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Across the Fence:  garage sale loot  |
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StarMeadow
True Blue Farmgirl
940 Posts
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MI
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 Posted - Aug 02 2008 : 1:55:28 PM
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I don't do this very often but today, I decided to drive around for some garage sales..and look what I got!
2 Victorian Ladies (dolls, 1 w/stand)
a book on making country dolls
3 blue Ball jars w/old metal lids
2 clear glass bread pans
4 plastic boxes for beads
an old drawer (to hold my fat quarters)
an old yellow rose plate (for the wall)
a wooden tray
an old red/white serving bowl
2 pomander china birds
and a HUGE box of craft patterns! (and I mean HUGE!)
Oh, and I also picked up a copy of Julius Caesar and a lightweight jacket for my friend's little girl (not in the pic). I spent 17$ for the lot!  (Of course there's that 1/4 tank of gas to be dealt with too I guess) I still have my eye on this wonderful desk but I need to find just the right place for it and convince my hubby that I "need" it!
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
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electricdunce
True Blue Farmgirl
2544 Posts
Karin
Belmont
ME
USA
2544 Posts |
Posted - Aug 02 2008 : 2:28:58 PM
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Treasure galore! It is such fun to have a gander at the yard sales every now and then. My daughter and I stopped at a church rummage sale yesterday, but we found no treasure until we hit the food table, homemade peanut butter fudge and Boston brown bread. I remember going to a few rummage sales as a kid, and they were so amazing to me. My mother used to tease me about my first rummage sale purchase. I was seven or eight and I came sstaggering home ( the church was about a mile from our house) wearing a raccoon coat that I had blown my entire 50 cent budget on. Whoops, sorry, blathering again...
Karin
Farmgirl Sister #153
"Give me shelter from the storm" - Bob Dylan
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Nancy Gartenman
True Blue Farmgirl
9093 Posts
Nancy
West Seneca
New York
USA
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Posted - Aug 02 2008 : 3:01:33 PM
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Good finds Star. Gotta love a good garage sale.Love the canning jars,Getting harder to find the ones with the metal lids.
NANCY JO
www.Nancy-Jo.blogspot.com |
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miss wilma
True Blue Farmgirl
3410 Posts
Wilma
Knob Lick
Ky
USA
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joyfulmama
True Blue Farmgirl
1175 Posts
Debra
Silver Springs
NV
USA
1175 Posts |
Posted - Aug 02 2008 : 3:37:10 PM
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Oh my.. I got some goodies today too.. At one I met a gal who is a farm gal!Nylene showed me around her homestead.. I met one of her sons.. I walked away with a Christmasy quilt, a stack of country home magazines, a ME garden book, a couple of John Robbins books, and my treasure. A case to hang on the wall- it has 3 sides- glass with a door in the middle with 2 shelves inside. I reminds me of my mil's china cabinet but smaller- and on the wall so the boys can't break it! :-) Nylene if you make it back to us (she hasn't been on here in a long while) thank you for your hospitality.. I look forward to having your sons build me some bird houses and meeting up with you again! At another garage sale I got a couple of vintage framed pictures for the wall, a beautiful delicate bowl handmade in Austria- it is soooo lovely and for $1! I also got a little itty bitty wooden plaque that has Davinci's Head of Christ on it.. It is lovely.. for .50!
I also found a very nice jogger stroller so I can start walking with the wee one when we get moved. We have paved roads at the new house- easier for me to walk on.
Blessings, Debra
"Your life is an occasion, Rise to it." Mr Magorium..
http://myvintagehome.com
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willowtreecreek
True Blue Farmgirl
4813 Posts
Julie
Russell
AR
USA
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StarMeadow
True Blue Farmgirl
940 Posts
T
MI
940 Posts |
Posted - Aug 02 2008 : 7:52:30 PM
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Miss Wilma, here is my plate. I paid $2 for it. I got it just because of the yellow roses (my MIL's fav flower)
I intend to hang it on the wall. Interestingly enough, there is a hole through the back rim as if it was meant to do that. I will use a regular plate hanger though. The painting of the roses is signed "Guyeuu" and on the back is a large S sitting between to cockeyed T's with a star at the base (and of course it says China)... It is 9 1/4" across.
The bowl, I think, is new but "looks" old. I paid 1$ for that. The back tells me it's safe for all the modern kitchen technologies and it's from Korea (hence the "new")... Doesn't matter, I still really like it. This might just become Mom's Popcorn Bowl! (and occasionally hold mashed potatoes or salad for the dinner table)
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Ga Girl
True Blue Farmgirl
2355 Posts
Karen
Meansville
Ga.
USA
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Posted - Aug 03 2008 : 05:37:10 AM
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Love all the goodies you found. Its such a joy when you find something at a great price.
Blessings, Karen
Create in me a pure heart,O God and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Psalms 51:10 http://farmgirlingastyle.blogspot.com/ |
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Aug 03 2008 : 06:07:29 AM
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oh chile .. what fun treasures you got .. my fav are the two little dollies!!
i used to especially love the yard sales when we lived in DENVER, Colorado .. hundreds of wonderful olde turn of the century homes .. and sometimes i would find treasures that were brought there from 'back east' on wagon trains.
actually, one of my mos' fav things that pops into my mind is a little white enamel 'sunbonnet' girls child's eating tray ... i'll take a picture and share the 'story of it'.
what patterns did you get? any JO GUMMERE???? .. or SHARI LUTZ .. or NICOLE SAYRE ????
True Friends * KENTUCKY FRANNIE
adopt a 'rag-chile'
http://sistermercysfoundlinhome.blogspot.com
treasures .. new and olde .. http://mudpiemanormercantile.blogspot.com
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melanie47601
True Blue Farmgirl
1949 Posts
Melanie
Boonville
IN
USA
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Posted - Aug 03 2008 : 09:50:28 AM
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WOW!! You did great!! I found 2 old blue ball jars with medal lids too. I wound up paying $3 a piece for mine. But the guy is going to see if he can find me a vintage quart size mason jar in the next couple of weeks. He told me they're really hard to find with the lids, but I gotta have the lid. Leave it me to be a pain in the rumpus. 
I really like the yellow rose plate too! roses are one my favorite flowers.
Melanie
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart. Helen Keller "http://wheelsarealwaysturning.blogspot.com/ ~shop~ http://www.brokenin.ecrater.com/ |
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Marybeth
True Blue Farmgirl
6418 Posts
Mary Beth
Stanwood
Wa 98292
USA
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lacisne88
True Blue Farmgirl
1181 Posts
Chelsey
Lake Stevens
Washington
USA
1181 Posts |
Posted - Aug 03 2008 : 1:58:28 PM
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You sure did find some great tresures!!! I love garage sales...I don't go very often but I usually go with my grandpa when I visit him in Idaho...so fun!
Chelsey
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Marcy
True Blue Farmgirl
2701 Posts
Marcy
Tiverton
Rhode Island
USA
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Posted - Aug 03 2008 : 2:12:05 PM
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Wow. Great finds. Love the patterns.
Farmgirl #170
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
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StarMeadow
True Blue Farmgirl
940 Posts
T
MI
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Posted - Aug 03 2008 : 3:59:03 PM
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| Ok Melanie...I guess I don't know what I have w/the blue jars. This woman had quite a few, all with the metal lids for 1$ each. She had some big ones too and several filled with old buttons for 3$ each. She also had a basket full of metal lids just like the ones on my jars for .50 cents each (may have been .75) I liked the button idea. I have a big box-o-buttons in my basement that came out of my grandma's so I thought I'd haul them out and put them in the jars. |
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