Garage Sale Chronicles

Look what I bought this weekend!

I fed my garage sale addition a bit on Saturday.  

Would you have bought it?

Five books for $2.00, One is an operation manual for a movie theater projector, one Hymnal, one engineer manual for the St. Paul railroad, and one 1915 Navy engineering manual.  Love them!  I really wish they could talk and tell me stories of where they have been all their lives.  Below are just two of the graphics within.

SCORE!  Below is a few pieces from an 8 piece Lu Ray Pastel dinner set.  Paid $10 for the whole set.  Only a couple chips in the yellow plate and cereal bowl.  I'm tempted to fill out the set with the serving pieces.  Mostly from the 40's through the 60's LuRay offered an 8 piece set for $2.64 cents.  I believe from reading some old ads that housewives of the era could sell these in home parties.  

Were these the precursor to the dreaded tupperware parties?

OH the sadness.....I followed a tiny little estate sale sign later in the day after taking my son to Karate practice.  Why oh why, did these people not advertise on Craig's list.  If only I had been there at the start in the morning!  As it is, I managed to find some jewelry for my re-purposing and some beautiful white Haviland.  As I was checking out and chatting with the woman running the sale, she told me she just sold a whole box of vintage jewelry for $15.  ARGH.  I came so close!

Well, I'm going to be making some fab pin cushions out of the cream and sugar, wait and see!

Everything below was $5

Ah, Frosty my fav!  I rescue doilies all the time.  I know how much work women put into these things and even though they are slightly out of fashion now, I can not stand to let their hard work go unappreciated.  I box them up and wait for their time to come again.  I may even starch some and hang them on this year's Christmas tree!

A beautiful plastic pin for $.25

Below, a really great bargain.  Someone had enough of scrapbooking and stamping.  She put everything in a bag and marked $10 on it.  I peeked in and saw a couple circle punches and knew those were expensive so I picked up the bag and checked out.  Later I realized at the bottom was a complete Stampin Up set of 12 ink pads that were not even open.  Normally these sell for $55.  Not only did she include the ink pads, she included a great big selection of stamps as well.

Now I just have to find space in my studio.