Wow, What a Weekend (Part 1)

"By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established; through knowledge its rooms are filled with rare and beautiful treasures."
Proverbs 24:3-4

Well my sweet thriftin' buddies, we had one of those magical weekends where you have great weather, ample garage sales, great finds, and the blessing of a wonderful spouse who loves to do what you love to do - it was SO MUCH FUN - we are indeed blessed! Saturday the 3rd was the twice-a-year-neighborhood-wide garage sale at a wonderful, huge subdivision near by. You drive in to the entrance of the subdivision, you're handed a map of all the participating homes (about 50+), then you're off to the races. We stopped at a bunch...not nearly all...but came home with some awesome treasures...for CHEAP!!!! Here are the highlights...hang on, there's a bunch...

Vintage embroidered picture (can't resist 'em) and a Tiffany-style lamp...

Another lamp (I have a lamp thing going now)...this one is large and quite beautiful with its ceramic floral base - I will likely put a shade on it instead of the glass globe...

I paid $8 instead of $10...

Pretty spinning lazy-susan for $1.50...

Sweet little blush quilted box...a freebie...

A wide assortment of sweet, sparkly things...

Love the mirror dresser tray...and I always buy candlesticks when I see them to be used for a variety of re-purposing projects (like this).

The teensy tea set was just 50 cents....

Cute little vintage girl's jewelry box and a unique, tiny individual covered butter server...


Liberty Blue Staffordshire china plate (Independence Hall design) and 22K gold trimmed Eggshell Nautilus by Homer Laughlin (love the pink roses!)
$2 for both...


Now THIS I love...beautiful sweet picture...wonderful scrolly oval frame, and domed-glass on the front...$2!!


The patchwork shades were 2 for $1!

Vintage plastic scrolly frames were 10 cents for all (me and a can of spray paint are gonna have some fun!) And I usually always pick up vintage craft books when I run across them - this one from Family Circle is in a ring binder made up with sets of instruction cards that would arrive periodically in the mail...$2...

But the VERY BEST buy of the day came almost at the very end of our journey through the neighborhood...it may not look like much here...

...but this bag is CHOCK FULL of vintage/antique linens...all from one person's sale...they were former antiques dealers who were trying to get rid of the last of their stuff (my favorite kind of people)...I was picking through the HUGE basket of vintage linens and the gal says "those are 25 cents each"...to which I thought, "cool"....but then I asked, "what would you take for the lot?"....to which she said, "how about, uhh, $15...?" I've never paid anyone so fast in all my life...I had looked through enough to know that for the most part these were true antiques - old and very good quality...and there was a BUNCH...

I counted them all when I laid them out to take photos...there are 33 embroidered pieces of every shape and size...

27 hankies and napkins...

...and 55 doilies!!!


Got to looking at the retail prices that were still on many of the pieces - just these 8 doilies alone totaled $79.50 retail!!

I also found this sweet hidden treasure amongst the linens - an adorable little tiny white dress with lace trim...marked $18.50...

All told, the linen collection is 116 pieces, and for $15.00, that comes out to about 12 cents per piece! It was a VERY good buy indeed!!
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SO, what in the world am I going to do with all this...? Well, stay tuned - I have some BIG, EXCITING things coming up in the very near future - I will be giving a "Coming Soon" announcement on Friday, so be sure to check back!!

Meanwhile, if you see anything in the photos that you can't live without, leave a comment and your email and we can discuss it...first come, first served...

I love you guys...besides my Mom, you were the folks I wanted to show this stuff to the most!! I knew you'd appreciate it! I'm blessed by you sweet things in Blogland - I really am!