~~~~THE OKLAHOMA ESTATE SALE QUEEN~~~~ And Her Little Angel Dude

TODAY

(About the Crack of Dawn)

Yesterday I told you I was going junking and I did.  My friend Becca and I had a wonderful time slumming through some of the neighborhoods in OKCity and we even lunched at a sweet Bistro in Bricktown.

 ~LIST IN HAND~

Nothing better than getting together with an old friend to shop and eat! :)

~PROGRAMMING THE GPS~

As much fun as I had I was sad that I DID NOT find the bed I HOPED to stumble upon for my 2nd guest room.  Found a COUPLE of sweet little things, but nothin' to brag about...

Bummer dude...:(

~SCANNING THE SALE~

And so...this morning I begged convinced begged (right the first time!) my Mr. AGPMan to hit the trail with me once more in hopes of finding the perfect vintage TWIN BED for a romantic bedroom makeover.

~NECESSITIES AT HAND~

We targeted about six estate sales in the newspaper and off we went to the big city...

~YOU LISTEN TO ME, REBECCA!~
(I be da-boss!)

 ~JUNK IN DE TRUNK~
(expert packer-man)

The first sale we went to was nice.  Fabulous stuff in fact but VERY high end.  This particular estate sale started yesterday and the house was still jam-packed full.  Everything was exorbitantly priced and we left without purchasing a single thing.

~I LOVE JUNKING~
(and shall not be deterred)

The second sale we went to I found a good sized offering of old lace and the most fabulous vintage-y shabby chic bridal box of all time!  It was all dressed up in pink...

 ~SIMPLY SHABBY FABULOUS~

~VINTAGE MILLINERY FLOWERS~

The lady running the estate sale was closing her Momma's home.  She told me the box was made by her Auntie when her parents married in 1948...

~YEP...$2~

I just could NEVAHHHH EVAHHH have parted with such a thing!  I'm sooo keeping this little beauty.  She's going straight into my studio just so I can look at her and smile...

~LOTS OF SWEET LACE~

~OLD JEWELRY BOX~

 

 ~VINTAGE PERFUME BOTTLES~

~VINTAGE TISSUE COVER~

~VINTAGE CARDS~

At the next sale we found some amazing vintage Christmas pretties.  Three bolts of old tinsel on their original cards were a highlight!

 ~GREAT FOR ALTERED ART PROJECTS~

~PINK and WHITE CHRISTMAS BULBS~

~MORE GORGEOUS CROCHET LACE~

At sale number three we found tons and tons of vintage crochet lace edging and the sweetest pink apron I've ever seen...  It had nevahhh been used...beautimous!

 ~LOVIN' the PINKS and FRUIT~

~CRAZEEE ABOUT THIS JAR~

Our visit to sale number four was a bust.  This place had a couple of super high-end things (like old glass front bookcases and sterling flatware, etc.) but nothing that made my little ol' heart sing...

~YUMMY WASTE BASKET~

At sale number five we found this amazing vintage toleware wastebasket!  I'm feeling hand painted pink roses comin' on...

 

 ~INCREDIBLE NEEDLEWORK~

This hand cross-stitched picture was only $1.00. :)  I'm planning on taking it OUT of the tacky blue plastic frame (along with the shocking blue mat) and making a pillow out of it for my mother-in-love for Christmas...

Shh...don't tell her I didn't do the stitching....

~CLOSE-UP DETAIL~

~INCREDIBLY FABULOUS TOLE LAMP~

At the same sale we also found this great light fixture and the lamp you see below.  We got it for parts...love that old turn-key!  The chandy above was $8 and the lamp below was $2...

 ~GREAT FOR PARTS~

Now...what I have to share with you next may not seem like a big deal, but fore MOI it was the sweetest icing on top of an already fabulous cake day...

Here's what happened... 

At sale number six (the last one of the day) we drove up to a place on 23rd Street here in Oklahoma City and it ended up being a business.  I've passed the "store" more times than I can tell you over the years and never once went inside.  It was called Etta's Gift Gallery and I THOUGHT it was a china-type shoppe.  When we pulled into the parking area I said to my guy...

ME:  "Oh brother!  What a waste of time.  I do NOT want to even go into this place!

HUBBS:  "Why not?  We're already here!  Let's just go inside!"

ME:  "I don't want to.  It's a waste of my time!  I'm hot!  My coke is gone!  Let's just go! (wahh wahh waahhhhh)"

HUBBS:  "Oh Rebecca! For Pete's sake (who is Pete anyway???)  WE ARE HERE!  Let's just go inside and have a look!"

ME:  "Alright!  But I'm not going to find anything!  I'd rather just pick another sale to go to!!!"

HUBBS:  "Well...I'm going in!  You can stay in the car if you want to!"

~RATTY-TRAP SHOPPE~
(In the Background)

And so my Mr. AGPMan wins!  We get out of the car and go inside this ratty-trap looking store and I'm griping and mumbling the entire time...
(Blahhhh Blahhhhh Blahhhhhhh!!!!)

Well...the ratty-trap dive-of-a-place ended up being absolutely humongous on the inside and it was filled up and overflowing with more STUFF than I've ever seen in my life!  Seriously...I'm thinking someone (umm...like the owner) was a real-life hoarder or something!

   ~EEEK!  FABULOUS FINDS~

So...here are both wandering around the HUGE STORE (that obviously was once a house...at least the front part was anyway!) and it just keeps going and going and going.  We finally get towards the back and on this one shelf (crammed up and overflowing with STUFF!) I see several bolts of vintage lace.  The lace labels were dated 1974-1976 and the price tags on the ends (especially for back then) were sky-high!  So...I began to gather them all up.  I grabbed myself a plastic box thingy (see above) and placed the laces inside it...

 

 ~MY FAVORITE LACE EVER!!!~

 Now...what is so amazing about finding the lace you see above is this...

Last week when I was taking pictures in my AGP Studio for the Where Bloggers Create Party III I snapped a photo of my favorite insertion lace ever made!  It's was manufactured for many years but has been out of production for a long, long time from what I understand.  I purchased several yards of it on eBay a few years ago but my stash has been dwindling and I've been SICK I haven't been able to find any more for several years!

 

~INSERTION LACE~

Well...I believe God cares about EVERY aspect of my life and so when I came across the lace in my studio I said this little prayer...

"Dear God...please help me find more of this lace!  I love it sooo much and I'm almost out of it!  Please lead me to it!  Amen!" 

Well...guess what was on the shelf??? 

Yep!  The very lace I've been longing and praying to find...price was $6.00 (and there is 36 yards on the bolt...I measured it!).  This story gets better.  Read on...

 ~SEVENTY-TWO YARDS OF THIS ONE~
(or two FULL Bolts)

Huge score here...$9.00 for all of it!

 ~EIGHTEEN YARDS~ 

Twelve dollars for eighteen yards...not too bad (hold on...a shocker is coming...)

~THIRTY YARDS OF THIS ONE~

A bag of loose lace held 30 yards total...price was $12.00...

 ~ORIGINAL PRICE of LACE...$5.29 YD~

  ~SWEET OLD GLOVES~

This pretty little pair of gloves...new-old stock.  Price...$5. 

~WHAT ARE THESE?~

(Jewelry Stands?  Towel Holders?)

I found lots more treasures...some vintage rhinestone baubles and the two display stands you see above.  Anyone want to tell me what they were originally made for?  I'm clueless!
Now...here's the SHOCKER!

 ~MY RECEIPT~

 While my Mr. AGPMan is carrying HIS four enormous bags of packing peanuts to the front (a necessity for the biz but HOW BORING IS THAT to buy????) I get in line to check out.  Once I was at the counter the saleslady began to list out each of my finds on a receipt.  The packing peanuts were a special deal my guy negotiated for $3.00!  :)  The cost of all the other items was then calculated out...

Well...guess what?

EVERYTHING WAS
75% off!
NOT KIDDING!

The total of my entire ticket was $28.95...
 BE STILL MY HEART >>>~~~<3

When we got into the car to drive back to Edmond I said this:

ME:  "I PRAYED I'd find that lace!"

HUBBS:  "Umm...I'm thinkin' the devil tried to get you to NOT go into that store!"

ME:  "Yeah...I'm thinkin' YOU BE RIGHT!"

~ANGEL MAN?~

 HUBBS:  "I'm thinkin' you're little Angel Dude saved you!"

(I hate it when my guy is RIGHT!)

But...I'm over-dah-moon happy!


So....how'd your day turn out???

Love to you...

~ROMANTIC DINING ROOM - Valentine's Day Ready~

~ALMOST VALENTINE'S DAY READY~

A House Without Lace
Is Like a House Without Music

Well peeps...I'm more excited than I can tell you! Believe it or not our formal dining room makeover is ALMOST finished. Save for the crown molding and the painting of my dining room chairs (the French chairs in the photos are from my breakfast room), the really big stuff is about done. It's been so exciting turning what was our formal living room into a beautiful dining retreat.

~OLD HOMER LAUGHLIN PLATES~

Lovin' the English Garden Centerpiece

We still have a few odds and end to wrap up...our French Doors are masked off and ready for paint (what a job that was...two two-sided doors with all those little windows) and I still need to hunt down some fabulous vintage complements for some 2die4 final WOWZER touches.

~LACES AND SUCH~

Along with so many of you who have a passion for things made with the hands, my love of vintage lace and trims shows through in this room. Dining Room or not, the cabinets are filled to overflowing with some of my favorite old finds...snippets of aging embroidery, samplings of old linens and the loveliest laces I've ever seen. Plus, vintage china tea cups are a must as well as a few pieces of the lovely (but inexpensive) stemware my Mother painstaking collected from Green Stamps when I was a young girl. I found even more pieces at local tag sales...what fun!

~PRETTY VINTAGE TABLE~
(fabulous lace cloth from my friend Kim)

I moved this lovely old sofa table into the room from my Den because it was just the perfect piece for anchoring our large picture window. If you ever come to my home you'll find that nothing EVER stays in the same place for very long...

Just ask my Mr. AGPMan...he does most of the heaving moving for me! :)

~VINTAGE MIRROR~

Here is the vintage mirror I showed you a few weeks ago. She is beautiful all by herself!

~STRAWBERRY SHAPED SACHETS~

When my girl married a couple of years ago my mother and I made about 300 of these little sachet beauties for her wedding favors. Truly a labor of love...such fun...such work...but sooo beautiful. I kept a few and proudly showcase them all over my home. Here you can see three underneath my favorite Cloche.

When you don't see me adding things to eBay or even Etsy you can pretty much figure I'm busy doing other things or working in my own home. Now that I have a local booth in an Antique Mall my time is just not my own. But, I wouldn't have it any other way...

More soon!

Blessings to you as you stay true to what you sincerely love...