I love garage sales and the season is just beginning! It’s so fun to find new items that I might not usually buy (or would actually buy) and get them for cheap! 
Anyway, the last couple of weeks, I’ve finally been seeing signs pop up around our neighborhood. Here’s what I’ve picked up in the last couple of weeks.
Last weekend, my mom, my little sister and I went to a subdivision sale nearby. My mom is a garage sale pro. When I was growing up, just about all of our clothes, toys, and even many Christmas presents came from garage sales! As a kid, we could care less if our presents were new or not (actually, I still don’t care, but I think that might just be me).
I picked up a punch bowl and cup set was $4. The box looks quite old, but the bowl and cups still look really nice! And for just $4, I figure it’s good to have one of these sets around. And then I guess it was a good day to shop for drinking entertainment sets because I found a margarita set for $5. I almost left it, but then decided it was just too fun to pass up, so I turned around and bought it! I figure for five bucks, I wouldn’t have even been able to buy the glasses at the dollar store.
Then, I was super excited to find the Crocs! Crocs have become my favorite go-to work shoes. I never thought I’d say that I like Crocs, but they actually have really cute flats. I already have two pairs and they are more comfortable then my other shoes.
So for a total of $20 spent, I really happy with what I found…and the season is only beginning! Anyone else started garage sale-ing (how would you spell that?) yet? If so, have you found anything good?
My garage sale tips:
- Use craigslist to find where to go and if you have a smart phone, Garage Sale Rover and Yard Sale Mapper are good apps to show you where the garage sales are.
- If you won’t pay what they have marked, just ask!
- Go to subdivision sales, then you can go to many sales at once and don’t have to drive around as much.
- Think about what you WILL need. For example, I’ve bought winter coats during the summer because I know even though I don’t even want to try it on now, I’ll need it come winter!
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We dabbed Armour Etch onto each glass and let it sit/brushed it around for about 5 minutes and then brushed the etching cream off (putting leftover cream back into the bottle), rinsed off the glasses in the sink, removed the vinyl, and ta-da!
So beautiful. A set of 12 custom monogrammed glasses (and for just $10 – we had all of the supplies on hand so the only cost was the glasses themselves)! I bet she loved them, I know I would!
Tape the burlap to your card stock (I used masking tape). I read so many tutorials that used various adhesives but that sounded messy and like too much work, so I guessed that tape would keep it in place good enough…and it did!
At least I had it figured out, the next one printed beautifully!
I had a hard time decided whether or not the burlap should be inside the mat, or outside of it, but then I decided I liked the more rustic look of it on the outside, so I went with that. And of course, they can always change it if they like the other way better. Which do you prefer? Inside? Or out?
I pulled out strings on the sides of the burlap to make it even, and then put a little glue on the corner so it wouldn’t continue to fall out…but really, once it’s in the frame you don’t need to worry about that. Oh, and I just used scotch tape to keep it in place inside the frame.
While I was at my parents house a couple of weekends ago, I wanted to do some sort of fun crafty project, so when I saw their ugly, unused phone jack on the wall the wheels in my head started spinning (what a weird phrase, right?)
Phone jacks are tricky to cover up because they aren’t flat so you can’t just stick a picture over them. And we weren’t about to rip it out – to much work!
Anyway, so I stuck a shoebox lid on top of the phone jack. It fits! An easy solution to an ugly phone jack on the wall!
Also added some scrapbook paper to a clothespin. I added our Save the Date (from 2 years ago!) to the clothespin because my mom still had it on the fridge and it was the right size 
So much cuter than an nonfunctional phone jack cover!!
Do you have an ugly phone jack to cover up too?
