i scored today.
🙂
i stopped in at one of our local antique stores just after my run…sweaty and stinky…ipod on.
and over an hour later…. i left with fabulous goodies.
perfect shade of yellow chenille…
pink baby quilt…for pillows
white dot chenille…for a bed or pillows.
daisy juice glasses.
doilies and embroidery pretties.
this hunting dog was just too funny NOT to get.
what an interesting thing to embroider….
a quilt….on final sale for $10!!!
vintage table cloth…it looks green here but it's gray, turquoise and yellow.
YES.
i have a craft planned for hankies….i am stock piling them.
this was my favorite find today.
a big galvanized ALL bucket.
i have never seen one of these before.
it was so ME.
no clue what i will do with it yet….but it was one of things you just HAVE to bring home.
also got a table for $7 that will soon be turquoise.
and a big gold mirror for $15 that will soon be yellow.
somedays you find nothing.
somedays you have to stop yourself because there is SO much great stuff there.
this was one of those days.
i love those days.
April R - Was offline a few days and so I came on over this afternoon to see what’s been up – wow!
A treasure load (fun! <3 those blue cats!),
new shoes (<3 the red and the glitter!),
and y'all are ok! (ThankfulThankfulThankful)
Amy G. - Great stuff!!! I have two of those All buckets but totally want/need more. I LOVE them!!!
Tami C. - Oh my goodness, I was born in 1970, so fun to see that tea towel! Fun fun. Praying you are well, such a sad and crazy storm.
Jayme McClure - Such wonderful finds! I can’t wait to see what you have planned for the hankies. I have a collection as well. Part of them were used as decor for my wedding and some were incorporated into my wedding quilt. I would love to see more ideas!
Angie - Waiting for a word that you’re all ok…
beki - Good gried, lady – SCORE!!
Lori Austin - Sure hope we see an update from you today. Thinking of you, your family and friends in Kansas. Hoping you haven’t been touched by the storms.
Beth - We spend last night in my Aunt’s basement (none of our own) and I hardly slept keeping track of the weather… got back online today and thinking about the safety of some of my favorite bloggers in Kansas…
I hope you and your family are all safe and sound!
Anne McD - My parents had those calendar tea towels when I was little- thanks for bringing up that memory! 🙂
Krissy - I love the quit!! So pretty! And the bucket is freaking awesome too. Idk if it would work, but i think i would plant some flowers in it. 🙂
jackie - Definitely great stuff!
Linnea - Hooray for thrifting! that’s one of my favorite things, too. I LOVE that quilted baby blanket and the birdie-embroidered doily. Too cute! Great finds!
sara @ it's good to be queen - this is all kinds of happy.
Sandy - Nice finds! May I please buy the 1966 calendar from you? I remember my grandma having calendars like that and 1966 is the year I was born. 🙂
Tonya S. - I am praying you and your family are safe and sound this evening.
Anna Marie - I just saw that another blogger who lives in Wichita is taking cover in her basement. I am praying and hoping that you guys are safe and okay tonight. The storms are heading our way in MO in the next couple of hours. Highly doubt I sleep tonight. Too worried about my babies.
JustMommer - You did score, I did too, I bought a 70’s black payphone, a nice wire baker’s rack and a vintage kindergarten Sunday school lesson about friendship and the coolest green birdhouse.
Lisa - Sooo envious! I love that yellow and white chenille, and I, too, like vintage handkerchiefs. I have a few of my grandmother’s, and I just really like the designs. And I’m always buying hand-embroidered linens, just because they are so beautiful – truly art! Congrats on your winning day!!
melissa lorenz - I also am hoping too, like the previous commenter, that you guys are okay with all the storms going on in your area! Stay safe!
Susan - Praying God’s protection for your family.
Julie - I can’t wait to see how these items look in your new home! More indoor photos, please!
arlene - cool stuff!! how about using the ALL bucket for your homemade laundry detergent?
katie - that bucket is RAD!
A Facebook User - Meg, I always love your blog. As I’m expecting twins in 10 weeks, I was on Etsy and saw this and immediately thought of you. Check it out!
http://www.etsy.com/listing/95235296/newborn-boys-crochet-newsboy-baby-hat?ref=sr_gallery_20&ga_search_query=newborn+boy&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_ship_to=US&ga_page=5&ga_search_type=handmade
It combines one of your newest finds and your love of photography!
-Lindley
Kristin S - Your posts like this make me want to move to Kansas.
My only Kansas experiences are driving across I-70 for an eternity. Used to be boring and now I just count all the wind turbines.
happygirl - I’m so glad you find these things and LOVE them. I would never see what you see when you look at them. Can’t wait to see the hankie craft. 🙂
robin allen - I too…think we are twins…born a few years apart….I am
THAT lady that buys the boxes of linens, and doilys and I own about 100 hankies, I went to Ireland a few years ago and a friend gave me an Ireland tea towel..I have 3 stacks of various vintage towels and nearly 20 vintage tableclothes…I used them at our church soup supper to decorate…….I have nearly 20 of the swaggers juice glasses…too stinking cute…I have SOLD one of those ALL tins…(FAINT) a few years ago in our garage sale….I was born in 1960 so I am REALLY old compared to you gals….as for your wardrobe and decorating style…they will continue to change as your life evolves…embrace each season with gusto…they blink by….with your awesome photographs you will always have a smile on your face when you look at the photos with your kids and grandkids…( TRUST ME ON THIS ONE!!!)
My mom ( rest her soul in heaven – for 10 yrs) did ALL of this type of stuff my entire life….we were VERY financially challenged….but I was an adult before I even ‘KNEW” that….we (she) always had projects and was NOT afraid to try something just because she did NOT know how to do it…I would not trade any of my experiences for the world…I just think outside ofthe boxes that my friends do…KEEP right on inspiring all of us to dream in color….I do…Auction today…Vintage cloth napkins being used at our mother daughter tea next weekend….clothes to hang out…silver toenails to paint…a pickup load of treasures from last week end, flowers to plant in the schooldesk I ;planted’ in the flower bed…
megan@contentedsparrow - oh, and i was going to tell you that we’re twins again….i collect kitschy calendar towels to make things with. now those are easier to find because not as many people have the vision to turn them into something cute.
ok.
that’s it.
over and out.
megan@contentedsparrow - what in the world????! does NO ONE go to that thrift store? i can’t fathom why those items will ALL still magically be on the shelves waiting just for you to rescue them. i call it a good thrifting day is i find ONE good thing. we have a million stores around here and also a million people looking for the same things that i am.
good on ‘ya!!
xo
Rachel K - Wow!! Great loot! I LOVE that calendar with the cats! Such great colors in your finds!
valerie - k. I have been thinking about you…Have you been to Good Ju Ju? It’s in the Warehouse District of Kansas City and it’s the first Friday, Saturday, and Sunday of every month. I think of you every time I go. If you have not been – you should. I think you would love it! 😉
Jenna@CallHerHappy - I’m excited to see what you do with the hankies! I always keep a vintage one in my purse so I can wipe my nose like a lady 🙂
Also, I went thrifting today and found this awesome coat, but the zipper was stuck. So, they gave it to me for FREE! Now I just have to get that pesky zipper unstuck…
Becki - Yes, you really did score!
emily anderson - i’ll take all of that please, thankyouverymuch 🙂
Kimberly Dial - Love all your lute!
Kimberlee Jost - The chenille blanket…in yellow. Perf.
All this loot and I wasn’t with you.
Boo.
Janet Dreher - Meg, I used to give my grandparents a cloth calendar just like the ones shown above each year at Christmas while I was growing up, probably from the years 1960-1972. They were short on space, so they gave all of them back to me. I took them and sewed them together and made a tablecloth. I used it for special occasions so it wouldn’t wear out. It brought back such special memories.
Toni :O) - I was born in 1970!!! Yep, I’m THAT old!! So cool to see my birthday on your calendar…woot woot and it was on a Friday the 13th!!! Lucky day!
Kathleen - The ALL bucket has been on my list for quite a while….hoping to find one at the Antiques Extravaganza next month!
Awesome finds…good way to end the week!
christy - What a fantastic haul! Love, love, love the All bucket! I actually have those same juice glasses, scored ’em at GW a few years ago.
Christy - whoa awesome finds!!
Holly - very cool! My husband and I went to a town close by and found some really cool stuff as well!
Kelly - Fun finds! I went to the Country Living Fair in Ohio a couple years ago and the Farm Chicks Show in Washington last year (and am going again this year – yay!) and those galvanized ALL buckets were hot commodities at both shows!
gina f. - Score!!! i think my mom had some of those daisy glasses when i was a kid. love the strawberry calendar… you are a lucky girl!!
tiffany gardner - awesome! Love it all!!!!
Chas - Score is right! Great items! I can’t wait to do some thrifting soon. Yard sale season is starting up and I can’t wait to do that also!
Amy @ Little for a Little While - Lucky you!
Alisa - LOVE the ten dollar quilt…love.
Lindsey - SCORE! Wow! I love the All bucket! The embroidery stuff is way fun too- especially the dog. Neat-o!!!!!
Valerie @ Chateau A La Mode - Love your happy finds, especially the Daisy glasses, way cute!
beth - Oh cool, love all your finds! I found one of those cloth claendars for the year my oldest daughter was born but I havent found any for the next two, 92 & 04. Guess people don’t love vintage like me.
Also I got a daisy galss by libby. My grandmother used to have those and when I went hunting on ebay and etsy for them I grab them up and get them. I have only found three but I still hunt. I paid 7 bucks for one and that is high but it does make me think of my childhood memories that mean a lot to me.
Great find….do share how you paint furniture cause I have a couple things to paint also that I would love to change up a bit.
Sarah{Handbags*N*Pigtails} - Fun finds! I scored big today too. Our next door neighbors both just passed away 6 months from one another(husband and wife). Their daughter had the first of probably a few garage sales today.I got a HUGE galvanized fruit bucket for $15(long, rectangular, reminds me of a feeding trough actually), old juice glasses from States we have visited on family trips($1/4), a big rectangular mirror for our powder room redo($3), an vintage aluminum cake stand top on glass base($3), an old blue canning jar($1..she had a TON), a pink vintage tablecloth($2), and a super old Saltine cracker tin in brand new condition($2).
Its fun mixing old and new in our homes, isn’t it?
Pink and Green Mama MaryLea - so awesome! my goodwill/thrift shop has crummy stereos, chipped dishes from walmart, and gross shoes. yours is SO much better. the only place around here you can find stuff like the goodies you scored today is at our antique shops and then they’re marked up on prices…so i need a plane ticket to come see you and two empty suitcases to bring home my treasures (i’d just stay in my yoga pants all week — just like home!) : )
have a great weekend and enjoy your new goodies!
xoxo
ML
Debra Arevalo - Great finds are you using these in the craft house or the farm house :]hope to see pictures of your decor of your farm house.Thanks for sharing !
maggie - my friend who is a photographer just posted a picture of a newborn in the all bucket, super cute! You manage to find great deals
Seriously Sassy Mama - I hope to find some great stuff to decorate our new house with. I have so many ideas. My mom was laughing at all the planning/decorating I have done.
Melanie - Oh! I was born in 1970 (yes, I am old). I always thought i was born on a Monday, but if your towel is correct, I was born on a Wednesday. I’m going to have to have a chat with my mom! Love the stuff you find!!
erin - LOVE all the great finds!! especially the bird dog….we have two of those here. how to you clean up your thift store cloth finds? i’m always scared that they’ll fall apart.
Sara Torbett - What great finds! I think some of the dish towels and pretty embroidery would be so neat framed. Can’t wait to see what you do with all of it! Happy weekend!
Kim - ooooo! Love all your finds, but I have a thing for vintage table cloths. They call out to me. The daisy glasses are fun too.
DaenelT - Wow! What great finds.
Lanny Lou - one word … SCORE 🙂
Jacci - Great fun. I’m painting a table yellow this weekend… just a little one for beside my very makeshift sewing table. But the yellow is very pretty. Painting stuff just seems like a happy Spring thing to do, doesn’t it?
When you said “this is so me”, I wondered – when do you think you started to really get a clear sense of what was “you” for your house. I remember not long ago, you felt like you finally found your clothing style. Pretty different from the way you seemed to dress when you first started the blog. Did you have some kind of “a-ha” moment, where your house style just kind of started falling in place like that, too?
Fun stuff. I think the chenille blankie is my favorite. I’d lay in the grass on it 🙂
Katie Skiff - Oh Score!! Did you find 1979? I’ve been looking for one from 79 to replace mine!!
LadiesHoliday - When I read antique store finds, I thought, myeh…not my thing, but I suppose I’ll look anyway…curiosity, you know…but wow! You really did find some great things. I love the cats and the glasses with daisies…you have an eye for stuff like that. Way to go.
Anna Marie - Gonna go out on a limb here and guess that you are either making curtains or a bunting with those hankies. Am I close? Huh, am I? :o) Awesome finds, Meg!
ko. s - I wish I had a thrift shop like that in our area! Oh my word!!!
Meredith - Great job. I need to start looking for my antique shops in my area. I love this stuff.
Amy K. - My grandma had those daisy juice glasses! Thanks for transporting me back to her kitchen for a few minutes!!
Brooke - awesome finds! I love the chenille blanket! wanna sell it tom me? 🙂 One of these days i will get to marion to go to the store there…you got several quilts there right?
where do you shop in newton?
Kelly - Score… indeed!! Can’t wait to see what you do with the hankies! Happy weekend!
Cindy - I looove that bucket too! Great score!