And So It Begins!

Yes! Another estate sale season is upon us! I'm so excited and apparently half of Michigan is too because this next estate sale was crowded!!!

This is the house. Notice the line outside the door? There was no line when I arrived or I would not have gone to it. 

I don't do lines at estate sales. There is nothing I want or need worth standing in a line for, especially when it's cold outside! 

Anyway, the house was not for sale but Zillow estimated it at $780,000. No surprise there! 

This estate sale had so many clothes and shoes they were in every room!

See for yourself! 

Every closet and several big racks full of clothes! Most of them were high end like Talbots and Christopher Banks. A lot of them still had tags on them! They were so beautiful, but nothing was my size! 

Also, boxes and boxes of shoes! There must have been 200 pairs! Very nice shoes but also not my size! 

Probably a good thing because I would have spent a lot of money! 

Me thinks the lady of the house was a shopaholic! 

There was some other nice stuff, too. 

These were unusual candle holders.

The box they were in was very pretty!

There were quite a few pretty dishes. 

I thought this picture and teapot was pretty. 

The stripes reminded me of piano keys! 

There was a whole box of unopened cloth napkins. 

These are the only pictures I took of the inside of the house. 

I walked around for about 45 minutes, picked up then put down a few things then ended up buying this:

Three bath towels, 5 hand towels and a little card holder wallet.

Total spent: $10

I was happy to get the towels because they are really nice and we needed them! 

In other news 

My Thanksgiving cactus decided to bloom again

It only got three blooms but still glad to see them!

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

February Photo A Day #28-Estate Sale!

I figured for my final post instead of just one photo I would grace you with a bunch of photos from an estate sale I went to recently! 

I didn't take a picture of the outside of the house because I wasn't really planning on doing a post on it but there were some nice and interesting things so I started taking pictures. 

I thought this turkey platter was very nice. 

It was marked $20 but everything was 50% off because it was the last day.

This doll was so pretty. 

She was holding her baby. The price marked was $25

This doll house was so cute. 

All wrapped in saran wrap! It was marked $150 for all. 

I have one of these 45 record holders from when I was younger. 

It was filled to the brim with records. See what's on the lower right? A Kazoo! Remember those?

I don't ever recall seeing a spinning wheel at an estate sale before!

It was marked $85

These jars were filled with pasta noodles! 

They were marked $14, $18 and $20. No thanks! 

This is part of the kitchen in the finished basement. 

All the drawers and cabinets were filled with sewing, quilting and crafting supplies! 

This must have been her sewing station in the basement! 

The sales lady said she made beautiful quilts and that they were all sold!

There were closets full of really nice clothes, most of them Talbots. 

None were my size though!

Here's what I bought

A bunch of pretty fabric and two patterns for bags! Total spent: $5

Well, that's it for another February Photo A Day! This time I was right on top of it and had posts ready to go at least a week ahead of time! 

I hope you enjoyed these posts as much as I enjoyed doing them! 

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

February Photo A Day #27

 Recently the warming plate on my Keurig coffee pot stopped working. I'd been thinking of replacing it for a while anyway.  

I've seen advertisements on social media about using a percolator, so I decided to try one for a change. 

It takes up about 1/4 of the space my Keurig did. 

It took a couple of tries to get the water to coffee ratio to my liking. It uses a lot less coffee than my drip coffee maker did. So far I like it! 

See you tomorrow!

February Photo A Day #26

 We had a few very foggy nights recently. 

I took this picture outside the front door at work one night. 

They fly three flags at work: The American flag, the Michigan state flag and the StoryPoint flag. I liked the way they looked against the fog. 

See you tomorrow!

February Photo A Day #25

Over Valentines Day weekend they did baptisms at our church. I was curious to see how they were going to do it because it is such a large church. 

It actually was pretty cool. There were two baptismal pools, one on each side of the stage. The stage would be dark, a light would go on over one of the pools where they would baptize one person, then the same thing on the opposite side. Meanwhile the congregation was singing a beautiful praise song and clapping and cheering for each baptism. It was an awesome thing to watch! 

I heard that they baptized about 100 people between the three services. 

See you tomorrow! 

February Photo A Day #24

 There is a house in our community that is surrounded by solar lights. 

I had to stop on my way home from work because after several sunny days they are all lit up! It's very pretty looking! 

See you tomorrow!

February Photo A Day #23

 Here's another sculpture from the Ice Festival

A piggy bank that people put money into!

See you tomorrow!