Estate Sale Finds

Today I'm linking to AlaCart's Junkin' Finds! Thanks, Linda, for hosting! Go here for lots more "Finds!"

Here are the things I recently bought at an estate sale. The sale was right across the street from us.

I blogged a few weeks ago about our two neighbors dying within three months of each other. They didn't have any children and her older sister, niece and nephew came and took a few things back to St. Louis with them. Our neighborhood was totally in shock, and I was upset seeing ten to twenty boxes at the curb for the garbage pick-up. After going to the estate sale last week I felt better as most of her household was still there, not sent to the dump as I suspected! The house was almost just as she left it when she went to have her heart catheterization. Everything from spices in the cabinet to her antique bedroom set, ETC!

I only bought small things as we already have a house full of stuff!! Above, is a set of pretty ceramic place cards and menu plaque, with special pens that will erase easily.
I have been wanting some of these! I prefer plain ones, but these are pretty too.

Close-up of the menu plaque. How neat is this!

The little silver serving pieces were only two and three dollars each!
I love the shape of this! Can't wait to polish it!
Love the handle and the design on this one!
I couldn't resist the crystal vase and
vintage divided serving dish!
Notice the tablecloth, it is also from the sale.

It is sort of a tan colored lace and really long. I think it's darker than ecru. The white spots on it are from the sun shining through the crystal chandelier above!

Below is the other tablecloth, the one featured in this past week's tablescape. (Scroll down to see.)

My friend loved to entertain and had several sets of napkin rings. The ones below are made from shells. I don't know the name of them, do you?

Love, love, love these black cloisonne napkins rings below!

The set of 12 oval metal napkin rings below are either stainless steel or chrome, not sure. I'm wondering if I can spray paint them gold. What do you think?

I also bought these pretty pillow cases, they were only $3.00 for the set.

Funny, that stain isn't noticeable, except in the photos!

I want to make throw pillows with them.

Can't wait to receive more roses to display in this pretty vase!

I have no ideas yet as how I will use all of this, but I'm sure they will appear in tablescapes soon!

Any ideas and suggestions?!

I can't remember how much everything cost, she was writing down everything and didn't give me the itemized list. Nothing was over $5. I only spent about $30 for everything.
I like to think my friend would like for me to have her things. They are nice mementos of our friends.

Have a happy day!

God Bless.

Katherine

Cloche Party!

It's finally here! The long awaited second cloche party! The fall cloche party! Thank you, Marty at A Stroll Through Life for hosting! Go here for lots more inspiration. It's not fall here in Florida and I don't have my fall decor boxes out of the attic yet, therefore I wasn't prepared for fall decor with my cloches. I have a lot of other things to share though, but first a little of fall!

This is a little bit fall-ish! I bought this wire cloche and wire "cake plate" at Hobby Lobby for 80% off.

Well, actually it wasn't a cloche, it was a hanging planter! I cut the chains off and turned it upside down - voila, a cloche!!

The gourds have glitter on them, they were from Dollar Tree. I plan to paint this cloche and cake plate, either white, gold, or black. Which do you suggest?

Okay, here's more fall, I used the same cloche and blackeyed Susan silk flowers along with a little scarecrow (purchased at Walgreen's today for 99 cents, just for this party!

Small faux acorns are in the bottom, I think they came from Michael's.

Next I have my large cloche with a pretty ceramic "shell" tea light holder
I bought the "shell" for my friend who collects shells, but before giving it to her I did a cloche vignette with it using a sailboat, and sea gull.

The cloche is displayed on a rattan placemat, and surrounded with a capiz shell necklace.
Before we moved here we had a condo at Cocoa Beach and it was decorated with sea life things, these are left from there, and we have a bedroom with sea/beach decor.

Next I have my baby shoes displayed under this (cheese) cloche.

Faux dried yellow roses are accents

My baby shoes
I put this together with the cheese cover, a plate, and a dessert dish:

The three together:

Next is a small child's tea set under my medium sized cloche
and square crystal cake plate:

It also has little cups and saucers,
but they didn't fit inside

Next is my etched cloche, I have displayed my cameo collection inside:

Two cameo pins are inside with a framed silhouette

The vintage cameo earrings (clip-on and screw-on) are outside the cloche

Deep red silk roses are inside and outside the cloche

Next are two small cloches displaying small figurines

The cloche on the left is a pastry cloche, I bought it at Ross for $6.99. The one on the right came from Goodwill, I'm not sure what it was supposed to be, but it is now a cloche! I bought the little glass stand at Hobby Lobby at half-price.

Both of these little figurines came from Dollar Tree!

I think they are so cute!

I did two tablescapes recently using two of my cloches.
I'm posting them here again in case you missed them!

This lady is actually a skirt vase:

This is the etched cloche (above)

Below is the medium cloche used as a centerpiece for my yellow rose tablescape
The same little dollar store figurine, but I glued a yellow rose to her hand.
Well, I hope I haven't bored you to death with all my cloche designs!

Which is your favorite?


Have a happy day!
God Bless.

Katherine