Show and Tell

A GARAGE SALE is an informal, irregulary scheduled event for the sale of items by private individuals. These sales are also known as yard sales, rummage sales, tag sales, moving or junk sales. They can occur at individual homes, on blocks or in whole neighborhoods. They are usually held to get rid of stuff and/or make money for a specific item or event and prices vary from sale to sale. Today I'm going to have show and tell of what I picked up recently at some neighborhood sales.

But first, what is better than a garage sale?

FREE, FREE, FREE ! Our city had large

item pick up and the chair, bench and

three-legged bowl were up for grabs. You

wouldn't believe how heavy the bench is!

It will probably go in the yard somewhere.

I'll fix up the chair too. The bowl-still

thinking about.

At the first sale I went to I picked up the items

in the two photos above. AND the best part of

this sale was that EVERYTHING was HALF

PRICE! The wagon cracks me up with it's

"monster wheels" and I love the metal can.

At the next sale I picked up the items in these

photos above. The watermelon print may go in

the kitchen--maybe? The two snowman pictures

are ceramic wall hangings and they are made to

look like Christmas stamps--love them!

Moving on to the next sale. As I moved around I

was going to leave THEN I saw these pillows and

the baker snowgirl--he said that I needed to take

him home so he could meet my other snowgirl

friends. The pillow with the chefs on it, will go

in the kitchen on my red stool. (My dream is

to have a red and oatmeal kitchen one day.)

Here we have a close-up of baker snowgirl.

She has been busy already--baking cookies.

Isn't she a cutie???

Look at this beauty! I'm sure at one time it

resided in someone's bathroom or at the end

of a bed BUT here it will have a new job.

It will become a plant holder! Maybe on the

deck.

These things came from what the lady

called a "sample sale." Greeting cards,

photo album and three round boxes

nestled inside each other.

Borrowed the "plant stand" to hold my new

purse. One of the girls at work has a couple

of these and I've been wanting one. I now

have one and the best thing about it other

than it is darn cute is the owner was asking

$1 for it! It is fabric inside and out and the

handles have denim on one side.

Our garage sale tour ends with some items

I picked up mid week last week.

A little white cart. a metal tool box and

a package of pretzel molds for Christmas

I think one could also use candy type sticks

instead of pretzels if they wanted to. The

white cart may go in the sewing room

(when I find it :) ) or it may go in the

laundry room.

Thanks for taking the tour!

~Keeo on Dreaming~