Flea Market Finds

I got lucky and found 2 really great things at the flea market last weekend.  I didn't have to go far, which is a good thing otherwise I probably wouldn't have found them.  After I unloaded my car and sat down in our booth for a minute, I looked to my left and spotted this fan in the booth beside us.  At $20 I didn't think twice before telling them I would take it.  It's been restored and still works.  But most importantly, I love the way it looks!

The second thing I found was this chicken wire cloche and pedestal.  To find it, I only had to look across to the booth in front of us.  We were surrounded by awesome vendors this time.  Since we aren't regular vendors, we get last pick of booths and are never in the same place twice.  You never know when you're going to be mixed in with the man selling old tools or the guy selling Halloween jewelry.  This time we were surrounded by vendors with nice furniture or vintage treasures.

The cloche was hand made from chicken wire and painted blue.  The pedestal is a vintage plate on an old insulator.

I just LOVE it! : )

Pam found some great pieces too, including 2 huge old trunks.  They were from the vendor to our right.  Ha ha. Seriously, we didn't have the time or energy to get far from our own booth.

One vendor beside us even gave me  the Spring issue of Flea Market Style and the current Martha Stewart Organizing book and  couple of sewing books.  Total score!    When you spend 3 days in close proximity to   people, you have a chance to bond : )

We spent most of yesterday working on an order for a store in Birmingham, AL.  We will share pictures when we get it finished later this week.

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April At The Nashville Flea Market

Whew!  What a week it has been.  Coming off a Flea Market weekend, there has been lots of regular life business to take care of this week.  On top of that, my daughter came home from college, which I'm thrilled about.  Moving all her personal furniture and belongings home was a bit of work.  And, I'm in the middle of mailing out high school graduation announcements for my "baby" and have to get his party planned in the next 2 weeks.

We just want to thank everyone that came by our booth last weekend.  As always, we met lots of sweet people and had wonderful "neighbors" in the booths around us.   We just had one small booth this time.  Since it is spring, we haven't had long in the garage sale season to find a lot of new pieces.  But, we are already planning a couple of new things for fall that we are excited about.  Something other than the flea market.  

The first pieces of furniture to sell were the coffee sack chairs.  The pair of cane back chairs were actually bought by someone furnishing their new coffee shop in Wisconsin.  How cool is that?

Thanks so much for stopping by our booth and our blog!

Robin and Pam

A Big Sign

This has been on my to-do list for a very long time.   This is a top to an old wood box.  I bought it about 4 years ago at the Nashville Flea Market.  I wasn't exactly sure what I was going to use it for when I bought it.  It's been setting down by the barn ever since.  The good part is it has aged to a beautiful shade of grey.

Since I've been seeing through flea market eyes the last two weeks, everything looks like a potential project.

After using my new stencil, I sanded and waxed the wood.  I love how the wax brought out nice darker shades of grey in certain places.

I propped it up in front our fireplace on the porch so I could take pictures, but I'm thinking this would be a nice way to use it.   I'm going to take it to the Nashville Flea Market with us on Friday.  But if it doesn't sell, I  know where it's going :)

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I'm linking this up to the Cowgirl Up Link Party at Farmhouse Porch

House Guests

I have a few house guests with me until next weekend.  Then they are all headed to the Nashville Flea Market with Pam and me.

The weather has  been sunny so we've spent some time outside.

Everyone has adapted very well.

In a way, I hate to see them leave.

I covered all the chairs with authentic coffee sacks.  For a change to all our painting, I used Annie Sloan dark wax to freshen up a few spots on the dining chairs, but left them with their original finish.  Pam had painted the green chair, and I followed up with a heavy brushing of the AS dark wax on it also.

I'm linking this up to the  Cowgirl Up Link Party at Farmhouse Porch .

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*We will be under Shed #2 at the Nashville Flea Market this  Friday - Sunday.

A Package From France

Several months ago I ordered a few things from France, via Etsy.   One of the items was a set of vintage  seed pack labels, in French of course.   Since I've been in full flea market mode since last week, I thought I would find a way to use these.   I cut some ticking stripe card stock to go behind the label and then framed them using some frames that I had already painted and waxed.

The Etsy shop is Simply French Vintage.  I love to read about the people behind the shops.  Simply French Vintage is run by David And Jane, an English couple who live in rural France during the spring and summer months.  Ahhh.  Doesn't that just sound breath taking?

This is a cute little bird house and the pickled table it is on will also go to the Nashville Flea Market with us.  Just a reminder that we will be under Shed #2 and would love to meet anyone that can stop by and say hi!

Thanks for visiting our blog!
Robin and Pam

Italian Clay Pots and Orange Mint

I wanted to share these Italian clay pots I found today.  I had trouble getting pictures that show the true color.  They are brown, instead of the reddish terracotta color of regular pots.   In fact, the traditional color pots were sold out.  It was the brown color of these that caught my attention.

I guess this picture below is closer to the true color.

This is an orange mint plant.  I've never heard of such a thing until today.  The feed store where I bought this also had apple mint.  I'm going to plant this in the ground this weekend and hope it survives.  Orange mint iced tea will be good on a hot summer day. 

I think the most surprising thing to me is where I found these.

Would you believe I found them at Walmart?  

Thanks for stopping by!  

Robin

Burlap At The Nashville Flea Market

We will have lots of burlap bags at the Nashville Flea Market this month.  This is a sweet potato sack.  We also have some coffee bags that are huge.  These are great to use as is for decor, or for fabric in different projects.  In addition, we will have some of the French hand painted burlap bags and some good old plain ones too.

I love the green graphics on these.

We will be under shed # 2 (across from Shed #4) on Saturday, April 28th and Sunday April 29th.   We aren't sure about Friday the 27th, but will post that information later. 

If you are going to be there, please stop by and say hi!  I think we like the socializing part of the flea market best of all!