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So readers…did you guess what I purchased at the junk sale?? If you don’t know what I’m talking about, last night in the blog post I showed pictures of the junk sale I went to and encouraged you all to guess what I bought. I bought five things but four of them were shown in …

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I’ve told you before about the junk sale I go to whenever it’s open. Typically they host a big clean-out garage sale in February, a sale in the spring, one in October, and a more Christmasy one in November. I go every time if I possibly can. The gals host my favorite kind of sales…decent …

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Last week I did two different posts about the antique/vintage sale I went to. In the first post, I showed you many pictures of the goodies that were at the sale and then I told you to pick which piece I bought. I had left you hanging and encouraged you to guess which piece I …

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Last week I told you about the awesome Sewing cabinet I foud at the thrift store for $5. At the time, I told you it needed a little work.  You can see the top doesn’t look pristine and there there were other problems too. See how the…veneer is lifting away…UGH. I took a tooth pick …

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On Friday Kalissa had a doctor’s appointment in Waterloo.  She had worked an overnight shift the night before so I offered to drive her to the appointment.  I hate for her to drive after working the overnight shift especially if it’s a long trip which it is if we go to Waterloo.  I told her […]

Friday was my antiquing day.  You all might remember there is a bi-annual sale in my area that I love going to.  They have all sorts of decently priced vintage stuff.  I just love going.  I’ve gotten some pretty neat things from there too.

Sadly the weather was terrible.

But…the picking was fun.

I snapped some pictures to share with all of you.

While I shopped it rained and rained and rained.

I checked out the linens and fabric.

There was a great old phone collection.

There were many different styles.

Salt and Pepper shakers anyone?  There was ...

You all might remember the two paint-by-number pieces that I had framed recently.  They were painted by my husband when he was in fifth grade.  He had his appendix out and his Aunt Ann gave him a pint-by-number kit with the hopes that he would have something to entertain him and he’d sit still.

Neither is completely painted but mostly painted.  I love them partly because I love dogs but mostly because he did them.

The other day Kalissa said to me, “Mom, I wish you would somehow put a paper on the back of that so when you ...

You all might remember that I left you in the middle of my story about the barn I bought at the vintage store in Sumner, Iowa.

I know lots of you were upset that I didn’t show pictures of the barn.  There’s a reason I didn’t do that.  You see when I bought the barn…I bought it straight out of the window.  I saw what the outside was like but I didn’t really see it up close.  I really didn’t get to touch it and feel it so the next day when I went ...

I think this is going to be a fun blog post.  I know I sure had fun exploring.  Here’s the story:

I already told you that on Sunday I went to get my Covid shot.  I already told you that when I was in town I stopped at Goodwill.  I already told you that I found this…

It is an old sewing basket/stand.  I saw it and I have several of these already.  I didn’t need another.  I don’t even know if I have a place for one.  Ah…but what’s a girl to do ...

You might remember me telling you about a junk sale I always go to.  There is a pair of sisters who host a junk sale at their place a couple of times a year.  You might remember me redoing my sewing room with a few pieces of “junk” I bought from them.  If you missed my sewing room tour, you can find that HERE.

This dresser houses my batik fabrics.  I painted this dresser and Karl cleaned the handles.

The piece hanging on the wall I bought from them and Craig helped me hang it.

This metal cabinet in the ...

Remember back in April I was at the vintage sale when Kelli called me and told me her water broke.  Well, I never showed you the goodies I got or told you about the sale so here, one month later, (Yep the boys are a month old as of today) I’m here to tell you about the sale.

I bought this magazine rack.

My idea is to keep my cross stitch projects in there like this…

I’m a sucker for old vintage… wooden boxes.  This was an old box that once some type of cigar box.  Someone saved ...