A Very Lucky Sock Monkey!

We were thrilled to see a fun article about Picking Sisters in the Savannah Morning News last week.
Better still, Pauline, Jeri's first sock monkey was mentioned. Here she is enjoying her 15 minutes of fame!

Thanks so much to Polly Stramm and here's a link to the article.

Who are the Picking Sisters?

We thought it would be fun to post a profiles of the Picking Sisters! You know that we live for garage sales, estate sales, highway sales, thrift shops and flea markets all over the southeast. You know we love vintage pre-loved housewares and funky home décor. And that we opened an etsy shop to sell the oodles of "other people's old stuff" at etsy.com/shop/pickingsisters but did you know...

 

This is big sister Jeri when President Eisenhower was in office.

 

Favorite Pick: Anything marked 25 cents like

 and

 

  

Collects: Sock Monkeys & anything Curious George like

 Elmer and Pauline

 

This is Jeri's lucky picking hat

 

Important to know:

 

Great at trivia

Lousy housekeeper

Always late

Wants a goat

Crossword champ

 

Household includes Jelly the cat who does yoga

 

Claim to fame: Once made a bull laugh

And

This is Laura probably laughing at Jeri's goofy ponytail.

Favorite Picks: Any paint by number and quilts like

 

 

Collects: Tiny dogs

 

  

This is Laura's lucky picking hat

 

Important to know:

 

Savvy traveler

Fabulous cook

Always early

Can make Jeri laugh with only a look

Constantly improving her golf game

 

Household includes dog Charlie who she taught to dance

 

 

  

Claim to fame: Can read a map AND follow a compass

 

Please see more picks on Pinterest at Jeri Gale on Pinterest

 

We wish you all the giggles we have shared as

sisters who are also

pickers! 

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

Taking Picking Treasures Home
plus Combined etsy shops!

We went on a highway sale yesterday close to home. The Peaches to Beaches sale starts about an hour and a half from Savannah, so up and out in the cold and dark! Jeri would like to share her favorite pick of the for herself and share a few of the treats she uses to decorate her own home sweet home.

SUPER NEWS! The picking sisters are closing one etsy shop and expanding another one. Everything on etsy.com/shop/mysistersbarn is half price! We will be loading tons of new vintage items in the next week or so at etsy.com/shop/pickingsisters. We'll also reduce the items on the pickingsisters shop as we add oodles of new things to the shop.

This is a neon letter I rescued from the outside of our family business. It's fitting that since my grandfather started the business in the 1930's that his Smith Corona typewriter

shares space on my desk.

 My mother would be pleased that I found a way to use her antique brass

planter. There's never a lack of magazines about vintage treasures to fill it.

I'm not sure, but I think these sock monkeys tell jokes when I'm not home. They look

 especially cheerful. Maybe it's the grand rhinestone "Brides Maid" pin the

gal (Hattie) in the middle is wearing.

I bought this oil painting for my $1.00 and under art collection. It was

 marked $1.99 at Goodwill, but it was 75% off.

Now - since it isn't framed, how to hang it?

SOLUTION? Use an old easel!

My house was built in 1943 so it has one of those phone shelves in the hallway.

Since I don't have a landline, this Fisher Price lives there waiting to be added to etsy!

 

I never cease to be delighted with the everyday packaging from the

first half of the the last century. This tin looks great

next to my 1930's Smith Corona.

We were never sure why this flag holder was made the way it was, but it looks great

over the fireplace.

And now my favorite pick of the day for my house - a souvenir from Atlantic City, NJ.

It originally came with an egg timer

so you won't talk over 3 minutes. Maybe to save on Long Distance?

P. S. Here's a sign along the highway yesterday that warmed the

heart (ha!) of my vegetarian heart.

It's Picking Time Again!

     We have our picking mojo back with a trip to South Carolina and one to North Carolina this month. Great vintage treasures, lovely scenery in the Smoky Mountains and as always fun photos, giggles and lots of cookies. You know it's picking season when you score 5 paint by numbers AND a sock monkey.

     The latest monkey is named Elmer and he wanted to see the scenery so we propped him up to see out of his window. He is now enjoying his new family at Jeri's house.

Our travels took us to Seabrook and Beaufort, SC, Flat Rock and Asheville, NC and a Salvation Army warehouse sale right here in Savannah. Laura found this funky award for the Friendly Letter Writing Contest.

and a great weather vane for her yard.

Because my alter ago is a cowgirl, I couldn't pass up this metal bunkhouse. I added a

cowgirl and Woody and a horse (of course).

     For the woman who longs for a more genteel time when vanities were part of the bedroom, here are a few treasures we found. See below a Christian Dior wig box, a refillable Avon powder puff wand that holds dusting powder, pastel shoe tress and a box of shoe mitts.

     The barn is filling up again with new finds and we have some items in our etsy shop that we are ready to mark down. We're celebrating a great summer of sales at mysistersbarn that we are opening a SECOND ETSY SHOP. The current shop will be all items on sale and the new

shop will feature the most recent finds. We hope to have it set up by next week

and will create a post when it's open!

In the meantime...here are a few of the cuties you will see for sale in the new shop!

Some days I think I live on this street!