Cooking Magic…

***Nope, no pictures on the new computer yet, but this was written before  “The Big Switchover”***
…is the name of another cookbook I got at the same estate sale of the other vintage-y cookbooks.  This one I was fascinated with.  It was a very thick hardcover book, and inside, it had all these smaller paperback cookbooks.  [...]

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Life Lessons

*This is post #199.  Get your giveaway entries in while you can.*
I picked up these cookbooks at an estate sale recently.  Can you believe they wrote the prices right on the cover?!  I was so shocked.  But I still got them because I thought they were cute…

…And they were full of great life lessons.  Plenty [...]

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How the Other Half Lives

If you haven’t read about the swap idea yet, please go check it out.
If you haven’t entered the giveaway, you can still do that too.
This past Saturday, I took a day of vacation from work because it was the monthly flea market. Priorities, you know.  Anyway, my mom was hunting for a few things, so [...]

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Old Treasures

This past weekend I picked up a few things at an estate sale.  I just love estate sales.  They’re so fascinating to me.  It’s fun to try to figure out something about the people that lived there, by the things they left behind.  I should start taking a camera with me.  I’ve seen some really [...]

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Lotsa Loot

I was able to hit a couple estate sales recently, and think I found some pretty neat stuff, and some great bargains. 

I loved this chair when I first saw it.  It reminds me of something I would find in my grandma’s house.  I really like the wrap-around arm rest, and the fancy spindles.  I’m going [...]

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In other news…

I was so excited to get to go to an estate sale yesterday.  That was one of my favorite activities before I switched to working the weekend shift.  So it was a special treat.  I got this really interesting round 2-tiered table, which I don’t have a picture of, of course.  I’ll put up a picture once [...]

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Long Overdue Patch Update

Back in September I mentioned that I had gotten ‘Patch’ and a few neat things at an estate sale.  Check out what he looked like here, his ‘before’ picture.   (it’s kind of a long posting, but scroll down to the end and you’ll see him along with the little red rocking chair I got at [...]

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Flea Finds Again

Looking through my pictures, I realized I never put up what I found at the flea market this month.  I couldn’t get great pictures of the whole item, but here’s some peeks.  I’ll try to do better with the pictures soon.  I never know what I can’t live without until I get to the flea [...]

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Fab Finds Part 2

(If you’re having trouble seeing the pictures, please let me know.  I’ve been having trouble with them, and don’t know if it’s my computer, or something else.)
Today was another fun day at the local flea market.  Although, it is getting much hotter, so I don’t know how much fun the next couple will be.  I [...]

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Luigi’s Done!!

I’m so excited that I finished my Luigi pincushion project tonight.  If you remember, Luigi originally looked like this… http://summersadie.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/100_2187.jpg , and was named Pierre. 
I fell in love with him at the flea market a couple of weekends ago.  He needed some TLC to get him cleaned up, but I think he cleaned up nicely.  And [...]

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