Weekend thrifting

Saturday morning I got up early, determined to hit what were probably the last garage sales of the season. I may have been a week too late--I hardly saw any signs, and didn't want to drive far to reach the ones advertised in the paper. The weather was actually quite nice if a little on the windy side, but I think that for the most part, the garage sale season here is over. I was forced--forced, I tell you--to hit a couple of thrift stores to get my fix. Since Maren was home with Daddy I was able to spend a little more time looking at things than I usually do. I found a few goodies.



Green multi-strand necklace, 4.99. I love this necklace! Some of the beads are glass and some are plastic and it has really pretty clasps. It's big and chunky and definitely makes a statement. I actually started out today wearing it but it's actually quite heavy and was making my neck feel funny, so I had to take it off! Maybe I need to build up my neck muscles or something, LOL. The necklace at the right is turquoise and was 2.99. I really don't need another turquoise necklace but it was pretty and the stones look real. Figured I could restring it or add a pendant to fancy it up. The necklace on the bottom is choker length and looks like moonglow lucite. It's pretty! I'm wearing that right now instead of the heavy necklace.

A closeup of the pin. This was 1.99 and I think it's rather old. It has an old-style pin on the back which is more like a safety pin as opposed to having the little round locking catch. It looks like it was some sort of name tag because on the side there's a slot where you could slide a tag into that rectangular area. It refers to the "Rushmore Memorial," rather than today's common name of Mount Rushmore. There is a manufacturer's name on the back but I can't find much information about the company. This will probably go on eBay, but I'd like to find out a little more about it first.

Vintage rickrack, trim and buttons, 1.50. I bought this mainly for the rickrack (there's some great mini-rickrack in yellow and brown) but the other stuff was in the bag too. Love the needle paper--it opens and it's still got quite a few of the old needles inside.








This was actually from a garage sale I stopped at on Friday. I'd gone to a sale at that same house earlier this summer and bought my two Tupperware cupcake keepers for a quarter apiece. There was tons of Tupperware at that last sale but they must have sold it all the last time. I did buy 10 various Tupperware gadget-things for Maren to play with in the tub for a dime each, a clipboard for a nickle, a South Beach Diet book for a dollar, a cooking magazine for free, and this cute juice pitcher for a nickel as well. the colors are perfect for Halloween! If I can scrounge up some flowers it will make a cute vase. The little Halloween sign is mine from last year; the pitcher just looked so lonely there that I added it at the last minute.

The weather here has been ugly for the past few days. Last night the Denver Broncos played the Baltimore Ravens for Monday Night Football. My grandpa (who lives about 4 hours south of here) has season tickets and invited Quin to join him at the game. Although the weather was iffy, he and my grandma drove up yesterday morning with the hope that maybe the weather would improve enough that they could still go to the game. Well, it didn't--in fact it got worse by gametime. I think temps were in the 30s and it drizzled rain all day and all during the game. They decided not to go (smart) and instead we went to an early dinner at one of our favorite restaurants, Maggiano's. We dressed Maren in her little Broncos cheerleader outfit and got so many smiles and nice comments--she really did look adorable! And she behaved remarkably well. After dinner we went home and got our warm jammies on and watched the game. By the end of the game Quin was having regrets about not going--even though the weather was obviously miserable, it was a good game and it probably was pretty fun, plus my grandpa's seats are Club Level and you can go inside and watch the game on huge screens while you're sipping hot chocolate and eating nachos. Ah, well. We had fun anyway and it was nice to spend time with my grandparents. We're lucky to live so close to them.