The summer always seems to fly by. Probably because I love it so hard. Too soon we have to start worrying about sweater weather and snowflakes. I'd much rather remain in summer forever and just vacation to fall once in a while.
This was the last sale-ing trip of the season for @magicsummervintage . She has to go back to her real job of teaching soon. And I have to slog on solo until next summer.
(Hey, remember that time I got distracted when getting ready to go to an early morning estate sale and forgot to put on makeup? Yeah. That was weird.)
Last week we went to a one day estate sale and a church sale. Our favorite company will hold a one day sale once in a great while. Everything is full price until 1pm. We get there early, willing to pay full price for "dibs" on the good stuff. I write this knowing full well that not many other people in town have the same definition of "good stuff" as we do. Which, is a very good thing. More "good stuff" for us!
There were 15 people in the line, and 15 people were let in right away.
The first thing I saw when getting inside the door was a box with some very old Halloween diecuts. Yes, please!
Then I just wandered around the house very casually. I hadn't seen much in the pre-sale photos that I needed, so I was just poking around. I walked past a very neat little bar area stocked with all kinds of vintage barware treasure. This Spiffy thermos caught my eye. I came back to look at it three times and took a photo before I decided it really just needed to come home with me. One of the old reseller dudes was like, "It's good enough to take a photo, but not good enough to buy?" The old reseller dudes love to taunt and rib each other. Maybe this means I'm one of them now? I replied that "It's really cute. So I'm taking a photo. I'm not sure if it's cute enough to bring home yet. We'll see."
I took a photo of the fabulously colored bathroom. Lots of old houses that have estate sales have amazing bathrooms. You just know whoever buys this house is going to rip it all out and make it all earth tones. Boo.
Next was the garage. It was super dark because the rolling door was closed. It was loaded with stuff but didn't seem too exciting. Let me take this opportunity to say that I'm very much in the "looks can be deceiving" camp.
This red enamelware set was cute. But not for me.
But I will certainly take this Holt Howard jewel eye Santa head mug for ONE DOLLAR! Poor guy! All alone out there in the dark garage, all forgotten and sad! This is my second awesome HH score this season!
There was also the largest dog plush I've ever seen. He was very cute and I hope he goes to a good home.
Rounding the table I spied THIS gem! A vintage bag of Dennison confetti! WHAT?! Gaze on its beauty! The question everyone had was: would I open it? And the OBVIOUS answer was, hell no!! The packaging is perfection! It's gum!
The basement was all that was left. I found a cute plaid tin, and really loved this bamboo patio set, but knew the husband would really really not. Hard. So I left it.
Here is the skeleton that I bought. His lower half is joined to his upper half with a brad and can swing when you open the door. I'm not going to say that I'm excited to decorate for fall. Because, that means summer is officially over. But I'm not going to NOT say it, either.
Here are the other diecuts along with the bag of confetti. The bag of confetti is about a foot tall, for reference. Those are some big Halloweeners!
I also scooped up some tiny cocktail straws in the original package because I have the large set at home. Mama and baby deserved to be reunited.
I totally forgot about the jewelry table until it was time to checkout. I was able to score this Aurora Borealis cocktail ring only because Ann doesn't wear rings. It's a beaut!
Ann found a bunch of cute vintage nighties and slips, I think. And debated for about three hours over whether or not to buy a bangle everyone thought was Bakelite. She finally decided to go back after 1pm when half price kicked in. It was, of course, gone by then. We decided to make little testing kits to bring with us because the knowledge that a piece is definitely bakelite would help us make decisions much faster.
The church sale looked really good from the outside. A tent and good signage. Always a plus.
They had more Christmas tree stands than I've seen in one spot, ever. This was not all of them.
It looked really good going in.
I was worried that I'd regret not buying this huge pompom chick. The good news is that I don't regret it.
Some seriously odd things in the toy section. An entire bag of Koala bear clippers that say "Australia" on their vests.
And this very cute round Saint Patty's squirrel. Looks like a hamster, but has the tail of the squirrel and is all dolled up for a Saint Patrick's day party. It's just a lot going on in one little plush.
Sometimes at church sales you find really odd religious items. Like this 3D framed number commemorating what seems to be the silver anniversary of Jesus and Mary's marriage. Very Biblical. And not at all odd. Or incestuous. Someone call Game Of Thrones. We've got a new story line for them.
I just ended up getting a few things.
Ann got something, but I can't remember what it was.
We then went to a thrift store in which, I found nothing. But Ann got a very awesome 70s handkerchief sundress. I'm not sure if that's actually what they are called. It's just what I call them. Skip over to her blog and you can see what the crap I'm talking about.
We then went to lunch where Ann tried to ignore her migraine and I tried to order a vegetarian meal off of a meat-centric menu. Last week felt much more like the perfect final hurrah, so I'll be switching these days in my mind.
I can't believe the summer is over already. It always goes so fast. It makes me very very sad. To my core. Summer is just the best thing ever to happen to a body and I hate when it's over.
Until next year...
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@magicsummervintage
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