Thrift Store, Estate Sale & Garage Sale Vintage Shopping HAUL

This is going to be sensory overload because today I am sharing my all-time favorite estate sale, garage sale, yard sale, thrift store finds, all of the goodies with you. But before we get started, hit that notification bell because I don't want you to miss when I post a brand new video. I'm sure now that we're all safe at home right now, you've probably been going through cupboards and organizing and getting rid of things and kind of rediscovering stuff that you bought years ago. And while I was searching through my little buffet cabinet of treasures, I found my cherub baby reservoir vase and I forgot how much I loved it. This sweet vase is like all like a bisque or a porcelain. I'm still learning my glasswares here. But it's called a reservoir vase because you fill up this ring-like reservoir with water and you can poke the most beautiful blooms in there. And these kind of vases are so great if you're not like an expert floral designer because literally all you do is poke them in there and they look so cute and amazing. This is such a cool $5 garage sale find and I've never seen anything like it before. I was lucky enough to go to one last estate sale before all of the lockdown quarantine stuff began in the United States. So, you know, memories. Let's go back. I'm going to time warp you back to the estate sale with me. So last night I was on Facebook marketplace and it's like my new favorite place, right? And I saw this post for these giant antique tapestries and needlepoint things and fancy mirrors, like totally my vibe. And as I was reading the post, it said that it was for a giant farm estate and the woman was letting people shop the estate by appointment only before it's open to the public. So that's what I'm doing this morning. I have an appointment and I'm really hoping to score some treasures. I'm hoping that I can grab some clips of things while I'm there for you to see. I'm just going to play it by ear, see how it goes. But yeah, I'm hoping that I can film a little bit for you when I'm in there because it sounds like it's going to be really, really cool. Well, I don't know if this is it, but it's an awesome farmhouse. This sale made me a little bit nervous though, because nothing had price tags on it. So yeah. So I just started making like a little pile because I think one of my biggest tips for going to an estate sale or any garage sale, and that matter if things are not priced, it's best if you kind of like bundle your things. So like if you're finding like, you know, five or 10 items, how much is this pile of things? Rather than going, how much is this? How much is that? People are more likely to give you a great deal if you're purchasing like a lot of items. So I started kind of creating a little bit of a bundle. I stashed away on the couch and I turned and saw this beautiful, dusty candelabra chair baby clock set. I'm looking at this set. Oh my gosh, this is amazing. I hope I can afford that. This is so good. Beautiful marble and cherims. Yes. That's like my birthday present. All I saw was gold and like fancy babies. And so I was all over it. And I forgot about the pile that I had started. And my heart was set on this beautiful, beautiful set. Okay, I got to be careful because I think the... Don't tip. Oh, I'm gonna get ready. Oh, it's okay. Okay. Man, these things were tippy in the car. She gave me some old blankets and stuff to pad them with, but they're so heavy and like, you know, like wobbly for driving around in the car. I was a little nervous. But they're safe. They're home. So I just have to make it through the door and figure out where my little babies are going to live. I thought it would be amazing on our mantel at home. And my birthday was just around the corner. So I was like, you know what? I texted my husband. I was like, can I buy my own birthday present? Like, do you do that? He's so nice. Like, you know, like I just love decorating and I love treasure hunting and stuff. So he said, go for it. So hallelujah. I do have to get the clock worked on. I have a key that works for it. And apparently the lady said it has a chime and everything. That's really beautiful, but I have yet to hear that. But right now it just looks pretty up on the mantel. And I put really neat candlesticks in there. I was going to put all heirloom white because I thought that would look like really elegant in there. But then I wanted to go a little more fun and whimsical. So I added the heirloom white, pink, and then also some pink and gold polka dot candles, like an accent candle. It makes it a little more exciting and kind of puts like a fresh, modern take on an otherwise a little bit uptight antique. In my dining room, I have this really cool, super heavy, old metal French mirror. And I think it's iron and it's in that really good old gold, you know, that muted, yummy gold, that one. Oh, it's so pretty. It's got all these like Gothic faces and like vines and filigree stuff on it. It's so cool and unique. I've never seen anything like it. And it's actually got the original beveled glass in it, which is so extra special. I scored this baby on Facebook marketplace for only 50 bucks. And it's definitely going to be something that I'm going to keep forever. I'm kind of a lamp freak. And up in my like storage area, we have this like cool studio space that I'm starting to convert. So I promise I'm going to show that to you guys when it's like ready and organized. But I store like some of my lamps up there because like if I go to an estate sale or a garage sale and they have like a really great lamp there, cheap, like I always get it and I don't always need it. And I don't always have like a table for it, but I can't leave it behind. I got a pair of these really cool. They're Art Deco reproduction lamps. So they are not old, but they look so cool. And they're naked ladies. That's my favorite thing. You know that. But it's so freaking cool. And it's like in this neat matte black. And I think I need to put a different light bulb in there. That one's kind of ugly. But I just love the way this one looks in the dining room. And it's like extra tall and good. $20 garage sale find. This is an antique aquarium stand. And I only know this because I went down the Google wormhole, like looking at some other stuff I didn't need. And all of a sudden it popped up and I was like, Oh, that's what my thing is. But I got this at an antique store for only $75. And it's really cool. For a while we had like our TV on top of it. But now I love it to just to house vases, vases and candelabras. It's really neat because it's like thin and long. It doesn't take up much floor space at all. And the fact that it was an aquarium stand in its previous lifetime, I think is extra awesome. Our guest room is pretty small. So I have this beautiful little antique marble top table next to the bed. And I got it at a garage sale for only $10. It was such an amazing find the marble is in perfect condition. Like the wood is beautiful has zero cracks. I just like oil it every once in a while and it looks amazing. The people that I bought it from thought the table was so ugly. Like they told me like best this table is ugly. You can have it for 10 bucks. It was amazing. Like can you imagine 10 bucks on top of it? I believe this lamp is alabaster and marble. It looks like there are two different kinds of stones. But it's all antique and carved and then the top lampshade was like a separate garage sale find that I got. But the lamp was only five bucks. Isn't that cool? It reminded me of something that I saw on like an anthropology catalog once but they probably didn't use real marble or real stone. So it's amazing to get something that's an antique a quality piece for only five dollars. In my bedroom I posted I'm like looking at it right now. I posted this picture on Instagram a handful of times and everyone asked me about this painting and they like want to buy it from me because it's so beautiful but I don't want to get rid of it. It's so pretty. I got this at a citywide garage sale for a dollar fifty and it's this beautiful I think it's an oil painting and it's all like eden roses in a little blue antique mason jar. It's like a giant wad of romantic roses stuffed in a glass jar and I love it. A buck fifty. The launch of my website is just around the corner and I don't want you to miss it. I'd love to send you a personal invitation to shop the launch so don't forget visit thevintagebombshell.com and I'll see you in the next video.