A Gift from Sandy & some yardsale finds.....

I've met so many interesting & unique bloggers since I started blogging (how can it be just since February..it seems so much longer!) and Sandy McTier is one of them. If you haven't visted her website, Dream Create Inspire, please do so! Sandy lives in GA and is a very talented painter & had a blog giveaway a couple of weeks ago. I was the lucky recipient of a beautiful hand-painted glass coffee cup & saucer. It arrived last week, so I wanted to share it with all of you. It's hand-painted with hydrangea blooms. She also had in the top of it a silk hydrangea bloom, along with a little birdie (which you can see in the link above). Thank you, Sandy, for a very thoughtful & creative gift! You can also see behind the above cup pic, the address label that was on my package from Sandy. This gal doesn't just write an address on a package...she creates & paints it on there! Have you ever?!

And, for all my fellow yardsale junkies who are wondering....did she go yardsaling last weekend? Yes, indeedy, I did! A friend called & told me there was a church yardsale happening on Sat. a.m. not far from my house & did I want to go. You know I did! So, we went there bright & early & I snatched up some pretty neat things.

Oil painting of Venice in a nice frame for $6.00. I put this in our master bedroom. Looks good with all the other paintings I have in there with blue in them.

Silverplate covered sugar dish, $1.00. It's pretty tarnished & I think I'll clean it up & see how it looks.
Metal leaf/acorn tray. This needs some touch-up paint, but it's so cute... 50 cents

Very pretty & finely stitched needlepoint picture, $1.00

All these linens were $10.00. There's actually 7 pieces, but this collage repeated 2 of them. There's a sampler, a yellow rose, and some other pretty vintage things. I don't really collect these, but they were too pretty to pass up, so I'll probably resell some of these items.

I'm seriously thinking about starting some sort of resale business, where I buy yardsale items, fix them up & resell them. I find so many great things, but simply cannot house them all at my home! I'm running out of space!!

I checked at a local antique mall for prices on their booth spaces. The smallest booth they had was $160 a month. I know several of my fellow bloggers have an internet business, Ebay business or an antique booth. I'd love to hear some feedback from all of you who do have businesses & let me know how you got started, what you do to sell things & how it's working for you. I'm just mulling over some ideas, but would love some down-to-earth feedback from any of you who are doing this. I have sold some things on Ebay, but the shipping & packaging on larger, heavier items is really prohibitive on trying to sell small furniture items this way or items that are very fragile. So, I'd really like to do something....just not sure how to get it off the ground. I'm doing a small amount of decorating consulting & that's just getting off the ground too & I'd love to do more of that, but it takes awhile to build a business & get your name out there. I would love to combine my decorating abilities with reselling yardsale items & make a go of that. Any ideas for me? I'd love any feedback from all of you fine women out there who are so creative & talented!

I also want to say to all of you who stop by & visit my blog...thank you SO much! I'm honored to have made so many new friends in such a short time & I'm having a ball doing this. Your comments mean so much to me & I love it when you do take the time to let me know you're here. So, to all my new & old friends, thanks a bunch!