I hit two sales on Friday. Number 12 to get into one of the sales and the second sale I hit about 10 minutes after it opened. The second sale was my third visit to the hoarder house. This was the third weekend the hoarder house was open and they had opened up two new rooms that they could not get to before.
I got some more tablecloths from the hoarder house. This woman had hundreds of placemats. Mixed in with the placemats were an occasional vintage tablecloth. I enjoyed digging.
A whole heard of reindeer and a pair of ceramic angels.
Some tinsel light covers that I use for crafting. They are sitting on a appliqued tablecloth.
A ton of old metal molds. I like the one with the bird design.
An old clip on bird ornament missing the tail.
A squeaky rubber duck wearing a beret.
A good assorment of old gift ribbon on original spools. They are nestled in an old enamel sieve pot.
Two rolls of sparkly wire gift tie and a plastic snowman piggy bank.
An aluminum cake cover lid with a great acorn and leaf design around the top. I like the wooden acorn finial.
Some old Easter pary treat bags.
A pair of old dishes from the Pixie Kitchen. The Pixie Kitchen was a landmark restaurant on the Oregon coast in the 1960s.
An old enamel pan holds my favorite find of the day. Three strands of turquoise mercury glass garland. One of the strands has larger glass beads. The other two strands are over 15 feet each.
A putz house, an elf and a Christmas corsage.
A few small plastic candy canes, jingle bells on the original card and an unopened packaged of honeycomb santa picks.
Another good day in estate sale land. I just never know what I will find each weekend...that is what make the hunt so fun!
happy day!
Looks like a good score today! Love the herd of reindeer and the tablecloth. I have that exact snowman! I think mine has a pipe though. Got me in the mood to go out tomorrow and dig! There's a few sales around the corner here and some other neighborhood sales :-) I hope I'm going to be lucky like you!! Haven't been to any sales lately.
Have a wonderful weekend :-)
Posted by: Doreen | August 23, 2013 at 10:35 PM
It is fun to hunt! Great score as usual. I like that bird mold too. Never saw one before.
Posted by: Diane | August 24, 2013 at 04:30 AM
Yippee for the hoarder house! Lots of fabulous Christmas. I've never seen a cake cover lid with a acorn and leaf pattern. So neat. Next Tuesday, Chris has been instructed to visit a certain estate sale. The pictures advertising the sale are full of vintage toys and vintage Christmas. I'm teaching back to back classes at the University that day. I'm trusting him to find his Magpie Ethel powers that day.
Posted by: Musings from Kim K. | August 24, 2013 at 04:38 AM
My favorite would definitely have to be the turquoise garland with the Santa picks coming in at a close second. Ever since my honeycomb fruit picks find at Plucky, I have decided that I want to try to collect more. At least I know now that there are different types out there!
Have a great weekend. Forecast is cloudy and 75 degrees for the whole weekend. Guess it's good weather to clean the garage. Gotta make room for more junk!
~Erica
Posted by: Erica | August 24, 2013 at 06:58 AM
I spied a little Rudolf mold in there too.
I spied a cute little Rudolf in the molds, too! I usually can tell that what you find will be used for crafting or one of your collections, but....what will you do with the cake cover with that cool acorn? Just curious.
Posted by: Annette | August 24, 2013 at 07:44 AM
Wow, what great finds!! Love that cute snowman and all the Christmas goodies!! The party bags are so cute!! Happy Saturday! xo Heather
Posted by: Heather | August 24, 2013 at 09:00 AM
That mercury glass garland eludes me! I love it but never find it. I do have some, but I need more. Ha. Don't we all????
I have too many of those little molds myself, but I cannot resist them if I see them at a sale. They are nearly always in a tidy stack of at least 6-12 and only 25¢-50¢. So, I HAVE to buy them! I'm thinking of doing something really radical with them. BAKING IN THEM!
Posted by: Shara | August 24, 2013 at 09:10 AM
That house must be something to see! I won't be getting out today since I have the little girls coming over but maybe tomorrow afternoon. Where is this place??
Posted by: Kathy | August 24, 2013 at 09:36 AM
WOW! You really hit the jackpot. Love the
molds and the turquoise (sp) garland.
Posted by: Su Gardner | August 24, 2013 at 09:37 AM
I love that acorn knob. It can't be original, can it? I'm like one of your other readers -- I never (hardly ever) find glass bead garlands. I just figure that it all just gravitates your direction... like a magnet.
It was a great day for junking today.
Posted by: Janet Johnson | August 24, 2013 at 01:32 PM
You did pretty good Laurie.
Pixie Land, that brings back a flood of memories. We hit that a few times on our way to Lincoln City. It sure would have been fun if that place could have made it.
Talk to you later!
Debbie
Posted by: Debbie | August 24, 2013 at 06:32 PM
What a haul!! I found a bird with a missing tail last week too!!
Posted by: Jill | August 24, 2013 at 08:21 PM
Egads I'm just throwing up with jealousy! Yes, I'd be ecstatic if you'd send those turquoise beads my way.......wink, wink. Why oh why don't I live in Oregon???? Oh yeah, because rain is a killer for my medical conditions......poop. Oh well, I'll just keep being envious of you. Please, please let me know if there's a little something from my studio you'd like to have that I can throw into the box of goodies I'm collecting for you.
Hugs,
Meri
Posted by: Meri Wiley | August 25, 2013 at 08:42 AM
Glass bead envy! There's just never enough of that, is there?
Posted by: barbara | August 25, 2013 at 01:01 PM
That was a great pile of glass beads to find! Love the tinsel ribbon and the table cloth too! Well all of it of course. You are so right...when I head out to a sale I always think "I love that I DON'T KNOW what I'm coming home with right now"! lol
It's so thrilling! :)
Thanks for sharing!
Erica :)
Posted by: Erica | August 25, 2013 at 07:09 PM
I have found a bird without tail too. I was wondering if fishing line cut into the right length and multiplied would work as a tail substitute. Just a thought. I have the cake keeper and the acorn is original is you want to share that information with Janet. Have a great day.
Sheryl
Posted by: Sheryl Remy | August 26, 2013 at 05:30 AM
Oh hoarders...I think most of us can completely understand how it starts. Sounds like this house was SUPER packed. Love all your finds, but I'm most jealous of your turquoise mercury glass garland. Such a pretty color.
Posted by: Melissa | August 26, 2013 at 04:16 PM
I grew up with that same cake cover with the walnut handle -- had forgotten all about it.
:-) I'm trying to imagine how packed a house must be that is has rooms 'they could not get to.' WOW.
Posted by: Into Vintage | August 29, 2013 at 09:07 PM
Love all the little molds!!! I have some and want to put them all in a glass jar.
Posted by: elma | August 30, 2013 at 05:18 PM
Of course you'd know what I love the best - the reindeer! Can never have too many of those... they seem to flock to you in droves!
Posted by: Maureen | September 01, 2013 at 01:56 PM