Hooray for yard sales.......

Oh, I know Barb in American Samoa is going to feel bad as she SO misses going to yard sales, so I apologize to her.....but...I have to tell you about my adventures yesterday with 2 friends.......Linda and Pat A (both blogless). We usually have another gal, Ruth, with us but she is away for a few days. We were having a disappointing morning and then things turned around and got better. Linda got a set of 3 LOVELY floral prints (matted and in frames and under glass) for a few dollars (can't recall the exact cost). Pat A got a great Ethan Allen table (with 2 leaves) and 6 upholstered chairs for her daughter's new apartment for just $100 AND the seller drove the items to Pat's house. (She and her husband will get their pick-up truck down here in October and transport the items back to their daughter's place in MD). I got several small items...the best buys are pictured below. I've not been able to go to yard sales the past several weeks, so it was fun to go this weekend. Today we have the church picnic at the Delaware Episcopal camp (Camp Arrowhead) on one of the bays near our house...it's a great location and the weather is supposed to be fairly nice. I'll get some photos and blog about that tomorrow. Now for the photos of my 3 best buys at the yard sales.....

This basket is going to be great to store lots of little notions neatly on top of one of the dressers in my sewing space. It was just $1...which I thought wasn't bad.....will leave the plastic liner inside so no sharp notions can escape (or put a hole in the basket).Next is a nice-sized basket to hold scraps (or a project that is in progress). I'd have been happier if it had a lid, but it's okay that it doesn't. It was $3...another fair price, I thought.I got these 2 pieces of fabric for 50 cents each. The plaid is a 2-yard piece and the other is a little more than 1 yard. You know I was happy with all that fabric for just $1 total. I just realized there is one more thing I'll show.....when I take a photo of it....a piece of Mexican pottery that cost me just 35 cents. I'd like to try to get info on it from the markings on the bottom of the piece, if possible. I'll try to photograph that later today and post about it soon.

My blog time will be scarce this week......

We will have the little cutie-pie, 5-year-old granddaughter with us this week. (We got her yesterday and she will be here until late on Saturday.) This means I will be doing the Grammy things.....pool......PlayDoh....coloring books...pool.....puzzles....pool......sewing cards.......pool......beach.....pool.....board games........pool......rides at the boardwalk.....pool....Webkinz.....pool. I think you get the picture! She looks SO forward to coming here for her "vacation" with us and we love having her. I will get some pictures to share. I am also going to pre-schedule some of my posts for this week, so if you comment and get no answer, please understand it means I probably haven't seen your comment as I'll be busy with little Jessi. (It also means I won't get to keep up with many blogs.......so don't think I deserted you...I'll be back!!!)Above is a photo of a set of hand embroidered pillowcases and the edging was done by hand, too. Click on the photo to see it better. (Is that edging called tatting or is it crochet with a very very thin yarn/ fiber?) I got these at a yard sale this past weekend. You know me....if I see handmade items and suspect they will be trashed if they aren't sold, I scoop them up as I KNOW somebody put a lot of work into them and I hate to think they aren't valued by someone. I got these for $1 each. They are now freshly laundered and I love them. (This photo was before I laundered them.)

This week's yard sale finds.......

Lately, the yard sale treasures seem to be pretty few and far between (although I do love that vintage embroidered towel I got last week for just 25 cents...that I posted here several days back). Yesterday I got two things that really pleased me and I want to share them with you. One was this Jim Shore Easter figurine. (Sorry the photo is blurry.) I got it for just ONE dollar!!! I was tickled pink about that, I can assure you, because it goes for something like $20 in the store or online! This will look very nice alongside the Jim Shore Easter basket I already have in my collection.
The other purchase was this tin that has a lid that looks (both inside and outside) like the top to a blueberry pie....and the inside of the can looks like a whole bunch of blueberries in a pie. It was just 50 cents and I had to take it home with me. I really like it!

A wonderful yard-sale find.....

Isn't that a lovely hand-embroidered towel? (Should be able to click and enlarge it.) I got it from a church friend at a yard sale today. I felt like I wanted to buy something from her and this was so pretty. There was no price on it, but since I wanted to support her sale, I decided to buy it...no matter what she charged me. I was totally shocked when I went up to her and she said "25 cents". I'd have paid a lot more than that for it had she asked. She actually had a few more done in other designs....but I don't know if she was hoping for more money for them.....so I didn't want to go back and ask for them, too. She is in the bell choir with me. I might email her this week and ask her if she'd sell me any she had left over from the yard sale today (if any). Be sure to click on the photo so you can see the work in greater detail. I can assure you, the needle-turn applique is outstanding on this piece...and the stitched flowers are wonderful, too. I'm thrilled with it....and I consider it another "rescue" as somebody took a LONG time to make this piece so nicely and I'd hate for it to have fallen into unappreciative hands!

A little of this and a little of THAT......

Tomorrow we will leave for a small trip to NJ....to visit a dear friend we've not seen in more than a year. We will be back on Thursday. There will be postings here each day, though. There will be a four-day giveaway in progress while I'm gone, so be on the lookout each morning for it, okay?

I am growing annoyed with Blogger as there are "issues" with photos recently and, at least temporarily, I cannot move them around within the posting. Sorry about that!

One of the photos here shows hubby and his little band playing last night by the bay near here. They do music from the 40's through the 80's...and are quite popular. However...last night there was a HUGE invasion of gnats so many of the listeners left early. A few of us stuck it out, though. (Oh...in case you were wondering, hubby is the guitar player.) The drummer is actually blind but he does an unbelievably good job!

The other photo is of one of my yard-sale finds from yesterday....a box of mostly WOODEN buttons. I love them. I don't know if I'll use them OR if I'll just find a nice jar and display them in my sewing room.