Magpie Ethel

Estate Sale Friday. A Few Good Finds.

I hit one sale today and was in the door with the first wave. Much of what was there was newer, but the few older items I found really made me happy.

An assortment of old needle books with good graphics.  I see these often but a couple of these designs were new to me and they were all bundled together.

A tin mother hen game.

It did not come with the eggs mentioned in the directions, but I liked the hen graphic with the little chicks at her feet.

A nice ceramic duck and some old cups with fun decals.

In the first photo there are three tin cups that are grouped together.  One of them has measurements for half cup etc. The other two are a little more nifty.  Old Mother Hubbard and other nursery rhyme illustrations ring this cup.

Another favorite detail I love to find.  It belonged to FRED taped to the bottom.

Another of the tin cups had a witch on a broom circling the cup!


This Kellogg's advertising book was a favorite today. It is copyrighted 1932.

It folds out and flaps flip back and forth so you can change the attire on the animals.

Of course some of the animals are holding boxes of Kellogg's cereals!

Darling illustrations.  I love the animals on the turtles racing...especially the pig with the hat.

For the few items I found today, I really scored some keepers.

And that cute duck figure I got has already waddled off to join some other friends in my yard.

Here he is on the top shelf quacking away with his new friends.

Happy day and happy loooonggg weekend to all.

Yippee! Payday!

YIPPEE!

A friend of mine had her grandmother move into a retirement home and I was asked to help get her belonging ready for an estate sale.  While we sorted and priced I put aside a small pile of goodies that I wanted to purchase.

Instead of paying for the items this was given to me for my time and efforts.  That is my kind of payday...vintage style!

Definitely the type of paycheck I don't mind receiving occasionally!

happy day!

Estate Sale Friday/Saturday. A Good Couple of Days.

I hit a number of estate sales this weekend. Two yesterday and three today...the season is starting once again. I hit one sale this morning and waited in line for about 20 minutes for them to open the door. I was number 10 waiting in line.  When they finally opened they let FIVE people in the door.  Crazy estate sale world.

Two old floral tablecloths and a large metal container.

A metal tole painted top for a cake plate, straw raffia for crafting and a slew of old black and white photos...one with a cute boy as a cowboy.
And for my blog readers that have a passion for quilts, I thought this one was fun.

Miniature playing cards.

A pair of tiny plastic lattices for spun head gals and a celluloid pig with a red hat.

A chalk-ware bunny and a plastic bunny rattle.

I got the masquerade masks in the above photo, but bought the bag of masks for these unusual ones below.

Some old plastic flowers for crafting.  A bunch of old dennison style stickers.  There was also a vintage water decal tucked in with them.

The vintage decal was a score.  It is teeny tiny and features Peter Peter.

It was one of 30 different decals given away with Kellogg's Pep cereal.  I would have been buying boxes of cereal left and right to get the series of decals!

An adorable set of bookends featuring a boy and a girl reading their books. Wonderful crazing and marked Japan on bottom.

A teeny bit of vintage Christmas and a pink storage cabinet. A fun garland made with satin balls and mercury glass beads.

I love this Christmas themed rubber stamp set.

With some great rubber stamps.

A pair of old heavy curtains with good ivy graphics.

And last but not least this crazy Santa vinyl sheet that is meant to cover your garage door.  Note how on the picture the Santa pretty much covers your ENTIRE garage door and the verbiage on the package also states is should fit a standard garage door.

In reality I think the packaging is a bit misleading.

Still like the jolly fellow tho.  Hope your weekend is stellar and have a happy day!

 

 

Estate Sale Friday/Saturday. My Favorite Finds Were Free.

Beautiful weekend here weather wise and nice to stand outside waiting for an estate sale to open under sunny skies.  I hit 4 sales this weekend...2 good, 2 duds.

One old plaid metal picnic basket and a BINGO box (with a wonderful enthusiastic boy as the graphic).

Three decks of playing cards.  One dog, one cowboy and one for the game of Rook.  Vintage thumb tacks and old candle holders for the Christmas tree.
I liked this deck of Rook cards as the box had cards with three different designs.  I thought they may be fun for some Halloween crafting.

A teeny bit of vintage Christmas including one of those old metal holiday tape dispensers..which I collect.

Some old faded crepe paper flowers.  They will join a few other flowers in my bedroom to make one BIG bouquet.

Birthday candle holders in a rainbow of colors, old clothespins and some old paper clocks.  The clocks will be perfect for some spun head gals at New Years.

An old blow up Halloween sword and trio of Halloween candles.

A tiny concrete fish and a dress up wig in original box.  The box will be fun to add to my Halloween decor.

In case you were wondering...the wig is for dressing up like a pirate.

My favorite finds of the day were free.  When I was shopping the estate sale I noticed they were using old boxes to corral items for sale.  I emptied a couple of the boxes being used and brought they up front with rest of my stuff. They threw in the boxes for free.

A vintage Halloween Butterfingers box and a old shoebox for a child. I will use the Butterfingers box at Halloween for display.

The shoebox will be for storage with a bonus of cute graphics.

Not a bad weekend in estate sale land and thank you again Debbie for the awesome number! 

Happy Day!

Estate Sale Friday...Wishing For A Lower Number

I was number 18 to get in the door today.  They let SEVENTEEN people in so I had to wait a few minutes before I got in the door...having the door close before you get in is not a good feeling.  A woman got to the Christmas stuff before me, but I still got good stuff.

A deck of cards with ballerinas and another with a race horse.  A good sized bag of old pink ornaments (some are on picks, but the majority are not)

A set of tins with a great sailboat graphic.

A cluster of vintage mercury glass garland picks.

Two great old pots in a muted green and four of my mica birds that I love so much and collect.

An old yearbook from 1937.

I like to pick them up occasionally as you can't beat the rows and rows of smiling vintage black and white photos for crafting projects.

Busy weekend for me.  Kate's senior prom is tonight so we will be getting her all gussied up for the event.  Tomorrow is Mom's weekend at OSU, so will be driving down to spend the day with Ben.  Glad I could sneak a sale in this morning before my weekend got crazy.

Happy day!

 

Estate Sale Friday and Saturday.

I hit one sale yesterday and one today.  Yesterdays was much better, but I still found a few things at the sale today.

A cute little green wooden stool.

I did quite well in the Christmas area this weekend with lots of assorted Christmas ornaments in all shapes and sizes.  I also got a couple of old Christmas children's books.

Smaller ornaments and some mercury glass garland strands.


Including a couple of cute pixies for holiday crafting.

Handmade corsages with satin ribbon flowers, a rooster, 2 pink honeycomb eggs and a tiny cotton duck.

One of my favorite finds was this awesome turkey. It looks to be made out of paper mache with metal feet.  The head comes off.  It is marked Germany on the bottom.  Any tidbits on it blogland?

I got this great old style folding child's webbed chair. I love the old webbing, but is is disintegrating so I will replace it. (This is a super easy project and I have a stash of old webbing to choose from). I also got a black honeycomb cat, which I think is missing the face that you add, but will look fine tucked in with all my other black cats.  I also got orange pipe-cleaners...don't judge me on that purchase.

Ribbon spools including some of the gift ribbon with foil bands that I collect.

A old milk bottle from our local dairy Alpenrose and a box of old drinking straws.

A whole bunch of flocked red apple patches.  At least I think they are patches.

A great old tin jack o'lantern.

It is marked U.S. Metal Toy Company on the bottom.

A tiny Halloween noise maker.

Happy to have sales pick back up with the season finally.  Also happy to find a couple of spun heads tucked in with some Christmas items from Friday's sale...including the cutest little gal head.

How can they not make you have a happy day?

Vintage Tray Project

I got four really cute wooden trays awhile ago at an antique shop. I loved the colors and the shapes. The decal on the inside of the tray was fine, but it did not thrill me.

I decided to play around with them. I cut a pattern to fit the recessed interior of the tray.

I got out my stash of vintage wallpaper and matched up wallpaper patterns and colors with the trays. I then used my paper pattern to cut out a shape from the wallpaper. I spray mounted the wallpaper and then adhered it to the tray.

It was pretty easy to do.

I then took some old magnetic bulldog style clips that I had. I liked the magnetic kind as it had a flat surface (the magnet) which I could use for glue. I glued a clip on each tray.

Now I can use them as mini clipboards or frames.

I really like the finished project. It was really easy and a fun use of vintage materials.

 

 

Estate Sale Friday and Saturday

Two estate sales and one retirement home sale were on the docket this weekend.

I signed up for today's estate sale yesterday and was number seven on the list. It was family run and I showed up about 15 minutes early and was standing on the porch with a few other people waiting for it to start.  The woman came out early and asked if we were on the list.  I said I was number seven, and she invited us all to come in - thus I became number one as no one ahead of me was there.  It was a family run sale where they had cleaned out a bit too much and the pickings were slim...but I still did okay.

The great red step stool and the barkcloth curtains came from the sale today.  So did the two drawer wooden cabinet and the tablecloth.

I picked up the rolling pin and tin molds yesterday.

Christmas also arrived at Friday's sale.  I got two statues and a box of ornaments with tiny scenes.

  You may be wondering why I bought a plastic swan.  I have been attracted to swans lately and thought it would make a fun display for Plucky Maidens. I have a bunch of the birthday swans I make and a few swan ornaments to bring to the show.

And last but not least, at today's sale.  A tiny cream colored flowerpot and a glass dish.  I use those shallow glass dishes to organize my jewelery.

Decent weekend in estate sale land and so nice to be the first in the door today! Double bonus is that it is a glorious sunny day!

Donkey, Hen and Chicks

Remember the donkey cart I got a few weeks ago at an estate sale?

The donkey and cart are actually pretty good sized (hard to tell in the photo).  The cart was PACKED with hen and chick plants.  I could not carry it when it was full of dirt and the plants.  I was thrilled to get the donkey, but also excited to get so many hen and chick plants as I had a project that I needed some for.

Here are the hen and chicks from the cart.

Add two old galvanized chick feeders.

Have husband hang them on a fence, which was super easy with just two screw eyes screwed into the fence.

Plant with hen and chicks from donkey cart.

I love it when a project like this falls into place. As a FYI, I did not drill holes in the feeders as they were old and not watertight. If they held water, I would have drilled holes for drainage.

Hee Haw, Cluck, Cluck and Happy Day!

Estate Sale Friday.

I hit two sales. One yesterday and one today.

A big galvanized skinny trash can. I switched out all my terra cotta pots last year for galvanized and this is a good size and shape.

A leprechaun guards a stash of vintage ribbon spools for crafting. 

A roll of old advertising paper tape (I use it for height with display and love the graphics), some old frosted bells as well as some honeycomb paper ones.

A vintage coloring book, a nativity scene and a elephant squeaky toy.

The elephant wears a crown of daisies as well as holding one in his hand - dang, dang cute - despite being a bit grungy from use! Vintage birthday plates in background.

A pair of old Easter chicks and a few handmade Easter baskets.
I got a nice little collection of crocheted Easter eggs.  I can't imagine the work that went into these.  I am not an expert on crotchet, but I think the woman did some needlework and then wrapped the egg with it.

A pair of egg cups. One from yesterday's sale and one from today's.

I already had one of the wooden fellow.  These are hand-painted so the two that I have are different. The one I got today came with the original box.

It belonged to Donna who must have received it in 1970.  I love notes on stuff.

Speaking of notes. I had to buy this little Christmas scene because of the note that was taped to it.

"1st Christmas 1925 for Anna Sorenson".

The woman was a baker and had lots of cake pans and cake decorating stuff.  I got a good stash of picks and such for crafting.

She also had some old catalogs and party brochures.  I love the catalog on the right that advertised spun heads and such.

Not a bad haul in estate sale land.  Now I just need to go put it all away in the proper places in the studio...

happy day!