Saturday Sales

The weather here hasn't been great all week and it's still pretty cool for outdoor yard sales, but today there was a church sale which I went to and also a sale inside of a house, which to many could be classed an an estate sale.  I bought nothing there, first off we were told to take off our shoes, that is pretty hard to police, I think. She says everything in the kitchen is for sale and a couple of other rooms, so I found a bunch of old cookbooks, she says those aren't for sale, well, why say everything is for sale if it's not!  I left, I didn't buy anything!!

The church sale wasn't as good as other years but I managed to get a few things, plus some magazines and a book for SMASHing.  I spotted a box of wrapping paper, a lot of it will be redonated, along with the bows - do you like looking at vintage wrapping paper?  Take a look at some of these neat ones, don't worry, I'm not showing every sheet I brought home.  The patterns are just too cute!!

This one is in honor of the Kentucky Derby, to be raced later this afternoon.

This has to be the cutest paper I've ever seen and if you follow me on Instagram, you already saw it this morning.  Of course, it's not a full sheet, I have used wrapping paper in my SMASH book before, that's what I intend to do with this.  Also in the box were these seals, which I didn't even see when I picked it up first - my lucky day!!  

Looks like this Sparkle Dust has been around for a while...

There was a "free" table - I took a bunch of magazines and these...

Four Lournay Melmac bowls - I have four little side plates that we use all the time so I'm sure we'll use these too!!

Since my husband is away on a golfing weekend, I went further down the road to see what I could find - I went to a couple of thrifts and this was all I came out with.

Knee hugger heads that were still in the plastic wrap!!

I stopped in at this junk flea market - first thing I saw..  

More Christmas blow molds for us!!  There was a snowman, candycanes and a Santa holding a reindeer, I think I should have bought that one - I've never seen it before!  There are no lights in them but that's easy to fix!

This book is dated Xmas '61 - to Wendy Jane, from Aunt Susie, Aunt Susie even put a neat old sticker inside the cover.  

I'm not going to turn down a piece of  Butterprint, especially when it's one I don't have - it's the 471, 1 pint size - $2 - the only piece of Pyrex in the whole place!

I'm pleased with my finds today although I was sort of disappointed with the sale in the house, it was advertised as an elderly lady's home so I was hoping for something good, oh, well, the season is just starting!!!  Hope you found something fun today too.  

Linking up with Thrifty Things Friday

 

Potato Salad for Two

The nice weather is finally here, actually it has been hot here for the last week, so that means BBQ's and cold suppers.  Cold suppers at our house mean a BBQ chicken from the grocery store and a salad of some sort - yesterday it was potato salad and it was so good!  I haven't made it since last summer, I just don't make it in the winter, do you? it really is the perfect summer meal!!

I used to make potato salad so plain and it wasn't very exciting.  This is the greatest little recipe - and it is little, it's just for two, perfect if you're cooking for yourself or your children have flown the nest and it's just the two of you.   The recipe is from Company's Coming - Cooking for Two.

Potato Salad

1 1/2 c. diced cooked potatoes

Hard boiled egg, chopped - the recipe called for 1/2 an egg, I used the whole egg.  I cooked two eggs, reserving one for the garnish.

2 tsp. minced onion, I used red onion, for some colour

Put ingredients in bowl.

Dressing

1/4 c. salad dressing or mayonnaise ( I used Miracle Whip)

1 tbsp. coleslaw dressing

1/4 tsp. prepared mustard

1 tbsp. milk

1/4 tsp. celery salt

1/4 tsp. parsley flakes

Salt, sprinkle

Pepper, sprinkle

Mix these 8 ingredients in small bowl.  Reserve 2 tsp.  Pour remaining dressing over potato mixture in bowl.  Toss.

Garnish with egg wedges.  Drizzle with reserved dressing.  Sprinkle with paprika.  

Potato Salad for 2 in Butterprint

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