Favorite flea market finds

These were actually my favorite finds and somehow I didn't add them to my post the other day when I posted about my flea market finds?!? That's okay, I think they deserve their own post.

I recently read a post on Mustard Seed Interiors about ironstone dishes. I loved them and decided that I was going to start my own collection. At the flea market a few weekends ago I saw a stack of three plates for $15.00. Now I know that Miss Mustard Seed got some ironstone plates for .10 a piece. I thought $15.00 for three plates was a bit steep. I decided to keep looking and walked on. I came upon another booth with four plates and two bowls. The plates had $1.00 stickers on them and the two bowls had $3.00 each. I asked the guy if he would take $5.00 for all of it. He said yes and I couldn't help him fast enough getting the plates packed into a bag. The plates are very crackled and chipped. If I had a bigger collection I would maybe not have taken all of them, but since this is the beginning of my collection, I was thrilled to have this stack of ironstone. As far as the dishtowel goes, I don't need another dish towel, but I found this beautiful linen one. It was only $1.00 and I love the blue, the off white and the little bit of black. It is serving as inspiration for my bedroom makeover. When the makeover is done I will let you see it and can decide if I came close to my inspiration.

Wonderful Sunday

I spent a lovely morning on Sunday perusing the Marshfield Flea Market. After a bit later start than I had planned, I tried to make an orderly loop of viewing all the tables. I'm not sure I went past all the tables as the rows were a bit random, but I was pleased with my finds.A couple of interesting booths. Here are a couple of my finds...

$2.00 for these four finds. It was hard to get to the table as everyone was trying to see what was on the .50 cent table. The brass lamp will be painted for my daughter's bedroom, the green covered dish is going to be for butter and the two silver plated pieces will go in my bedroom for glitz. I am planning on making over my bedroom and will show you the process as I go along. :)
These copper colored pieces are jewelry bases. They were .25 cents a piece and I have a project idea, post to come later. The porcelain drops with the hooks were my most expensive purchase at $8.00 for the bag. I loved the colors and should have gotten a better picture to illustrate that. I will show another post on that as I am learning to do mood boards for my Blogging Your Way class.

This entire basket of sewing supplies and the basket was only $3.00. It was soooo worth it for the scissors. There were two pair of pinking shears and three pair of other scissors. Woohoo!

I had a lovely Sunday, how about you? K