You have a choice this week: my vintage finds on video...
freshvintage: vintage finds 23 Jan 2009 from colleen allison on Vimeo.
Or my vintage finds in photos:
Nearly everything is from the same Villanova estate sale that Dona from Antekin wrote about on her blog a few days ago. I didn't get there until Saturday, when everything was 50% off.
The sewing patterns were for sale individually, but I got a great deal when I offered to take all 100+ of them for $15. (Actually, I only thought there were about 40 of them when I offered to take them all). I should make at least $100 when I sell these on eBay as one big lot.
Little girl patterns...
Maternity patterns...
The quilt was a thrift store find on the way home from the estate sale. I like the pattern and colors, even though the fabric is pretty worn in some spots. If you enlarge the photo, you can see the plaid blanket that was used instead of batting:
Here's an aqua & white checkered apron, pink plastic child hangers, Dolly Goes Round the World book, and brown pom-pom fringe...
The 1962 pink Coleman ice chest was the first thing I picked up at the estate sale. I arrived at the sale on the third day and the house was packed with people. When I saw the cooler, I asked the same questions I always ask myself: Why hasn't anyone bought this totally awesome pink cooler for five bucks? What the hell is wrong with it? Is it so hideously ugly that no one else even looked twice at it? Does it smell like dead bodies inside?
I found it in the garage with a big kerosene heater sitting on top of it. Maybe no one else noticed it. Maybe it is just my dumb luck.
I never thought I could say "I love you" to an ice chest. But I am saying it: I love you, pink ice chest. And I love the inner tray that your previous owner didn't lose or break. I love that I am having a Tupperware* party on Friday night with all of my neighborhood girlfriends, and you will keep all of our beer and white wine bottles nice and chilly.
*And when I say Tupperware party, I really mean a different type of home party that I can't really discuss on this blog for fear of getting five hundred more hate mails. We'll just leave it at that. Use your imagination.
Speaking of hate mail, check out my other blog, freshblogtips.com, where I have just revealed the subject of my email. It wasn't the Baby Jesus after all!
