Back up a few days...

Last Thursday after work, I went to a sale in a church parking lot, where people rent space and set up their tables and sell their stuff. From the ad, I was expecting a full parking lot. When I got there, I'd say there were only 10-12 vendors and not very many shoppers (maybe 5 or 6 including me).

There was a wide range of things for sale, from baby and kids toys, vintage items, handmade items, produce and newer items. I picked up a basket of beautiful and amazing tomatoes, a copper bundt pan (for a project I have in mind) some little individual casseroles with lids a picnic basket and a package of brand new outdoor tablecloth weights-for quarter-that I actually used today when we had a group of family and friends over for a summer potluck!

After I left the church sale, I just stopped at random sales all the way home. The first sale I went to looked to be pretty much all "guy" stuff and just as I was getting ready to leave, I spotted a big box on the floor full of deer antlers. The box was marked "FREE"! Immediately I thought of my son's friend who makes pens, and thought maybe he'd like some to make pens out of. Then I thought about my parents, who's house is rustic-and they might want them for cabinet handles, or something.

So I told the guy I'd take them! He was happy, he said he figured some crafty person would come along and take them. As I gingerly folded the flaps in and bent to pick up the box, He assured me it was taped on the bottom and the box was sturdy, I told him I wasn't worried about the box, I was worried that when I put my hands through the handles that I was going to touch them. Ha!

He laughed at me and reminded me that they were dead. I told him I knew that, but they were still gross! He got a good chuckle out of it, and I managed to balance them so that I only had to slightly touch them as I practically jogged back to the car.

I stopped at a little antique mall on my route home, but didn't find anything, and I hit 3 more sales on the way home. At one sale, I picked up a couple of white kitchen cabinets for $5. I plan to router out the center of the larger cabinet and put in a piece of glass, add a lock and take it to the booth for some of my smaller stuff that should be locked up. I couldn't leave the small cabinet, because the man threw it in for $1. I figure Kevin can use it in his garage or pole barn for storing stuff and it was only $1.

I also picked up some wire baskets that were pretty big for only fifty cents each-no idea what I'm going to do with them just yet, but I'm sure something will come up that they will be perfect for!

The last sale was the best sale-not that it had the most stuff or the best stuff-it had just that one item that made my heart beat a little faster... I got a very cool chamber pot with a lid-no chips intricate detail, very pretty-and I LOVE it! No stains either! I put it in the middle of the table in the sun room and my youngest son told me it was just wrong to put a toilet on the table like that. It is spotless-no stains, no wear-maybe it wasn't ever used (that's what I'm believing!).

Hope you had good luck at sales this weekend!! I'm heading over to visit and see what you've found!!