Category Archives: Yard Sales

Random, Part 1.

I haven’t been doing a lot of yard saling or thrift store shopping lately…the morning (which is really ALL DAY) sickness is waning but every now and then it sneaks up on me and sidelines me for 24 hours or more. I’m having more and more good days in between the bad, though, so I...

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Second Guessing.

As soon as I can get off the couch without feeling like I need to vomit (sorry, TMI) I’m going to start pricing the mountain of merchandise I have targeted for the Vintage Bazaar. As I’m digging stuff out, some items make me wonder what the hell I was thinking when I made the purchase....

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I can see clearly now…

I got these keen vintage ophthalmologist lenses at a yard sale last weekend. Two weekends ago? I’ve only been on vacation for a week and the weeks are already starting to bleed into each other. They’re the lenses used in my least favorite part of eye exams: “Is the chart clearer to you now? Or….now? How...

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Hail Mary, Full of Grace.

What is it with me and the religious items? I just love this. I actually stopped at the grocery store on my way home from the yard sale I got this from to buy the roses because I couldn’t wait to see what it would look like with flowers in it. It’s so pretty from...

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Dreary Weekend!

Those of you who were in Chicago on Saturday know that it was just about the dreariest May Saturday on record. Rainy, cloudy, windy, and SO COLD — I don’t think it hit 50 all day. IN MAY. Ah, Chicago…you always have to make sure that love/hate relationship is maintained. I don’t know if it...

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