Third and Best Estate Sale

Third times a charm, so they say and, in my case, this third estate sale was my charm!

The advertisement for this sale says bring your crafty self and they were not kidding!

First, here's where it was:

I took this picture off the internet because I didn't take any outside. It's 1,800 square ft condo and recently sold for $239,000! It's a nice condo complex but jeez! 

Anyway, it was loaded with stuff and there were some very nice things. 

I thought this daisy dish set was so cute!

Each piece was marked $2

This vintage China was gorgeous! 

It was $100 for the set but everything was 25% off. 

This was very pretty too. It's a little pot and cup set with a plate. 

They were asking $20

This is the kitchen. 

Very small and definitely in need of paint! 

All the beauty products were on a shelf in the bathtub! 

I rarely buy any of that kind of stuff. 

This is the linen closet. 

Very neat and organized. 

In the bedroom there was every kind of wig and hairpiece you could want!

Plus, and adhesive bra! 

A very pretty thimble collection.

They were $5 each. 

This was one of the bedrooms. 

I had to crop the picture to get the person standing there out of it but it was nice and bright with big windows. It must have been a sewing room because it was filled with sewing stuff! 

This book told how to make vintage bags. 

It was $3

Then I got to the basement and oh my gosh, when they said bring your crafty, they meant it!

The basement was loaded with all sorts of craft stuff! 

This room was all ribbons, threads and embroidery stuff!

This closet was filled with large pieces and bolts of fabric! 

Stamps of every kind! 

There was a Cricut machine with all the accessories!

It was marked $100 but with the discount was $75

All sorts of stuff for scrapbooking!

I never got into scrapbooking thank goodness! 

More acrylic paints than I've ever seen in a craft store!

I could go on and on about all the crafting things there were but I think you get the picture! 

Here's what I bought at this sale:

Two new packages of interfacing, a loop turner, bias tape maker, one of those games like they have on the table at Cracker Barrel, two large pieces of pretty fabric, a cardinal yard decoration....

A window thermometer and this complete 53-piece set of ratcheting screwdrivers for Rich. 

Total spent: $35. I think this is the record for the most I've spent at an estate sale! 

I could have dug through this sale for hours, but I had to go to work. I should have gone back the next day but I figured I spent enough! 

In other news:

They had a Rootin' Tootin' lunch at work and these were the table centerpieces.

They were so cute!

That's all for now.

See you next time and thanks for stopping by! 

Estate Sale #2

 This is the house of the next estate sale I went to:

This one was currently for sale. It's 2,203 sq ft and the asking price is $569,000. It's all about the location!

I thought this little drummer was cute. 

It was $25. 

Loved this Christmas platter!

There was no price on it.

And this Christmas bowl, too!

Very pretty! But no more Christmas stuff, girl! I mean it! 

There was no price on it.

I thought these plates and cups were nice with the cards on them. 

$30 for the whole set. See that little amber juice glass in the back? I have about 12 of them that I got for my wedding shower years ago! 

This was the kitchen:

Not real big but typical for this style of house. 

I kind of liked this spice rack.

It was marked $20. I might have considered buying it, but it was really dirty and sticky. I don't have the counter space for it anyway! 

This was interesting.  

Boot vase with a clock on it! I've never seen that before! It was marked $8.

I didn't buy anything at this sale either. 

Next time I'll tell you about the third estate sale where I more than made up for not spending any money at the previous two sales!

Until then take care and thanks for stopping by! 

First of Three Estate Sales

In the past two weeks I have been able to get to three pretty good estate sales. 

I'm going to show you them in three separate posts because they are picture heavy!

This is the first house: 

It's 3,051 square feet. It was not for sale yet, but there was a flyer inside and it will soon be for sale for a mere $824,000!

It's in a very desirable neighborhood in Northville. 

I didn't take a lot of pictures of the house itself but there were a few interesting things. 

This was at the front door. 

Funny after never seeing that at estate sales before this is the second time this season!

I thought these brass and crystal candlesticks were different. 

They were asking $5 each. 

I liked this little table. 

It was marked $20.

I really liked this copper bucket. It had wood in it. 

If I still had a fireplace I would definitely have considered it. There was no price on it. 

This shiny sequined vest was interesting. 

I didn't see a price on this either. 

This light was hanging very low. 

And I mean low. I'm 5'1 and the top of my head came to the bottom of the lamp shades!

I wanted to buy this cream and sugar set. It was priced $8 "as is." 

Upon closer inspection, one of the handles on the sugar bowl was broken off so I passed. 

Was not impressed with this fireplace. I don't know..too much I think!

There was lots of outdoor furniture. 

This pink Carhartt sweatshirt was my size and I wanted to buy it.  It was priced at $10

But it had a few stains on it that I didn't think I could get out so once again I passed! 

I don't know what these were! 

No thanks! 

This was the master bedroom. 

It was huge!

I assume this was the lady of the house in her younger years. 

I did not buy anything at this sale. 

Driving back out to the main road, I kept crossing a stream that went all throughout the neighborhood. Since the water levels were so high at the time it was flowing pretty good. There was even a small waterfall behind one house! I wish I would have stopped and taken pictures it was so pretty!

Anyway, I'll be back in a few days with estate sale #2. 

Until then take care and thanks for stopping by! 

Phone Photo Dump

My phone is getting too full of pictures so here's a photo dump for your viewing pleasure! 

We've been working on this difficult puzzle for a few weeks and decided one day to give up on it for a while. We didn't want to undo what we had done so we preserved it the best way we could without a puzzle table. 

We carefully slid it on to a cardboard, wrap it in saran wrap and stored it under the dresser until we feel like working on it again! 

This is the first time I've seen a cross at our church. This was on Palm Sunday. 

It came down from the ceiling. Against the background screen of stained-glass windows, it was beautiful!

While in Meijer last Saturday my phone made the Amber alert sound while I was standing at a sample table drinking a sample of iced coffee. This is what popped up! It was surprising because it wasn't particularly stormy outside, just lightly raining. 

When I read it out loud the young girl doing the samples said, "Oh no I have to leave now!" She started packing up and I moved to the front of the store to find Rich (because what do you do during a tornado warning but move toward the windows!) Then an announcement came over the loudspeakers that all employees were to go to the storm shelters, customers are welcome to join them or free to leave but the store is closed for business! 

A lot of people just abandoned their carts and left or went to the storm shelters. I finished my shopping and met up with Rich and left my cart at the checkout. Then we went outside to look at the sky! The tornado sirens were going! I know!!  It didn't look any different than before so we went back into the store and hung out at the registers for about 1/2 hour or so. Then the tornado warning was over and the store opened again so we checked out and left! 

Turns out there was a tornado sighted but it was pretty far away and moving away from us. Because we were in one of the surrounding counties we got the alert too!

Rich and I decided to tour the Capital building in Lansing a few weekends ago. 

 It's a beautiful building with a gorgeous dome in the middle. 

This is the entrance to Whitmer's office. 

Lastly Chris sent this picture to us the other day.

There was a bobcat in his back yard! Here he's looking at his reflection in the basement window! I wonder if he smelled that there was a cat in the house. Luckily Frank is an indoor cat, and he didn't notice the bobcat outside! 

That's all for now. I hope to bring you another estate sale soon. There haven't been too many in my target area so far this year! 

Until the next time take care and thanks for stopping by!