Our last diversion...

Well we were on our way to go get groceries.  As we were almost to the store we saw an Estate sale sign.  Being me.....I whip onto the road just KNOWING I NEEDED something there.  Of course, being me, I found things I could not live without. *grin*

Here are most of the things I came home with.  Now....just to find a place for them! LOL

 

I think there was 16 qt jars and a couple small pint jars.  I just love the old jars.  I won't be using them to can but I do love storing my kitchen dry goods in them.  I'm thinking the $5 for all was a good price.

 

I've put one to use already.  It's storing my candy corn this holiday season!

 

An old shaving cup and brush.  I've always wanted one of these...why? Not sure..but it sure is cute and now resides in my bathroom.

A couple old wooden boxes.  I just love these. :)  I'm still tossing up ideas with these.  They may hang in my kitchen with some of my collectables living in them.

A tall old oil lamp.  I fell in love with this.  I had purchased all my treasures.  Looked at this and left to get in my truck....and ran back in to get this.  I knew that if I didn't get it I'd lay in bed and wish I had gotten it. ;)

An old milk can...perfect for holding my mums in out on the porch.  I just got some pumpkins to sit with it.  I'm not sure what else...but it needs to have company.   I'm not sure what we are going to do with this.  The top has been painted black the bottom is just rusty.  I love the rust, Bill would like to paint it.  We'll see.

 

 

 I love picking up old books.  I have a small collection of books.  Okay...I confess...we have enough to fill a small library. ;)  But we both love books and reading.  Bill found this 1st edition book and knew I'd just love it.  He was right.

We love to decorate for Christmas.  We had to have this.  I thought this was the cutest little planter.  It's made by Inarco.

I guess I'll have no excuse for not making cutouts this year. ;) A whole variety of copper cookie cutters.

Quite a variety of kitchen utensils, etc.  I just love 'old' kitchen things. I am always collecting kitchen gadgets.  Now just to figure out how to display what I've collected!

And finally...This is a Triomphe 3L jar made in France.  That was destined to hold my popcorn kernels.  That was changed once I got home and our rice went in it.  It was perfect for our rice. :)

We then left to go shopping.  I kept thinking of the blue dinnerware that I had spied in one of the rooms.  Sooooooo on the way home we stopped.  I told Bill if it was still there it was meant to be mine...if not oh well.  Sounded good...hahaha....it was still there. ;)

Blue Willow, Churchhill Dinnerware, Made in England.   I just love it and plan on finding more pieces to go with it on my travels. :)  It's service for twelve.  Between the plates there was an Open Stock Order form with the web address (Heritage Mint) for ordering.  Nice...now I could go out and check the prices.  I went out there....I'm thinking I got a really good deal. ;)

If you've gotten this far I thank you for sifting through all my treasures.   There's nothing like the feel of a good deal! :)

Up and out to an Estate sale we went!

The lady that lived right behind us had passed away before we even moved to this house.  That has been about 6 years that we've been here.   Her granddaughter has been keeping the place up.  But no one has lived there in all the time we've been here.  It's been years and years since anyone lived there.  They are now going to rent out the house.  They needed to sell what was in there due to it being rented unfurnished.  I've been waiting for something to happen there since I knew it must be filled with old furniture. (I love old!)  Had she still been living she would now probably be well into her 100's.  She was already in her 100's when she died.   This morning I awoke to cars lining the street.  Oh no...I've missed it being in the paper!  And there were NO signs in the yard to show what was going to be going on there.  Up I flew and got dressed...and dragged Bill out of bed to go with me.

We've been wanting something to store our china...crystal etc in.  Well they had a china cabinet (which I had been spying through the window when we would take Fritz (our rescue dog) on a walk.)  They also had a side board.  I was thinking maybe the side board...soooo I asked how much for it.  They didn't want to split it up they wanted to sell the side board, china cabinet and the matching table and chairs (6) as a set.  Well thinking it would be well above what I had in my pocket I asked how much for all.  She said $300 for all.  I thought the side board alone would be more than that.  Soooooo I bought me the set!  I just love it.   Here are the pictures I took of it after we got it situated in the dining room.  I need to locate all my goodies to put into it as I have a lot packed away in the basement.  I am pleased as punch with it. :)

I just stuck some glasses in for now until I can locate all my purdies. ;)

I  love the hardware on everything...this is the hardware:

We also picked up other things that we wanted there.  When I asked how much for what we had loaded into boxes she just said the price of the other for the table etc was enough for all of it. YAY!

Here are the extra goodies:

I also got a few other things...and a large handful of probably 10 handmade doilies.


I also decided to get two rockers they had.  She had me name a price for them..  I gave her $20 each for them.  These are soooo comfy.  Here is a pic of one of them.  They are identical rockers.  Now just to find a place for them!

Well this is how we spent that morning and afternoon and early evening.  Cleaning up and trying to find a place for everything.  Mind you our dining room was full of things prior to buying any of this! :)