Retro Garage Sale Finds

Last week I took a trip to Indiana to visit my mom. After Breakfast on Friday and Saturday mornings I went out looking for the ever alluring garage sales.

After going to about a dozen sales without having any luck, I was about to give up on finding anything wonderful. Then, I found a lady who was having a "junk" sale. I found this wonderful set of metal, retro corner cabinets.

I believe they originally hung above the kitchen sink, attached to the cabinets. I haven't really cleaned them up yet except I had to brush away the dirt on them before I could put them in my sisters car.

I love the patina they have. Rusty, crusty, all the good attributes.

The lady who was having the sale was on the verge of becoming a hoarder. But she was moving and didn't want to move everything she had been accumulating for the past 25 years.

My next purchase was this two piece cannister set with a bird motif. Also, rusty and crusty. I think the knobs are bakelite. If so, WOO HOO!!



This is my kind of stuff, from my favorite era. Probably the 1950's.



I'm not sure yet what I will have to do to clean these up. On the cabinets I will definitely pull off all the dirty contact paper.

At a different sale I bought this tin with a bird motif. It is newer but I like to use pretty tins for storage.

For some reason or another, the other day I stopped in at a used furniture store here in
Florida. I was just looking around when I spotted these beautiful, pink shopping bags. I bought 100 of them for $.10 each. I can use these in my shop plus they will come in handy when I set up at the Fancy Flea in November.   Linking up with:    http://romantichome.blogspot.com/   http://shabbyartboutique.blogspot.com/   http://thethriftygroove.blogspot.com/   http://beezrentaldesigns.blogspot.com/