Winter Garage Sale Scores

Generally there aren't a lot of garage sales here in the winter, and especially this year with so much snow, but yesterday I went to an indoor sale that was great!

The place was PACKED with stuff.  I had to walk through several times just to feel like I wasn't missing a ton of stuff.

I found this old can (I'm not sure if it was originally a milk can,  or maybe can for fireplace ashes?) I cleaned it up for a place right next to the fireplace.  It's very heavy and the lid fits really tight.

This old jar got a cleaning and a 'new' zinc lid.  I filled it with wine corks.  Apparently we're going to have to pick up the wine consumption to get this baby filled!  After a couple of other wine cork projects, our stash is lame.  :)

I love old coffee cans.  And they cleaned up nicely.

This wooden box was filled with gunk.  I cleaned it like crazy and even sanded out the inside.  I now feel like I can use it in the house.  I love old advertising boxes.

Here's all of the loot.  I am also excited about the two galvanized buckets that I will use outside this summer. 

I even went back today and got more stuff.  I'll share those finds later this week.  Oh how I love rusty, dusty treasure hunting! 

Thanks for your visit!

Pam

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Oregon Shopping Fun!

 

Last week when we had our floors redone, we had to be out of the house for several days.  So we headed to Oregon to see our son at school, and family and friends.  Of course there was lots of fun shopping too! 

Our first stop was Monticello Antiques in Portland.  We found this scale and really, really considered it, but ended up not buying it.  By the time we left Oregon, the truck was so full that we wouldn't have been able to fit in anyway.  But it would've been a fun project.

My friend Heather and I had a great day shopping in Eugene.  We did not buy this leather horse for $4400.  It was neat, but I wonder how big a house you'd need to have a full size replica horse in it??

Our shopping trips always include one of our favorite stores, Treasures from the Heart Gifts and the very sweet owner, Barb. 

 

At Barb's store, we each found a seltzer bottle.  I was surprised to find that the straw in the middle of it is glass.  I love the way it cleaned up. 

 

 

I also found this galvanized bucket.  A mum that's just about to explode with blooms fits perfectly in it.  I set it in a milk bottle delivery box that I found at a garage sale a couple of weeks ago.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Another favorite place to shop in Eugene is Colby Cottage "The Barn".  I found these pumpkins that are so cute!  I'm not a huge fan of orange, so it's great to find off white pumpkins. :)  I put them in a box I made and put them on the dining room table.  

 

 



 

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Pam


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Spicing Up a Galvanized Pail

I learned about using Mod Podge to adhere a label to an object without seeing the paper,  from Pamela's blog:  From My Front Porch to Yours.  

I was out garage saling last weekend and found eight of these galvanized buckets for 25 cents each.  I knew I could make something fun out of them. 

I started with this graphic from The Graphics Fairy's blog.  I printed it off on my laser printer. 

Make sure you flip the image so it'll come out right when you make your project.

 

(I have a black and white printer, so the graphic came out in black and white.)

***If you don't have a laser printer, you can print it off on your inkjet and take that to Kinko's (or probably any grocery store with a copier) and make a copy from their laser printer.  I think copies are less than 10 cents each. 

I applied matte Mod Podge to the graphic and the can and stuck it on the can.  I tried to smooth out any wrinkles, then left it alone until the next morning. 

The next morning I sprayed water on it and started carefully rubbing off the paper.  I think I must've used some heavy paper, because it took forever to rub it off.  I had to come back to it a few times after I thought I was done and respray it and rub off more paper.  Be very careful with the edges as I had a problem with one corner tearing away.  I'm going to call it 'character' and leave it at that...  :)

 

 And here's the finished product.

Thanks for coming by!

Pam


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