coffee break

 hope you are enjoying a great fall weekend,

time for a coffee break.

mara's market to main street market

my flea market buddy kathy {sweet pea & violet}
 and i are 
taking the leap and will be setting up shop
at this fantastic market.

Urban FarmGirl 
along with 50+ vendors
are setting up shop on the grounds of the village of
the midway village museum in
rockford, illinois.
chuck it out here. 
i know that pamm from fresh eggs and jan from gracies cottage
will be there also.

kathy and i always have fun at flea markets, 
this one should be a blast.
stop by and say hi!

olympic shopping

a new world record!

almost 3 hours

shopping at the urban farmgirl a few weeks back.

the only reason we did leave 

was she was going to be closing soon.....

my friend kathy/kate came home with the gold - 

the cute robins blue buffet/desk above.

it is so cute.

ah- ha!

i thought we were in the same area as urban farmgirl.

she posted pictures of a lovely drive she took near her parents in illinois.   a few of her photos looked like the scenic drive we were on heading north from the quad cities along the mississippi river on the illinois side up to galena.  love seeing the small river cities along the route.

 check her blog out, she has great photos and stories, very talented.  hope to visit her booth at the kane county flea market sometime.  

oh, rick snapped the photo above on our drive, we spotted these hard workers just as we were almost over the stateline back into wisconsin, if i am remembering correctly. 

gone on vacation

sorry, we've been away at the cottage.

just kidding, better yet we were visiting don in illinois.  we had a mini vacation which included a stop in leclaire, iowa home of that famous duo mike and frank.  the home above is in a very pretty neighborhood in illinois.   more photos to come.