Flea Market Haul!

Wow, what a day!  We went to a flea market that I've never been to before and it was awesome!  Three trips to the car and a full trunk, look at our haul!

We found 17 paint by numbers, 3 paint by number sets, the metal lock box (complete with key), metal bookends, buttons, a photo, shelf liner, moving blanket and the best thing, my hubby got an old GSP unit because he wanted the power cord and he shocked me by bargaining!!  I just about fell over.
 

The sunglasses are from another flea market and the reason for them are because they are bi-focal sunglasses, so I can use them for driving and now when the police stop me and say do you know how fast you were going, I can say yes instead of guessing.  Since I got my new eyes, I can't see close up and need readers.  I don't need them for far away sight but like to have sunglasses for driving, then I can't see the gauges that are up close to me!  With these glasses, that should take care of that problem.

Let's look at things closer:

Lock box, sunglasses, photo and Bakelite buttons.

Bookends and oh so retro shelf liner paper!

Inside this box was an advertisement that I've read about before but never saw the actual item, this is probably as close as I'll ever get to it:

You'd send them a photo and they would make a paint by number for you!

Last Supper kit!  The details are way too much for me, good thing I have a few of these that are done!  

This one is fun!  It is set number two but only one picture is left inside but there is a frame in there, too!

The photo on the right in what is left in the box. 

Here it is with the frame.

Now the fun starts!  I get to research each one of these for names, manufacturer, size and dates for my web site!

This one has a funny story to it.  My hubby was inspecting it and said "this doesn't make any sense", I told him "unless the seagulls are swimming in the ocean, you have it upside down".  He turns it over and says "Oh, now it makes sense!"  This set the vendors off into a fit of laughter!  Me, I'm just rolling my eyes and shaking my head.

One thing, I do know the name of this one because it was shown in one of the brochures that was in with a kit.

 LOL, check out the deer!

I'll be adding all these and more details to my web site, come and check it out at OurPaintbyNumbers.com but give me some time to get all these on!

Okay, let's talk numbers!!  GPS $5.00, moving blanket $5.00, shelf liner .25 cents, sunglasses $10.00, every thing else was only $1.00 a piece!!!!!!!  Can you believe it?  20 paint by number pictures and kits for $20.00.  That won't happen too often.

Karen 

Black Friday Thrifting

I stay  far away from any of the craziness of Black Friday so my hubby and I decided to take a trip out to New Holland for a visit to my favorite thrift shop!  At first, I was very disappointed, I went through most of the store and found nothing.  OMG, we drove all the way out here for nothing?  But the last remaining rooms were to uncover a lot of items for me to bring home and make the trip all worth while!

My hubby was the first to find something, he found another Stuart Woods book that he didn't have and he was thrilled at the price, only .50 cents!  LOLOL!

Then, I was off and running.  In the craft room, I found these two rulers.  I have quite a few of these older wooden rulers and especially love the ones with advertising on but these are both without the advertising.

Then, in a room that seems like it is a misc. collectibles room, I found this laying on the floor.  

The thing that interested me most with this were the graphics.  I wasn't even sure what it was.  I thought it was an object to keep the sheets tucked in around your feet while you are asleep.

When I got home, I did some research on it and realized it makes a "tent" out of the sheets or blankets on the bed to keep them off your feet!  According to the patent number on it, it's from the 50's.  

Baby toys:

Baby rattles:

An old copy of the game PIT from late 1910's!  I'm not sure if all the cards are there but think it's a neat display piece or for scrapbooking pieces:

Then, next to the reading room, I found these on the magazine racks:

These are amazing little magazines called Pack-o-Fun!  They are magazines of crafts to make from things around the house, such as paper rolls, cans, Christmas cards etc.  I got 60 of them total!  I started to go through each one but it was taking so much time, I had to stop.  There's a lot of things for group leaders to do with kids, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts etc.  Even skits at times.  They date from early 1950's to around 1964.  I love some of the advertising, too, like a magazine on What to Do with Marshmallows!

Some fantastic graphics!  The earliest ones are before staples!

I got some more bookends.  Which we'll need with all the Stuart Woods books the hubby is collecting!

And my favorite item!  A covered bridge paint by number!

And the last two items I got downstairs:

Majorette pin:

And rhinestone Christmas stocking pin:

We decided to go upstairs to pay.  This register is never open when I'm there normally but it was that day.  We went ahead and paid, the hubby headed for the car and I decided to take one more look through the toy section.  I didn't get out of there without finding more.  

First are these cars and trucks, which I want for a project and they are always too expensive but here, they were only .50 cents each:

And I couldn't resist this:

It is a wooden boat and when you twist the paddle wheel around with the rubber band, you could let it go in the water and it will unwind and propel the boat.  I think it's handmade and I'd like to think it's by a loving grandpop for his grandchildren!

We took a ride over to Shady Maple for their buffet and had a nice lunch.  There's way too much food at that place so from now on, we'll visit the lunchette downstairs!

I took him over to the new pond store that opened up about 2 years ago and he's never been there and then we headed home.  It really was a wonderful day.

Thrifting! Day 1

I just love staying in hotels!  Can turn every single light on, air conditioning/heat as long as you want and do things you wouldn't do in your own home.  Although, I've all ready ironed my T-shirts, which I don't do at home!  LOL!  I check in and immediately unpack, iron and clean the coffee maker.  Yes, clean the coffee maker.  I don't leave home without cleaner and my own coffee.  All that is done, so I decided to take some photos and post them.  Bear with me, I'm using a tiny little netbook (which I love but it's tiny and old and slow) and it's an older version of Windows so I had to figure out how to edit my photos.  They aren't the best but I think you'll get them.

First place I stopped is my all time favorite place.  I found this item in the office supply section.  It's cloth covered and oh, so industrial.

It's a ledger!

Click on photos to enlarge!

Next was this Corelle plate but what the heck is on it?

The Pillsbury Doughboy!!

This was a little bag filled with goodies.  You never know exactly what you'll find inside.

There's a few mini Christmas ornaments which will be perfect for my Norfolk Island Pine tree but what I spotted that I really loved are these:

Aren't they just the cutest?  I know there's a name for these so I have some research to do.  It's a heavy paper material.  They have pipe cleaner arms!

I got two of these cute clown heads for dolls.  I think I'll need to remove them from the bags in order to get decent photos.

It seems it's thin pickings right now.  Maybe people are still having yard sales.  I am earlier than usual.  I went to 3 more thrift shops and only found these.

Metal bookends in a wonderful color and in great condition.

Maybe I'll have better luck tomorrow!

More Finds!

I just liked the old look of these knitting needles!  I hope someone can use them or display them.

I've come across smaller sizes of these but this is the first time I found the larger ones.  I got 5 pairs but 2 pairs were mismatched but my hubby took them to use in his workshop!  He loves these bookends.

Another TV Lamp, bulb not included.  Luckily, the shop had a bulb to put in it and try it out before I bought it!

This next one made me stop and think.  Yes, it's missing pieces, but I've sold the center bowls by themselves before so why not, it was only marked $3.00.  Glad I decided to take it because I got to the register and found out it was on sale for $1.50!

Another rack, these older ones seem to be in demand.  It's a plate rack but again, you can use it for some many things!

A mismatched set of children's dishes and this set has pots to it!  It's just too cute.

Found this cute little sewing caddy!

Wooden toothpick holder:

A plastic flower fashioner in box:

A piece of restaurantware, I have a matching bouillon bowl that will go nicely with this! 

And the best part of it, after the .60 cent price is, it's by Homer Laughlin!

I thought this was different!  A coaster set with a metal holder.

That's it for day two of my finds.  Stay tuned, I have at least two more days worth!