The weekend got off to a good start, when on Friday, I was returning home after running some errands and saw…yes, a yardsale sign right in my own neighborhood. It was a 2 day sale and I almost didn’t go by, since it was already 12:30 and most of the time, the good things are long gone by then. But, that day turned out to be different. These folks had LOTS of great stuff, antiques and collectibles. I took a quick look around and this shabby cabinet caught my eye. It had a Sold sign on it and was marked $25 (she had originally marked it at $40), so I asked if it was indeed Sold. They said that the people who wanted it changed their minds, so it was mine. Yippee! She bought it at Lakewood Antiques (for I’m quite sure much more than I paid) in Atlanta, one of my favorite old haunts, that is sadly gone. So, this means something special to me, since I spent many a Saturday at Lakewood, browsing the treasures.
It’s shabbied up just right with chippy white paint. See the handle, one of those old-fashioned wooden turns. And it’s quite large at about 3×3’ .
Cute, huh?
Shelves inside will be great for display. I’m thinking dishes. But, the question now is: Where do I put it?? Here are my choices, so y’all can help me brainstorm this. Anywhere in my house will require moving things around, which you know I don’t mind doing.
A logical place would be to take this black shelf down in the downstairs guestbath and put it above the toilet.
Or, how would it look over my cupboard in the kitchen? Filled with dishes. I’d have to rearrange all of this but it could be done.
I could take down one set of shelves in the diningroom and add it there OR how would it look over the sideboard instead of the mirror. I’m in a quandry. Where do I put it? I love it, so I’d really like to put it in a good spot, even though it means rearranging things. It may be too shabby to put in the dining room. I wish I had an extra wall in the kitchen, but maybe over the cupboard would be good.
At the same sale, I picked up this large Wedgewood creamy white platter for $3. It’s a beauty too.
Delicate details on the edge.
And stamped on the back. Anyone know anything about Wellesley Wedgewood? I sure don’t, so fill me in if you do. It’s even engraved in another spot with Wedgewood on the back.
Found a frame for Fifi’s painting that I just showed you, for $2. See, this always happens, when I need something, it turns up in a short time. That’s the beauty of yardsales! Now, this one will have to be painted, but for $2, that’s a no-brainer.
Remember those green napkins from last weekend? Found 4 more in almost the identical fabric (minus the white trim), these were $1 for all.
And I just love this little beauty for $3. A pretty candolier that will go outside somewhere. Maybe under that gazebo that we will probably put on the deck. 
This one is pretty big and I just love it. I can add candles there all around the flat curved part too.
So, that’s all I bought this weekend. I did good, huh?! Now, let me show you just 2 things that I saw that were great buys. Of course, I have no room for them, but this is the kind of thing I see all the time out there.
This was a gorgeous set of painted furniture, full size bed (headboard & footboard), dresser, which you can’t see, but it was really pretty with a nice mirror attached too, and this chest, all for $300. How cute is this?!
And this piece was in my neighorhood too, same place I bought the shabby wall cabinet, great lines on it, wouldn’t it be beautiful all painted up? $130, a steal! In case you aren’t convinced that yardsales are great, this is just a small sampling of what is out there, at least in my town.
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Great finds! I really, really like the creamy white Wedgewood platter. This is my very first time posting in your Thrifty Treasures
Can’t wait to see what you do with everything! I like the cabinet in the bathroom, but it will great wherever you put it! You always make everything look wonderful!
Love that cabinet! Come see the one I found!
Amy
Great deals Rhoda ! That furniture is so great and you are right about the lines….I love your little cabinet and what a price ! Isn't it funny how you find things that you need ? I didn't have any luck at garage sales but, did at the thrift stores…..
Thanks for hostessing again !
Hugs ~ Kammy
I'm SO glad you didn't hem and haw about it, you just bought the cabinet, and worried about where to put it later! I just love it! And I agree with you about when you decide you want something, it usually turns up at a yard sale. Happens to me all the time!
That white shelf should definitely go in the bathroom! I love it!
I vote for the bathroom as well. Cute little cabinet!!
What a cute little shelf! You always find the best stuff! I had a yard sale this weekend. I'm sure that the folks who came made a killing.
Great finds! I love that white cabinet! My vote is to put it above the toilet.
I'm a little depressed after seeing that candelier, though. I bought the same one from SLAH about 3 years ago and paid about $70 for it! I still have never found the right spot for it, either!
I CANNOT believe you got that cabinet for $25. What a steal, Rhoda. I love all the other things you found too.
I added the nail heads to one chair. And I'm torn right down the middle. Ughhh! I posted a pic on today's post. Let me know if this is what you had envisioned, please dahling!!!!
I don't know Rhoda, that cabinet looks a bit "too" shabby for you.
I think you should give it to me!
Just kidding. Can't wait to see what you do with it! Love the white Wedgewood plate. I got a pretty floral one that just matches my "new" tablecloth!
Ohhh Rhoda…You know I LOVE that Wedgewood platter! What a steal! The white bedroom furniture is charming…love it! Wow! If I had seen that frenchy hutch a few years ago, I would have grabbed it!I have one now. I also vote the bathroom for that cute shabby cabinet! Great finds, as usual! Have a great week…Debbie
I love it all, especially the cabinet. As soon as I saw it, I thought bathroom, because I've been looking around for a piece like that for our bathroom, here at the lake.
Welleslley Wedgewood was my mother-in-law's wedding china and I have many pieces left although not a complete set in spite of the fact that she had place settings for a kazillion people to start (500 at the wedding.) Anyway, they were married in 1950 so that gives you an idea of when it was available, before or after I don't know. Google it and you'll find places that buy/sell odd pieces. I just saw a dinner plate for $29.50 so you did well!
Ann
Goodness! I had to try 7 times to get your blog to stay open!! That weird IE message kept popping up.
Anyway….LOL! Love the shabby cabinet (can't see it in your dining room though)and Wedgewood dish! You have some great yardsales in your area!
Manuela
Hey Rhoda! I vote for the bathroom, too!
I have the chandelier from Southern Living At Home as well. Luckily, I got mine as a hostess gift, but it originally sold for around $75! Good find! I have used mine outside, inside, and even for a hot chocolate bar at a progressive dinner at Christmastime! I lined it with red and green napkins and put little bowls around the bottom, filled with marshmallows, candy canes, and chocolate chips! We had festive votive candles in the candle holders! Enjoy!
Oh, you did find some really great treasures. I love the little cabinet and it would be just gorgeous filled with dishes. I don't have any suggestions as to where to put it, but I think it could be used almost anywhere. Your area does have some beautiful furniture pieces at super prices. Loved the tour. Hugs, Marty
Oh, Rhoda, I am so jealous! You always find the best stuff!! We had sort of a dud of a weekend again, but I am hoping things will look up next Saturday.
I love your cabinet, and I liked it best in place of that black shelf or in your kitchen.
You did good!
Amazing finds! You are so inspiring – thanks for hosting this party week after week. I really look forward to joining and to seeing what everyone else found. It keeps the excitment of yard sales going long past Saturday. It seems that the consensus for the cabinet is in the bathroom and I concur. I don't think it is right for the dining room and the display over your buffet is already perfect as is.
Hi R:
Such gorgeous dishes! Tara
Looks like you made a couple great buys, as ususal. Hope you have a great week!!
Rhoda – Lakewood Antiques is still open – they just moved up to Cumming. It's open the 3rd weekend (I think) each month. About 5 minutes from my house.
I paid lots of money for that same candolier from Southern Living!!!!! =) Good buy!
I'm voting for the spot in the kitchen, second choice would be the bathroom. Isn't rearranging fun?
That is a great piece wherever you put it. I’m anxious to see what you decide!
Wow! You did great! I love that cabinet. I’ve been busy this weekend and couldn’t look for any treasures, but maybe I can join ya next Monday! Have a good week.
What great finds! I’d love to find beauties like that in my area.
Blessings
Sandra
I love your little cabinet. I think you should put it in the bathroom.
Another vote for the bathroom! I can’t wait to see what you do with it!
Hi Rhoda,
Love seeing your garage sale teasures.
That black thing is Southern Living at Home..you got it for a great deal at $3.00!
Can’t wait to see where your cabinet ends up and what you do with it!
Love it all Rhodie! I agree with many above that the shelf would be fab in the bathroom… think of the fun you’d have styling it and how great it would function there! Always great fun to see what you find..hope you have a wonderful week!
Love,
Kim
Rhoda, I love the cabinet and I agree, it would be pefect for the bathroom.
I love the Wedgewood Platter, you do find the most amazing things!
Wow! You’re one lucky woman! Sometimes I get to find some goodies at yard sales (around 12:00) wich is rare. You scored on those items! I think it would look lovely in the bathroom. Lots of storage for little things. Lovely! Have a good week! Vanessa
Here’s an idea. Why don’t you just send that sweet white cabinet on over to my house. It’d be PERFECT in my dining room with my great-grandmother’s old dough cupboard, and it’ll save you the trouble of having to move stuff around in your house. Everyone wins!
Beautiful finds! I think the cabinet would look cute in the bathroom against that pretty light blue wall. Plus, it looks like the accessories you have in there already would look nice on it.
I LOVE that bedroom set you found. That’s a great price. I hope someone snatched it up!
I didn’t go out this week, but may try to get to some garage sales on Wednesday.
Rhoda: Great finds! I vote for the bathroom for the cabinet, BUT I love those plates hangin in there now, so you gotta work those back in! Everything else is great too!
Lou Cinda
You’ve just about convinced me to get up early on Saturday mornings! Wonderful finds.
I think your cabinet would be wonderful in the bathroom. But if it’s big enough to hold dishes, it would also be great in the kitchen.
Your taste is impeccable, so I know it will look great wherever you put it. Enjoy it! And please show us where it ends up!
I’m voting for the bathroom. I think it would look real cute there. I think that I am going tp have to start going to yard sales. We just missed an all city sale last weekend in Little Canada. I guess there was 82 participants. Darn it! ~ Robyn
I vote to place the cabinet in the bathroom. I think it would look really cute in there. I like the way you have your dining room now and would hate for you to change it. I just think that out of the choices, the best place is the bathroom.
I am in love with that platter and also the cabinet! Good job!
Love the cabinet! Sure wish the yardsales around here were like those in your part of the country.
Have a great week.
Glenda
I found a white cabinet today and was debating on getting it, it was a bathroom cabinet with fogged glass could be perfect over my toilet, welp I didn’t get it and I regret it of course. But I do love yours! I say bathroom, can’t wait to see what you do with it!
Rhoda -
Right in my bedroom with all my other white & shabby pieces 
. As always you have picked up fabulous finds!! I love the platter, it's so pretty! I vote for the cabinet to go into your bathroom or over your cupboard in the kitchen with the dishes shown displayed in it.
I think the perfect spot for your wonderful cabinet would be in my house
Toni
I can’t wait to see what you do with that buffet. I have a one very much like it that I’m itching to redo.
Wow, you really got some great finds, I’m jealous! I struck out at the 3 estate sales I went to this weekend
Rhonda,
The Wedgewood is at replacements.com They have many items in inventory.
I love the chippy white cupboard! Also love the wedgewood platter. I was fortune enough to visit the Wedgewood factory in England with my hubby. I was sad to hear on the news several months ago that after 200 years Wedgewood is going out of business because of the current economics crisis. This makes me so sad. I’m sure these Wedgewood pieces will become more valuable because of it!!!!
Oh my gosh Rhoda what a wonderful find that cabinet is!! I love it!! Boy do I wish they had sales like that here in South Texas!!
Have a great week!
Hugs~T
Wow, that’s an amazing haul, Rhoda! Great yard sale you stumbled in for sure!
Will be joining soon…
Cute, cute cabinet. I vote for putting it in the guest bathroom. I LOVE those blue dishes, btw.
What amazing finds Ms Rhoda! I especially LOVE that chippy cabinet. I think it would be adorable in the bathroom. But I also think it would be equally beautiful in the dining room. I think the contrast of the ultra shabby against the clean and classic would be gorgeous! And you are so good at mixing things up, I bet you could make it look just perfect. Let us know what you decide. Can’t wait to see it up somewhere.
~Amanda
Big time kudos for the cabinet find!!! I gotta get down to your neck of the woods, cuz I never find sales like this in our neighborhoods!
Sue
hey Rhoda!
that I am having to tell you has my name on it!!!
I’d love to come thrifting with you, I think you know that already..
thanks for hosting, I am at last today sitting down, about to get a drink and am on a big ole blog surf around at other peoples thrifty treasures, yeehaw
see ya
sarah
hi rhoda – great finds! all of them! you def. scored!!!!
love ya!
I don’t go to garage sales because all I’ve ever seen is junk. A question for those of you who do: would I be correct in assuming that the better stuff is found in more expensive neighborhoods? Or maybe, generally speaking, older neighborhoods where you might find life long residents?
Ann
Oooh, you found some great things. The cabinet reminds me of a hutch, so I think it would above the cupboard in your kitchen!
Wow, this post is getting busy! Thanks for all of you stopping by to see the treasures & to share yours.
Ann, I'm going to do a post about yardsaling very soon, but just a quick note on that. You really just never know where you'll find things. I go to all sorts of neighborhoods, nice & expensive ones, older, and newer garden homes with younger families. And I've scored at all of them. Sometimes the estate sales will have lots of older things because it's usually an older person who lived there & accumulated a lot of neat things. There are NO hard and fast rules with yardsales.
Wow! Did you score a find on that cabinet. My vote would be for using it in the powder room.
I have a piece similar to the breakfront you pictured. I use it in the kitchen to balance the side of the room that has not cabinets. I found my at the Salvation Army.
Your finds make me want to move south! (Well, I kind of want to do that anyway.)
Mary Lou
Ooh, I love your finds! I especially love the white bedroom set! It would be perfect in my daughter’s room. Sigh.
My vote for the placement of the cabinet? The bathroom! I immediately thought, “Oooh, perfect!” before I even saw the other options!
Love all of your great finds at the yard sale! I think the cabinet would look best in the bathroom. I love that mirror over the buffet in the dining room. All of it looks great….don’t change a thing!
Amanda
Hey! I wandered upon your blog yesterday and didn’t get a chance to leave a comment as the oldest teenager needed to use the computer “right now”! LOL! So, I’m back! Love your blog and look forward to look at your older posts tonight! Happy blogging!! Andrea
Oh, I wish I lived close enough to buy that bedroom suit – I need it and love it!!!!
i vote bathroom, or maybe the laundry room?
WOW you found some GREAT things!! I need to hit some garage sales here soon – I’m getting tired of the thrift stores LOL
~TidyMom
So in other words, there’s work to yard/garage sales. Figures.
Ann
Thanks for hosting such a fun linky party. This is my first time joining.
I like your cabinet too. Decisions, decisions where to put it. I think it would be great in the bathroom but can also envision it with dishes in your kitchen. Can’t wait for pictures to see what you do.
Rhoda, you never cease to get my blood pumping sharing in your exciting and beautiful and inexpensive finds! I feel like I’m right there with you. I think that cabinet would be PERFECT in the bathroom about the toilet.
Have you been to Homegoods lately? I know you love bunnies, but what do you think of birds? I found the sweetest birdie teapot in a color (creamy white) and style that I think you’d love. If you like birds that is. It was only $7. See my latest post:
http://sunnypondhome.blogspot.com/2009/06/new-favorites-acquisitions.html
Hey again! Just so you know, one of us four Junk Fest girls will put your link in our next post!
By the way, where’s the photo of you and your husband taken at by the beach? Is it Playa del Carmen, MX by any chance?! My husband and I LOVE it there!
Happy Junking…Andrea
Rhoda, love your finds! This is my first time posting on your site…I’m Andrea’s partner in crime (one of four!) Don’t know why my link did not show up! Love your blog!!
I vote for putting the cabinet in the bathroom (and maybe still filling it with dishes). What a great find. I wish the yardsales here were as good as the ones in your town.
Oh man!! Rhoda you totally scored with that cabinet!! I am so incredibly jealous now!!
Love the cabinet! I agree with the bathroom idea – the laundry room is also a great idea!
That cabinet just screams to be put in the bathroom! With some antique bottles and maybe (if it works in your bathroom) some pretty shells or candles.
Oh Pretty!!! I think it should go in the bathroom! So pretty!
Lots of great finds! I love garage / yard sales!
You have a gift really. I’m so jealous. I would love to find things like that. Good gracious!
Loved your find and I vote for the bathroom. At least, I think that was the bathroom? Anyhow, love sharing this…thanks for the opportunity, Rhoda! As always, you rock!
Hi Rhoda,
Thank you for your comment on my loveseat. It is by far one of my favorite pieces, not only because I love the way it looks, but because it has a story.
The cabinet is darling and exactly what I am looking for to go over a toilet in a guest bath….so I vote for the guest bath! I also love the Wedgewood plate and what a steal.
Let me know if you ever come up to the Nashville flea market. It’s pretty cool and I’d love to go scouting with you and learn some of your secrets.
You rock!!!
Nola
I love that shelf for your bathroom. This is my first time commenting, but I visit your blog often! I am already planning to copy your laundry room (and maybe your dining room…) in my new house–hope you don't mind! lol
Also, if you ever decide to sell that bedroom furniture you just found–the beautiful white dresser and bed. Please call me. I'm drooling on my keyboard right now!
Wow. Girl, you found some great stuff. I haven't been so lucky yet this year, but I'm inspired to keep trying! I vote for the cabinet in the bathroom!
Great finds!!! And that platter is just beautiful..what a great price..
Can't wait to see what you decide for the cabinet..
Rhoda…What a darling cabinet! I think it would look adorable in the bathroom with jars of bath salts, rolled up towels, chunky soaps…..what a fun weekend you had!
Thanks for hosting Thrifty Treasures…its so fun!
Hi Rhoda..I love that little cabinet you got. I have a similar one that is still sitting in my office because I can’t decide where to put it. That hutch would look awesome painted. I always keep an eye out for something like that. I hope I linked up properly, not quite sure if I did it properly.
Neat shabby cabinet Rho!
Hi! Mr. Linky is gone! I was hoping to catch up on the other blogs I didn’t get to earlier.
Rhoda, thanks for fixing my problem. I am new to blogging so I don’t know a lot about this permalink ie. , from what you are saying and as I read it I just put my heading to my post for url rather than my actual blog address?
Do NOT touch that dining room, it looks perfect. I would definitely hang it in the bath – it would be perfect there ! Love those other two finds as well. You have a good eye !
Rhoda, I am so sorry that I forgot to link back to your blog the other day. My brain is not what it used to be–not that it was all that great to start with! I’m remedied the faux pax! (Hope I spelled that right.)
I like the cabinet in the downstairs guest bathroom. I think it would look absolutely fantastic there. (along with your ‘special’ little touches) I enjoy your blog. Thanks for sharing your life with us.
I just love the shelf! Can’t wait see where you put it! Love the iron candle holder! What great buys!
Terrific finds. I love the shelf.
That bedroom set is fabulous!
What a lovely blog!