Every year the Oakland Museum of California does an amazing fundraiser: the White Elephant Sale. They collect donations of houswares, furniture, books, knick knacks, art, (basically anything and everything) for months and a legion of volunteers sort and price everything. The WES is in held in a gigantic warehouse and they don't just have everything you could imagine, they probably have five. My blogging friend Terri and I got to their preview sale this Sunday at 9:30 (they opened at 10:00), and we were literally about the 500th people in line. This sale is BIG.
I did VERY well at this sale, so much so that I've got to break up my scores into multiple posts. My first post is dedcated to these beauties:
Pegged Votive Cups (peglights) and LOTS of them...
So many styles and colors...
I have been looking for these votive cups with the pegs for about a year now. They are suprisingly hard to find (I don't think they are made anymore). In fact, after a year of keeping my eyes open at estate sales and thrift stores, I only managed to accumulate about 30 of them. And then, at the White Elephant Sale, I hit the motherlode and found 44 of them...all for $5!!!
But what do you do with them? Well, here's a hint:
Wall sconces! How about red and aqua?
Or purple (never seen one of those!)
But I'm a big fan of the orange and aqua!
How about the pink double sconces with white frosted votives?
Blue's pretty nice, too...
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