New Stuff!

Last weekend was the second-of-the-season summer antique show in the village a few miles from my home. It is only the second year for this and it started out small last year, but has nearly doubled in size. They need more time to grow and I imagine they will because the setting is lovely, right on the Ohio river.

These days I find myself making a beeline for the jewelry, especially the trays of "junk jewelry," with the bits and pieces and broken stuff.

The second vendor I visited had a tray, in which everything was "2 for $5.00," my kind of price! 

The first thing I found was this pair of adorable earrings.

They are not real silver, of course, but so cute! Don't know if I'll resell them in my Etsy shop, or use them as charms in a bracelet or necklace.

Then I came across an old wristwatch, for which I have a bit of a passion.

 I'll definitely take this apart and re-purpose into something. 

Here are a couple of examples: 

Talisman Bracelet 

 and

Watchface Bracelet

Another silvertone item I selected was this Coro bracelet, a fine piece of costume jewelry in great shape.

This will definitely go into my shop!

This cutie caught my attention, as I also have a weakness for charm bracelets, though I rarely wear them.

This is a child's size.

 Look at the charms (one is missing)... a squirrel, a pony, an elephant, a frog, and a goose!

Then it was time to move on the dealer across the sidewalk, 

who had some tray of  odds and ends.

This immediately caught my eye - a Las Vegas themed, yes, charm bracelet on the original card.

Not being a Vegas person, I just loved the kitsch aspect. Unfortunately it isn't quite old enough yet to re-sell, I found out after I purchased it. But it was inexpensive enough to use the charms, if nothing else.

The final piece is this small purse on a chain.

 On the outside is mother of pearl, although I am only showing the good side.

The other outer side is cracked and the inside is torn, but it is so cute--only 2 1/4" wide!

I couldn't find anything else at the show, but I was happy to get these. 

Don't you just love those outdoor markets?

Pie? Oh My!

Recently I was lucky enough to appear in this Etsy treasury that is so dear to my heart I wanted to share it.

I began collecting tin and aluminum pie pans in 1985 after seeing a photo in a Martha Stewart cookbook.

Martha Stewart's Pies and Tarts, 1985, page 22.

Now Martha is controversial, a kind of love her or hate her kind of gal. But this book came out at a time when my mother, sister, and I were heading to outdoor flea markets nearly every weekend. I was getting a bit bored (hard to believe, isn't it? My, how I've changed!).

In Burlington, Kentucky

At the time, I was working in a pastry shop, as a baker and decorator, an avocation that became my vocation. Pies were not particularly my specialty. Be that as it may, the picture resonated with me and I thought how fun it would be to collect pie pans! So I did. 

 

By the way, these are pans with the name of either the bakery or the restaurant embossed into the bottom. When a pie was purchased, a small deposit (between 5 and 10 cents) was left and was given back when the pan was returned.

Little did I know how many are out there.  Along the collection trail, I started to hang them up on my kitchen walls; eventually they were on all four and heading into the pantry. True dust-catchers, I must say!

After many more years, I finally realized I had enough and resisted the temptation whenever I saw one I didn't have.

I got married and when I moved in with my hubby, the pans went into three large boxes, ...

...now down to two because I have sold about 18 of them in my shop.

 I sell them with a bit of reluctance but also with joy 
because I know those who are buying them may have 
the same passion for them as I do --three people 
bought two each and two bought three each!

    “Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness” ~Jane Austen