Wonderful Husband is spending most of this weekend at a programming conference a couple miles away from our home, so I was pretty much on my own today. So after getting up, doing breakfast, dishes, and laundry, I wended my way to a couple of local estate sales that had caught my eye in this week's PennySaver. The first, I found nothing. The second was not in a home but in a business park area, so I wasn't too sure about it, but... it turns out the lady whose stuff this was was a dishes seller. As in, thousands of dishes and replacements.com had already gotten first crack at going through her stuff. Not only did I find half a dozen pieces of the old Franciscan applepot pattern for my mother's set, I also found forty-nine pieces of the white Winfield bamboo dishes that are my everyday set. Marked down to $35 for the lot! Most of them I have in spades, but I couldn't get the bowls (which were the pieces I wanted most) for that amount on eBay! So, glee!

I then picked up my mother and we went to a consignment gallery/thrift shop that I've been passing on my way to work every day. There was some nifty stuff there, but I only got two pieces of pink depression glass. After that stop, we went to our real goal for the day, a vintage shop in Newport Beach. They had some nice stuff and I actually found a 1950s house dress that fit me, though I passed on it. But what I didn't pass on was a bracelet that's pewter and mother of pearl and blue gems and enamel work... it's gorgeous and fits me like a glove and I love it.