It’s not until October 19, but I’ve already started shopping, gathering and collecting for The Chapel Market in Pikes Road, Alabama. Here are some of the things I will be bringing… …an old scale… …a mini alarm clock… …a brown transferware ironstone sugar jar…   …a bunch of antique European grain sacks, fabric and tea towels….   …a pig butcher block board… …and TWO of these antique shoe racks… They’re so cool and offer some really neat storage possibilities.  AND I found them at a yard sale.  A YARD SALE, people!  You don’t even want to know what I paid for them.  Well, maybe you do and I would tell, but I’m reselling them for a lot more, so that would probably be tacky. I also have a cool industrial stool, some hand painted camp banners, a pretty antique globe, old shoe brushes, a typewriter and a lot more. Of

I thought I would share a few more pieces I was able to take home from my Opa’s house as well as some pieces that are favorites of mine, but are going to other family members. The dining set isn’t really my style.  It’s beautiful, but it’s a bit too formal for my taste.  That being said, I’ve always been smitten with the needlepoint seats.  Each one is different and I’m sure they were completed painstakingly by hand.  I had to snap a picture of one…just to remember… I also wanted to snap a picture of this old friend… My Opa loved animals and was often called Dr. Doolittle.  I remember him keeping a bag of peanuts in the house to feed the squirrels who lived in the trees in his front yard.  He used to tote a small pony around in a station wagon for my mom and she