Yellow Squash Bounty

This is yesterdays pickin's.

I am getting this many every other day (just two plants!).

Fortunately, I have found a Food Pantry

that will take them.

Biggest Toad We Have Seen Hereabouts

Rose Of Sharon Bush

 We planted this bush early this spring

(after letting it sit in a container all winter.)

I was surprised that it lived,

and even more surprised when it bloomed last week.

The yellow butterfly just visited for a micro-second.

I didn't think there was any chance I actually caught him --

but there he was!

Getting Ready For Fall/Halloween Vintage Home Sale

 Another experiment in vintage selling at our new location.

I am having a Fall/Halloween home sale on Saturday, giving my

customers who come to my house a preview/discount on

my Fall merch before it goes into my antique booth.

 Some of it is just fallish vintage finds.

 But about 2/3 of it is Halloween themed.

I didn't have anywhere to sell it last year,

because we had just moved in.

 So I have about twice as much as I would normally have.

 I am hoping to get rid of all of my

Halloween Hats.  I don't think they

will sell as well here as they did

in my "decorator booth" up north.

It's all one big experiment.

We'll see how it goes.

Brown Eyed Susans With Praying Mantis

Two Fall Signs

 I took apart a vintage crate and these two

were the end pieces.

I am getting ready to do a Fall Vintage Home Sale.

So, I decided to whip out a couple Fall themed signs.

 If I were honest,

I wasn't completely unsatisfied with them.

But -- I did like this...

One of out three ain't bad.

Selling The Nicest Quilt I Ever Owned

 I am not a "keeper".

It is rare that I keep any antiques that I buy.

But when I purchased this beauty 20 years ago I

couldn't let her go.

 The craftmanship was over the top --

tiny little handmade stitches everywhere.

 Interesting little 1.25" square "postage stamps" of

vintage and feedsack fabric.

All in perfect, never used, condition.

She hasn't found a place in our new house,

so she is moving on to a new home:(

Bought for $5, sold for $174 on ebay.

Red Wildflower Vine

Nocturnal Frog Visitor

1878 Reading Apple Peeler

I have to give my husband credit for picking this up

at the estate sale we attended a few weeks ago.

It may be the biggest money maker that we purchased.

And so interesting....

 This apple parer was made by a company in Reading, PA

which started producing them in 1878.

 As you can see, it is still in working order!

It can peel up to 10 apples a minute!

I guess that if you were making apple cider

that would have been important.

There is a company that still makes them,

that is how well they work.

But this one is a very early version.

Paid $3, sold for $45.

Butterfly Bush

Scary Dolls 2019

I discovered a few years ago that people

like to decorate at Halloween with (ahem)

"well used" old dolls.

This year I only picked up a couple.

This is the first one,

one of her front teeth is cracked diagonally

and looks like a fang.

 This is the second one.

Her necks flops at odd angles which helps the creep factor.

And the eyes....

Packed With Lunch Boxes

 At the moving sale we attended a couple weeks ago, these

are some of the things we came away with.

I paid about $1 each.

 Around 25 metal lunch boxes.

 About half of those are going on ebay.

The ebay lunchboxes sold for $186.

Just a few thermoses sold on ebay for $24.

 I had a lunchbox collection years ago,

and didn't have this many.

 They range from 1955 - 1984.

Some had thermoses and some did not.

The other half we will sell for $5 each at a flea market.

Sorting Flatware

 A week ago my husband and I went to a "moving sale".

There was certainly alot of "stuff" being offered.

We made it home with two vanloads of items.

Somewhere in there I bought FIVE good-sized boxes of old flatware.

You know -- thinking some of that has to be sterling.
(The pic above shows one of the two huge boxes that
I am probably going to give to someone for "scrap" or crafts.)

It took me several does of sorting.
But I came up with a couple sterling pieces.
This cake server handle is sterling....
 

and this set of 6 Gorham sterling spoons.
(I believe those are shotgun shells on the bottom?)
Anyway, I am putting them on ebay.

Sold for $36.

(This is my "donation" box with usable flatware.)
 Turns out the woman moving was a dealer (antiques, not drug).

She probably took all the good stuff out and threw the rest in the shed.

But some nice old patterns.

We'll see if I can get some of it sold. 

I will show more of the "loot" later.

Sold $147 on ebay and at least that much at home sales

and the flea market.  Way more than I paid for all of it.