Sunday Flea Finds

 Slim Pickins at the flea market today.

With 8" of rain already this week, and threat of rain this morning.

I picked up the turkey platter for $1.

My husband got the two roosters for $1 each.

 I thought at first they were a chicken and rooster set,

but I don't think so now.

 He also got the pink leather cowboy boots for $3

and the mini-grocery cart for $1.

The grocery cart had a damaged wheel,

so it will probably get a plant plopped in it.

In The Music Business

 We went to a garage sale yesterday where

we picked up these three instruments for CHEAP.

All past their prime, but great for display or repair.

The clarinet is one piece, which is interesting.

Paid $3 for clarinet, brought $15.

 This silver sax is probably the best,

but unfortunately the guy took off all the caps.

Hopefully, I have them all.

Brought $25.

 

 

It has beautiful engraving on it.

And another sax.  I am selling them on ebay.

Unknown waters, but I got them so cheap that

I can't lose money.

Putting Sterling Jewelry On Ebay

 ANOTHER RAINY DAY.

Without exaggeration, I think we have had 6 inches of rain this week.

Maybe more.  We are lucky to live on a ridge, but there is flash

flooding all around us.  I hate being stuck inside.  So today I 

decided to go through my own jewelry to see what I could get rid of.

 These are all pieces that I have picked up at sales for cheap.

And I tend to wear the same pieces over and over --

so if I haven't worn these in the last year,

I may as well make some money on them.

Brought $27 on ebay.

 This is a cool bracelet,

just a little big for my tastes.

I've always thought that it was sterling,

but I think now that it is just nickel silver.

 This has a great chain,

but unfortunately it is a bit "pokey".

So, into the ebay pot it goes.

Marcasite necklace -- paid $2, brought $42.

There is more rain in the forecast,

so more purging may be ahead this week.

Showers Bring May Flowers

Picking Up Clover Seed

Front Porch Visitor

 I am not particularly scared of snakes,

but I had been reading in a chair on the front porch

for about 10 minutes before i noticed this guy.

About 7 feet away!

 I thought all of the picture taking made him a little

uncomfortable,

and he was leaving ....

 No, only changing over to the adirondack chair...

 I got a close-up through the window

on his way up....

 And this is what I mean by "up" ....

He had no problem navigating the stone and brick

of our house.  From here he moved to the brick around

our front door.  By that time even I was a bit creeped out,

and stopped watching.

Other Flea Finds Going On Ebay

 Two old water sprinklers.

Bought for $6, sold for $13.

 Very lightweight old fan.

Bought for $8, sold for $20.

 Plant Holder.

Bought for $10, sold for $33.

Waverly Gallery by Sir Walter Scott.

1870.

Bought for $3, sold for $36.

All came from Sunday's flea market.

All going on ebay Saturday.

Mirro Matic Cup-A-Minit

 I got this little beauty at the flea market on sunday.

I was the first person to open the box.

(Had to open it to take pics!)

I think it is from the early 1970s.

It is going on ebay Saturday.

Bought for $10, sold for $38.

Old Concrete With Treasures

The site of my compost area used to have a farm building.

One with a poured concrete floor, maybe from about 1933 --

when the current house was built.

When we flipped over the chunks of cement we found cool old

bits of bottles embedded.  It must have been a dumping site

before the concrete was poured.

Sunday Flea Finds

It has been raining here all week,

so there weren't many sellers set up today.

But I did get a few things.

Two roundish items in the front are old lawn sprinklers,

they are going on ebay.

The velvet square is a victorian picture from with doors,

kind of cool.

 Bird whirligig sitting in Victorian planter stand.

Hopefully i can find planter to fit it.

 These are my $1 items,

including two cool old leather books.

A guy had tubs of these.

Repro tin toys, $3 each.

Everyone was walking around holding several.

Moms And Their Boys

In honor of Mother's Day":
My daughter-in-law and I posing with our "boys".

Crazy For Honeysuckle

My son, his wife, and my grandson went to the

Springfield Botanical Gardens with us last weekend.

This arbor of red honeysuckle was a showstopper.

Imagine my surprise and delight when I discovered one of the

millions of plants we put in this spring was just such a honeysuckle!

I think we bought it from the Master Gardener sale at the Botanical

Gardens a few weeks ago.  Wish I would have gotten more than one.

Front Yard Flowers

 Last year I never got anything planted in the birdbath

(which doesn't hold water).

So this year I was excited to get it done.

 The impatient and the sweet potato vine will do 

great in the heat -- but won't overwinter.

Hopefully the succulents will do both.

 I don't have many flowers in the front yard,

but was thrilled when ALL of the stuff I planted last year

by the front porch came back.

I am in shock about the columbine around here.

All of it blooms about twice as much,

and about twice as big,

as the columbine in NW Missouri.

Sunday Flea Finds

 This key display I actually bought at a garage sale on Friday.

$20, but so cool.  It would make a great wall decor.

Sold some keys on ebay for $54, sold the rest for $35.

 Here is the motherload from the flea market today.

We bought an old safe yesterday for quite a bit of money,

so only bought things today if they were cheap.

Square milk box -- bought for $5, sold for $20.

 

 Four drawers that were falling apart.

I got them for $1 each, I will use the drawer fronts

for something.

 The crazy quilt is not in perfect condition,

but the price was perfect.

Bought for $15.

 Nice old bait bucket,

I almost never find these for reasonable prices anymore.

\Bought for $3, sold for $18.

We have enough barbed wire that I could have made

a thousand Faith signs.  But instead, I spent money on this one.

Bought for $2, sold for $12.

A Friend's Laundry Room Wall

Another Box Turtle