Garage Sale Finds

I went to a subdivision garage sale,40 houses, with a friend, she picked me up at 7 am and we just got home it's 12:39pm LOL ( fyi ) LOL. I am ready for a cool drink and wanted to make the Pink Saturday Blog

My best purchases was 2 old tea pots for 50 cents !!! I love them both and have cream & sugars to almost match them both

                                                                   

love it

I left the pink sack the lady packed them in for Pink Saturday but really I didn't need to do that oh well, I still can't believe 50cents for both tea pots 

then yesterday I went to an estate sale and got these 2 Texas bowls for a very good price , my oldest daughter loves these and they might show up at her house in Portland Oregon ?

back to garage sales 

Then I bought this faux Louis Vuitton wastepaper basket , and I don't have any faux Louis Vuitton in my house, ( just bragging LOL)  however I thought I can use it in the studio , it was $3.00

I bought this beautiful mirror for $3.00 at same yard sale, don't you like the etching on it ? 

I bought these pieces of old silver for a quarter a piece and they will clean up good 

Tiara !!!!!!!!

25 cents to use for altered necklace !!!!!!!!!!

50 cents and they really need a bath 

and I bought a purple pumpkin to paint silver and a little blue & white cup 

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Pink Saturday 

Coastal Charm Nifty Thrifty 

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Savvy Southern Style 

Baggage Or Luggage ?

Do you have baggage? well I do lots of it and some good luggage LOL and have sold some of it and keeping some a little longer however a friend is always wanting to buy my vintage alligator luggage and an old hat box luggage piece. I think I want to keep them a little longer ,but anyway on my last trip up to Lexington I did pick up a couple pieces she can buy if she likes them
This make up carrying case is a American Tourister  and in very good shape that someone gave me recently and I used it this weekend

                                                                 

here are my 3 new vintage pieces, the hat box on the bottom is in great shape 

I really like this Samsonite hat box piece of luggage , did I say that already?

This little red Samsonite piece is very good shape I know Brenda will want it ,those are my toes LOL

It has been a real cloudy day today or I would drag the alligator set out for pictures and I don't have good lighting in my house due to lots of big trees in my yard.

I'll get it the next sunny day 

ps SOMEBODY help me stay out of JoAnn fabrics store!! I want every charm and piece of jewelry in that store

Oh and ALL the rhinestone braid back where the trims are LOL OMG love it ALL

linky parties to check out 

Vintage Thingie/ Coloradolady 

No Minimalist Here 

My Romantic Home 

Button Finds

Today my cousin from St Louis Missouri came here to have lunch with me so after we set at the restaurant for 2 hours and talked, and after we went through old pictures  reminiscing of our Aunts and Uncles when we use to get together as kids 5-9 years old ,we decided to go shopping and of course I suggested we go  vintage shopping . We both have enough clothes and a girl can never have enough old stuff.

We have just seen each other 3 times since 1959

Marilou bought several books for a granddaughter and some pretty smelling soaps for her.We shopped the Market Place In Columbia Missouri

Anyway I had resisted several items that was gorgeous and out of my price range today , so as we were leaving a gal was putting things in her space and she had a huge bowl of vintage buttons and had them priced as buttons of France this lady does shop France and bring items back,well I had to touch all of them and look them over so came home with a few

mother of pearl inlay button first one of these I have in my collection
                                                             

               

Love these glass  with the rhinestones and the back looks like maybe they slide on a cloth belt? size of a quarter

                                                                   

no I can see the little o ring to sew through now
                                                                     

2 little glass buttons and 2 blue plastic 

PS It has rained cats and dogs here today 

Found Jewels

I went up to Lexington Missouri over the weekend to attend my niece Janelle's bridal shower, she is getting married in Kansas City next month
While driving up there I stopped in Higgensville Missouri a little town however they have 3 pretty good vintage flea markets with several booths and then there is a Methodist Church resale shop where I got enough glass vases and bowls,10 cents a piece! )  to make one of those I call a stick bird bath or glass totem pole to put in your flower bed, haven't you seen those on different blogs?

I also scored in Lexington Missouri at River Antiques downtown, Sue is the owner and my sisters neighbor

                                                                           

Judy had  these repo civil war era wallpaper hat boxes that I love, she only had 2 sizes left the large ones were all sold

I have them on a book case and they look so good

I got this red & black necklace $3.00  at Higgensville Mo the clips and bow pin I paid $4.00 and can't wait to get them worked up in a recreation of mine LOL

I don't think I paid over $2.00 for any of these pieces, it was a good day LOL

Then I found some old luggage , a friend is always begging to buy mine so I happened to find some  pieces to sell her ,

Linky parties I am joining in 

Between Naps on Porch 

Boogieboard Cottage 

Coastal Charm 

Ivy & Elephants

Cottage Style Party/ Longest yard Sale 

Wow US Wednesday 

My Romantic Home

Pink Saturday

Common Ground Marketplace/etsy shops

Jewels & Cameo

I was looking through one of my old Where Women Create , as I said previously and looking at Amy Hanna pages at her wonderful altered necklaces I though I have enough vintage jewels and cameo stashed I could make a necklace
So I dug through drawers in 2 chest of drawers  and plastic bends and boxes and had enough rhinestones and chains out to start a production line making altered art necklaces It's always hard for me to choose what and which one to use. Like a friend said you have to many choices to choose from

I started with this large cameo it's sterling silver with 14kt roses     a coral color cameo                  

I wasn't sure what I was going to do but liked the look with the rhinestone ball necklace I bought several years ago,I think this is the first rhinestone good piece I bought back in the 1980's 

 This is the book by Amy Hanna I went to the library and got it , I laid out my jewels on the cover

A bowl of goodies 

I have the hardest time using these little o rings that sort of springs around

This is almost my finished necklace I just couldn't wait to show it off, I love it . I am going to use a small pearl chain on it also ,like a double necklace 

 I am going to gather up all my jewels and cameo I have all around the house and in the studio and put them in a huge glass bowl to show you all , Not now but sometime LOL
                                                                               


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Ivy & Elephants 
From My Front Porch to Yours
No Minimalist Here 
Shabblicious 
Feathered nest Friday 
PInk Saturday 

Where I Enjoy Life

Hi Guys
I decided to stay home this Pink Saturday and just play after I pick up a little.
I was out back taking pictures of some La Papeterie  paper products to list in my etsy shop and looking at an older Where Women Create, May/June 2009 wow can't believe it has been that long , the issue where Amy Hanna was in it and after looking at her studio I thought Oh I want to make an altered art necklace with some of my  good stuff. You know the best rhinestone pins and earrings I have collected and use a pearl collar etc
Then after going to list some paper items I realized they have to be vintage so can't list any of them, I have lots of these things I have bought to use in card making

First I want to show these cute Pink Flamingo tags I have and have decided to let go of,if any of you still make your greeting cards like I do.I have drawers of great creative paper items and will never use them so passing them into my etsy shop for someone else to use and enjoy.They are 4 x 2 1/4 ( just realized I can't sell these on etsy because they are too new ) oh well if interested I can sell them to you just not through etsy.

                                                           

I have been thinking about moving to a smaller home and just can't stand the thought of getting rid of my studio treasures, I think I'll eliminate 2 bedrooms and keep all my studio , tell me you agree 

What a single senior lady to do without a date except play in the studio LOL.You know when you're 50 you are a senior according to lots of advertising ? LOL

  

This is 

hanging over the table where I play with my jewels and make cards . When I find a pretty dangly thing I hang it on this chandelier 

My  Blue wine bottles in my window, which I love because I don't need curtains then 

I have a double window full 

My wire Christmas tree is up year around with vintage cookie cutters on it and vintage Santas ,It's setting up on my TV in the studio

Wire Lady undressed looking at my create table 

Thanks for looking around with me 

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Pink Saturday 

Italy Gift

I was just given a sweet sweet gift from Nancy who lives in Italy. Her dad lives here in my town and I check on him once or twice a week for her and her brother who lives in Germany and older sister who live in Colorado.
Anyway Dad has moved to assisted living apartment and Nancy is here from Italy trying to disperse her parents items. The have had a lottery drawing among the kids and grandkids and whats left is a lot.

This is Nancy & Lois doll chest from when they were little ,neither one of them wanted it and there is 2 granddaughters they didn't want the old thing LOL
So I was making over it and telling her how precious it was on and on. She said Jan do you want the thing? I said of course I want it and offered to pay for it . However it was a gift to me from Nancy from Italy
She brought me a sweet box of chocolates from Italy also.
                                                                     

I love the fastener of this little cabinet,she said Lois painted the flowers back on the cabinet years ago when they were still home 

Now for the little treasures in the doll cabinet, a little purse ,stuffed animal from some trip to circus , a baby bottle , an vintage snap billfold,and wait for the Bride Doll !

love her dress 

I figured I would put my blue & white childrens dishes in this cabinet 

this is everything that was in the cabinet

I  love the hinges on the doors also 

all my blues and then I have another small set of dishes 

These were my youngest daughters  doll dishes given to her by my Mother , a few pieces got broken 

The little tea pot and cup & saucer on top shelf I bought years ago at a sale 

This little doll Nancy said an Aunt brought it back to her from Italy when she was a little girl she can still remember 

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Between Naps on the Porch 

How Sweet The Sound BLOG SHOP

WOW us Wednesday

Common Ground/ Marketplace 

Ivy & Elephants 

French Country Cottage/ Giveaway check it out 

No Minimalist Here 

Timewashed 

My Romantic Home 

Frugal Friday