Finds from the Road

This past Wednesday I had a chance to go away for a few days, my husband was away for the week, so I met up with him mid week - I had two days to myself to check out the antique markets and thrifts in the area.   My favourite warehouse is always the Freelton Antique Mall - I might get there twice a year but I always come away with something - I think deals are to be had, even though some of the merchandise is crazy expensive.  I also hit the two antique malls in St. Jacobs and one in Cambridge.  That was along with a few Value Village stores, a couple of Salvation Army shops and a St. Vincent - it was a great couple of days...  I picked up quite a few nice books too but I'm going to save them for another post.  I also picked up a few other items for gifts and for the Easter swaps - but I can't ruin those surprises!

This is bad - now I am branching out from Christmas to Easter blow molds, isn't this a sweet bunny?  I've never seen one before.  He's missing the light but we'll get him hooked up.  He was $4.

I've always collected things, back in high school, I was collecting match books, I had a lot but somewhere along the line, they were thrown out, when I saw this cookie tin full of matches, I grabbed them - $5 for 90 matches plus the tin - not bad.  I'm going to do a page on matches in my SMASH book.  Do restaurants and hotels even pass out matches anymore, now that I'm thinking of it, I never see them..

I was happy to find one Vera and it's a really pretty one.

Three Liberty of London and one Oscar de la Renta - all to be listed for sale

I saw this once - it must have been on a blog or Flickr, I've surely never seen it before or I would have bought it - it's so different, have you ever seen one?  I paid $10 for it at the antique mall, I don't mind paying that for something cute like this that I know I'll never find .   It's a Glasbake loaf pan, no, I am not starting a Glasbake collection!  

This came from Value Village, I didn't know what to make of it - notice there is no spout and no one cup marking.  I sent a pic to Sharon who I figured would know about it, she said it's old, so I took it.  And, it is, it's from the 40's - it's a dry measure, that's why there's no spout.  

Side view of the $3.99 cup

Charcoal snowflake is my favourite Pyrex pattern, I have never seen a dish this size before, it says it's 1 1/4 quart, 548B - I thought this other one below was the space saver, now I have these two sizes, I'm really not sure??  There are no antique malls around here and I know I'd never see anything like this at a thrift - I paid $12 - they also had the turquoise snowflake in the same size.  To tell you the truth, I wouldn't have minded having that one too, but I restrained myself!

This is my collection of Charcoal Snowflake - the 2.5 qt casserole, oval baker, divided,  the space saver in the stand, which is JAJ and now my new one.  Love this pattern!

I'm linking up today with The Nifty Thrifty, Junkin Joe and Thriftasaurus