Found a new store

[Tammy]

Ahhhh Heaven!!  We drive by this store everytime we hit one of our favorite Goodwills, but normally it's closed when we're over that way.  Last Saturday when my husband got off work we finally were able to stop in.  My sister called that place the Sunnyland flea market.  It was soo wonderful.  2 floors, big shop, and turned out to be a consignment store.  We're talking packed!  You ever walk into a thrift store and there is so much you can't figure out which way to go or what to look at first?  Not that I collect them but I found several pairs of s/p shakers I had to have at $1.00 a pair.  One looks like a candleabra with the candles being the shakers.  Found the large yellow pyrex bowl for $5 and the green one for $3.  Also found several Xmas presents for a few thrifty friends.  I can't wait to go back. 

[SecondhandSophisticate]

Congrats, Tammy. It sounds like you found thriftshop nirvana! Aren't those unexpected shopping experiences just the best?

[valleythriftshopper]

Wow, that sounds awesome!  I love salt & pepper shakers.  The ones with different parts like candles on a candleabra tend to more collectible too.  

[Tammy]

Next time we go I'll try to take a picture of the inside.  The nicest thing was since it was a consignment store the huge variety of items.  Prices were very reasonable, alot were on the garage sale type prices.  It was also nice that there were only a few booths that had new crafty type items and the rest were used, vintage and filled this thrift-a-holic's heart with joy!!

[ChrisMiss]

Where is this place?  Maybe the next time I'm in IL I can stop in there and check it out. 

I've been to a few places like that, where the prices are reasonable and the selection is what makes a thrifter's heart go into overdrive.  I love them. 

Post pictures, love to see the shakers.

[valleythriftshopper]

You're very lucky I live in an area of Western MA known as "antique alley" as New Yorkers drive up through the Bershires into Vermont looking for antiques.  The flea markets are better than antique stores but nothing like the one you have described.  Occasionally there is a good estate sale that is not run by a professional estate company, just a family trying to unload a house full of stuff from a deceased or nusing home bound relative.  Those are few & far between so I am JEALOUS! 

[Tammy]

ChrisMiss, it's called Christies and is at 2390 Washington Rd in Sunnyland.  The ad says 8500 sq ft of shopping!  Here's a link to their yellow page ad.  http://c66.yellowpages.com/displaygif/sbc/43/1101143.jpg

[ChrisMiss]

Thanks for the info.  That's only a little over 80 miles from my daughters town.  Maybe she'll want to go when I go visit her again.  I love those kind of places.

[Tammy]

Stopped back in yesterday and took a few pictures.  I found 3 items I might have bought but they weren't priced.  Check out this cool daisy ceiling light which also wasn't priced. 

[Jay2TheRescue]

Stopped back in yesterday and took a few pictures.  I found 3 items I might have bought but they weren't priced.  Check out this cool daisy ceiling light which also wasn't priced. 

That looks like a cool place.

-Jay

[Thrift Shop Romantic]

Oh MY... I clearly have a problem, as I'm looking at your fun pictures and zeroing in on a vintage table lamp that has promise.

Geez, I need an intervention.

[Tammy]

I don't know if you can see them but in the 2nd photo on the top shelf at the end on the right hand side there were 2 blue wine bottles.  I don't know how many times I looked through the camera lens and walked by them before I finally noticed.  Needless to say they are at my house right now.  This is one of these places that it's very easy to pass something by because your eyes are trying to look everywhere at once.  Prices are VERY cheap too. 

[oceangurl]

Tammy that place looks so cool! Its funny about that daisey lamp, I have one almost exactley like it but the flowers I painted robins egg blue with the tips gold, it has the same white cage around it etc. I bought mine 14 years ago in a Christian Home Ministries Thrift Store , I cant remember what I paid for it but I think it was around 10$ I repainted it and my husband hung it above my dining room table and it has been there ever since, have received alot of compliments on it and I consider it one of my greatest finds!