Estate sale finds: snow day edition

It's grey and cold and BLAH here today and I'm going out of my mind.  So I thought I'd cheer myself up by showing you some of my most recent junking finds; these came from two estate sales last week.

I have been looking for a set of scales forever, and I liked this one because it's diminutive and modern.  It will be a cute display for light, small things.  That wire thing that looks like a napkin holder is probably a napkin holder but I'm going to make it into something else.  And that little salt shaker is already living its second life as part of a wind chime I crafted the other day.

I'm probably going to sell this Wizard of Oz record set if I can bear to part with this fabulous cover art...

it's two 45s with Judy Garland's voice and they appear to be in mint condition!  Too bad I no longer have a turntable to try them out.

Two GORGEOUS tablecloths -- one damask roses and the other just a lovely, smooth finish, and pristine

I've heard they existed, but this is the first time I've found a Vera sheer scarf with a tag but no signature on the scarf itself.

And another pretty Vera, this one signed and corall-y pinks with grey.

I actually picked up this knitting/sewing bag to use it as a shopping bag while I was grabbing a lot of little 25 cent stuff at the estate sale...like that cute little fabric coin purse...

and tiny boxes of candles and also Pyrex cloth strainers.  I have no idea what the strainers are for -- does anyone know?

I also grabbed a bag containing an unfinished stitchery kit, with a great oval metal hoop, and extra thread that was tied with the cutest embroidered pink ribbon.

In the ephemera realm: wax paper Dixie cups from the 1970s...

decorated with, uh, colorful Guinness Book of World Records entries...

two packages of Dennison stickers, just because I liked the envelopes and the graphics.

And more old paper; that Christmas napkin box held no napkins but those bold, bright greeting cards, instead.  I loved the old, old composition book and the funky kitty cards!

 This was too cute to pass up: a knitting pattern book for 'tweens from the 1950s.

I just LOVED the pictures, like the one above showing the girls in their big skirts and little sweaters -- and gloves -- in front a theater with a Perry Como poster!

And then this one showing two girls looking at a record album, in front of a store display of records.  I think this knitting pattern magazine was very hip for its time!