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yard sale booty
Today the hamlet I live in was having a yard sale. I spent $11, and look what I got:
The dresser was $10. I was calling Chris to ask him about it, when I noticed another woman at the yard sale also calling someone about a dresser. I didn't want to take it from under her nose while she was thinking about it. I hemmed. I hawed. Finally I asked her what she was looking at; she had her eye on a different, smaller dresser! Perfect.
It was full of spiderwebs (and spiders) and was falling apart a bit in the back, but we cleaned it out and fixed it up. It's going to hold my sweaters and perhaps some sewing supplies.
See what's on top of the dresser?
That's from another sale - fifteen brand-new patterns, a few Vintage Vogue but mostly Butterick Retro (I didn't know there was a Butterick Retro!) ... 15 of them for a dollar, and all in my size. I picked them from a big bucket of patterns, and the lady was so happy to sell them to somebody else who enjoyed sewing that she offered me fabric for free! I exercised great self-restraint in saying no. Really, I'm better off without a fabric stash.
The dresser was $10. I was calling Chris to ask him about it, when I noticed another woman at the yard sale also calling someone about a dresser. I didn't want to take it from under her nose while she was thinking about it. I hemmed. I hawed. Finally I asked her what she was looking at; she had her eye on a different, smaller dresser! Perfect.
It was full of spiderwebs (and spiders) and was falling apart a bit in the back, but we cleaned it out and fixed it up. It's going to hold my sweaters and perhaps some sewing supplies.
See what's on top of the dresser?
That's from another sale - fifteen brand-new patterns, a few Vintage Vogue but mostly Butterick Retro (I didn't know there was a Butterick Retro!) ... 15 of them for a dollar, and all in my size. I picked them from a big bucket of patterns, and the lady was so happy to sell them to somebody else who enjoyed sewing that she offered me fabric for free! I exercised great self-restraint in saying no. Really, I'm better off without a fabric stash.