Goodwill Finds

We've been having a lot of dinner parties lately and last week noticed that we were running out of dishes faster than we could keep up.  Perfect excuse to visit our local Goodwill to get a bunch for cheap.  I hadn't been to one here in the Twin Cities yet, so I was blown away when we showed up.  It was huge!  Not to mention it was Thursday and it was half off toddler clothing (which we also needed to pick up since our two-year-old barely has any warm clothing)!  So, we get to dishes and I start freaking out.  There was so many adorable vintage plates!



The top came as a set of 2, they only had one of the middle, since it was a huge serving plate, and a set of 4 for the last plate.  I also got a set of four olive green bowls (my favorite color!).  You can never have too many bowls around the house.

This wasn't vintage, but I had to get it.  I have been drinking tea a lot lately and only had plane white coffee cups.  I needed one just for me.  Something about drinking tea in the morning in a cute mug makes me feel happy!
All in all, it was a great shopping trip!  All those housewares totaled up to $6.00!!!  I love thrifting!


I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday!  I will be posting some of my holiday pictures soon! 

GC5 Vintage

On Saturday after we realized the antique fair wasn't going to happen and that the flea market was closed and we couldn't see the Pyrex Lady, we decided to drive a little outside of Raleigh to a vintage store my friend told me about.  We drove up and these are a few of the things that were outside.  I knew it was going to be awesome inside if the outside looked like this.

When we walked in and I was in love.  They set the place up like it was a house, so it was a really cool way of going through everything.  All the items they had handpicked and bought themselves.  You could really tell by the quality of all the items.  The prizes were also really reasonable for vintage stuff.  I was really surprised!  Especially their pieces of furniture!  My husband and I fell in love with this couch:

The couch, coffee table, and another table were $525!!! I couldn't believe it! If we weren't moving we would have definitely figured out a way to buy these pieces. I'm so sad that we couldn't get it! But we are trying to downsize our belongings, so we don't have to move so much. I don't think buying this would have been a good way of doing that! I would have looked so good on that thing.

I spent so much time looking at all the scarves.  I fell in love with the one above.  It was more of a handkerchief and I've never been to Washington, but it was so cute!  I really regret not buying it.  I could have started a state handkerchief collection!

The clothing in the back had some really amazing pieces.  Check out that red cape in the middle!!!  I could have used that for the winter in Minnesota!

My friend ended up buying the teal spoon on the left.  It is pretty adorable.  I should have bought the mushroom embroidery.  I felt too guilty about getting anything, so I walked away with nothing!  Ugh!  I hate my conscience sometimes!  


If you're ever in the Raleigh area, you should drive up to Wake Forest and browse GC5 Vintage.  Its totally worth it!  The owners are at the store and were really nice.  They are also up for answering any of your questions!  Here is some of the store's information:

430 S. White St. 

Wake Forest, NC 27587

Mon - Sat:10:00 am-6:00 pm;  Sun:12:00 am-5:00 pm

Website

Facebook

Etsy

Do you have any awesome vintage stores in your area?

Antique Capital of the World

My husband and I were really excited about Saturday because we were going to Cameron, NC for an antique fair.  Their claim to fame is that they are "the Antique Capital of the World," but I'm pretty sure that they have made that claim themselves and its not true.

So we drive over to Cameron and when we get to the town there are cars lined on both sides of the road and we're still in the woods.  I'm thinking to myself "man, we're going to have to walk a couple of miles to get to the fair, because there is no sign of pavement parking lots or any kind of downtown area."  Well...  There wouldn't be any either.  There was basically a 200 ft. area of buildings, not really any pavement anywhere, so all 250 vendors from all over the country were in the grass.  Remember, we have two kids that were going to be in strollers.  And it wasn't just flat, it was like we were on the outskirts of the mountains.  

We decided not to go.  It would have been way to hard to maneuver the two strollers in the grass with the other 50,000 people that were going to be there.  It was really sad, because from the car I could see so many awesome items!  Not to mention the 12 antique stores that Cameron has alone.

We were going to try to go to the flea market to see the Pyrex lady, but it was closed for the state fair!  We were determined to do some vintage shopping that day.  We drove another hour north and went to an amazing vintage shop called GC5 Vintage in Wake Forest, NC.  I was not disappointed!!!  I'll show some pictures from that visit tomorrow!


Hope everyone's weekend was awesome and your Monday won't be too bad!

Antiquing In Gibbon, Minnesota

The first place we stopped and visited was Gibbon, Minnesota.  Dan's parents and a couple of his aunts and uncles were staying at his grandparents' house, so we stayed there, also.  We had big dinners, some people played golf, and I went antiquing.  Now, this is a very small town.  I'm talking about 800 people.  Its just a few blocks of houses and a strip downtown surrounded by farm land.  I did not thing I was going to find anything that was worth taking home, but I was wrong.

The first was an antique store downtown.  It was run by a local with a midwest accent out of Fargo.  I love these accents.  Everyone sounds so much more friendly, and it really shows the culture of the area.  It was a pretty large building separated into rooms and packed with so much awesome stuff.

This is an old heated outdoor phone booth!  Definitely need those in Minnesota!

The next day, we took a walk two houses down to an antique store a neighbor operated from his garage.  I thought I was going to walk in and see a garage sale type set-up.  No.  This couple had literally transformed their garage into a store.  It was so amazing, and really inspirational!  A good way to start your own store without leasing a building!

This is my mother-in-law and my daughter walking to the antique store!  Its crazy that I haven't pushed Maggie being a girly girl.  She likes dressing like this!

The entrance.  All those little figures in the cubbie holes on the left are salt and pepper shakers!

  

I did get a couple of things from these stores, but I'm going to wait until the end of our trip.  I think we'll be going to a couple of more places before we leave!  

Have you ever found anything really awesome in an unexpected place?