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Weekend Finds

Saturday afternoon Mr. X and I headed out to a local estate sale we've been reading about for awhile. We were thrilled when we heard from a friend on Thursday who went that it was an old mansion near where Mr. X grew up. Even better. We love estate sales because we like hunting for interesting items. But we also love stepping into beautiful houses and maybe hearing the story of who lived there. Especially when the house looks like this...

It was beautiful. Probably built in the late 1800's/early 1900's. The lady who lived there was a flight nurse after World War 2 and they even had her helmet and uniform for sale. It was really cool.

Even the front door was amazing.

In the end l left with a beautiful scarf, some old postage labels, a wooden airplane stamp (never used), a crepe paper twister (because it was cool), an old patch, and some wooden spools to add to my collection. Hoping to make one of these once I collect enough.

Weekend Finds

It's been awhile! We finally hit up an Estate Sale this weekend and spent a whopping $3.54! 

Here are a few things I brought home...

I've been looking for Christmas records because nobody in our family had any in their collections to pass on to us....very strange. I love Christmas music, especially classics played on a record player. The "Music to live by" record just looked cool and it actually is really good. The "Tippity Tap Toe" is a children's record and again I just thought it looked cool and I'll probably give it to one of our friends. The Crete book is for my father-in-law because that is where his family is from. I hope he likes it.

The red yarn is brand new and I'll probably use it to tie around presents. Love that it was .60 cents and I bought it for .50 cents.

This Spanish workbook above and art book below caught my eye and I will probably take the covers off and use them in a minibook. Great colors and patterns.

And an outtake - I walk away for 5 minutes and come back to this...

Recent Finds

The last estate sale Mr. X and I attended I found a Ziploc bag full of vintage sewing supplies. The bag cost no more than $1.00 and I practically bought it without even looking through it. Over the weekend I finally separated everything out and was quite happy with the contents. I think I definitely got my dollars worth.

This was everything I kept and I gave Mr. X some old metal sewing machine pieces. The bottom two wooden tubes are filled with needles. 

These three wooden tubes each contain a shuttle bobbin (I think that's what they are called).

I was mostly excited about the vintage spools after seeing this collection below from Paper Sparrow. I would love to find more and create something similar to hang on the wall. Maybe I will get lucky at another sale we are going to this weekend.

Above photo & spools from Paper Sparrow

Weekend Finds

We kicked off Labor Day weekend with an awesome estate sale early Friday morning since I had the day off. The house was filled with really cool vintage items and the prices were cheap, cheap, cheap! Just our style.

My favorite find is this tin box that says SAVORY on the lid. It was one of the last things I picked up for $5.00. The red reflectors are actually Mr. X's find. They are part of a roadside emergency kit which we thought was pretty cool.

On Sunday we met up with some friends at the Kane County Flea Market in St. Charles. My favorite find from there was this sign Due to Lack of Interest Tomorrow Will Be Postponed. For $3.00 I couldn't pass it up. I think I will eventually frame it but for now it happily hangs on the fridge.

My other favorite were these metal coasters. My friend used his mad bargaining skills to get me a great deal. I love them!

So...what are we doing with all these vintage finds you may ask? Some items we are keeping for our home but others will be added to our new Etsy site that will be up and running soon. Yep - we are in the process of starting our own store. We will be selling a mix of vintage items and handmade goods by me and Mr. X. We are very excited. Stay tuned....