The Sale of the Year!!

Today's estate sale was the sale of the year! I know it's only the beginning of March and the year is still young...but it's going to take a LOT for another sale to top this one!

The weather wasn't very helpful this morning. We got started an hour later than we had hoped, but with all of the black ice, accidents, and freeway closures it was worth it to wait, and be safe.

When we got there (an hour after the sale started), there looked to be about 50 or so people in line waiting to get in! We shopped the garage and then stood in line for about an hour-in the rain waiting to get in.

While we were in line, we saw a rocking chair in the trash dumpster. Anne went and asked the guy running the garage part of the sale if we could have it. He said he'd sell it to us for $5!! Can you believe that?? It was in the TRASH!!!

When we finally got in it was really hard to move around, they house was packed to the gills with all kinds of treasures...and over-run with people-because no one was monitoring the door.

The main thing I went for was the vintage Fiesta-and I wasn't disappointed! Once I had my Fiesta treasures in my bag, I wanted to run up to Anne and say, "Start the car, start the car-let's go!!"

I got a LOT of great treasures besides the Fiesta (which I'm keeping!). Take a look...

 A really cute little hankie.

 A pile of hankies.

 Isn't this tablecloth AWESOME???!?!?!?

 I'm addicted to these little homemade hot pads!

 A few baby planters.

 A cute little jar-look at that price!

 A Watkins spice jar with zinc lid.

 A Lefton Easter candy dish.

 My mom had this same recipe box when I was growing up-she may still even have it today!

 The one and only ornament I found today.

 2 purple bottles.

 A Glasbake loaf pan-I feel an addiction starting for Glasbake too!

 This little donkey is a salt & pepper holder for Harlequin salt & pepper shakers.

 A couple swanky swigs-yep...keeping the polka dot one!

 A drink shaker-the other two I put in the booth sold really quickly!

 Boy and girl cinnamon sugar shakers-still full-original price? 23cents!

 Fiesta!

 A covered casserole in turquoise-sorry blurry photo-my hands are still shaking I'm so excited that I got all of this Fiesta!!!

 There should be a picture here of an orange casserole minus the lid and two Fiesta Kitchen Kraft stacking refrigerator dishes...but I forgot them on the check-out table after I paid for them!! Good thing my pal Anne was still checking out and grabbed them for me-WHEW!!! I can't believe I actually got the stacking dishes-I'm still pinching myself!!!

 Isn't this apron AWESOME?!?!? I've never seen one with confetti before! I keep waiting for the ransom note to show up in my inbox from Anne for my forgotten Fiesta-she fell in love with this apron when she saw it in my arms-LOL!

 A vintage Anchor Hocking juice jug.

A Michigan hankie!

What a GREAT sale!!! I also got a spindle-y wood headboard and foot board to make a couple of benches with...and a free rocking chair from the dumpster! I went back and asked the guy if I could just have it since it was in the trash-and he said yeah, if I could get it out. I got it out alright!! 

Now Kevin has a couple more projects! He says the first headboard bench is going to be really nice-I can't wait to see it!!!

How about you? Did you get to any sales today? What did you find?

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Friday Fix

Finally there were some promising looking estate sales within decent driving distance! It has been pretty sparse around here lately, I was almost starting to go through withdrawals from not getting a vintage thrifting fix for a while.

Luckily for me, there were three pretty good sales today. One was in Sterling Heights, one in Hamtramck and one in Ferndale. Auntie and I met early and planned to be in line at the Sterling Heights sale a half an hour before it was scheduled to open. When we got there, we saw lots of cars lining the street, but no line! They actually started earlier than they advertised and were letting people in. It was great because I sure wasn't looking forward to standing out in the cold for at least a half an hour!

It was a very dirty house. I found a covered refrigerator dish that was so dirty, the dirt looked like paint! I forgot to take a before picture to show you how bad it was-I was just so anxious to get the grime off of it, I didn't even think about taking pictures. It cleaned up pretty good, and doesn't have any chips-just a little scratching on the lid (probably from all the dirt).

I got a box of small old ornaments for $1. I looked at them in the dingy basement and they looked fine. When I got home in my bright kitchen-they look not so good. There are more tarnish spots than I was expecting.

I picked up this little juice glass-not sure if it is an official Swanky Swig or not, and a never used, in the package vintage flat sheet and a couple of pillowcase sets. I like to use flat sheets to spread out in the back end of my car to keep the carpet from getting stuff on it, and this one is bright and cheery-I'm excited to open the back end and see it!

Then we headed to the sale in Hamtramck-boy do I feel bad for making this one second on our list! Poor Auntie-she really wanted to go to this one because it looked really good online, and I chose for us to visit the other one first-sorry Auntie!

This was part regular estate sale, and part digger sale. As we were going in we saw lots of vintage tablecloths  going out-WAHHH! We did manage to find a couple of tablecloths each and a couple kitchen towels each-so we sorta got our fix, but we missed out on some great ones, I'm sure!

In the house they were burning some sort of incense that was ugh-probably one of the worst flowery smells I've ever smelled! I still can't get that smell out of my nose! Out in the garage there were boxes and bags and bins full of stuff to dig through-and dig we did! It was fun, but dirty! I also picked up this folding ruler for $1-now to just find a place to hang it...

The last sale of the day was in Ferndale. I found a small embroidered square tablecloth, and that was all for me. It was fun to be out and about today visiting estate sales and catching up with Auntie-it's been a few weeks since we've been to any sales.

Tomorrow we are going to Williamston and Howell for the two antique mall open houses I mentioned in an earlier blog post. It looks like 3 other ladies from work will be joining us-how fun! After paying estate sale prices, it is hard to even imagine going in to an antique shop to buy anything...it never hurts to look...and it's always fun to hang out with friends! We have a first time antiquer going with us, so it should be fun to see her reaction to things, and what she finds intriguing.

If you live close enough to Williamston and Howell, you should check these sales out! You might even bump into our group-we'll be the ones looking at vintage Fiesta, jadeite, vintage table linens, vintage Christmas, LuRay, and anything out of the ordinary that catches one of our eyes. We'll probably be laughing a lot too! :)

Weekend Finds...

Yesterday Auntie and I took off on an adventure to Warren, Roseville, Farmington and Livonia. We stopped at a lot of estate sales. Most of them were on their second day. While most of the time, I prefer to go on the first day in the first hours-the second day has some benefits too-in the form of discounts!

 A funky chartreuse platter.

 Two doilies and a runner in eyelet lace.

 Four aluminum dessert dishes in MINT condition that ended up being 4/$1!

 A purple embroidered doily.

 A hankie.

 A glass with a purple tree -the same size as a Swanky Swig...

 A Glassbake individual casserole-in excellent condition!

Today, Eric and I went out for a little bit and went to a couple of local estate sales and this is what we found:

 A old napkin.

A platter.

A jug-is it Manhattan or is it too new?

A bunch of old bottles-can't wait to spiff them up with the vintage labels from Cathe at Just Something I Made! They were only a quarter each since it was the second day-yesterday, I was told, they were a dollar each!

How did your treasure seeking go this weekend?

Auntie and I and her niece Christy (who is in town visiting this weekend) are going to Greenmead Fall Flea Market tomorrow morning. Although, I'm not sure how we are going to work the driving arrangements because I think Kevin and Eric want to go now too...We'll figure something out. I can't wait to go! There is supposed to be 175 vendors!!!

I hope the weather holds out...right now it is raining pretty hard.

Tomorrow afternoon will be spent closing up the pool for the winter and then at 6:00 a special worship service at church to kick off the new classes and programs for fall.