Vintage Kitchen Foundlings...

A few new treasures have found their way to my vintage kitcheware foster care system. I didn't find them in the wild, but I got such good deals, the prices were like I had!

Looks happy next to the yellow and green teapots!

A tiny little 5"

Tan stripe 403 Pyrex

Blue Stripe 403Pyrex

Long,but FUN day!!

I left my house at 6:38 this morning...I got home at 4:15,changed clothes and left again! I just got home at 7:30...it's been a loooonnnnng day! It's been a fun day too!!! I met up with my good junking buddy the Chicken's Auntie from Kitschy Vintage and we went to the Midland County Fairgrounds for the Michigan Antiques Festival. It was the last one for the summer-the last one for 9 months, and the first one I've made it to all summer.

The weather didn't look very promising during the whole trip there, and as soon as we got out of the car, it started raining. Not a heavy rain, just the steady, irritating rain. It stopped and started several times with peeks of sun in between rain drops and dark clouds. after 11 or so, it pretty much cleared up.

The very first thing we did when we got there, was make a quick stop at the potties since they were at the start. Auntie walked up to one that showed "un-occupied" and she opened the door on a guy using the porta potty!!! We both cracked up! The guy wasn't even embarrassed! We were more embarrassed than he was! He told her, "Don't worry about it. I wasn't planning to be in there all that long, so I didn't lock the door." Who does that? Luckily, we recovered after a fit of giggles and were able to get down to the business of hunting junk!

There were a lot of vendors. I think even more than last year. Also a lot more high-end vendors than ever before. I prefer the run of the mill, average seller to the perfectly staged, matchy, matchy magazine cover booths. I like to come up to a booth and see all kinds of different things-the more variety the better! Plus, when it isn't all magazine-like staged, the prices are lower.

We walked all over, and ran into my blog/junking friend Marie twice! I sent her 5 texts, but none of them went through. I am so disgusted with my phone carrier-I had no service at the festival, but 2 miles down the road, my phone went crazy with incoming texts. I had to borrow Auntie's phone to look something up while I was shopping to make sure I was getting a good price. Hope you got some great treasures Marie!!

Auntie and I filled our carts so much, there was no squeezing another thing in! For the most part, when we walked up to a table together, we each reached for different things! I was thankful for her little red cup holder on her granny cart-that was how I was able to keep track of where she was when I wandered off!

I got my most important item first-kettle corn!!! There are two vendors, and I have bought from the same vendor every time. I make sure to buy from them every year. Their kettle corn is really good, and their bags are bigger than the other guy who is toward the front.

It was really, really crowded today with lots of buyers, and I saw lots of full carts, wagons and tote bags! I was really impressed with how many teenagers and early-twenty-somethings there were.I'm glad the next generation is catching on to how much fun vintage things are, and how much fun treasure hunting is!  I don't know about you, but I love to people watch! There were some very interesting characters to watch today!

I couldn't get my phone out of my pocket fast enough to get a better shot!

I'm happy with all of my purchases and I enjoyed catching up with Auntie-it's amazing how fast an hour and a half car ride can go when you are chattering like magpies!! One purchase has got me stumped though...it's a vintage egg crate with the original cardboard inserts. The perplexing part is not being able to figure out how to open it! Any ideas? We're thinking the nails on the top should be something else...but not sure what.

We got polish sausages and fries for lunch, and on the way out, I caved and got an elephant ear. I waited until we got to the car to eat it-bit mistake! It isn't as good once it gets cold! Good thing our volleyball league started up tonight, so I could work off some of the calories from all the junk I ate today!!

I made it home with just enough time to change my clothes and head in to the church to kick off our 11th year of volleyball. Since I and the league coordinator, I have to be there for the first and last games of the season. The first games to welcome everyone and go over the rules, and what to do if someone gets injured, and the last games to run the potluck and tournament.

When we got done playing, we noticed a tire that was really low. We made it to the gas station and filled it up, but it is already starting to go flat again. It figures! I have Kevin's car for one weekend, while he takes mine north to run the estate sale again for his mom and step-dad, and I get a flat! I have such bad luck with flat tires! I know I'll never hear the end of this!!!

Did you get to any sales this weekend? In addition to Midland, I went to a couple sales yesterday and got a couple of things, but I think I am reaching a junk-over-load after working on the estate sale last weekend, my heart wasn't really into garage sales this week. Midland was a different story-I'm always ready for that kind of junk hunt!

Here is what I saw today, and what I got.

 I fell in love with this little white cabinet-too bad it was three times what I was willing to spend!

 This was at the 3/4's of the way through point. Auntie's cart was too full, so I put her kettle corn in mine. This was before my last few purchases.

 This place has the best, hand-cut fries and their large soda is only $2 with a free refill! 

The back of Auntie's van-good thing she took that seat out!!!

 My first vintage tablecloth in brown and yellow.

 Amethyst medicine bottle!

 Vintage Fiesta 1 quart bowl.

 Vintage egg crate-how in the world do you open it!?!?!?

 FLORIDA tablecloth.

Chenille bedspread with 2 peacocks and lots of amazing flowers!! I think this would make a terrific robe!!!

 I've never seen one of these in the wild before! I love it an all its waxy-vintage-ness!

 How could I not get this?!? It's not every day you find a vintage yardstick with your name on it. Your name with one extra M is close enough!

 Fiesta apricot demitasse, no saucer though-but it was only $1.

Harlequin teapot-a little dirty and a little scuffed but for $2, I can overlook all that!

Here is what I picked up on Friday at a garage sale...

Charlie Brown and Lucy cookie cutters.

I also got a crackle glass, red decanter with a glass stopper, but I forgot to take a pic of it!

I hope to plant some mums tomorrow, what are your plans? Hope you have a great day doing what you love, with people you love!!

Greenmead, Baccalaureate and a Beautiful Day!!

This morning was the long-awaited, highly anticipated Greenmead Flea Market!!! We left the house early because when I was at the estate sale yesterday (after Midland), I forgot something I paid for, so we stopped on the way to see if they still had it-and they did-Whew!!! So we ended up at Greenmead at 9:23 and it doesn't open until 10.

If you've been reading for a while, you probably know that I don't like to wait, and you probably know Kevin HATES to wait! Even though we were so early, the wait wasn't bad at all!! We got a front row parking spot-about 8 cars down from the front gate, and we stood in line behind a guy that had been collecting for more years than we've been alive. It was fun chatting with him-it sure made the time fly!!

While we were in line, we couldn't believe how long the line got! I've never seen it so long!! I think there were just as many people at Greenmead as there was at Midland and Greenmead is about a tenth of the size! It turned out to be a GORGEOUS day too. Perfect temperature for junkin!

Once we got in, there were actually people half running! One guy was mocking them...I just kept going in the direction I was headed and ignored the comments. I was on a limited time budget and needed to see all I could see in my 2 hour time frame. As it turned out, we were done and on the expressway headed for home at 11:39-only an hour and thirty nine minutes from when we entered the flea market!!

In that short amount of time, I was able to visit all the booths, and spend every dollar I had except for one! So it was definitely time to head for home!! Well, I guess I didn't spend it all...Kevin spent 1/4 of the money I brought on a flack jacket. Just like the one he wore when he was in the Navy-he is thrilled with it! I don't appreciate it as much as he does, but then he doesn't appreciate Pyrex or Fiesta like I do.

We raced home and had just enough time to freshen up and change and get to one of the local churches for the graduating class of 2012's Baccalaureate service. My parents came from the U.P., my aunt and uncle came and a friend from work (who has kind of adopted my boys as her own) came. What a GREAT service!!! Several graduating seniors and local pastors spoke, including my baby Eric!

Now on to what I got...it turned out to be a linen kind of day today...I didn't realize I bought so many tablecloths until I got home. The best one was the last one, when I had to scrape together all of my leftover ones to come up with the amount. The lady wouldn't come down on it either-I'm so glad I had enough!!!

First purchase of the day...Harlequin teapot! It has seen its share of flea markets, there were 4 price stickers on it, starting at $50 and ending up at $10.

Here is Kevin's flack jacket he bought today, and the section of train track he bought on Friday...

We both had a blast today! Even though it was short and sweet, it was super fun!!

How was your weekend? I'm off to check out your blog to see what you've been doing this weekend!