I Heart Antiquing

I can remember being in middle school and going antiquing with a friends mom and thinking it was the most terrible and boring thing ever. Store after store with old furinture and funny smells and absolutly no touching. The only up side was bailing out on the shopping to find ice cream. I don't know if it's coincidental or not, but where there are antiques, there is usually ice cream or some other form of sweets.

I'm still a fiend for anything sweet, but these days I'm just as pleased to do a little antiquing. Furniture isn't my thing so much as little trinkets and housewares and I'm pretty sure I could waste a few days browsing booth after booth in antique malls.

I stopped in a store in town in search of an old tin for a sappy anniversary gift for the husband and I accidently spent way too much money and bought way more than a tin. (Not to mention the fact I found the most amazing Christmas present for the girls that I'm pretty sure I'll be returning to get soon!)

I didn't have time to look around at everything they had in the three story floor but I think I pulled a pretty good haul for a "quick trip" in! I found an amazing bread box, which I happened to be in the market for, an egg beater, some old sewing needles, a Cream of Wheat print, an old Folgers tin (the one thing I intended to buy!), a cracker tin, and a gift to put up fpr Christmas for the husband.

Take a look...

Not too bad, huh?

My Thrift Store Finds

Aside from the trip the husband and I made in preparation for the White Trash Birthday Bash, it had been at least a year since I stepped foot in a thrift store. I used to go fairly frequently and when I was stick-thin, fresh out of high school I had the most amazing luck at one particular place with finding brand new clothes with tags still on them. I don't look for clothes anymore but I do keep my eye out for the cool finds.

When we went in search of our party attire I found a glass jar that I thought I wanted to get for our pickles. It was amazing. It was big and pretty and... had the wrong lid and was over priced. I passed it up, but have been dreaming of it ever since. Especially since it's almost time to make some pickles! So today I loaded the girls up and headed out in search of the perfect jars.

Not only did I find the most amazing jars, but I also found some cool bottles to make dressing in and a set of eight sundae dishes. (Something I had been wanting for a certain girls third birthday.) I was especially pleased with my finds when I looked up the jars in search of lids and found that they're selling for around $10 each and I paid $4 for all of them! I do have the task of finding some lids before I can fill them up with tasty pickles but I have a few ideas in mind!