Back at the beginning of August I was able to attend the World's Longest Yard Sale. This year was the first time that I'd been able to attend the sale, in years past something has always come up that got in the way. I should have been in the studio working but I really needed a break so I went with my friend Susan, armed with a cooler of snacks, water, and some extra TP-just in case.
On the way out of town we hit up Doughdaddy's donuts in Versailles. (Susan and I have slowly been making our way through the Kentucky Donut Trail) Sadly, since having donuts from North Lime coffee and Donuts, well, these just kind of tasted like moosh. I was so unimpressed that I---wait for it---didn't eat the donuts. (note the plural?) WHAAA? Yep. True Story.
After that bitter disappointment we drove to Frankfort to hit 127 with the intentions of working our way down to Danville but we didn't really make it much further! In fact, we only hit up 4 spots the entire day! Thankfully the spots we did stop at had a ton of vendors! Here's a look of some awesome and crazy things that we found:
On the way out of town we hit up Doughdaddy's donuts in Versailles. (Susan and I have slowly been making our way through the Kentucky Donut Trail) Sadly, since having donuts from North Lime coffee and Donuts, well, these just kind of tasted like moosh. I was so unimpressed that I---wait for it---didn't eat the donuts. (note the plural?) WHAAA? Yep. True Story.
After that bitter disappointment we drove to Frankfort to hit 127 with the intentions of working our way down to Danville but we didn't really make it much further! In fact, we only hit up 4 spots the entire day! Thankfully the spots we did stop at had a ton of vendors! Here's a look of some awesome and crazy things that we found:
Do you see what I see? Maybe, if you've got the same sick sense of humor....
yep, we saw lots of nazi memorabilia. Apparently as you get further south you can actually run into KKK booths. WTF, people!
I was definitely hoping to run across some of these...
I scored these two R's for Ruby
A handy way to spice up the dinner table
OOOH! GPK! $50? Boo. Yes, there were a lot of them but most of them were faded or coming off of the card. If they'd been cheaper I may have bought them to fill in some blanks in my own collection.
Of course we saw the motherload of these tables. AFTER we just bought a new kitchen table. BOO.
Loved the detail on this one.
It's rainin' man dolls.
Straight outta' Nip/Tuck or Dexter or something...
we saw our fair share of creepy dolls, a lot with eye issues.
LOVED those canisters and that cabinet.
And the award for Thing I Should Have Bought But Put Back and Now I'm Kicking Myself goes to......these metal gas station numbers! The guy wanted $5 each but there was one number missing to complete our house number. Heath was even totally on board with this idea (whaaa?) so I was even more bummed. Since passing them up I've come to find that these can go for up to $30 each. Dangit!! Oh Why didn't I just buy them and then search for the missing digit??
What I did score were several Golden Books for Ruby, a bin of giant Duplo block (which she's played with for a whole 2 minutes and then moved on. What is with this kid and not liking toys??), a sweet vintage necklace and ring, a few vintage My Little Pony, and an old school Booby Trap board game. I definitely plan on going again next year. After all, I have yet to find my Holy Grail of thrifting finds, a card catalog. One day it will be mine. Oh, yes. It will be mine.
