~Flea Market Find and Lanterns~

Hi everyone…..

Hope you all had a great weekend. Mine was a busy one…I went to the Flea Market on Saturday with a friend and on Sunday, we went to check out the site where my niece is getting married in 4 weeks. Wow…was it beautiful!!The wedding is at the home of her soon to be in-laws…it will be outside by their gazebo that is near a large pond with pine trees beside it and a lake just beyond the trees.

Ok…back to Saturday and my trip to the Flea Market. Twice a year…once in the Spring and then again in the Fall there is an Antique & Flea Market Extravaganza held at the county fairgrounds. This was the largest I’ve seen it in years. There were booths everywhere…in every building…in every barn…on the paved areas and everywhere there was grass…they even had large tents up that had several vendors under them. I walked so much that my legs and feet are still hurting.

Now one would like that at a Flea Market that large I would come home with lots of goodies…but I didn’t. I did see lots of things that I liked, but nothing really talked to me and said that it had to come home to live with me. LOL… Maybe it was because of how hot it got that day…got up to 83 degrees and I ended up getting sunburned. Well…I was hoping to find some things that I could use for my jewelry making and I didn’t have much luck with that either until I came across this can of old keys.

I haven’t counted them yet, but I’m thinking that there might be close to 100 of them…and I got the whole thing for $5.00. The can is pretty old-looking too. My sister loved it…so I told her that she could have it to put on the shelf in her kitchen.

Even though I didn’t find any goodies for my home at the flea market…I did find these wonderful little lanterns at our local craft store. I had been looking for a couple of small ones to go with my large lantern for a while now and was so excited when I got an email that they had gotten these in for a special sale this weekend.

I paid $6.95 for the smallest one and $9.95 for the other one…they are made out of wood and have tin on the tops of them. My large one that I’ve had for a while is made of all tin, but I think that all 3 of them look great together. Thinking that I want to find different battery candles to go in the small ones…maybe white ones to match the larger one.

Well….that’s all for now as it is getting late here and I need my rest because I’m giving Miss Chloe a bath tomorrow, plus trimming her hair. Our mobile groomer closed her business…so I’m going to see if I can groom her myself. I used to groom our little Yorkie-Poo, but he was a gentle little guy…so we’ll see if I can handle our wild child. Wish me luck!!

Until next time…..       blessings, Cindy

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