My daughter and I set out on an adventure this morning in
Mount Victory, Ohio. The village was having their community yard sale day.
I love to yard sale,
tag sale,
estate sale, junk shop....if it involves finding objects that "tell a story", I am your girl! I love to repurpose or reuse. My daughter and I wore our tennis shoes and hit the ground running. There were a lot of people out and about on this sunny, breezy Saturday in June. We also had the pleasure of watching hundreds of cyclists moving through Mount Victory during
GOBA (Great Ohio Bicycle Adventure).
Not only was Mount Victory covered in yard sales, there are also many antique and odds and ends shops in Mount Victory. Everyone was in on the fun!
We saw some friends from church, met some store owners, and chatted with residents.
I had $45 to spend, money I had saved from a small job I had done...so, I was off to see what I could find within my budget.
Check out what I found...and by the way, I'm saving up for round two!
Please ignore the stack of magazines on the floor (I'm in the process of sorting those). I bought the chippy, shabby chic, green shelf for $12. It is the perfect size.
Yes, I love chippy furniture. Not dilapidated, but worn. If this shelf could talk, what would it tell me?
Vintage table runner...lots of embroidery. For 10 cents!
Wooden box with handle. No nails used in this box, only wooden dowels. It is very sturdy.
A friend was selling old geography books, circa 1902. I snatched those up for 10 cents a piece. They are nice pieces for my antique book collection.
Inside of book. I found an old test in the book...the student had been studying countries and their capitals.
Yes, these are old bowling pins. They are solid wood and obviously well used. Hunks of wood out of them! I have good memories of bowling, and I thought they'd make interesting conversation pieces. Plus if there is ever an intruder I could knock him in the head with one of these and he'd be out cold. They are heavy!!!
Vintage game board. I liked the color. Also just a few cents:)
These dominoes are old. Wooden. The paint is coming off in spots. The
Statue of Liberty is on the back of each one. I wonder who played with these?
My daughter found this is one of the shops. We came home and researched it. It is a medallion given to an
Odd Fellow. The
Odd Fellows are an international fraternity that has been in
North America since the early 1800's. I'm not sure, but I think they might be similar to the
Free Masons. We are using this medallion as a curtain tie back. Also another great conversation piece.
Now, this is not a typical
candle holder. The base of the candle holder is made out of concrete. It is very heavy. I liked it because it was pretty, yet industrial...sort of.
Being a former public school teacher, I have a thing for old class pictures. This one is from the turn of the last century.
No, this is not a broken, warped fork. The owner of one of the stores told us the story.... some people had been doing some excavating work in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and came across several of these types of forks. Come to find out, ladies had these type of forks made so that they could spear pickles and olives without getting messy. A crafter had copied those found forks, and made these. Now I have a very interesting fork to spear my pickles with. I can pretend I'm a Victorian woman when I use this. My husband thinks this looks dangerous.....it does sort of resemble a mini bayonet.
Vintage table cloths and table runners. 10 cents/ea.
Last, but not least...a beautiful floral print apron with a sheer overlay. I could so be a 1950's house wife if I could wear cute little aprons like this. Oh, okay....maybe not, but it was a thought. A fleeting thought, but a thought nonetheless. It's still really cute.
