sunny days

well another city wide garage sales come and gone.

our small town gets busy during

the annual city wide garage sales.

i had some good luck this year finding a few treasures.

no need for an umbrella, the weather was beautiful.

in fact i found a beautiful umbrella.

here it is at the garage sale. 

and here it is in our backyard!

a guy was selling his aunts items and this was her patio set. 

it looks like it was never used, the reason

for this was she had is set-up 

in her basement! 

we are going to enjoy it in the great outdoors,

but might have to follow her lead and set it up 

in the basement when winter comes.

shop small

 don't forget to shop small this saturday and everyday this

 holiday season.

if you are in the area,

columbus antique mall

is a great place to shop.

over 300 small biz owners.

check out our booth on the 2nd floor.

when you see EAT on the tag that's us. 

happy shopping!

boo-tiful

we stopped in at my sister and brother-in-laws home this last weekend, and was greated by sue's cute halloween display.

that isn't my broom by the way..... 

inside sue showed me her handy solution to a mudroom when you don't have a mudroom.

how cool is this. 

she put a shoe rack inside a vintage trunk to keep shoes organized handy and out of site.

i don't think i have seen this 

in the blogosphere. 

so i had to share.

it was meant to be, as she found this single toy shoe (can you see it -sorry it's a bit blurry) in the trunk.

mother lode at the junk bonanza

 we made it!  but before we got here we had to go thru.......

this!!!
yucky snow.

i picked up my sister-in-law sue and we made the trek to shakopee, minnesota.  It should have taken less than 2 hours -  took us over 4 hours.  not fun but we made the best of it.

the next day was a much better day as we headed to the
 junk bonanza.
so much to see and buy.

the guy (on the left) is on the show "west end salvage" on hgtv  
we need to head back to iowa to check out his shop.  

cute booth, cute name

mama's happy display

sue's checking out this cute retro booth.

which had this blue typewriter - perfect buddy for my pink one.

sign #1 - need 

another way to use globes.

sign #2 - need

do you see that cool sign on the back of the shelf. 

 sign/shelf #3 - need

nice to see some friendly faces - here is jan from gracies cottage and kathy from down lilac lane.
it was great to catch up with them.  
 jan and my sister-in-law sue were sporting cool chucky taylors, i need to get with it. 

thought downton abbey would show up.

out-door arbor - ha!

 sign #4 - need!!! 
as you can imagine not in my price range.

artful junk display

 sign #5 - please!
 seeing a pattern?  i love signs - but again passed. 
  cute yellow bar/ garden/ craft/ cart.

cow - in a field - in a truck.

junk bonaza had a wedding lab -
4 booths filled with wedding ideas, very nice.

this booths specialty is turning vintage wedding dresses into updated wedding dresses.

junk bonaza was fun, but it is good to be home. 

wanted: home for plate

i found this, 

now i just need a tin can camper to put it in. 

good and plenty

a few weeks ago i found a board game that i didn't know existed.

the choo-choo charlie game. 

 i remember the commercial you can see it on youtube. i have had many boxes of good and plenty in my day but i never knew there was a game.  

magpie ethel just posted her great collection of board games, so i thought i would post my latest find.  my collection is nowhere near hers, maybe a total of 3 - candy land, the barbie game and now choo choo charlie.  i am having a hard time finding anyone that has heard of choo choo charlie.  maybe it was a west coast thing?

a box of good and plenty candy was not only a great candy but an interactive one also.  we use to shake the box back and forth to make the "choo choo" sound and then when it was empty you could make the sound of the train whistle by blowing thru the empty box.  

below are the other characters, but i am having a hard time finding their names.

poor pup, needs a box of good and plenty.