago but still make a great display for Christmas villages. 

Four glass reamers (or juicers).

Your eyes are not deceiving you.

I forgot to put the fourth in the photo.

A few 1950's children's books.

Belonged to the son but he did not want them.

Kitchen gadgets all in the original boxes.

Someone had grabbed the huge box of them.

Weirdest mold I have ever found.

New in the box - carefully wrapped in tissue. 

Naked chickens!

Henny Penny molds for gelatin salads.

My grandmother used to make ham gelatin molds, but never chicken gelatin molds.

Hers were molded in swirly molds. 

Neat thing about the set of graters is they all fit together to hang.

All that at the FIRST house.

And I had a pocketful of money left.

I had planned for the chair to be a project to learn to paint upholstery.

However I have sent it to the booth to become some other lucky person's project piece.









Third house.

Tall pedestal with packages and packages of lace panels.

No photo of the lace panels - forgot and now they are sold.

Next house a basket of knobs and small canvases.

More lace - doilies and place mats.

The box is a set of lovely glitter crowns - each with a religious theme.

I bought a whole box of hangers to get the vintage advertising ones at the bottom.

Found a bunch of the old painted ones in the box when I went home.

Chucks needed the pants hangers.

Good deal all around! 

Last house and they were ready to get rid of everything.

How late was it?

Only 9AM.





I bought quite a stack of her baskets like these.

More lace.

A white cosmetic case.

A star colander.

Vintage package of dolly clothes pins - original price of forty-nine cents.

Tiny Tupperware containers with the lids.

My mother used to put peanuts in our lunches with these.

And something kitschy.

Plastic mugs from Spenser Gifts dated 1982.

Did you buy crazy gifts from Spenser's?


 
I have been busy with bottle brush trees and getting the house bulldozed for the holidays.

I wish someone would invent a Roomba the size of a lawn tractor to clean for me.


See y'all!

Quickies - Fluff And Four Years

Good Sunday morning!

More fluff for this Quickies post.

I have scoured through your blogs to find how you set up for shows.

One thing stood out.

FLUFF!


Small inexpensive items that seemed to make your big items stand out.

Previously I painted pine cones to match some of my primitives.

This past week I went a bit crazy with fluff.


BUT I am not distressed about it at all!

 

Purchased lavender stems at half price at Hobby Lobby.

I save my real lavender stems for ME!

Hate to be a hog, but ...


I do love lavender.

Gathered some white tissue, lace bits, and twine.

Twelve bundles.

Nearer to the Gathering, I will drop some lavender oil on each bundle.

My cherub head wished to be in numerous pics.

I do tend to spoil him.

I bought a notebook of sheet music from a teacher's estate. 

I have used copies of it for several project pieces and now it is time to turn it loose.

There was enough for eight stacks.

Dug out a roll of overdyed torn cotton ribbon from Horror Monster's Stash.

Gently rolled each stack into thirds and tied a ribbon on each.

Group photo.

Today is my blog's fourth anniversary.

It is so hard to believe I have been doing this for four straight years.



Some of the bloggers who started around the same time as I are still hanging on.

Others have taken different paths.

I cherish my time in Bloglandia interacting with bloggers who quickly become friends. 

I love to find new bloggers starting out.

Y'all will just have to put up with me some more because I plan to stick around for awhile.

Thank you for being my friends!

 Fluff will be available at Magnolia Ridge.



















See y'all!

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Feathered Nest Friday 

An Altered Stack

Not a single original idea in the post today.

To reduce the number of books sitting around doing nothing, I made altered stacks of books.

Used up quite a stack of them along with twine, lace, keys, and other bits.


 

I do not use my vintage photographs.

I copy them on vellum.

They are quite see-through.


Cut them out with deckle-edged scissors to fit the front of the stack.

Some vintage lace attached with glue strips.

A tag or a key or a rusty star.

The stack of loose pages is secured with thin twine.











 

I make sure the ornamentation is below the people in the photo.

 A fake hydrangea.

I think I love the sides as much as the fronts.

If you are going to alter one, you might as well alter a stack of books.

And decorate them in many ways.

Just think maybe a descendant will buy one and never know they are related.

If you are my age, you will remember the photographer who walked around the neighborhood with his pony.

We also had a photographer with a goat cart.

The stirrups are dated 1952.

Clever photographer!

The altered books are available in Booth W-10 (Riverfront Antique Mall) and in my Etsy shop where you can use the 10% off coupon below. 



See y'all! 

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Vintage Inspiration Party #184
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