Estate sale treasures..now what to do with them??

So I told you how on Mother's Day

we happened upon an Estate Sale..

Well I found some really cool things!

Now I just need to figure out what

in the world to do with them...

Big jar of old keys....some I will use to make

pendants and stuff with. 

 But that's a lot of keys....

Look how cute this is....

(gadgets.boingboing.net)

That would be really awesome to do with the keys...

but I would need to find a few more skeleton keys.

We also found 40 glass insulators...

you should have heard sweet husband suck wind

when I asked the lady how much for the whole lot...

it was kinda funny....thank goodness it was

Mother's Day or else he might have told me no



Two people stopped and asked me

what I planned to do with them...

okay folks...i'm not that smart...I have no idea

But I bought them anyways...

Sweet husband suggested making lighting out of them

Sounds good to me....

(betsyanco.com)

Love Love Love these....

really need to have a bigger kitchen first though

(theinteriorevolution.com)

We also found this old wooden rocker for $5

I think it will look great once it's sanded

& painted or maybe stained dark.

Our next project is fixing up the back porch

so this will fit in just perfectly!

This stuff always comes in handy for something.

Then on our way out I saw this trunk....

It turns out that this trunk belonged to the man who

lived in the house.  He had passed away and his

children were holding the Estate Sale....

sometimes Estate Sales can be sad. 

Anyways...this was his foot trunk from

when he was in the Marine's during

World War II.  It went with him to Iwo Jima.

Isn't that incredible....

I love that I know the story behind this trunk

and that I was able to meet his family.

And I am very honored that they allowed us

to bring it into our home.

We will always cherish it.

"Among the men who fought on

Iwo Jima uncommon valor

was a common virtue"

Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz

16th March 1945