Opening Day

At long last, the wait is over--Hurrah! Yard Sale season is officially here, and not a moment too soon. When I picked DH up at the airport on Friday I noticed lots of signs and planned to go out Saturday morning, even though I'd have to tote Maren along as DH had to work. I got up early and we were out the door shortly after 8:00 am. I packed the backseat with lots of toys and books for Maren and she was a surprisingly good sport about staying strapped in her carseat for the better part of 3 hours. About halfway through our trip I stopped at a park and let her run and play for about 25 minutes which made all the difference in having a happy little girl instead of a screaming, crabby banshee in the back seat. I took $20 and just followed the signs around my neighborhood. I think folks have been waiting for a while now to clean out their junk and have just lacked decent weekend weather to do it, so there were tons of sales.

The first place I stopped yielded this Haeger vase for 50¢. I have this weird yardsale hangup and sometimes I have to drive by a few sales before I get up the courage to stop. I hate being the only person at a sale because I feel pressured. At this sale they were still dragging boxes out of the garage but the vase was already on a table. I also found a handful of vintage glass ball Christmas ornaments for 25¢ but I realize now I forgot to photograph those. Nothing fancy, but I'm trying to get enough to make some of those really neat ornament wreaths this year. The large wooden spool was $1 and will go with my two smaller spools, and the red and green fabric in the back is a vintage apron that was 50¢. All are resting on a chenille bedspread that was $5.00. The green vintage ceramic planter was $2.00 and came from the same place as the bedspread. It's not marked but I love the color and the shape.

Three Nancy Drew books were a quarter apiece. The one on the right, The Clue of the Broken Locket, was the first ND book I ever read! If I can find them cheap, I'd like to make a collection for my kids to read someday. The two vintage shaving brushes were 50¢ each and the cute handmade quilted potholder was bought with the apron from the previous picture, also 50¢.


At the same sale where I bought the green planter and the chenille bedspread, I bought these 10 vintage Vera scarves for $1 each. This lady was a Vera collector and she had a huge box of scarves. I bought 5 at first but went back later for 5 more. These are for resale so I tried to pick only the ones in perfect condition that I think are most likely to sell. I'm going to try to get them photographed this week so I can list them soon. I need to get my eBay selling kicked into gear again, and hopefully these scarves will get me off to a good start!

Can't wait for next Saturday!