0My friend opK and I headed to a town north of the cities to do a little garage saling recently.  Unfortunately, the sales we found were mostly a bust.  My meagre haul includes a tacklebox and a folding ruler from a sale where everything was a dollar.

I also picked up a pretty cool sled that I’ll paint up for Christmas at an estate sale we stumbled upon.

As we were heading home we also happened across the once monthly Picket Fence Gals vintage occasional sale.  I hadn’t realized it was their weekend to be open, so it was a fun little bonus.

This sale features lots of different vendors, each with their own little distinct area or ‘booth’.  As I walked into one particular booth I was thinking to myself ‘this seller has great style’ …

I love that there are pops of green scattered throughout giving the entire booth a cohesive look.

Then, wait a minute, what?

To my surprise, as I was glancing over the space, I saw this …

Are you seeing what I see?

It’s my slide projector case!

And once I realized that, I looked just behind it and recognized my rusty finials.

I don’t believe that I ever shared the ‘after’ of these, but they were from the same garage sale haul as the hardware bin earlier this summer.

I ‘re-finished’ them with some of Dixie Belle’s Patina Paint to give them a rusty look.

As I was chuckling to myself at finding a couple of my things in a shop, I glanced down and saw this …

I painted that way back in May 2023.

But it ended up at my own occasional sale this past June.

As did this clock plate and cloche, which is another project I didn’t share here on the blog.

That clock transfer is from the Brocante set from I.O.D.

Finally, I noticed this green … um … cage thingie?  I’m not sure what you would call it.

I didn’t actually paint that, but I did sell it at the Carriage House Sale.

Some creators get annoyed about shop owners or vendors buying their stuff to resell it, but not me.  I consider it a compliment.  I also purposely price my stuff low knowing that someone could potentially buy it and mark it higher to resell.  There have always been a fair number of shop owners that shop my sale and I’m happy to have them.

I’m not sure who this booth belongs to, but kudos to whoever you are.  You did a beautiful job styling your space.  I was immediately drawn to it and I especially loved all of those touches of green.  If I have another sale next year (so far the jury is out on that one), I hope you’ll come again!