Estate sale finds and cute shoes

Whew. Thanks for your commiserating comments on my last post. Let me say that I've been to plenty of estate sales, but I guess I've had the good fortune that they are usually far more fun than the two I experienced this week. I've found a particular local estate sale company who I really like--their prices are super, their sales well-organized and well-advertised, and the vibe is fun and not super-competitive and grabby. I guess I've been spoiled by them! I think maybe I'll just stick to their sales from now on.

Photographic evidence that you don't always have to be the first person in the door to find goodies at an estate sale:

The Hires crate was from a sale put on by my favorite company. It was $3 and I dragged it out of the garage well into the afternoon of the first day. For my three bucks I also got dozens of spider egg sacs (shiver) and enough dirt that it left a rectangular dirty spot on both the floor of my trunk and the ground (gag). But I love the orange lettering (which you can barely see)--I think it will be perfect for Halloween! The Red Cross Paris map, Swiss postcards, and ornaments were from another sale. The bag of turquoise glass bead garland was from the thrift (seriously! You'd better believe I searched every single rack to see if I could find any more) and I love the old Pyrex labware bottle, which I also found at a thrift. That will be fun for Halloween too.

After I hit "Publish" on my rant yesterday, I cooled down a bit and then lifted my spirits in one of the surest ways I know: cute shoes!

Cheap cute shoes, because I do have a parking ticket to pay, after all. These are from Payless, where there's a buy-one-get-one-half-off sale going right now, plus I had a 20% off coupon as well so they were even a better deal. They're so cute they almost make me wish it was Fall. Almost. Not quite.

What are your plans for the weekend? Mine include cleaning up the messes I've left on every horizontal surface in the house. My Craft & Decorating ADD has reared its ugly head this week and my poor house is littered with half-finished projects. My dad is coming to visit for a few days and it would be nice if we could actually use the kitchen table for eating. Crazy, I know.

PS--I took the plunge and bought myself a domain name! I don't think it should be any different if you're seeing this through a reader, but if you want to visit my blog you can use either the old address http://frauleinh.blogspot.com or my new domain, http://themerrymagpievintage.com. Next up--trying to figure out how to add pages to my blog.