When I was shopping to get ready for the Lucketts Antique Market in May, I came across this jewelry scale. Now, if you’ve read my blog for even a little while, you may have picked up on my love of a few things…fans, typewriters, ironstone and scales.  I had never seen a jewelry scale, so I bought it. I was in a major buy-to-sell mode, so I put a tag on it (with a pretty outrageous price) and brought it with me to Lucketts.  Before the fair began, another vendor was over checking out MY scale.  Oh don’t you DARE buy MY scale.  I know it has a tag on it and I put it out there for sale, but I didn’t mean for anyone to BUY it!  Ha…well, she walked away to think about it and things started to get a little crazy with customers.  About midday, the scale was

…and what have you done with my husband? That was my thought when my husband called me at 7:30 am this morning.  (He is preaching this Sunday, so he went to the church super early to practice.) “Hello?”, I answered in a groggy voice letting him know I was sleeping soundly when the ring of the phone woke me up. “There are tons of great yard sales out here today.  I stopped at one and bought a set of router bits, two pipe clamps and eight locking casters for $32!!  You need to wake up and get the kids ready to go!” “Okay…just….give….me…a….minute.”  I hung up the phone.  Did I just dream that?  Was that perhaps some other husband meaning to call his wife and reached me instead?  Had I slipped through some wormhole while I was sleeping and was in a parallel reality where my husband has to wake ME

Here are some of the recent finds that are coming with me to the Lucketts Antique Market…     …horse show ribbons from 1957 & 1960…         …this petite paper cutter (it’s about 6″ square)…         ..this apparently came out of an old church…         …a hanging scale…     …and a bunch of film holders.  I’m excited about the idea I have for these.  (I hope it works!) In addition to pricing things for the antique market, I did some major cleaning in my house, bought a couple of dressers, and cleaned out some of the basement.  I’ve been wanting to tackle that basement for a while and I’m finally almost back to my full energy, so I got a good start on it.  There were piles of boxes and spilled Styrofoam peanuts everywhere, furniture that needed to go to the thrift

I’ve been working on some rewrites for my book for the past week, but I’ve also turned my attention to getting ready for the Lucketts Antique Market.  That means lots of shopping.  I’m always afraid I won’t find enough.  Given that I sold almost everything on the first day last year, I am even more stressed about it this year.  I want to have a lot of great stuff and I want to keep the prices reasonable. This is what I managed to come home with today…   I’m really excited about some of the stuff I found.  I have a crazy idea for some antique 5 x 7 film frames I found. Some other things in the haul are four alarm clocks, two type writers, two fans, two wooden totes, some ironstone, a display from an old church, a wooden vent from a 100 year old barn, a cool brass lamp,