My Morning Haul

Once in awhile, but not very often, I get up early on a Saturday morning and go looking for garage sales. One of my fellow bloggers, Distressed Donna Down Home, did a post about her and her nieces recent buying trip. You can see her post here    Crawling The Low Country For Treasures  Well, after reading her post, I was inspired to go on a shopping spree myself (I'm sometimes very impressionable). So Saturday morning I threw back the covers, jumped crawled out of bed, and off I went. Now, keep in mind, their trip lasted several days, and mine was only for a couple of hours. I sort of had a vision of what I was looking for and overall I think I did pretty well.

My first purchase of the morning was at the very first sale. This little dresser is really cute. It needs some work, of course. A couple of the drawers need fixed and it needs new casters. And probably some sanding and a new paint job.

As you can see, it took up most of the space in my car.

It has some nice details and I like the two little drawers on top.

It's funny I found this book case. I've been wanting one for awhile. This one is solid wood. I'll probably take the back off and paint it a different color than the shelves and sides. It stacked nicely on top of the dresser.

The 1970 Naval Training Center book was a nice find. And the tea tile is very pretty.

I'm always looking for unusual flower pots. These are both nice and the one on the right depicts various wines.

I thought the framed marriage blessing was real pretty. I will update the frame with a shabby chic look.

This is a Florentine plaque Made In Italy. The colors are real pretty and are more aqua than shown in these pictures.

I can always do something with old, wooden crates. I will white wash these after they get a good scrubbing.

These Mid Century Modern bar stools are in rough shape and might need more attention than I want to give them. I'm not sure which way to go with these. They're pretty rusty. Too rusty, I think. Even for a shabby chic décor. I'm going to see what it costs to have them sand blasted. I like them so I will at least make an effort to rescue them. I didn't realize it until I saw this picture that the chairs each have a different design on the back. One has straight lines, one has a Deco pattern.

Galvanized wash tubs always sell well for me. And, I love this little 4' ladder and plan to paint it. To see what the ladder looks like after I painted it click here: The 4' Ladder  I bought a similar ladder a couple of weeks ago that was 6' tall.  It was awkward and heavy to move around. I bought it one day for $5.00 and when a guy offered me $7.00 for it the next day I gladly took it.

I love the stools but like I said, it might cost too much money to refurbish them.

The wooden crates are a nice size and they're not very heavy.

I was happy with everything I bought today. But actually, I only went to one garage sale where I bought the dresser, crates, and one flower pot. The rest of the stuff I bought at a parking lot flea market. I had to quit and go home because I ran out of room in my car. Needless to say, I'll be busy this week cleaning, fixing, and painting.

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