I love places where you can find unique & cheap used furniture & other stuff for the home. Sometimes I'll end up getting a small side table & sometimes I'll find a tea cup or something small that I just like. There are a couple of great places in the area where you can find antiques & other used items for a good price. One of them is "The Green Bean Exchange" on Canton Hwy (Hwy 20) in Cumming in the Ingalls shopping center. It's like an anique mall divided into sections with different people's stuff for sale. There is another location on Canton Hwy going towards Canton in the Freehome area also (it's set up differently & is not as big). You can get unique jewelry for $2 -$4 (bracelets or earrings) & it's not stuff you find everywhere. I got my Mom a cute bracelet there for her birthday. I also have seen really cute children's wicker furniture there & you can even get some used children's books for $1. Once I saw the cutest old children's school desk (the metal chair w/attached wooden desk top) & it was painted a light blue color & had a little brick schoolhouse painted on the chairback for only $12. It was a steal but, for some reason I didn't get it even though I could picture my little boy sitting so cute in it. I went back for it several days later (after it really got to me) & it was gone. One of the ladies who worked there said she rembered it & thought it was a really cheap price & wouldn't last long & of course, it didn't. If I had time (& money), I would go there frequently to scour the place.
There is another place in Alpharetta on Hwy 9 (between Old Milton & Windward Pkwy) called "Queen of Hearts" which I also like a lot. It's a big antique mall divided up in into sections or rooms of people's stuff for sale. Once I got a picture there that I love. One year (after I was married but, before I had my first child, I was looking there & saw this great french painting of a bicycle outside of a pastery shop & it had a black distressed frame. I just loved it but, it was $100. It was just after my birthday & I thought to myself "I never buy anything like this for myself & I think I should!" I took my birthday money & bought it & I was so happy. I have loved it ever since. I also got a cute round mirror with a wooden frame painted with flowers (it's hard to describe but, it was really cute) for I think $20. I also got a really cute toile printed little foot stool there once as well. I think it was $15 & I really didn't know what I was going to do with it but, I just liked it.
Anyway, both of these places sometimes have sidewalk sales & stuff is marked down even more then. You can get some real steals. And if you can sew, apholster or can re-finish or paint stuff, you can do a lot with what you get.
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