I meant to take some photos once I had everything all set up for my recent Carriage House Sale.

But, you know how that goes.  You get busy making sure the signs are up, everything is ready for the checkout table, and everything looks good … and next thing you know the sale is all over and you forgot to take any pictures.

Well … regardless … I thought you all might appreciate a recap.

I would say we had a smaller than usual crowd waiting to get in at rope drop, ie. 10 a.m. when we opened.  So, I’ll admit I was a little worried.  But after our usual opening hour rush, we then had a fairly steady stream of customers up until around noon when it turned into a trickle.

The weather went downhill a bit at that point too.  It got really warm (upper 80’s) and super windy.  The wind was a little scary since I have a large tree that overhangs my driveway, and those trees were really whipping around by the time we closed up shop.

Overall the sale was a success though.

My rusty pumpkins were a big hit, they all sold within the first half an hour or so.

My black hat society sign sold …

but none of my other cupboard door signs went.

I did sell all of my toolboxes …

a tacklebox …

and a lunchbox …

so that was awesome.

I also sold all of my painted books.

I also sold this floral cabinet at the sale.

I guess that answers the question of whether or not floral items will still sell in the fall.

I can also answer the question of whether or not buyers are willing to purchase Christmas merch when it’s nearly 90° outside, and that would be no.

None of my sleds sold.

And very little of the other random Christmas merch sold either.

I did whip up a few other fun Christmas decor items right before the sale, so I’ll be sharing some of those projects here on the blog when the holiday gets a little closer.

But for now I need to put my carriage house back in working order.  We’ll need to be able to get our vehicles in there as soon as the snow flies.  You just never know when that’s going to start here in Minnesota, could be next week.

I’ll be back to my regularly scheduled programing with another post about our trip to Canada coming up later this week along with another toolbox makeover that you haven’t seen yet.  I hope you’ll stay tuned!