The 70 Mile Yard Sale: The Finds

Now that our purchases from our 70 Mile Yard Sale (70MYS?) excursion have settled in, it's harder to corral them to get some good pictures. Missing from this non-exhaustive list are two genuine non-ironic vintage nature promo tees, a vintage Molson Canadian baseball tee, some retro kitchen stuff, some antique books and so forth. Pics to come, maybe! But for now:

Mixed in to our growing record collection were some Beach Boys and some 60's compilation discs. (Not really pictured.)

A handmade-in-Alberton-PEI mixed-wood pen holder, for, yes, $1.00

An enormous cobalt-and-turquoise vintage enamel flower pin so big, it eats other enamel flower pins.

Some ultra fancy deco clip-ons from my new favourite yard sale spot, just outside Murray Harbour, PEI

Some more jewellery (of which there was sadly little), including some black faceted gem clip-ons and a rhinestone grape pin

A pristine, handmade vintage 60's turquoise dress. FOR TWO DOLLARS.

More deets of the above dress, so awesome.

An antique cigarette roller, "The V-Master," with papers (!) included:

Vogue Strips, "Hi-Dro" - can you even buy these anymore? Whew. The set and papers were only eight bucks!

A Pyrex gravy dish saucer, to go with my gravy dish! Only a buck.

Will post some more scores. Maybe I'll post a drawing of my map sometime too!

The 70 Mile Yard Sale: The Day

So many things to post about! Peter and I just got back from Toronto a couple of [long, tiring] days ago, and I look forward to posting about it soon! Lots of cool friends, adventures, eats, drinks, and of course, vintage and thrift finds! I sadly left my memory card at home, so we have some pictures on Peter's Playbook; they'll come in due time. For now, it occurred to me that I haven't really posted about the 70 Mile Yard Sale day we had this year, which is odd considering how much fun we had and how many cool things we found! So I'll do up a series of posts about it, starting with The Day, and with more detailed pictures of The Finds to come soon.

In the car early in both the travels and morning, more or less bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. 

It wasn't long before we made it to Caledonia, one of my favourite spots, which to our dismay did not have a sale on. Senior citizens must not like rain.

So we kept going down the road to a barn sale.

We spotted some very cheery pumpkins and gourds.

Unsurprisingly, we have a liking for all things weathered and worn, be they vintage t-shirts or the sides of fishing buildings in tiny seaside villages (these are from Murray Harbour, down the street from Brehaut's where we had tasty, life-sustaining burgers and fries). 

Now that's some good wear and tear!

More pictures to come of our finds; and soon-ish, some pictures of our Torontonian adventure. Talk soon!

Milk & Amber Earrings of the Day

Earrings of the Day on Milk & Amber are these mismatched abstract bits and pieces. Sort of avant garde artsy, and a little bit Saved-by-the-Bell-theme-song (um, did I say that somewhere already? I basically encapsulate all 90's design in that one clip). It's earrings like these that make me wish I was more crafty/handy!

Milk & Amber Glass of the Day

No Earrings of the Day today, I feel like some Prince Edward Island sea glass.

Want! Flower cluster clip-ons

From Vintagepossessions

From sweetcheeks222

From abigailprada

From tuesbelleboutique

From magpieantiques

From PoivreAntiques

Milk & Amber Earrings of the Day

Vintage rainbow bright flower enamel earrings. Yes.

What I Wore - Vintage Levi's

Well, October has been astonishingly beautiful so far in PEI - we're talking 20+ degrees and sunny every day - so I think it's understandable that I haven't let go of my summery outfits yet. This one started with the thrifted vintage men's Levi's jeans (pegged and ripped, natch ...yes, I said 'natch'). Added a burnout coral tank, some mint green beads, some beaded navy moccasin-loafers (loafasins?), a royal blue vintage scarf, a grey cardi, and some truly Southwestern vintage earrings (silver, turquoise, coral). Comfy, sort of unflattering, but kind of cool?

The Pièce de résistance