Estate Sale:Today was a GOOD day.

I love to find an Estate sale that has interesting stuff ... good prices and clean.                                  

TODAY was that kind of day !!!

Just look at that like new splint oak basket for 50¢ ...!

Don't know what the spools/rollers are

but they are pretty neat and 50¢ for all six.

Hole goes all the way through.

Research reveal that these are textile spools.

 Cute little cutting board ... likely a brush for hanging wallpaper (25¢) and unusual scissors ... 

I believe this is a display shelf that would have been used in a convenience store.              There is a bracket at the top that may have held a sign.                                           This was reasonable at $15.00.                                                                                 I plan to paint it and use it for towels when we get our bathroom remodel done.

 Nice metal bird bath ... for my daughter. $35.00

I might just restore this one. 

 Step stools or small

ladders are always needed around our house.

Good time-worn condition and a real steal at $2.00. 

Just look at these cool black silhouettes ... thin wood.               

 

All seven for $5.00.               

Will be used on signs or used for patterns.

Maybe even a pig cutting board pattern ... really primitive.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    



This old rooster will be perfect for a long awaited project on my to-do list.
 For a sign in a little boy's room.

Thanks for stopping by for a visit. Hope you will let me know you were here.

Blessings,
Audrey Z. 

Linking To: 

Chic on a Shoestring: Flaunt it Friday 223:

Revisionary Life: Thrifty Life Thursday.

From my Front Porch to Yours:Treasure Hunt Thursday 

Flags and Fences

Happy Labor Day 

 

That is some HUGE cedar post ...

 

... one on each side of the entry

Entry to Johnson Creek RV Resort & Park

  

 Texas flags line the fence on both sides of the entry. 

  

Be Safe  and come visit Texas

Thanks for your visit.

Hope you will visit these blogs.

The Run*A*Round Ranch Report: Good Fences

 Smiling Sally: Blue Monday

Vintage Clock Case shelf for clocks

It's all in the numbers:

My new local friend and blogging buddy, Cecilia @ My Thrift Store Addiction and I shop the same Thrift store ... and showed up at the grand re-opening, #1 and #2 in line.

Both of us were looking at the vintage chairs priced at $8.00 each.

For her, it was love at first sight, but for me, not so much. She wanted two and I could have used four, but with only five chairs ... the numbers did not work out. Over the grumbling of a little old man who wanted all five of them ... with a sweet smile and firm words, she got her two $8.00 chairs. 
see what she did to them HERE...Cecilia @ My Thrift Store Addiction.

I went about looking at another item I had gone there to see. A large number of vintage clocks had been donated by a clock collector ... most of which were pieces or clocks that did not work. I was hoping they had been marked down and they had. I have always wanted to paint one of the old clock cases just for display.  This one was just a case, in fair condition with some missing decorations and old repairs with different woods.  $14.00.

  I had a round flat decoration that I could add to the middle section. The shadow on the wood shows what was there before. This is nothing like what was there, but I thought it would work.

Cleaned it up, painted the back and stenciled numbers.

glued some boards together to make the shelves. 

numbered the shelves ....

painted, stained and waxed ...

 

perfect to display vintage clocks ... 

add clock keys and a sweet little bird ...

 

or small silver collections and display with your vintage treasures.

Linking to: 

Revi's Revisionary Life: Thrifty Life Thursday Party

History and Home: We call it Junking

Kathe with and E ... you're gonna love it Tuesday

Funky Junk Interiors

VGM206 DIYSundayShowcase

 

Rooted in Thyme:Simple and Sweet

The Cottage Market: DIY Projects Junkin Joe

The bird-feeding lamp ... dear oh DEER...I should have known better !

Purging and/or re-purposing ...                                                                   I took this old kinda ugly three arm brass lamp ... removed the wiring and sockets with plans to make a hanging bird-feeding lamp.                                                                     I set it in a heavy resin base from another lamp to work on it. 

Used three aluminum vintage cake pans, drilled holes for drainage and lined them with a piece of wood.   

  

Attached them to the arms and center post.  Four large feeding trays ... so inviting.                                       Decided to leave it as a table lamp feeder instead of hanging it. 

 Spray painted it gray ........
 

 set it on the "table" .... and filled each pan with birdseed.

 Next morning ... 

 dear oh DEER ... i should have know better !!!

  I straightened the bent pans ... took everything apart ... turned everything over and hung it in my bird feeding station where it should have been in the first place. The birds love it. The deer can get to it, but not knock it down. 

I guess you noticed that I do not have plants in my pots on the left ... too hot ... too dry and too many hungry deer. 

Thanks for your visit ... hope you will let me know you were here.

Blessings,

Yes, we do have deer in our yard ... every day ...

... our regular family                       ... there are more out of the picture

   

two sets of twins were added this year.

 Linking to:
 History and Home: We call it junking

 Funky Junk Interiors

Revisionary Life: Thrifty Life Thursday

Lavender Garden Cottage Style Party 

Fluster Buster: Fluster's Creative Muster Linky Party

Knick of Time

Beyond the Picket Fence

My Salvaged Treasures