A Bunch of Treasures

This post is going to be heavy on pictures - treasures that I brought from home and things that we bought along the way....  Take a look....

My grandmother always had this hanging in her kitchen - not a very politically correct item in these modern times, is it? - I've never seen one of these in a shop - it's a souvenir from Long Beach,CA - how it ended up in Prince Edward Island, I don't know..

This old croquet set has been around forever - I remember my grandfather won it on a punchboard - in the little store next door - does anybody remember a punchboard?  

Dad had this neat old sign in the basement - don't know where that came from either.....

My old tin top has seen better days, I must have played with it a lot!! It was made in Germany.

Some neat old Christmas ornaments from home....  Mom used to get craft kits every month - the three in the back came from those..

My husband picked up these things - the checker box is neat but his favorite purchase was the Trap Shot Bagetelle game that he bought at an antique shop in Vermont - what a great old game!!!   We love to play!!   When you start looking for 6 inch rulers, they are very, very hard to find and sometimes really expensive - he has plans to make a frame with them.

I paid 60 cents for the retro vase.  I found a piece of seaglass that was from the bottom of a Javex bottle - I don't remember when Javex was in a glass bottle - I found a bottle - paid $2.  And this little ink bottle still had the ink in it, but that was just a mess waiting to happen so got rid of that.  I bought this at the 70 mile yard sale - the seller had the price on tape, right across the front label -so that was pretty much the end of  that- guess I shouldn't complain, only paid 25 cents.

I love to go through the books at Value Village - it's not very often that I will buy a new book - and you buy three books there, you get one free, it's a great deal!!  I know there's 5 books there - got the Dessert Lovers cookbook for $1 at another shop. 

If you're interested, I also blogged over at  The Pyrex Collective about some nice Pyrex.

Apron Thrift Girl has lots of neat treasures from many bloggers, check it out.