Can you say "SCORE" ?

I stopped at a moving sale on my way home from dropping Allison off at VBS. I couldn't believe the prices this place had on stuff....it was all priced to sell! Anyhow, check out my loot. And I got all of this for $10. And really it didn't come up to $10, it was $9.45 but I told them to keep the change. And it probably would have been even less than that but I offered to pay the full price of $1.50 for a box full of items, when I only took one of the items.



What all did I get: I got an antique chair (that orange one in the back) for $1.50. I got that backpack (which I definately don't need but it was so nice) for $1.50. I got 2 pieces of enamel, 4 glass jars, some cookie cutter, 2 sets of bed sheets, some tea towels (I guess not really sure on these), a couple hand garden tools, a couple of tins for altering and giving out as gifts, an old lawn darts game and a 50 foot measuring tape. I just love that measuring tape, it will replace the much newer version that I take along when going to sales. It will be so much easier to manage than the other.

And I passed a couple of deals by. The had a kinda ugly plant stand (at least that's what they called it) for $1.50. It had a metal base and an ugly wood top. I still may go back and get it and mosaic the top. And they had a beat up old dresser for $10. I was so close to getting it but no way to get it home with out my husband's truck, and no way to hide it from him. It had 5 drawers, and one was messed up the others were fine. It could probably be reconfigured to remove some of the drawers and turn them into shelves. YOu know what, I just talked myself into going back for it. I'll stop back by on my way to pick Allison up from VBS and buy it. I guess I'll take Clay's truck tomorrow morning to go get it. I'm gonna be in soooo much trouble!

Ok, well I better go hide all this other stuff. If I find homes for all this stuff, he doesn't notice it. But he can't stand when he comes home and see's a pile of stuff (even if it was free - you know from one of my bulky trash pick up outings). If I get the dresser, I'll post another picture...tomorrow.

Later~

My Minds Eye Design Team Call 2006

This is my altered entry into the contest. I really love this journal and plan to take it on our vacation to Wisconsin later this summer. This was really made from envelopes (quite strong envelopes). It has 10 envelopes that I got for $.15 each at L&V in Leavenworth. I cut the ends off of all the envelopes so that I could put big tags in the slots for extra journaling, pictures, heck it's even big enough to store brochures. I've had the envelopes for quite some time now, and I've been dying to come up with a reason to use them....and now I have that reason.

I have 10 more of those envelopes, but I'm thinking that I may have to go buy some more of them. You never know how many you'll need!