Brimfield – 2017
I finally made it to Brimfield! After ten years of wondering about the giant antiques show that sets up less than hour down the road from us, I cleared my schedule for a day and just went. I took Pepper with me (Ginger hates to shop), and had CPT A drop us off so we […]
Pepper’s Wandering Jew
Last summer, when Pepper and I were deep into tag sale-ing, we came across a sale where a woman was offering plants alongside her no-longer-needed household items. Intrigued, Pepper dropped three dollars for an interesting specimen with sparkly leaves. We had no idea what it was, but it was pretty. When we got home, Pepper took it up to her room. […]
Paint-By-Numbers Needlepoint
Of course I went tag sale-ing this weekend. And on my way to an estate sale I’d been especially looking forward to, I stumbled onto another sale that looked very promising. So, I stopped there too, and the first thing to catch my eye was what looked to be a very large paint-by-number painting of horses. […]
Cape Cod Side Tables
I was out tag sale-ing again this weekend. I have a plan to furnish our living room in 1950’s Colonial Revival furniture and I’m hoping to find all of it second hand. This is all to be blamed on a blog called Retro Renovation which I’ve been spending a great deal of time on lately. It’s filled […]
Tag Sales are Educational
Well, the dust has settled and the tag sale finds of this past weekend have been absorbed into the household. The vintage coffee cups I bought are now washed and in the cupboard. I wore my new bead necklace to the pond today. And Ginger has been tapping away steadily at her new typewriter. And, while all of these purchases […]
