Set of 12 Nursery Rhyme cake decorations / candle holders (each different!) - one of my favorite finds of the day!!Saturday started out rainy and dark, but was that enough to keep me from trudging out at 7:45am for potential treasure?! I didn't uncover anything earth shattering, but did start to wonder if it was a sign that I should change my career and maybe...
Go into Tupperware sales?...
Tupperware glasses and mini storage containers - found at three different sales. A new package of Pampered Chef corn-thingies TOO! These will all be for resale, except the mini storage - they are GREAT for storing small quantities of cake decorations!!
I don't foresee my future fortune being made in either of these areas - But Hey, Ya never know!
With a LOT of digging in the rain, I did get a few scores... Gotta love a sale that packs your stuff up in MacKenzie Childs shopping bags!! DH was worried when I came home with two of those in my hands!! ~ M-C 'studio' is about 20 minutes from our house!!~ I did find a Sock Coin Purse for .25¢ though. They aren't selling for much on e-bay... but they are 'the least expensive' thing that M-C sells ($5.00), so anybody that goes there and doesn't want to come out empty handed, picks up one of these! I never had one until now.
Danish SS sugar bowl, flattened Absolut Bottle 'cutting board' w/ knife, IKEA (NIP) easel, flutophone/recorder with storage bag, MC sock, and a cool piece of CARNIVALE pottery - I have to try and figure out the designer's signature!...AND...
Last, but not least...
A SWEATER CLIP!!
By the time I had finished saling (10:30), the rain had stopped and the sun was even trying to peak through the clouds.
Off to the Garden Shop to pick up some annuals, then off the the garden...
Meet 'REBECCA of THE GARDEN' (That was her name when we got her - HONEST!!) VERY ITALIAN... yes. (I am Italian by injection only... oops sorry!) There is just something about this fountain that I love though!! We found her about 10 yrs ago. An impromptu Sunday morning stop at a house sale (of a Professor moving cross country). The statue was broken in half, the base was solid with leaves, slugs and every other kind of green- slimey- gooey- yard-yuck that you can imagine. No motor or 'workings' for the fountain... When I asked how much... FREE! We had the car, and the base wouldn't fit into it (not to mention the base is 200++ pounds!), so we took the statue and returned later with a different vehicle to get the base. She took a LOT of work, and every year DH repairs her rapidly deteriorating concrete base and paints her to 'get her through another summer'. The fountain works now too! Water sprays from the jugs she is holding in each hand (... that doesn't sound quite right...). She is in the backyard, next to the garage - where we can see and hear her from The Porch - very relaxing! Here she is... all done up in New Paint and New Annuals... ready for the summer! (don't mind the 'face' on the tree... kind of ruins the whole setting, huh?!)
That was my Saturday! Hope yours was a GOOD ONE!
Oh, and I have to thank MiuMiu for a comment on my last Blog entry that finally made me learn how to remove unwanted comments!!
1 comment:
I love your yard. It looks like a place I would love to walk around and oogle. I love little vingettes hee and there to keep the eye going.
Lots of good finds. Please don't be a Tupperware or Avon saleslady. I hate it when friends start selling crap then they call you out of the blue and you feel compelled to buy things you don't need or want! Home Interiors is the WORST!
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