Amber Ostrich Estate Sales

Hey there folks! Our next estate sale, including the art studio of Grace Schroeder, is coming up this weekend, May 3-5. Super excited for this one!

A modest size 1940s home with an outdoor art studio, makes a jam-packed estate. This sale may have a bit of a line, so get here early! As usual we will have two cashiers to help speed things up. Also there will be an semi separate sale, going on OUTSIDE with all the antique light fixtures and hardware, found objects, 30 artist easels, a nice selection of garden pots, a sub-set of the ‘indoor’ artwork, art supplies, books, other miscellany, etc.

We’ll be starting our sale on Friday and ending it on Sunday afternoon.

Here’s what we’ve got:

Artwork.

Over 40 years of paintings and crafty, creative items including the artist’s own work inspired by travels in Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona, the Gulf Coast and Central Texas. We also have other artist works, and prints, that our client cherished as well.

Grace Schroeder's artwork

Jewelry. This was a woman who appreciated a nice jewel. And she collected them for decades. There is a ton of great vintage costume jewelry, all priced to sell.

Vintage clothing:

Blue #vintage dress

Vintage furniture:

Antique lighting fixtures, craft and art supplies and so much more!

Antique lighting fixtures

Art supplies

This is just the tip of the iceberg. As usual, we’ve got tons of great stuff to go through. Vintage and antique fixtures and hardware; clothing,  jewelry accessories and belts; over 80 vintage scarves; aprons; vintage purses; Roseville pottery; vintage boys toys, cap guns etc. Christmas decor; vintage old wood soda crates; artwork and furniture. It’s like Christmas in, well, May!

Check out more photos here on Smug Mug.

The sale will held May 3-5.

Address is:

706 Texas Ave. Austin TX 78705. Near Hancock Golf Course. Off 38 1/2 Street.

Times:

• Friday: 10-3
• Saturday: 9-2
• Sunday: 10-2

And a special treat!

Watch for this lady on Friday morning. Our gal Sister Lucille will be out in full force playing Texas Trivia with those of you in line and handing out prizes! She’ll only be here on Friday, so get there early and get in line to have some fun.

Grace Schroeder, a local Austin artist lived in her central Austin home for over 40 years.

Our next estate sale is the estate of Grace Schroeder, a local Austin artist for several decades.

Grace Schroeder, formerly Grace Arledge, was born in Central Texas and lived in Austin for 40 years. Due to her husband’s work, she traveled for much of her younger years. Her work was inspired by scenes in Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona, the Gulf Coast and Central Texas.

This estate sale includes much of her original artwork and art supplies including canvases, frames, paint, pencils, and quality sketch paper.

The sale will also include cherished items from the home including vintage clothing and furniture, antique lighting fixtures, and vintage toys.

Biology class, 1937

Our artist’s talent was obvious from the early years, as you can see by this sketches she did for Biology class in 1937.

Biology class, 1937

Mrs. Schroeder’s later work will also be available. A varied artist, she painted landscapes, flowers, portraits and much more. Check out this beautiful Austin skyline.

Vintage Austin skyline

Her art studio will be open during the sale.

This estate sale has so much variety. She was an artist, a creative, so she had broad taste in many things, clothing, accessories, jewelry, artwork, furniture and household furnishings.

She also supported the local arts by buying artwork from other local artists. There will be plenty to choose from at this sale if you love art!

Check out more photos on SmugMug and Pinterest.

This sale will be held the weekend of May, 3-5. We will announce the address and times the week of the sale. To get an email from us with exact info, click here: http://amberostrich.com/i-like-to-shop-estate-sales/

Our next sale, upcoming in a few weeks is another really great true Austin estate sale!

Our estate owner is an artist, who loved jewels, clothing, purses and was a true visionary in the art world.

Yes, like I wrote in my last post, this sale has lots of jewelry. But as usual, we’ve also got lots of other great stuff!

This sale will offer up several beautiful Austin original paintings, painted by our estate owner.

Beautiful sea scape

Our estate owner also love purses. She even mixed together her three of her favorite things, purses, painting and Austin, in this hand-painted purse with the Austin skyline!

Of course, we’ve got the usual offerings of random vintage ware.

Next up, some pretty freakin’ awesome furniture! Not a ton of it, but we’ve got some divine pieces in this sale.

Set of vintage end tables

We’ve also got some cool ephemera and unique vintage Christmas decor.

Angels!

This is going to be a fun one y’all! Details forthcoming. I promise.

As usual, check out the Facebook page, Twitter, Pinterest and see more photos on SmugMug.

The date is still to be determined, due to a pending real estate transaction. However, it will definitely be held on the weekend of April 19-20 or April 26-27. This will be a two-day sale, Friday/Saturday. See ya!!

Our next sale coming up at the end of April is another good one (date to be announced shortly). One of the highlights is all the jewelry we will have for you jewelry lovers. This is the home of an artist and this sale will have the usual vintage, antiques, and other eccentric offerings. But to be sure, if you like jewelry…. this one is crazy with the amount we have to offer! And the belts. Oh the belts!

Check out some of the best stuff we’ve found so far. We are still unearthing, so watch for more photos coming soon!

Vintage Gold butterfly belt

Vintage jewelry from Mexico

Ah-mazing pink, vintage shoes.

Talk to the hand! We've got more where this came from.

If you think this looks like a lot, you’re right! And this isn’t even all of it folks!!

Check out more jewelry photos here and watch out, we’ll be posting more very soon….

And finally, yesterday we cleared out the “Christmas Closet” Take a look at some of the cool Christmas swag we unearthed.

Vintage Christmas eggs

This estate sale is located in Central Austin, near Hancock Golf Course and 38th Street. Dates and times to be announced soon. Address will be posted the week of the sale, as usual.

Our upcoming estate sale is one of those estates where you can just feel the generations of family coming together. Originally from La Grange as German immigrants, they moved to Austin and raised a family of Austinites.

This quintessential American couple bought their modest, post WWII home, worked hard and raised two incredible kids.

Hubert engineered the great roads we enjoy with TXDOT. Rose was a gifted home economist, seamstress and hostess. They loved to entertain and had many friends here. Come step back in time to an era that shaped so many of us, come celebrate their life well lived.

The second generation of the family saved their parents and grandparents’ items from the ‘old country’ and the decades after remain.

Our next #estatesale is a family originated from #Germany

This estate sale is decades of vintage items all carefully displayed, ready for our shoppers!

We’ve got a cook’s kitchen, a bedroom full of traditional guy type items, antique tools, vintage Barbie dolls, depression era flour sack dolls (two made and several unmade) — modern furniture, vintage sewing and crafty items, many vintage and antique toys, and smalls, jewelry, BSA items, collection of pocket watches, (6) collectible Japanese Bisque figurines, vintage Christmas decor, vintage cookbooks (over 50 vegetarian cookbooks), and so much more! We can’t wait to host this three day sale starting Friday March 22-24.

Wardflex #vintage camera

Typical Austinites. Love the SOCO chair!

Our matriarch was a crafty woman with style.

#Vintage #sewing magazine

Our patriarch loved wood working and a good game night.

#Vintage dominoes and gin rummy.

And now, what you’ve been waiting for! Address and sale times:
8203 Polar Dr. Austin TX 78758

Anderson Near Wooten Park, between Burnet and Lamar.

March 22:Fri 10-3
March 23:Sat 9-2
March 24:Sun 10-2

Remember CASH & CARRY.

If you want to plan ahead for what you wish to buy at the sale, check out our photo album on Smugmug, Upcoming Sales board on Pinterest, Facebook and Twitter. You’ll find tons of photos and lots of ways to stay in touch via your choice of social media network.

If you’re still old schoolin’ it, no worries, we still send an email newsletter. Sorry, no pony express.

See ya at the sale!

While most people are on spring break and enjoying SXSW this week, we are busily putting together our next estate sale for the weekend of March 22-24.

This will be a three-day sale in North Central Austin. Exact address and hours, this week.

Traditional Texan with a twist of vintage and hippie. Pure Austin.

The sale is full of early Texan Americana. This family had traditional leanings, orginally from La Grange TX. Dad was a coin and pocket knife collector, mom was a cook and loved to sew.

This sale is also multi-generational. Bringing you three generations, grown kids, their parents and grandparents items under one roof.  We’ve got many great antiques and some amazing kitschy vintage at this sale!

For the guys, we’ve got woodworking tools, games, vintage felt hats, and cigar boxes. The garage will be full of tools and other things to ‘root’ around for.

Vintage Traditional Texan

For the crafty crowd, there are a nice selection of vintage patterns, buttons, vintage craft magazines, a Bernina and a vintage Singer sewing machine.

The collectible crowd won’t miss out either, we have Japanese Bisque figurines, many miniatures, old shaving and straight razors, troll dolls from the 80s. We’ve also got vintage Barbie and Skipper, the classic doll clothes wardrobe, clothing, and Ken and Barbie’s friends.

Vintage Barbie and Midge clothing wardrobe

This is just a taste. There is so much more. We will continue to post photos on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Smug Mug. Check out the album.

One of the great things about Amber Ostrich Estate Sales customers is that they are loyal shoppers. They know how hard we work to bring them the best sales, so they like to give back when they can.

Recently, I’ve been snapping photos of some of our customers (with their agreement) as they exit the sale. I love to show off the happy and excited customer who has just found the perfect item at our sale.

Recently, I have decided to showcase their finds. It’s kinda fun to see what people have purchased, right? Perhaps it satisfies the inner voyeur in us all, kind of like people watching.

So with that, I give you some of our favorite Customer Scores!

Andee, aka Betty Crafter, is one of our favorite shoppers. A vintage dealer and Austin mama. Here, she poses with her daughter who just had to have this vintage Snoopy doll.

This was one of our first Customer Scores! captured at an estate sale last year. Isn't she adorable?

Ross scored a pair of MCM lamps at our Bradys to the Eighties sale last month.

Next up we’ve got a before and after DIY project. She was so fast, she redid these stools the day after buying them.

After

We’ve got lots more great photos of Customer Scores! on our Pinterest board. Check it out: https://pinterest.com/amberostrich/customer-scores/