My first garage saling of the season!

All sorts of great buys this past Saturday morning!!

A great Thirty One tote bag that would normally cost $55 (I know too high!  I have a similar one but got it cheaper when they were having some kind of sale). 

It’s a black denim with brown trim/handles.

That bag weighed a ton too….it had all these goodies inside…BBW lotion, two hand creams, a lip gloss all sealed, two kinds of perfume, one called Grace, and I can’t remember the other kind, some other assorted lotions/creams with names I didn’t recognize and a pair of new in the package Sony earbuds.

It was crazy good…all that for $3!

I really liked this game table set, doesn’t go with anything in my house, but thought it was just fun…but did not get it at $150!

Love the look of the table top.

Two travel pillows for $1…

a nice wood/wicker basket, perfect for magazines. 

And a hang on the wall hook (for my guest bedroom after my son moves out in a few weeks) and this photo holder which I hope to use to photograph some jewelry for my etsy shop.

Poly-Fil micro beads like you put in beanbags…they usually are about $20 a bag, at the first sale I went to I found four of them for $1 each. Score!!

1 1/3 yard of vintage solid blue fabric…has the texture of barkcloth. I have a 22” square pillow form waiting for a cover…this will work perfectly for $1. 

Cute little lighthouse drawing on wood 25 cents…

Big metal bins for $2.50 each, I bought them both!

I have been wanting to play around with this thread, it’s 30% wool and 70% cotton…now I just need to figure out what to make.

Last but not least three canning jars, one of them blue vintage, the other two have that crisscross design wrapped around 3 sides (I think they might be coffee jars, but not sure), but there’s room for some stenciling on the 4th side.  And a picture frame which will be great for my frame wall, hoping to get that finished today or tomorrow!

What did you find this past weekend??

40 BAGS 40 DAYS Week Two Progress

You can read about my first week’s progress here. I have been continuing to work on cleaning out drawers and that sort of thing, but haven’t actually gotten rid of anything else.  Unless you count the indoor garage sale that I took those 26 bags/boxes to yesterday!  I made over $100 after expenses and got rid of all that stuff! And it happened in the midst of 10 inches of unplowed snow!  So I had to go to the storage building and wade through snow to the unit, find that the lock was frozen over and trudge back to the car, drive to the truck stop (we’re talking big time desire to get rid of this stuff!), get some lock de-icer, and trudge back through the snow to work on the lock for ten more minutes. 

Here’s the day before…my car got plowed in so I had to trudge (really getting a lot of use out of that word!) down the street to a local hotel because the university’s snow plows had plowed me in on three sides and it was still snowing.  The street I work on looked like a parking lot, so I was afraid I couldn’t get out anyway. 

So anyway, I digress, I finally got the lock unfrozen and starting the trek back to the car dozens of time.  I may or may not have made several inadvertent snow angels with my butt either to or from the car!  I fell several times, but hey, that much snow is soft!  I got most of it in my car (my help cancelled on me at the last minute so I had to leave some of it behind in the storage building) and a very nice man carried it in for me at the garage sale.  So, anyway, most of it is officially gone.  At least it’s not coming back into my house!

Go here to see everyone’s progress!

 

40 Bags in 40 Days~~I’m taking the challenge~~Week One

Ok, I swear the clutter is killing me! I saw this post at White House Black Shutters and knew I had to sign up!  I started in my closet and of course ended up in my sewing/weaving/craft room, Milo is helping me of course.  Crap on  the floor, crap on the sewing tables, the closet doors won’t even close all the way because there is simply too much “stuff” in there!

So, I must confess I rented a storage building to get some of this junk out of my house.  It’s pretty small and I am telling myself it is just temporary while I declutter the house and get stacked things out of the corners.  I have been informed of all sorts of folks who have rented a storage building for the same purpose and ended up with them full and renting other units as well.  I swear that will not happen to me. 

I made great headway in the sewing room…these paints were rescued from two big boxes full of paints.  Some were dried out, I got all my brushes together where I can find them.

I found this 3 shelf storage thingy at a thrift store for $10.  I snagged it immediately and had to take it apart to get it home.  It’s perfect for storing my weaving shuttles, quilts to be bound, my sewing machine cover, and other things that take up a lot of space. Eventually I would like to paint the spindles a blue/aqua color and the shelves white, but for now it’s perfect!

I’m working on a shelf I can put over my serger table and I want to get my chalkboard hung on the wall as well.

So now, I can walk through the room and not have to fight my way to the machines.  Now for the great news…

My town is having an indoor garage sale at a local hotel.  I have reserved a booth and have priced all my things and they are in the storage building and ready to sell THIS SATURDAY!

So that was about 1 pm yesterday and by 4 pm I had this to show for my day of cleaning and pricing and organizing…

So, it’s all priced and ready to roll…and I am still collecting a few things here and there to add to the pile.  And I have resolved not to shop, just to sell!

So I’ll be there at 0600 Saturday, ready to rock and roll.  Oh, you curious about how many boxes/bags??  26 and counting and that doesn’t include the few furniture pieces! I am well on the way…