2nd Time Around: New Use for an Old Shelf

 

 

Welcome to 2nd Time Around. Please join us by linking a post that features something that is a 2nd Time Around to you…something from a garage sale, flea market, thrift store, estate sale, etc. Please link your post rather than your blog, and link back to this blog. Thank you for participating.

 

Have you ever bought something and wondered later “Why on earth did I buy that?'” Bet you have if you are a regular shopper of garage sales, flea markets etc. Recently I bought this shelf for $5.00 at a  yard sale.  I really don’t know what I was thinking when I bought it, but at the time it seemed like a good shelf for my cans of spray paint. Or maybe a shelf for paper back books at the flea market!  Well, the spaces between the shelves turned out to be too close together for spray paint, and I really don’t have or sell enough paper back books to justify taking up space for them.

The shelf sat in my garage for nearly 2 months getting on everyone’s nerves until finally on Saturday while organizing the pantry I had a brainstorm!

The shelf is a perfect place to store canned goods! So, I used some light green paint from the paint stash and spruced it up. Now I can see at a glance what canned goods I have! If you look closely you can see that I have 3 cans of spaghetti sauce! No, I didn’t buy that many because they were on sale, I just didn’t realize I had that many because they kept getting pushed to the back of the shelf!

 

Anyway, I love the shelf in it’s new spot. It is not deep and had to have a brace put on it to secure it to the wall, but I’m happy with my new organized pantry! (At least the canned goods are organized!) LOL

I would love to hear from you….tell me about something you bought and used for a different reason!

Thanks so much for dropping by!

2nd Time Around: Shopping in London!

 

 

 

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Thank you for stopping by! I have been on an extended vacation to England, Scotland, and Ireland, and am finally beginning to recover from my trip!

While on the trip, I didn’t get to shop very many antique stores, but did go to one market in London and enjoyed browsing the vintage and antique items. I had to be careful about the weight of my purchases because I didn’t want my suitcase to weigh more than the 50 pound limit! So, even though I spotted lots of things that I loved, I purchased some pieces of vintage jewelry!

I fell for this goldtone daisy pendant and had to have it! It can be confusing because of the different value of the pound to the dollar-it seems like you are not paying much until you convert the currency!

This beautiful rhinestone bracelet was just begging to come home with me! The British lady that had this jewelry said both pieces came from the same estate, and were from the sixties! I have no idea if that was true, but it makes a good story!

So, I’m glad to be back and will be hosting 2nd Time Around each week, so please join me every Tuesday to show off your 2nd Time Around treasures!

I appreciate you stopping by!

2nd Time Around: New Flea Market Pictures

Welcome to 2nd Time Around. Please join us by linking a post that features something that is a 2nd Time Around to you…something from a garage sale, flea market, thrift store, estate sale, etc. Please link your post rather than your blog, and link back to this blog. Thank you for participating.

 

Note: I will not be hosting 2nd Time Around for the next two weeks due to vacation. I’ll start back the last week of July.

These pictures are from the 2nd Flea Market where I have a booth. The flea market has new owners, and they have worked to hard to upgrade and make it a wonderful place to shop. So, I’m going to show you some pictures of items that tempt me every time I go out there…these are not from my booth, but were taken with my camera by the owner’s son.

I do the Facebook page for the Flea Market, and while I was working on my jewelry case, he took some pictures to upload to Facebook. Hope you enjoy them!

 

We  have big massive pieces like this one!

 

Retro pieces given an adorable face lift!

And pieces that are very unique like this bench made from old chairs!

I am really enjoying my booth, and wish I was as creative as the vendors in the last two photos! Thanks for stopping by!