Saturday, May 26, 2012

A few sales

Travis and I went to a few estate sale recently. Nothing AMAZING but I can always find something. One of the companies whose sales I frequent seems to move things around from sale to sale if the don't sell. I noticed because I'm kind of in love with this thing. It's really beautiful. BUT they want $125.

We seem to be finding tons of these gross/cute stoles lately. Travis always has to show them off to me. I'm not sure what the deal is with his face, haha.
I always love little vintage/retro tidbits in an otherwise "classy" house.
I find it hard to resist well loved vintage stuffed animals. Look at this ladies glitter eyelids! I resisted.
Here is what I ended up. Most of this was from one sale.
Little Christmas bits. I've been having a little bit of spun cotton head luck lately. Isn't that Santa cute?
I LOVE the expression on this snowman's face! on the right side he looks sinister.
A little dog that reminds me of Phyllis, a tiny basket, and some baubles.
A flocked deer.
I LOVE felt things that go over your doorknobs. For real. I might even use these year round since the green has faded to blue. I have a little collection going of knitted Santa doorknob covers that will look good with these!
The big santa face was in the basement in the otherwise modern/fancy house. The lady running the sale gave him to me for 50 cents. I just bought that, and a box of vintage balls for a dollar and had to wait in line FOREVER from a woman who seemed to be buying half the furniture in the house. She kept forgetting what she had bought, it was so annoying!! Anyway, the other Santa is a felt bottle cover!
This little made in Japan Santa mug is cracking me up! I'm not sure if I would prefer that he was made with the fancy eye liner, or an agnsty teen added to him.
I got this Disney mug because my parents have had one like it as long as I can remember and I've always wanted one. It is pretty cute. 
Last but not least this little Boric canister! What? It is teeny and cute. I wonder if there was a whole set. It is the perfect shade of mint green with a sweet little lamb.
I'm missing the flea market this weekend! Wah! Well, I guess a road trip with Travis is better. Hopefully I'll bring home some good stuff!

27 comments:

  1. BIG SANTA FACE AWESOME! Awesome! I would have snapped him up for my collection in a split second and been grinning all day.

    fun sale and I love Travis and the stoles....

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    1. i found him after going through the whole sale and finding nothing, it was a thrill to pull him out of a box in the basement! My husband was like "what are you going to do with that?" why, hang it over my mantle of course!

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  2. The glasses/decanter set is lovely but wowzers @ the price!

    The garage sales and alleged estate sales today were not so impressive. I wish people wouldn't advertise a yard sale as an estate sale. Argh.

    I love the snow man! I found something similar in the aluminum tree I got from my mom last Xmas. I will have to take a photo of it when I bring that stuff out for the holidays.

    Love that little canister! Super sweet!

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    1. i HATE that too! especially when it is like "estate sale, loves of vintage" and it's just the same old yard sale crap everyone has. it makes me just leave.

      i can't wait to see your christmas decorations! i bet you have a bunch of cute stuff!

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  3. i wish i could go snatch up that mod big-eyed girl for my big-eyed hallway!

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  4. Ha! I love Travis in the stole! I also really love that first set with the pine cones on it. I have a carafe in that pattern but nothing like the fancy rest of it there. You got some awesome stuff! Not sure how you resisted glittery eye cat though. Hmm...

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  5. AHH I think my grandma had a santa mug like that! Or at least I grew up seeing on like it. I'm not sure his eye liner is that fancy. Haha!

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  6. I had 2 of the Lee Big-Eyed prints on my bedroom walls as a kid in the 70's and it KILLS me that I no longer have them.
    Brought back alot seeing that in a photo. Thank you :)

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  7. I would have bought the girl print if it wasn't too pricey. I have the exact same Santa mug and no his eyeliner is not that fancy

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    1. now i wish i would have asked the price! it didnt' have one and im not really into the big eyed prints but they gave me everything else so cheap, i bet i could have found her a new owner.

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  8. I love those little spun cotton snowmen! Every x-mas I stock ebay for batches of them! The one you found is darling! Good job on all of your x-mas finds!
    Erica :)

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  9. lovely bits! The disney mug is awesome!

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  10. I have a whole slew of those santa face mugs--I line my bathroom window sill with them at Christmas---some people get freaked about so many faces staring at them in the bathroom :)

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    1. i love that idea! i for one would be thrilled to see all the santas, haha!

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  11. Do you think the little dog could be Bonzo?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonzo_the_dog

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    1. i bet he could be! and i have a cute chalkware dog that i'm pretty sure is him too! thanks for the link, i'd never heard of him before!

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  12. Lots of cute christmas things! I love Travis' serious face there.

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  13. I'm partial to that little boric container! So sweet..but really? Boric? Isn't that acid?

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    1. i was thinking the same thing! i haven't been able to figure it out yet!

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    2. Maybe it's related to borax? That's an ingredient used to make your own laundry detergent.

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    3. I actually looked this up before because so many of the older nursery sets had Boric jars. People used to dilute Boric powder in water and use it to clean out their baby's eyes. That little jar was probably in a set with other containers like cotton balls or baby powder and bottle nipples...that sort of thing.

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    4. Eartha: People used to clean their babies eyes with boric?

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    5. thanks eartha! what the heck??? that seems awful for babies eyes!
      if i ever have a kid i'll have to hunt down the rest of the set!

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  14. That disney mug just blew my mind to the moon and back. How come i never find all this rad christmas stuff when i go hunting? Damn you Rae!!

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    1. i thought of you the last time i was at the goodwill outlet. i kept finding beauty and the beast stuff! i should have snatched it all up and send it to you! there is so much disney stuff there!

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  15. I would have grabbed that Big Santa face right up too - love him!!

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