My Lamp is Going to Paris!

From abandonment in the basement of a local Chicagoland bungalow to

France!

This industrial lamp from my shop, anythinggoeshere.etsy is

heading for Paris, France.

Is that great or what??!!???

Lucky, lucky lamp!

This is Reason 3 why I sell on Etsy~ World-wide customers!

Why I Sell on Etsy~ It's all about De-stash!

This is my second reason for selling on Etsy.

I had never heard the term Destash until I started selling on Etsy.

Destash refers to the process of liquidating your stashes.

A detox for hoarders.

What I have are lots of stashes.

Things I bought, mostly at Estate Sales, thinking that I might make something with them

 or

thought they were interesting/intriguing/fun/different/appealing.

More than 150 old I Ching Coins

My tastes run in two directions.  First, simple, ordinary things AND, second

things I've never seen before.

90 or so old Package Handles

But, whatever it is I always buy in volume, if possible.

A hundred old Pin Nibs

All that adds up to many stashes now being destashed on Etsy.

Around 50 Bulldog Clips

These are photos of things I have destashed in my first 6 months on Etsy.

Two dozen old Souvenir Spoons

Maybe over time all of these things could/would have sold at shows, but think of the packing, unpacking, 

hauling, displaying, and hoping for the right person to stop by my booth to buy them.

Hundreds of Matching Empty Sewing Spools

Now,  all of these things, some of which I had hundreds of, are gone and happily

living all around the world.

Hundreds more Matching Sewing Spools with Thread 

I like to say that they are again "Seeing the Light of Day" instead of hanging

around my basement languishing.

Gobs and Gobs and Gobs of Keys

As these collections are destashed... other collections are peaking out of their

previously hidden locations.

Come by anythinggoeshere.etsy and see what I am destashing today.

2011, The Year of the Brush

In honor of 2011, The Year of the Brush, 

I am selling many of my collections of vintage brushes.

Here is what I have for sell right now.

Three Paint Brushes~ SOLD

Three Shop Brushes

 Three Whisk Brooms~ SOLD

Five Artist's Brushes and Two Pallet Knives~ SOLD

Two Wallpaper Brushes~ SOLD

I love vintage brushes of all kinds!

I think they are one of the best of life's simple things.

Kelly, of Zenful Vintage, has featured my newest Whisk Broom Listing in her post, Hopeful Spring.

Stop by and visit this new Chicagoland blogger.

See all of these and the other things I have for sale 

at anythinggoeshere.etsy.

A Very Merry Christmas to You!!

Deck the Halls with.... Vintage Baby Buttons?

Love the pretty cards with these.

Fa, la, la, la, la,

la, la, la, la!

Available at anythinggoeshere.etsy 

Deck the Halls with....... butter pats?

Fa, la, la, la, la

la. la, la, la.

See them at anythinggoeshere.etsy

Vintage Halloween Blog Party

Welcome everyone to the 2010 Vintage Halloween Blog Party.

I love hosting these Vintage Holiday Parties. This party completes a whole year of being a hostess. I started with Vintage Christmas almost a year ago!

It has given me an opportunity to meet many lovers of vintage and to see hundreds of wonderful holiday treasures. Hopefully you have enjoyed yourselves too!




I have sold most of my vintage holiday decorations over the years, but I still have this full size vintage skeleton that came from the Estate of a local school teacher.

Here he is hanging on my front door.




I have recently sold this vintage black cat key holder, but Halloween means black cats to me so I wanted to share it.

I took it right off the kitchen wall at an Estate Sale. Isn't it cute???




Now it is your turn to share your Vintage Halloween Treasures. Keep in mind that this is a blog party to share your ViINTAGE items. Be sure to visit the other participants and leave comments so they know you have been there.

Here are the simple instructions to link up to the party:
* just copy/paste the web address of the specific blog post, not your blog home page.
* add a title of the project in the appropriate box.
* choose the best picture so we can easily see what you have to share.
(it will give you an opportunity to choose a picture when you are linking up)

AND

I request that you link back to this post in your post or on your sidebar:
That way more people can come and join the party!!
Use Mr. Skull, and copy the address of this post and add it to top or bottom of your post and/or sidebar.

ENJOY!

It Was A Very Good Weekend

Between some very nice Estate Sales and my favorite Sunday morning Flea Market the shopping last weekend was very, very good. And these 7 old carnival shooting gallery targets have to be my favorite find.

I just had to show them to you!































I'm trying to decide which one is my favorite. It might have to be that running rabbit. How about you?



Remember Vintage Halloween coming up on Friday. A,nd come and see the latest in my etsy shop, anythinggoeshere

Instant Collection of Vintage Faucet Handles

Do you have any projects for which vintage faucet handles would be perfect ?

I have made it easy for you by offering instant groups of 4 for your finger-shopping-pleasure.

I will keep relisting groups until they are gone.

When they are ALL gone I will let you know here.

here is a link to all the faucet handles in my etsy shop.

If you have been waiting to buy these spools.... black and empty... that I bought at the Estate Sale of the seamstress sisters~ don't wait any longer. They are almost all gone!

Vintage spools with black thread. SOLD OUT!




Vintage empty spools. SOLD OUT!



It is almost the weekend and time to search for new items for you.

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And A Classic Farm Auction

Last weekend in addition to going to one of my favorite Church Rummage Sales, I also attending a rarity in Lake County, Illinois~ a Farm Auction.

And not just any old farm auction, a farm auction of a 96 year old lifetime auction devotee who over the years bought everything.... and I mean everything... that other people didn't buy at every farm auction in the area.

I controlled myself. I ONLY stocked up on two of the staples of my etsy shop.




Vintage clothespins of all kinds.




Vintage zinc Ball jar lids.

AND... I enjoyed going to the auction more than just the shopping.

I went for the restful farm atmosphere. lovely autumn weather, great farm wife food stand, and informed and interesting farmer bidders.

My maternal grandfather and great uncles were all farmers in Indiana so I loved everything about this day in the country!




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