Thursday, June 19, 2014

Double Whammy! NW Side Estate Sales

Today was a double whammy. I had seen on the net that there was a good sale coming up, lots of mid century modern. There was this amazing sectional that stood out! So I woke myself up on my day off at 6:00am and made the trek to the sale. Got to the sign in sheet and was number 14. Ouch. No chance of getting the sofa now. As the numbers were handed out from the sign in sheet two people hadn't made it back in time to collect their number so I bumped up to 12! I guess there's a flicker of hope right? Well I enter the house and the frenzy begins, everyone off in all directions but the couch is RIGHT there! Nobody goes for it? Nope! Just me! I grabbed the price tag! And it was WAY lower than I expected. Believe it or not while inspecting the couch everyone stole the other items I eyed in the ad, but I got my main priority. Here are the photos of it from the sale (bad bad bad photos sorry I was in a hurry)






I know I know there's stuff all over it and you can hardly see it.... It will be photographed much better soon.

The next sale I was sure had started at 8 as well so I was rushing off, it was only a couple miles north on the same side of town. To my surprise the sign up sheet was still there and it started at 9! Wow! I got number 18, it was awesome I was able to go to both sales and be a part of the first group to enter at both sales, that does not happen often. This sale I had no idea what I would find, this company uploads an overwhelming (but good) amount of photos so it's hard to target individual pieces unless they are big items and the furniture here wasn't my style.  But I ended up buying a few odds and ends. 


A few Christmas items, although this looks like a set it was separate. The ceramic Christmas tree with pegs was priced individually from the set of small trees. All of these were created in ceramics. Always wanted one of those trees!



Some more ceramics, the middle vase called out to me, it was an interesting color I don't have. And the poodle... Well he was cute, couldn't resist haha.




A set of Indiana Glass tea glasses, loved the color of these. Kind of an electric blue. I also bought a set of hot trays or warming trays from the 60s I didn't think they needed to be photographed even though they were a complete transformation from their dirty state to clean state lol. Hopefully more mid century modern in the coming weeks!

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