I hit a total of four sales today. The first one was a COMPLETE dud. Number two was decent and I got some good stuff there. Number three was pretty much a dud except for running into a friend there. She asked if I had been to the sale A BLOCK from my house that had a room with Christmas. I did not even know about it and hightailed it over there. It was family run and a digger. I dug for over an hour.
One of the rooms was a craft and Christmas room. I got a big plastic bin and just kept throwing stuff into the bin. Nothing was priced so you just gathered and they tossed a price at you. This was my plastic bin full of stuff. I am just going to post the contents of the bin today since I tend to ramble on with finds and the bin held quite a bit.
This is what it contained. 2 panels of old floral ticking fabric and an unopened roll of foil pink wrapping paper.
A strand of mercury glass garland and some old Christmas package tie ons.
Small Christmas ornaments, turquoise small reflectors, jingle bells, Christmas light bulbs, velvet leaves and two spun heads. I smile whenever I dig spun heads out of random boxes as I know my radar is still on.
I dug out lots of buttons. I also found a card of thumbtacks (challenge #123) and a curtain tie back. (tie back is in center of photo with green scalloped edges)
Sewing needle books (challenge #162). Four of the books are new designs for me.
I like this one that evidently was sold by a deaf mute to earn an honest living.
An oversize matchbook. I have a couple more of these larger size (challenge #30) matchbooks. I don't find them often.
What makes these matchbooks interesting (besides the size) is the matches inside. They always have a message or some graphic printed on them.
A bunch of vintage Christmas tags.
Lots of glitter, sequins, thimbles, a cloth measuring tape (in pink) and other smalls. I love the HAZEL'S glitter labels.
I was happy to find the Shell Craft package as I am workig on spun head mermaids that will be listed on the 29th.
Two boxes of Christmas ornaments and an old baby rattle in original packaging. (challenge #72 for rattles)
The plastic bin had a good assortment of old paintbrushes. I use paintbrushes all the time and never have enough.
This long post is just the plastic bin I filled. I will have part two of this post for you in the morning. It was a good day in estate sale land...I have more to share.
p.s. I asked the family running sale number four if they had advertised it. They had put it on Craigslist late Thursday night. I had checked CL earlier in the day when figuring out my Friday route, so completely missed the listing. Thank goodness for my girlfriend who told me about it!
Good thing you have friends who look out for you. Major SCORE. I still have fantasies about finding a craft or Christmas room at an estate sale. I've come close, but nothing compares to your weekly hauls.
PS. Chris came home with German diecut Halloween figurines from the 20s yesterday for .50 cents. They obviously didn't know what they had. Woo hoo!
Posted by: Musings from Kim K. | July 20, 2013 at 05:45 AM
What a haul! Good thing you ran into your friend. I'm excited to see these mermaids soon!
Posted by: Melissa | July 20, 2013 at 06:13 AM
You did well as usual! Love the old prices! 29 cents, etc! What happened to that world??
Posted by: Diane | July 20, 2013 at 06:43 AM
Great haul! It is hard to imagine a sale like that getting under your Magpie radar. I love the buttons and needle cards, of course, but I think my favorite thing is the matchbook. I have never found any giant ones like that and the Paris theme makes it especially fun.
Posted by: Kathy | July 20, 2013 at 07:20 AM
So happy that someone had some estate sale luck! I am just going to pretend that these are my finds and then maybe I won't be so sad at the lack of sales AGAIN in my area this weekend.
Mermaids, huh? Can't wait to check those out and hopefully bring some home:-)
~Erica
Posted by: Erica | July 20, 2013 at 08:02 AM
Wow!!!
Running out with my coffee but I had to check your blog :-) Of course! Great haul and good friend!! Have to look at it again on my phone.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Posted by: Doreen | July 20, 2013 at 08:34 AM
Ah geez, more vintage goodness! My youngest is coming home today. When I talked to her on Thursday she mentioned that she was cold......how funny is that? She has now officially had an Arizona moment. She heard folks complaining about how hot is was out there and she thought they were silly. You gotta' come to AZ for some real heat, she thought. She said she's had a great time out there, checkin' out the university and local tourist spots, but she's homesick as well. We are going to try to make a trip up that way come spring to visit the Olympia parks region, as my hubby was stationed there in the 80's while in the navy. If I can, I'm gonna' try and visit, if that's okay. Maybe while you're not looking, I'll snatch some goodies from ya.......LOL.
Hugs,
Meri
Posted by: Meri Wiley | July 20, 2013 at 08:52 AM
An excellent bin filled with goodness! I think Hazel Glitter will be my new stripper name. (In my next life, of course!)
There is an Estate Sale today in the house of a 102 year old lady that "never threw anything away". But, it is ten miles down a dirt road and I just don't know if I want to venture that far alone into the boonies. But, man, I bet it is some GOOD JUNK!
Posted by: Shara | July 20, 2013 at 08:59 AM
It was meant to be Laurie! Great haul - love the spun heads. Can you tell me something about them? Are they wooden heads or spun cotton? The name always confuses me, as they look wooden... I can't find anything online to tell me more about them. Thought the Queen of Spun Heads here could though! ;)
Posted by: Maureen | July 20, 2013 at 10:00 PM