Thrifty Shop Girl Thrifty Garage Sale Finds.
Welcome back Thrifters, and Garage Sale Hunters! Glad to see you visiting again with Thrifty Shop Girl. Well, it has been a week, and I have been to another tag garage sale again this morning. This is a small area I live in, and doing these tag sale type things is new to the area. Honestly, just feels like another garage sale when they do it. I wanted to go this morning because the estate this belonged to was the couple that use to own the baker in town....for many many years. Sadly, I was expecting more when I got there, and of course some of the prices these ladies that do this stuff are putting on things...well, I was just expecting different I guess.
I did get 3 bundles of about 5 a piece of some old wooden hangers. The top that has the wired hanging hook, and then the wooden clip/closure on the bottom. I got me some ideas, and possibilities. But, anyway.....getting ahead of myself here now. I need to show pics from what I got last week, and some of those fun things. So, let me get that all rounded up for ya'll to see.
As you can see I did not get a whole lot of things. There really was not all that much there I seemed to be interested in, or the prices were marked where I did not like them too. But, anyway, you can see the vintage kitchen scale I got, bag of pink flowers that is pretty much the top of them with their stems being cut off, a vintage coffee teapot, big wooden paper clip, a white doilie, and a decorative pink hankie doilie type thing too. Just enough I was comfortable with.
The scale does work. I just need to check on how accurate for sure. The wooden clothes pin I am thinking of painting, and adding some fabric, or maybe some scrapbook paper to it...decorate it up a bit. The coffee teapot is in very good clean condition. Looks almost like new with really no use to it. I have little vases, or jars that could use a single, or maybe a couple of them pink roses in them. The white doilie I think I will add to a cheese holder, or a cloche that I have upcycled by painting the wooden like base pink. As for the decorative hankie....that might just go over another one of my lamp shades in the home too. I like doing that:)
Well, that was it for last week. I'll get pictured the few things I got this morning. I don't want to show quite yet cuz I might be stopping by a sale that is starting this afternoon. Can't get there till about an hour after it starts, but I am not looking for small things either. I have a glass piece in mind to put with others I have here, but....we will see what happens. Wish me luck everyone. Happy Thrifting, and see you again real soon. Thanks for visiting with Thrifty Shop Girl! Toodles........
Thrifty Store Shopping Completed at Missions Store, yes! Hmmm.....it felt good!
Hello, and Welcome to Thrifty Shop Girl. Glad to have you stopping by. I finally did it! Has been a long time now....well, rather it has been a long time since I found anything to add to my inventory I should say. I was out of town yesterday, and had it in mind I wanted to stop by 2-3 different places I like to frequent when doing some thrifting.
I didn't make it to all 3 of them, but did get to spend time at one of the places. This place called Missions is a place where donations are made, and that money is used to help others, and what they do. I have donated here myself too:) Anyway, a very good friend of mine Mary from MaryLouLavender*s at ebay is the one who made me aware of this store, and to check it out some time. She is another junking buddy of mine, and we share some of the same interests in what we do. She offers her wares at Ebay for sale. Stop by to give her a look. Never know, might find something you are in need of too.
Ok, back to my thrifting. I enjoy shopping here because when I find things I usually walk out with some descent deals. Yesterday I walked out with 2 big white envelope boxes, and 2 bags full of items for about $10. Not bad, huh? Most of it was glassware as it is smaller, and easier for me to work with other pieces that I have at home for repurposing, and upcycling with. I found 5 glass candle holders that still had their original tags on them! I found an adorable wood vent that really looks like a small shutter....I just love shutters to recreate with. I found 2 green glass terra like pots that also had their original tags on them, a pink silky doilie hanky type piece, a white doilie, a jar with the doilies on top of it and some potpourri - I mostly wanted the doilie from this:) Oh, yeah, I love using planners for things whether it is making notes of things to do, shopping lists, keeping addresses and information in them, and etc. I found a black leather Kenneth Cole planner that looks almost like new yet. Such a soft leather, and for the price....no way I could pass this up either. I found a Home Interiors & Gifts glass candle holder. This one is a bit bigger, round, and short with the open center to use for possibilities. I have used a piece like this before to repurpose with a plate, and was happy to find this one. I have just the vintage plate to add it with. How neat, 2 vintage pieces repurposed together to make another treasure to adorn the home with.
Silly Me....here are the pictures I took quick for this occasion. 1 picture shows all things together, and the other 2 pictures I zoomed in for a bit closer look of the items found.
Sorry, I wasn't thinking and had left the date turned on with my camera. The green/aqua wire like thing in the background had ice tray rack written on it...course I see another possibility with this. The pink rose vase looks like new, adorable lil handles, and could also be used as a utensil holder too. And, love that very light blue planter vase too! Such a soft color, beautiful glazed shine, and it also looks like new too! I was happy with the few pieces I found, and wanted to go to a couple of other stores, but did not make it. Hmm...maybe next week? Will see what the days bring to me.
Thanks so much for sharing time at Thrifty Shop Girl! Hope you enjoyed, and remember you are always welcome to share/comment with all of us here too. Take care, and come back to visit again soon. See ya!:)
Thrift Store Junkies and All Thrifters, Welcome!
Just wanted to stop by, and leave a short note with you all to have a wonderful weekend. Hope ya'll are able to do a little thrifting, hit some yard sales or maybe some estate sales, attend some flea markets, or whatever it is.......that you are able to find some refound treasures. Nothing soothes the soul like finding some sort of a treasure to make your day, right?:)
So, I wish you all well, and thanks so much for sharing your time with Thrifty Shop Girl! Oh, yeah, I almost forgot! In my internet goofing around today I started a facebook page for me as well. So, yeah, I can be found on Facebook as ThriftyShopGirl. I just started my Gmail account, so I am playing around with that Google+ thing yet too. I will get back to ya'll on that when I have gotten a lil bit further with it:)
Thanks again for visiting with Thrifty Shop Girl. Take care, and have a swell weekend. See you next week everyone!:)
Hello my Thrifting Friends! Welcome back to Thrifty Shop Girl site to visit with me again. If you are new, glad to have you too!
Sorry, been out of the loop again a lil bit. Computer issues, computer problems, and did I mention I had an issue with the computer? Yeah! Darn things. Love them till something technical happens, and then they show their true colors becoming a pain in the bootie.
After it was all said, and done it looks like I had a corrupted file. I hope that is all it was. But, it sure took over the computer. I lost administrative privileges to some things, cannot find files with my pictures knowing they are there in the hard drive, was not saving anything I was doing, having issues with things being done technically and not saving, and so on, and so on.
Well, I finally got through some of it to make the computer operative for me again. Just the issue of some of the files have to be redone...some cannot be redone:( And, just dealing with things one bit at a time. I went from having 73% free space back up to 90% free space....almost like a new computer again. Yet, not completely new with some things still being a problem. But, they are minor, I do not do them all the time, and as long as the computer runs to let me do things we can get along again:)
So nice out this weekend I wanted to glue some things together, and finish some projects too. I even thought about going out of town to one of the Thrift Stores near by to go rummaging a bit. But, I didn't get it done. Kept saying walk away from computer, and deal with it later, and later came earlier that I always worked on it. Oh, well, it is back to a safe place to handle again so I guess it was all good:)
Hope this finds everyone doing well, and so far having a great week too! Thanks again for visiting with Thrifty Shop Girl everyone! Take care, and come back again soon. Have a wonderful day!:)
Happy Weekend and Happy Thrifting Everyone!
Hello, and Welcome back to Thrifty Shop Girl! Beautiful, wonderful, sunshine day, and loving it so far! Woke early this morning, and have been working on laundry, and catching up a bit. Soon I have to leave to give son a ride...naughty boy who lost his license, and I get to taxi him now. Anyway, he has a wedding to go to, will be gone all day and night, and it is "Me" time! Soooo, was thinking of maybe hitting a second hand store, good will, or something like that. Hmmm...the possibilities:) Just need to do a lil bit of junking, or hunting if you prefer. Gotta get that fix.
I also have to remember I am suppose to be packing soon to start getting things ready to move. So, I have to watch very carefully what I acquire. I have a couple of things in mind I am looking for to repurpose with some other glass pieces I have here. Now...if I can only find them!:)
Well everyone, I am off, and running down the road. Glad to have you dropping by Thrifty Shop Girl, and wishing you all a wonderful weekend! See you again soon.
Take care, and Happy Thrifting!:)
