Saturdays Vintage Finds: sled

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Sunday, July 14, 2019

Sunday Flea Finds

We arrrived at our favorite flea market by 6 am today

and I think it paid off.

Two wooden ladders, paid $5 each.

Two wheelbarrows: paid $10 each and sold each for $24.

My husband surprised me with this little beauty,

he knows I like scary dolls.

A cool looking scale, only $10.

Sold for $35.

Old Mirror with surprisingly good frame, paid $10.

Always looking for sleds. Paid $10.

This one has a nice aged alligator finish.

This one I kept.

Boiler, and yes I already have one that I can't sell.

Now I will have two that aren't selling, but only paid $10.

Mr. Log Cabin also sold me this.

Three Conservo Steamer Cooker things,

still in their ORIGINAL Crate. What?!!!

Probably from around 1907.

Here is the backside of the crate.

Apparently Mrs. Winslow had a hard time selling things too.

Monday, November 13, 2017

Stenciled Sleds 2017

I didn't go quite as crazy collecting sleds this year, as I have in past years.

I think the count was 8 or 9, but I only had to "tweek" 6 of them.

Here they are:

The giant blue one already had the blue paint...

I just had to add a little stenciling.

(I thought my garden gnome would have made

an excellent Christmas elf.)

Sled #3. White always looks great stenciled on red.

(I just painted my white picket fence green

a few weeks ago, and it made a nice backdrop.)

I did the yellow/gold stencil on this one

to match the yellow/gold pinstripe already on the metal frame.

I thought it looked very authentic,

someone else must have thought the same ...

it was the first one to sell.

Just a tiny bit of stenciling on outside slats of this one.

(I know when to leave well-enough alone.)

Not necessarily my honest thoughts on snow.

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

I went to a farm house estate sale last weekend that was organized by a friend of mine. I have personally done estate sales before, and I know what a daunting task it was. This sale was HUGE, and encompassed the house and several outbuildings.

I got three of these American Poultry Journal magazines from the 1920s.

I may frame them and hang them in my future chicken coop.
(Doesn't everyone decorate their chicken coop interior?)

UPDATE: Two were used on a cabinet in my Ozarks bathroom.

The last one I framed and it graces a shelf in the Stonecrest Cottage guest house.

Speaking of chickens -- I also bought two large egg baskets

(purchased for $10 each, sold for $24 each)

and a great scale for $5.

I already had the basket, but purchased the

"grocery cart" and owl #1.

It is the perfect time of year to be selling owls.

Paid $5 for this owl, sold it for $15).

Owl #2 inside a milk crate "cage".
Paid $1 for this owl, sold it for $15.

+ 6 more metal milk crates with gallon jars included,

for $5 a crate. And paid $5 for the sled on the right, later sold for $36.

Giant ball of twine for $1....

and the cutest little birdhouse for $1 (keeper).

Bird nests.... they are a weakness of mine.

These had sat in cardboard box in the barn for years.

I also bought a garden windmill,
but had to make some repairs on it.
You will have to check back in a couple of days to see it.

Monday, April 24, 2017

Saturdays Vintage Finds 4.22.2017

My husband and I got up early Saturday morning to hit the junking road. We did flea market & garage sale sandwich -- with a citywide garage sale being the middle of the sandwich. I bought the most from this guy, including the interesting leather chair in the third picture.

I got a couple of sleds and this great Country Club Beer clock at the Flea. The rest came from the twenty or so citywide garage sales that we attended. I'll need to do a little more research on the clock to figure out the best way to sell it. Country Club Clock purchased for $25, sold for $90 on Craigslist.

My favorite purchase -- the decorative rooftop tin with star and clover motif. I had just seen something similar (still on a roof) earlier in the morning and thought how cool it looked. It will get attached to the top of my garden shed. Old bike bought for $10, sold for $35 in outdoor booth.

Bought two sleds for $10 each, and sold each for $36 each.

Tuesday, November 29, 2016

2016 Family Photos with Vintage Sled & Ugly Sweaters

Some families take goofy Christmas photos. We have never been of that persuasion, so it is funny that we ended up with a couple of silly Christmas photos this year.

While my son and his wife were visiting over Thanksgiving,

I finished "enhancing" some Christmas sweaters.

Having live models was way better than throwing them on the floor for photos.

(I won't call them ugly, because it depends on the eye of the beholder.)

I sell the sweaters at my vintage booth, and all proceeds on the Christmas

sweaters go toward "The Grace House", click here for more info on the Grace House.

All three of my siblings came to my house the weekend before Thanksgiving.

We are very scattered, and in the 25 years we have lived here -- they have only

all landed altogether at my house one other time. My 91 year old father even caught a ride.

His wife had sent a sled which she claimed belonged to our family -- and we

unanimously agreed it did not -- so the comedy part of this photo was that we

decided to have our photo taken with it anyway.

Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Line Up Of Vintage Sleds for 2015

Last year I went a little crazy with whole sled thing. I had stashed away nine by the time Christmas selling time arrived, click HERE for that post. I wasn't able to break that record this year, but still managed to pick up eight. And now, without further ado, here is our line up of vintage sleds for 2015:

Here is the "before" photo. I decided to paint several black to look like chalkboards. I purchased some vintage window stencils from ebay to make the job easier. (So much to do for the holidays!)

These two are my favorites, I love the worn surface on the white one.

I ended up selling the blue one without any stenciling.

But I loved how the stenciling enhanced the

vintage beauty of the white one.

Already sold, of course.

Here are some "after" group pictures.

I ended up doing two of the snowflake sleds.

The sled on the right was a vintage stencil.

This little sled was the only actual chalkboard

sled that I did this year.

And some more close-ups.

I purchased the "Bless This House" stencil at Hobby Lobby.

The border stencil was a Martha Stewart.

I think a mistake people make when decorating sleds is doing

a horizontal design (long ways on the sled).

People almost always decorate with the sled standing upright

so you should be able to read any writing without tipping your head..

A lacy all-over stencil on raw, aged wood.

The ornament stencils on this sled were done with the vintage

window snow stencils that I had ordered off of ebay.

Long story, but it took over three weeks for me to receive them.

I'm in love with the vintage stencils.

They were worth the wait.

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Saturday's Auction Finds 8.15.15

Went to the weekly Tiny Town auction last Saturday morning. It was larger than usual because of it being an estate in addition to the consigners. I only stayed for the outdoor segment, and still was there for three sweltering hours -- continuing to suffer from my poison ivy:(. Anyway, here are some of the highlights.

three large buckets and rolling RCA cart

blue sled

red chair with...

great crackled finish

rusty daybed head and foot

Monday, July 6, 2015

Fairbury Flea Finds

This is the second post about our trip to Fairbury, Nebraska. You can read my first post here telling about the flea market, auction and garage sales we went to. I waited until this post to show you the treasures that I came home with . Let's get on with the show...