Garage sale finds... and new fabric

I love finding treasures at garage sales! I recently picked up several cute containers that are just waiting to be filled. We like to use pip berries, leaves and rusty stars as some of our fillers.

There are town wide garage sales this weekend in the area I grew up. 116 homes are having a sale! I would love to make a day of it and see what lovely finds are available. I was able to go last year and it was fun seeing familiar faces and catching up on the latest news with old friends.

Last week I went to one of my favorite fabric shops in South Bend, Erica's, and picked up some great new fabric. I'm thinking of making little pillows...maybe with something stitched on the front.

I just love these colors. They go great with my dining room! I'll just add a few pictures to show you. We definitely went bold when we chose the dark blue/gray for the walls. The day I painted it, one of my daughters came home and said. "It looks like this is the color this room would have been when it was first built." It is a very comfy - cozy color and we enjoy sharing our lives around the dinner table. Our home was built in 1891 and has a lot of character. I have often thought it would be so neat if the walls could talk and tell us stories of other families who have made memories here through the years.