Get Ready...For Garage Sale Season!

Don't forget... garage sale season is starting and its the perfect way to find inexpensive vintage or salvaged furniture and accessories to spruce up for your home!

Scoping out weekend Garage Sales is something my husband and I have come to greatly enjoy.  Its so much fun to find items for our home and usually at an even cheaper price then the Goodwill or other thrift stores.  Sometimes, it feels like we have to be the first one's to get there so the good stuff doesn't get picked over...like we're in a race or something! It's kind of  thrilling (yeah we are nerds)!

I once found a vintage 60's pedestal dinning table (like the one below) with 6 chairs. It was in great condition and just over $100 for the whole set. Unfortunately, I was in Washington at the time for an internship and had no way of getting the set home to Idaho where I was going to school. So, I passed it up...that was about 3 years ago, and I think about it ALL THE TIME!

Here are some great items we found at garage sales last week. Hopefully we will find many more!

Vintage Frame Re-done

I'll be honest, our budget has been a little tight since we moved a few months ago.  We are usually fairly thrifty people anyway but not quite to the extent that we are now.  This Valentines Day we decided to give each other a $15 budget for gifts which can be a little tricky.

I found this awesome vintage picture frame at a local thrift shop and decided to spend my $15 wisely and do something both inexpensive and sentimental.  I ended up spending $2.50 on the frame, $8.00 to get a piece of glass cut for the frame, $1.50 to print the photos, and I used materials I already owned to make a boarder insert around the photos. The total cost came to about $11.00 and more importantly my husband loved it!

Click below to get the "how-to" for this project.