Weekend Happenings

My weekend started on Thursday with a trip to Crossville, TN for the World's Longest Yard Sale.  On Friday we hit Lookout Mountain and ended in Fort Payne, AL.  While both days were a lot of fun, we enjoyed our route through Crossville much better then the one through Alabama.  Crossville has a lot more "tent cities" which are open fields with many vendors in one location, where the Alabama route was a lot more house yard sales which means you are in and out of the car more then I care for.  If we go next year we are going to start in Nashville and work our way down to Signal Mountain. 

I am really happy with my purchases although there are a few things that I wish I would have bought but held off thinking I would find them on down the road at a better price...wrong!  If you see something you have been looking for my advice is to go ahead and buy it.  Unlike the flea market where you can go back and visit a booth there is no going back on the yard sale.

Day 1 Total -  $46.35

This includes a 8 place setting of holly Christmas dishes.

Day 2 Total - 16.50

We definitely had to work for them, by getting in and out of the car and haggling with vendors but,I think we found a lot of good bargains which is one of the reasons I love the sale.  There is no way you could go to the Flea and find these deals :)

Rich hung my mirror in the powder room.  I am going to give it a fresh coat of paint but could not wait to get it on the wall.

We also got the curtains hung!  These curtains have been a fiasco.  I have been waiting since April to get the 95" panels (they have been out of stock at Target).  They finally got some more in and I ordered them immediately.  I opened the box for the first time tonight and 4 out of 10 were 84" NOT 95" which I ordered!!!  Thank goodness I did not need all 10.  So all this to say we finally have curtains in the living and dining rooms.

More Yard Sale

 Today's highlight was definitely driving through Mentone, AL.

We stopped at Moonlight Lake Trading Post first.

We had a bite to eat at the Moonlight Bistro.

Wonderful chicken salad with a side of pasta.

Now to the best part!  There are the cutest houses/cabins up there! 

This is a terrible picture of this house, but mom made me get out and take pictures in the garden so I didn't want to look like a crazo, and start taking close ups of his house.

Snapped this one of the out building from the car...

To the garden! 

So cute! I love these raised beds!

Now on to the details of the yard sale!  We started out on Lookout Mountain. TN and we made our way to Fort Payne, AL.  I have to say that I preferred Crossville, TN to Signal Moutain, TN rather then the route we took today.  However, we did find some treatures and met some sweet people along the way.

Here are my finds from today.

I can't wait to put my red dominos in a bowl at Christmas and Valentines!

My favorite thing from the whole sale is the cloth measuring tape.  It was given to me by a 92 year old lady who was in the highest spirits.  When I walked up to her house she greeted me with a smile and a warm welcome.  When my mom asked her how she was she said, " Well I was able to get out of the bed and eat my breakfast this morning, so I am feeling blessed."  Words we should all live by!  She was so sweet and I just know she used this measuring tape to sew many a dress and probably a shirt or two for her husband.

Can You Do Better?

 25 years ago in August of 1987 my mom and Peggy went on the first "World's Longest Yard Sale."  Peggy was a nervous wreck the whole trip because my mom 9 months pregnant traipsing around the mountain in 90+ temperatures in search of a dough bowl im sure ;)

It was so fun going on the sale with her today!  We found a lot of bargains and lost about 10 pounds in sweat...it was HOT!

Christopher came too!  He was the most fabulous chauffeur and picked up a few bargains of his own!

We hit the jack pot on our first stop spending a whopping 50 cents on vintage Christmas ornaments!!! 

Once we got home, we noticed that the side of the box said "our first."  It broke my heart that someone would sell "our first" Christmas ornaments for 10 cents...but I guess you can't keep everything?!?

I had to take a picture of this little camper.

Mom looking at a dough bowl...what else!

In June I told Mom we should submit a video to be on HGTV for the sale.   We didn't of course....but then we saw them filming in Crossville, TN, we were like we totally could have been on the show!  The mother daughter team is to the left in green boas...

I have buyers remorse about not getting one of these letters.  The only negative about the yard sale compared to going to the flea market is if you change your mind about getting something you can't just go back to the vendors booth because, now you are 50 miles down the road!

Cute barn along 127.

This old house was filled with bad junk.  By this I mean it was full of used new stuff.  It was such a cute house, I wish someone had lived in it!

Carriage

This is our loot from day one.  Christopher bought the hoe and the traps.  Mom got the two crocks (I am stealing one..) and the "our first" ornaments.  I have to find a place for the rest.  I am super excited about the holly Christmas dishes.  I bought the mirror in hopes that it would work in my powder room, and it does!  The bait bucket is for Rich's man room.  My favorite purchases are the antlers which I have been wanting for along time and the state puzzle.  We have big plans for the chairs!

Tomorrow we are hitting Lookout Mountain and heading SOUTH!