As part of my annual tradition, my closing blog post from the sale is always a collection of my favorite signs from the trip (there’s always a new batch every year). I looked at last year’s post about the trip and I realized that I was going to launch the checklist/planner for yard sales this year, boy am […]
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127 YARD SALE DAY 4: CROSSVILLE—CHATTANOOGA, TN
I don’t know if it because we know exactly where to go or maybe we have been having too much fun, but before we knew it we had reached day four of the trip already! We have been starting to move items around in the car—no, wait… we HAVE BEEN moving things around the car. […]
127 Yard Sale: The Bourbon Trail
We can’t do the 127 Yard Sale or Louisville for that matter without spending at least a day on The Bourbon Trail tasting, buying and traveling across the region of historic and new bourbon and other spirit makers. Older establishments as well as an emerging breed of distillers that are creating new frontiers epitomize the […]
127 Yard Sale: Louisville, Kentucky
We are in Louisville at least once a year—and every time I am here I love it more than before. Honestly if I could have a second home it would be here in a city that some refer to as either “ the northernmost Southern city or the southernmost Northern city”. Whatever you call it, Louisville […]
WELCOME TO THE 127 YARD SALE 2016!
It’s that time of year again—I am off to the 127 yard sale! For those of you who are new to our blog, for the past nine years I have been searching for treasures along The World’s Longest Yard Sale that runs along Highway 127 starting in Gadsden, Alabama and ending in Addison, Michigan (about […]
How to Make DIY Bourbon Cream – Dairy + Vegan recipes!
One of our favorite things about our travels on the 127 yard sale is near the end of the trip when we head down the Bourbon Trail, tasting and buying and touring distilleries. For the past two years we have been stocking up on Buffalo Trace’s Bourbon Cream which is a phenomenal cream liquor that we […]
A Visit to the LOS POBLANOS INN
Last year I found out about an old lavender farm in Albuquerque called the Los Poblanos Inn. Los Poblanos is completely my style! This past summer when Gustavo (the hubs) and I went on our annual trip to the 127 Yard Sale we decided to take a short break from the seven or more hours […]
Delilah’s favorite signs from the 127 yard sale + a wrap-up
Editor’s Note: This post is a part of our series on Delilah’s annual trip to the 127 Yard Sale. We’ll be back next week with DIY projects, recipes, inspiration and business tips. -Nicole S. As you read this we are almost back in Southern California with another trip to the 127 Yard Sale under our belt. […]
127 Yard Sale: Day 4 – Tennessee – Crossville to Chattanooga
Editor’s Note: This post is a part of our series on Delilah’s annual trip to the 127 yard sale. We’ll be back next week with DIY projects, recipes, inspiration and business tips. -Nicole S. We’re in the final stretch! We are pretty tired and broke but this part of the trip is our favorite because […]
127 Yard Sale: Day 2 – Kentucky – Frankfort to Russell Springs
Editor’s Note: This post is a part of our series on Delilah’s annual trip to the 127 Yard Sale. We’ll be back next week with DIY projects, recipes, inspiration and business tips. -Nicole S. Finally Gustavo (the hubs) and I are on familiar ground! After another trip to Rick’s White Light Diner (we had to […]
