Aren't yard sales the best? I remember getting up early when I was a kid, and using a map - a real, paper, fold-me-if-you-can-map - to plot out a course for the morning with my Mom. In this area there is a suburb that holds a community garage sale twice a year. This spring some of our great finds were: a collapsible camping picnic table that folds up into a suitcase, a plush Cadillac of a baby stroller, an Anthropologie dust ruffle, and these two vintage snapshots:
Aren't they gorgeous?! I wish I knew where they were taken. The lady I bought them from said that she had just gotten them in a batch of old pictures from an estate sale. I think I paid a dollar each, so I couldn't get as many as I would have liked. These two were just so striking - especially the house on the lake. I'm going to put them in my journal and imagine myself living in them for years to come.
I also got this batch of vintage Valentine's Day cards. They are so quirky!!
No pressure here, right? I mean, times-a-ticking, say yes now, THIS is our hour, but ... no pressure.
Ah, the ever-romantic, "You're Unusual!" line. What girl doesn't love that? Also, nice job of the not-so-subtle suggestion that the recipient is unusual like, you know, carnival workers, unusual.
Is it just me or this this one a little threatening? I think that this valentine should probably be in an evidence box in some police precinct somewhere...
Don't even know what that means.
Open to interpretation. But I'm getting a bit of a desperate vibe from this one.
Nothing says, "I care" quite like condescension.
I had to pass up a set of Rescue Rangers Valentines that I had actually given out as a kid - but these were so much older! I ended up shelling out almost $40 for everything I bought from this lady, and I"m not quite sure what I'm going to do with all of them yet. There are a few more that aren't pictured here. I'm thinking that if my little one ever has a room of her own I'll frame them.
Each time we have a yard sale of our own I have this burning desire to make such amazing yard-sale signs that people will come because... how could they not after such signs? I always end up taking way too long to make them and really irritating my husband, but here are a few.
Since when was the Mona Lisa a native American? Good question. Also, remember not to makes promises you can't keep when advertising anything.
Nancy Drew and the Case of the Tiny, Shrivled, Hand!!!! This one was actually stolen. >:-(
For our last yard sale I made a Star Wars inspired sign. I was in a big hurry and didn't get to take pictures. I've vowed to make my signs WAY ahead of time in the future, so I won't be too busy to help price things.
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