The Official Start of Summer - or The Mother of All Rummage Sales

June brings great things each year such as summer vacation, fresh local strawberries, three family birthdays, bare foot weather, new baby chicks, and the highly anticipated Mother of all Rummage Sales.  I kid you not; this sale is HUGE! We have learned to attend this sale with a wish list. We plan out which "department" to visit first based on the priority of the items on the list.  When the boys come along we can divide and conquer.I am not sure what I am going to do with these orange crates but I had to have them.Look at the labels!

Here are a few of the books I found.
The sewing supplies table had a few boxes of patterns. These are my favorites of the twenty or so that I purchased.
I also found some old quilt blocks - hand applique butterflies on feedsacks.  I love the way the seamstress placed the fabric in that upper left butterfly.

There are quite a few plaid, stripe, and check fabrics.

These are P's favorites, of course.

Other finds of the day were a nice flower pot, a set of vintage floral sheets, shiny blue glass Christmas balls still in their box, a bike for M, and two old suitcases which I have used in my sewing room tidy up project. I have eliminated two big plastic tubs and replaced them with fun, vintage suitcases!Now we can say that summer has officially started!