Last weekend one of my favorite neighborhoods, MacGrove, was having their neighborhood garage sale.  They joined forces with Summit Hill and Highland Park as well.  So all in all there were over 100 homes participating with garage sales.

My friend opK and I headed out on Friday morning to see what we could find.

I’ll admit that we ended up driving around in circles half the time.  Although the organizers of the event published a list of the participating sales that included info on whether the sale was in the alley or the front yard, and whether they were open on Friday & Saturday or just Saturday, they did not publish a paper map.  Instead they used an online map created with Google My Maps.

So, go ahead, call me stuck in my ways.  But I prefer a paper map.  One where I can cross off the sales that we’ve already been to.  And I’d also prefer that it be color coded with one color of dots for sales open on Friday and another for sales only open on Saturday.

We spent a fair amount of time heading towards a dot on the Google map only to discover it wasn’t open on Friday.  We also spent a fair amount of time circling back to a sale we’d already been to because there was no way to mark them off.

Sometimes an old school paper map really is better.

That being said, we did find a few fun things while we were out driving in circles.

The prices were really quite good too.  The most expensive thing I purchased was this old ironstone wash bowl at $15.

I have an idea for turning it into a birdbath.  I’ll be using the scoop for potting soil.

The next highest priced item was another vintage sled for my stash that was $10.

I’ll dress it up for Christmas.

Everything else I purchased was $5 or less including this set of vintage books …

this cool old blue bottle …

and this set of cannisters.

I also scored a watering can for just $2.

I’m not sure if I’m going to dress that one up with paint or a transfer, or just leave it alone.

I’m giving ‘find of the day’ status to some dollhouse furniture that I purchased.

While I’m not sure I’ll even use the tall cabinet, I just love the little plant stand.  I’m currently working on putting together a few things for the dollhouse porches (there is an upper porch and a lower one) and this plant stand will be added to that pile.

I don’t often find dollhouse items at garage sales, but not only did I get those pieces, but I found this one too.

I was hoping it would fit in the foyer of my dollhouse, but unfortunately it’s too wide.  I’ll still paint it up at some point though.  Just for fun.

I also purchased this little doll sized cupboard at that same sale.

I really just felt like it needed to be rescued from a bad paint job.  It will be another fun one to make over.  I may save this project for winter though, just because it would be easy to work on indoors.

So, although I didn’t find anything especially ground breaking at MacGrove this year, I did come home with a few fun projects.  Is there anything in my haul that you would have picked up?  Leave a comment and let me know.