Estate Sale Finds Feb. 17, 2015

We found a couple of estate sales this weekend and one of them was really fab!   I love a house that is crammed with stuff and the sellers are motivated to move, move, move their items.  I could have spent hours there with no problem.  Let me show you some of the great stuff I got.

A wooden pizza paddle.  I want to clean it up, sand it, stain it and stencil PIZZA on it with my wood burner. 2 Log Cabin syrup 100 anniversary tins -  Chablis has already snatched one for herself.  I have no idea what the small tin that says "Carborundum" originally was, but the tin is cool so I took it.  5 vintage belt buckles - some lead, some brass and all very nice.  I loved the pinking shears because they're in their original box and are in really good condition....

5 pants hangers, a Pyrex 2 qt. casserole in the Snowflake pattern - no lid tho.  A darling little tin pencil box and a wooden box with a sliding lid....

A Snickers tin - again, Chablis grabbed that one.  A super long rolling pin with Red handles.  I bought the brand new bread tin for myself.    And here's the book that was actually my favorite buy for the day.

 The cover is hard to read but it's the "Elements of English Composition" and it was published in 1902.  Oh...  so..... cool.   I don't know if I'll keep it or sell it, but there's just something so awesome about this book.  Plus the owner's name and Chicago address - from 1924!

A square yard stick...

6 assorted license plates.  I have no idea why I love them so much, but I definitely have a weakness for license plates.  I love the colors and the designs on them.   I already have plans for a few of them at the Lake House....

5 assorted leather belts.  Very vintage and very broken in.   I've already cleaned them and later I want to put some leather polish on them.  They are wonderful.  Some are hand tooled.

A nice assortment of trinkets and jewelry that I'll be selling - perfect for those of you who like to up cycle this kind of thing into new jewelry and odds and ends.

This plastic box is in rough condition, but I liked all the buttons and old clothing labels that were inside...

And that's about it for this week.  I have to say, I had a great time at the last estate sale - great sellers and so much stuff to go through.   If it wasn't so close to lunch time and I wasn't starving, we might have stayed a little longer.  But that's ok, I have a bunch of stuff to clean, photograph and list this week.  What did you find this week?

If you see anything that you like, most items will be listed in my shop sometime this week.

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Bar Keepers Friend

I recently won a cool basket of Bar Keepers Friend products.  Has anyone heard of this product or used it?  I've heard of it and just assumed it was a product to be used on, ahem, bars.   As in alcohol, shots of whisky and loud music...  Apparently I spent too much of my younger years rockin' and rollin'.  So when I looked them up I discovered that it's actually a product to be used in the home, and it's particularly good at removing baked on food and tea stains as well as for removing rust. 

Well Erin over at The Pyrex Collective 2 was having this contest and I thought, what the heck.  Let me enter and see if I win.  After all, I have Pyrex products and frankly, they can use some help.  What do you think?  That's a little baked on yuckiness, don't you agree?

Part of the contest was to write a haiku about your Pyrex product and submit it.  So here's what I wrote....

My beautiful dish
Made of Pyrex white and red
Sits stained and dirty.

And I won!  I can't wait to get my basket of Bar Keepers Friend and go to work on my Pyrex dishes.  They will probably look so beautiful after I get them clean.

Estate Sale Finds July 19, 2014

We've been pretty busy in general, combined with hanging out at the lake with family, so our estate sale shopping has been pretty sparse lately.  Chablis and I have been itching to go look at some junk, so this past weekend we hit up a couple of estate sales.  We didn't find a whole lot, but here's what we did get...

• The green bottle with the pasta crammed in it is a vintage WB Hays soda water bottle.  It took us about half an hour to pry all the dried pasta out of it, but it cleaned up very nicely.
• Brand new rolling pin.  I don't know what it is with me and rolling pins.  I keep buying them and I don't really bake.  What's up with that??
• A Roseville crock in mint condition.  I found it but Chablis somehow ended up with it in her bedroom.  Hmmmm.......
• A double thick 9" x 9" aluminum baking pan.  I didn't really need it but I rarely see the double thick ones and with my reputation for burning baked goods, it's a win-win.
• A metal shoe horn.  Do they even make metal shoe horns anymore?  This one has the name of a shoe store on Halstead in Chicago engraved on it.
• A glass sugar/creamer.  I've already filled it with creamer and have it sitting at our coffee bar.
• A 9 cup Pyrex tea pot.  My grandma had a teapot just like this and my mom now has it.  I have always wanted it, but mom wasn't giving it up.  Any time I've ever see one at an estate sale it's priced too high.  The woman wanted $ 25.00 and I talked her down to $ 15.00.  I rarely spend that much on one item, but I splurged because I've wanted this for so long.
• A blue Marshall Fields tea tin.  I'm a big tea drinker, my grandma always took me to Marshall Fields in downtown Chicago, and this tin said it was made specifically for the Chicago store.  Score!
• Loved the huge glass Lance jar.  They had another matching one at the same sale and it had the glass lid and they wanted $ 45.00 for it.  There was no way I was paying that.  I was digging around on some shelves in the basement and found this one, without the lid, shoved back in a cabinet.  I offered $ 2.00 for it since it didn't have the matching lid and they took it.  I almost fell over.  I'm using it to hold my Keurig coffee pods, so not having the lid isn't an issue for me and so worth 2 bucks. 
•  I was out in the garage and the man pointed at a small attached room and told me there was more stuff in there.  On the back wall, under a ton of cobwebs and behind a rake, was this bird picture.   I immediately recognized it as an Audubon print because I had done a review on Audubon's Aviary.  It was in pretty rough shape and the frame was horrid, but I love Audubon.  They were asking $ 8.00 and I got it for $ 5.00.

As soon as I got it home I carefully removed the paper backing, released the print, and cleaned it off.  Then I painted and distressed the frame, inserted the print and re-backed it.  It's now hanging in my office.  Love it!!

I have my nephew, Kyle, to thank for my Snoopy garbage can.  He happened upon it last week and grabbed it for me.  It's a little banged up and rusty, but hey, it's Snoopy and Charlie Brown.  Thanks Kyle!

The inside is pretty bad, even though I scrubbed it.  But like I said, it's still a vintage Snoopy garbage can!!

One thing I saw that I didn't buy was a nice chenille blanket.  Does anyone know how to tell if they are vintage or not?  This one was in really good condition, but since it was the first day of the sale, the owners wouldn't come down in price at all.  They wanted $ 15.00 and I wasn't about to pay that.  They told me to come back on Sunday and if it was still there, they said they would maybe lower the price.  I never went back.  What would you have done?

 

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