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This summer, I haven’t been to as many yard sales as usual. My plate (translation: calendar) has been very full lately. However, I happened upon this yard sale on my way somewhere else last Saturday morning and had to stop. So glad I did. This is what I found:
Happy Labor Day! I’m actually working for awhile today, but then I’m going to come home and make myself relax. Today I want to share a few things that I picked up from an estate sale last week! First up, a pair of mounted animal horns. The guy I bought them from asked me if I was going to make knives out of them. He said lots of people do that. I told him of course not, I’ll probably hang them in my dining room. He looked at me kinda funny. Anyway, I also snagged the two vintage brooches pictured beneath the horns. One is gold leaves and the other is a yellow fabric rose.
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On a Target run yesterday, I found these fun and fabulous folding chairs. Aren’t these so much more interesting than the standard black metal ones? These are so cute , I’d actually WANT to pull out the folding chairs, and not just because I had to! Anyway, they are under the ReStyle label and are only $9.99 a piece. You heard me right! Now that’s a bargain. |
Great things happen to me at yard sales. Seemingly small but great things. There have been countless times I’ve had a thought like “I wish I had a toaster oven,” then two weeks later I stop by a yard sale on the way home from somewhere else and find a perfect toaster oven.
| Here’s my most recent example. A few weeks ago, this was the vignette on the table in the entry to my house. I love grouping vintage books by color, and pink is a hard color to come by. I love the children’s book on top, The Pink Motel. But it’s obviously a bit worn, torn, and dirty. I usually don’t display books in this condition – I like to have clean, functional pieces in my collections. But I really love the pink cover, the title, and the illustrations on the cover. |  |
| My latest bargain was found at my local Goodwill store. Just stopped in to find a gray belt, which I found. I always go through the leaning stack of framed art in the back. I found not one, but two bamboo tack boards with white frames. They looked so cool, I thought at first they were just framed bamboo. Then I realized someone had made them to be tack boards. They totally look like they are right out of a Ballard Designs catalog! |  |
I love to come up with interesting ways to use everyday items in decorating. Yes, I have even been known to go through my children’s toy box for styling ideas. Who doesn’t have a game of Scrabble somewhere in their home? Scrabble tiles are a great way to graphically express a decorative thought, especially for holiday styling, dinner parties, and special occasions.
I have a fabulous oil portrait in my dining room. If you’ve ever been in my home, you’ve seen her. If you’ve looked through my blog much, you’ve probably spied her in the corner of many of my pictures. No, she’s not my grandmother or favorite aunt. I found her on the side of the road propped up next to someone’s garbage – she was too large to fit in the can, and way too lovely to end up there.
Anyway, it was starting to rain and I had to make a quick decision. Do I let this beautiful painting of a dejected mother-in-law go to the city dump? Or do [Read more...]
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