2nd Time Around: An experiment with vintage glass bird feeders!

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I love garden art and bird feeders! After seeing this idea in a magazine, I have been buying vintage dishes to make bird feeders. This week, I made several of them to see if they would sell in one of my booths. I painted this planter sage green, and displayed them with rebar threaded through a wire top box.

We are having our grand opening on Thursday night for this new booth I’m doing with my daughter Kelli. It was kind of a last minute thing…the booth opened up and was in a great location, so we decided to take it. You may be wondering what we will have in the booth! Right now it is a mixture of stuff I gathered up from home, my other booths, and Kelli’s home! We hope to be able to paint some furniture, make wreaths, etc!

Don’t know how well the bird feeders will sell, but they have made a cute display for the grand opening! And by the way, the cute hot pink sconces were painted and decorated by Kelli! She had a great talent for making floral arrangements.

 

 

This one is made from a striped cup and saucer.

This one is a lavender flowered bowl and a lavender bottle.

And my favorite….a pink depression glass dish and a gold trimmed saucer.

 

They may end up at my house or at the home of some of my relatives! LOL We’ll see!These may not sell, but were so easy to make. They have a vase glued to the bottom which makes them very easy to slip off the rebar and clean.

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2nd Time Around: New to Me Purse!

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I have always been one to get one purse that I really like and carry it until it falls apart! My daughter on the other hand, changes purses almost daily! She and Vikki, Connor and Cooper’s other grandmother, both love purses have put in a booth at the new mini mall where I have my jewelry. When Kelli put this purse in the booth after using it only once or twice, I had to have it!

It was my first purchase from their booth-Razzle Dazzle! I don’t know if I’ll ever love purses as much as they do or change as often as they do, but I’m really enjoying carrying my new to me purse!

 

How about you? Do you change purses often or keep the same one for a long time?

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2nd Time Around: Shopping my Stash!

 

 

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One of my favorite things to do it shop for my booths at the antique mall and the flea market. I’ve been doing this for over a year, and it has been lots of fun! It has made my retirement easy-I choose my own hours and am my own boss! And I am doing something I enjoy.

However, I like shopping for the items more than I do cleaning them up and pricing them. Sometimes just to get the car cleaned out, I stash some of the ‘finds’ on shelves in the garage or a box in our bonus room and forget I have them!

Recently, I’ve been trying to clean out the stash in the garage and the bonus room, and found some things that I took today to add to my booths.

This vintage spoon rack came from an estate sale, and I’ve had it so long I forgot how much I paid for it! I saw one in another booth at a different mall that was used as a planter, so I cleaned this one up and put some faux grapes in the copper container. We’ll see if it sells….I think my original plan was to paint this piece-and that may be what  I will end up doing! I can see it in an ivory shade with a shabby chic look!

 

I don’t know why these brass owls never made it to one of the booths-they just fell between the cracks so to speak! The lady that runs the mall said owls were big sellers-so we’ll see!

These pair of owl plaques were from the seventies and made by Homco. My son took them to New Orleans and put them in his booth, but brought them back last week since they had not sold. I marked them down in price-hopefully an ‘owl’ collector will spot them soon!

Found these little ceramic bunnies in a box in the bonus room. I wouldn’t remember how much I paid for them except the price was still on them! I think I bought them last year after Easter, and was waiting til the right time to bring them out! Since Easter is close by maybe they will go home with someone this year! I love their sweet faces!

So, do any of you horde stuff? I’m trying to break my habit of doing this and plan to finish getting all those unpriced and undone projects in one of the booths!

 

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2nd Time Around: Helping Give an Estate Sale

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If you have been following my blog you might have noticed that I missed last week posting the 2nd Time Around event that I have been doing for awhile. I apologize if this was an inconvenience  to anyone, but I simply was exhausted from helping with an estate sale, and just didn’t get around to it. I intended to contact those that emailed me, but later became sick with a stomach virus! So, hopefully you will forgive me, and I’ll try to do better. And I appreciate those of you who emailed me or left a comment wondering if everything was okay.

Helping with the estate sale was lots of work, but it was also fun! The house had been empty and neglected for awhile, and those in charge of the estate were not sure there was enough to hold a sale. My son went over and previewed the contents and thought that there would be enough to make it worthwhile to have an estate sale. He did really well with it, and in fact made around $500 more in sales than he had projected based on the prices of the merchandise.

Cleaning up and making the contents appear attractive proved to be challenging, but there were some great buys had by all. It was fun for me to watch the people and notice what all they bought.

Some of the highlights of the sale that I photographed include this dresser. The lady that bought it plans to paint it white. She later came back and bought the matching bed.

An antique dealer from one of the malls that I am associated with didn’t bat an eye at paying $45 for this vase! And it proved to be a great investment for him-it was sold from his booth this weekend!

This cupboard from the seventies was also a great buy at $200! The original price on this piece 35-40 years ago was over $2,000! The lady that bought it plans to paint it black for her son’s home. The dishes are an English Ironstone and also sold early in the day.

 

This little table is one I would love to have bought. I was hoping no one else would buy it so I could. It sold for $45 dollars to another lady with an antique booth.

This pretty dresser and the chest below were part of a matching bedroom suit, but bought by different people.

 

This pretty frame was also a great buy at $20!

 

You may be wondering what I bought…. some great pieces of vintage jewelry, 4 chairs that will need to be redone, and some other miscellaneous items. There were lots of great items I didn’t get pictures of including outside items like slabs of marble that one lady dug up and bought for a walkway, an old gate that a dealer has already painted and put in her booth, some really old beautiful perfume bottles, quilts, a box of linens that had been packed up, a chenille bedspread still in the original packaging and many more items. There was one man that bought an old cedar chest that was falling apart! He was so happy to have gotten a bargain and a project to work on, and the owners were thrilled to have the old chest gone!

It was fun, but pretty exhausting! I have come to the conclusion that it is more fun to attend an estate sale than to have one. LOL

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