Through the Garden Gate's Fall Open House is 9/20

Here are some pics of what our booth looks like right now to get ready for the fall open house on Saturday. Most booth are having sales and we have 15% off everything in our booth, The Porch.
I love our farm vignette with the aprons hanging overhead.
Yes, this sweet lil' vanity is still here...it's only $131.75 through the weekend!

Isn't this silverware that mom put together sweet?! There are 50 bunches of 4-8 pieces and each bunch is only $3.40 this weekend! And they are shown in the fabulously chippy drawer that I got at the sale here at the mall in the spring! I love it!
Happy Fall Ya'll!

WooHoo! I've Finished the Vanity!

After two weeks of working on and off on this $20 vanity, the transformation is complete! Remember, this is what it looked like before:
And this is what it looks like after:
I painted it a creamy ivory and carribbean blue. I also added the cute flower medallions on each cabinet because to me, it looked a little bare. I painted the $7 vanity stool ivory to match and figured it would make a nice set (the seat was already this color and decided to leave it this way).Here it is in the store (cross your fingers that it sells because my 9 yr. old daughter says she's going to buy it if it doesn't).And do you see the shelves that my dad made from the $2 shutter screen? Mom added the lacey paper placemats for the cute edging on the shelves. This adds so much more room for The Porch.Thanks for stopping by!

"The Porch" as of yesterday

Take a peek at our booth...

The Suitcase of Fun

Here are the much anticipated ;0) pictures of all of the FREE linens that were in the suitcase that I bought in this post. It was a blast watching my 2 dd's going through all of these vintage things and squealing with delight as they tried on the nightgowns and aprons! It was like Christmas!

Sorry about the wonky colors in the pictures.



I think she's my favorite and boy was she someone else's favorite as well! Here they all are after I washed them by hand in Oxy-Clean at two different times...

There were 120 things in here!

• 9 aprons


• 1 pr. curtains


• 1 vintage baby bib


• 3 prs. ladies gloves


• 3 crocheted pot holders


• 18 cloth napkins


• 1 heart pillow pincushion


• 4 patches


• 1 tiny bird scarf


• 1 satin jewelry bag


• 1 crocheted black purse


• 1 pink tablecloth


• 1 retro plastic birthday tablecloth


• 1 bun warmer


• 1 very old embroidered picture


• 1 crocheted baby sweater


• 1 pr. petti-pants


• 2 babydoll dresses


• 3 nightgowns


• 2 very old bed jackets


• 15 handkerchiefs


• 1 dressy black cape


• 15 hand towels


• 14 table runners/scarves


• 18 ladies scarves & souvenir scarves


• 1 pillowcase

Also, I am loving my suitcases and have used them quite a bit already...still looking for the traincase to match!

July at "The Porch"

I hope that everyone had a wonderful July 4th weekend! We certainly did...our families were at our river cottages for a long weekend. We always look forward to the good old fashioned parade with a calliope leading the way and tractors, wagons, bicycles, and now golf carts and boats (pulled by trucks). It's just a fun tradition for our family, if we're not in the parade, to stand and wave our little flags as the parade passes...it lasts about 2 minutes, but well worth the wait! After that, the nice man driving the tractor in this picture, serves snow cones down the road at his house which is great because it's always so hot and everybody loves snowcones!

Well, now that July is here AND we sold the pink antique couch (yay!), mom and I thought that we would rearrange and add some more merchandise to our booth at Through the Garden Gate. Here are some updated pictures...

Thanks for taking a peek!

An Absolutely Exciting Antique Mall Sidewalk Sale

Can everybody say "Oooh Ahhhh!"? My mom and I hit the jackpot at, of all places, an antique mall sidewalk sale. We were so excited about finding so many goodies, that this is the day we signed up for our own booth at the antique mall.
While waiting for the antique mall sidewalk sale to start,
we went to a local church yardsale and found the little aluminum tray that folds up for .50 and the pack of vintage recipe cards for .10...big spenders, we are!

When we got to the antique mall, we were so excited! There was so much good stuff and such good prices, for the most part.

We love these signs that are made from doors, remember I got my mom one from the same place (not on sale) for mother's day made from a screen door. Well, mom saw this and snatched it up for $10! I love the saying..."think big thoughts, but relish small pleasures". The old fan was $10 and works perfectly at mom's river cottage. The stick looking thing is an herb drying rack for $1.00 that I now have some of my apron collection hanging on in the kitchen.

Mom got this adorable cake keeper for $4.00 and this sweet little powder tin for $2.00. Both have original paint and flowers. The pillow was $2.50. My small suitcase was free...I'll tell you about that in a minute.

I bought this cute yellow drawer with green handles that was naturally distressed for $4.00 (we have linens in it at "The Porch". I got this adorable lampshade for $1.00, and mom got this sweet strawberry pillow for $5.00. The funny thing about the pillow is that I have a purse that I bought on eBay last year that is made from the same vintage fabric. I'll have to take a pic of that one day too.

Here is the aluminum folding tray and recipe cards already mentioned and the cutest old medicine cabinet that I will keep for myself & paint, probably a vintage seafoam green, that I got for $8.00. There are 2 plates for my plate garden flowerbed border for $1.00 (1 is from Skyline Dr., one of my favorite places).

I think the only thing not mentioned already is the small conservatory...is that what you call it? It was $6.00 and the bunches of beautiful flowers for $3.50.

If you haven't been ooohing and ahhhing yet, then drumroll please...

...let me introduce to you the "suitcase of fun". That's what my girls and I call it anyway. This was the large suitcase to match the smaller one. Mom and I were looking at the old aprons & linens in this suitcase which were all marked individually. The nice woman selling these asked if I wanted to buy the suitcase with everything in it for $20. I grabbed it up and was so excited. Well, she had a 50% off sale and little did I know until I went to pay, that she was actually only charging me $10! AND she threw in the small suitcase for free! Ok, people, there are over 120 individual things in this suitcase! Wow, did my daughters and I have fun going through this stuff! I would have paid $10 for just the suitcases as they are from the 40's or 50's and are a beautiful seafoam green. I have used them 3 times already. I am looking for the train case to match...if anyone can help me with that, let me know! I forgot to add that I got quite a dirty look from the husband of the nice seller as he said to his wife, "Do you realize that the suitcase is full of stuff?!" and she said "Yep!" and I took the suitcase & ran and jumped in my mom's Trooper as fast as I could!Ok, keep in mind that simple things excite me!

I will post another entry about the "suitcase of fun" another day. It's almost midnight....I wish you all thrifty dreams!