Slow Go!

During my last post I told you how I was moving...well that affected my pickin' at the yard sales for an entire week. I spent my entire Saturday moving instead of shopping! The good thing is welove the new place but we were in super shopping mode this last week to stock back up and boy did we!We were able to find 2 really cool dressers, a FREE desk, a bed frame, a dining room table, 3 chairs and a neat side table all for $55!!!!! Sounds exciting right? Yes it was but now I can't even move in my garage and have a bunch of work to do in order to sell it.

Here is the picture of the dresser, I haven't been able to work on it yet but I am excited and want to show you the before picture

Initially my plan was to sand this all down and paint it white but turning something from black to white is dangerous!! You have to get rid of all the black which might take forever. So, I started to do some research and found a cute little blog that had alot of painted black furniture so I emailed her and was able to get some tips. More to come on this one...hopefully after the 4th it will be done!!!

On the brighter side we did sell alot of items these last two weeks. My favorite thing that we sold was a desk that was painted blue! We got tired of painting everything white and black so we took a risk and went with a blue....

I loved this desk but had the hardest time finding good hardware for it since the desk was so old. I wish I had the before picture because its quite the transformation. I also sold a chair with it that I reapohlstered...

You wouldn't believe it if I told you how easy it is to do this to pretty much any chair. This

started out as a junky wood chair with terribly old worn fabric on the seat.

More to come on the projects we are working on. This time I took before pics of everything

so you can see the transformation! Have a good 4th of July!!

Week of Weird!

Last week I told you about some of the very unique/random items that I have been able to sell thru craigslist and ebay. Well this week really takes the cake! My husband typically buys great stuff and does a really good job at finding the diamond in the rough. About a month ago he bought $20 worth of plastic hobby type models. My initial thought was what were you thinking? He bought these when during a yard sale that I missed because I had to take Kayley to the bathroom...as usual! So, we got home and he started the research and according to him we should have atleast made our money back. I posted them on ebay and....nothing! They have been sitting in the garage and I decided why not try craigslist and...they just sold along with some other models he bought at the swap meet. So we made our money back plus some!

The other strange buy this week was a Budweiser blimp that we bought for $6

way back in November when we first started the yard sales. I have had multiple people text me and email me about the blimp but it never ge

ts sold. Finally, someone who worked right around the corner from where I live picked it up. She is giving it to her husband for Father's Day for his garage.

I'm glad I held off to finish my blog until this morning because yesterday I received a text on an item that Anthony bought that I thought would never sell. Its a metal antique ice box with a clock......yeah that's what I was thinking too but someone bought it. They are putting it in a house of prayer. I am so glad we are finally rid of it!

On the furniture side of things we are a little slow right now because its moving week. We are moving Saturday and our dresser will not make it to another house...thanks Ikea! After doing some research online I found that dressers were anywhere from $400-$1000 depending on color and style. Needless to say that now I hit garage sales I have no interest in buying furniture for that much. So, the hunt began, finally we found a 10 drawer wood dresser for $75! We sanded, painted, sanded, painted, and sanded some more and we have a beautiful white wood dresser that is exactly what we wanted.