Garage sale treasures

Last Friday Quin had a meeting downtown, after which we planned to leave to drive up north to Estes Park to spend the night. The meeting was scheduled to last an hour or so, and I figured I could occupy myself by hitting garage sales in the area. In my part of town, Friday sales are common so I expected the same for this area--an older part of town with tiny, old house and big leafy trees. I was wrong--I only found a few sales, but I found some good stuff and had fun!


Vintage pillowcases, $1.00. This was an estate sale but it was being run by the family, so the prices weren't inflated like you find at most estate sales. Each pair of pillowcases was only 50 cents. There was one old hand-embroidered case, but it has a huge tear in the middle. I was actually taking them out of the arms of the woman who was hanging them up, and was telling her about how to make pillowcases dresses for little girls. She gave me the embroidered one and another plain white one for free, which was very nice of her. I'm hoping I can maybe cut off the embroidered part and resew it onto another case, because the tear is so large it's really not useable any other way. Just hate to see vintage embroidery thrown away!





Vintage little girl's dress, $3.00. At this garage sale there was a whole box of vintage (I'd say 1960s) little girl dresses, all about the same size. I didn't have much cash and I am uber-cheap, otherwise I would have bought more! This one was my very favorite, though. I just love the collar and the cutouts with the brown fabric showing behind! Kinda wish I could find a dress for me like this, actually. There are belt loops on the front but the belt was missing, and I think I can just use a wide brown ribbon instead. The fabric is adorable! Here's a closeup:
The pattern is little pictures of Italian architecture! So darling. This is for Maren to wear when she is older; it looks like it will fit when she is maybe 5 or 6.

A few other things I found which aren't pictured are a vintage Alice in Wonderland Golden Book for a dime (I love Alice stuff) and 2 older community-type cookbooks for 50 cents each. Oddly enough, these sell on eBay so I'm going to try to make up a lot.


Beaded necklace, $5.95 minus 25%. This was from the thrift store, which just started giving a 25% discount on Mondays. The necklace is almost 10 feet long! It has a silver clasp and is made up of black bugle beads and multicolored fire-polished glass Czech beads and Swarovski crystals. Heck, even if I took it apart to use the beads I'd have still gotten a great deal. But I'm going to leave it intact--I love it! Because it's so long it's meant to be worn layered, and that style is very in right now. Plus I love all the beautiful colors and how sparkly the beads are! Can't wait to wear it.

Lots to do today. Quin is in Breckenridge for work and I'm going to go up tomorrow and stay the night at his fancy resort. We'll be gone next week as well, Quin in Salt Lake first and me in Southern Colorado and then joining him in Utah. I have to speak in church this coming Sunday so I have to get my talk written today, as I'll be gone most of tomorrow and Saturday. I also need to get everything ready to leave next week, mainly finding a place for Bronco to board and taking care of my Cub Scout responsibilities. Plus I've got birthday and wedding gifts to find and Visiting Teaching to squeeze in somewhere. Eek. I'd better get going.