Things I Found in the Maritimes

I'm back from holidays and it's back to all things normal now  - back to the old routine.  I wouldn't mind at all to still be on Prince Edward Island - walking the beach for seaglass - oh, well, I'll be back next year!!!  I didn't even read a blog post the whole time I was away, Instagram was pretty well all I paid attention to in the cyberworld, because I like it so much!!

We timed our trip for Eastern Canada's largest flea market with up to 900 vendors and 1,000 tables - it all takes place in Sussex, New Brunswick, we had been there years and years ago but it has surely grown since then.  We walked around for a couple of hours, Gary picked this Santa up right away for $2, then he had to carry that around for the rest of the time.

He was starting to feel bad for me because there was just nothing I saw that I wanted to buy - we were ready to leave and went down one more row - there was a big Pyrex display -there were a lot of pieces, but at this stage of my collection, I don't need much but I've been wanting these for ages - I bought them both for $25.

My lucky day- Golden Poinsetta which was a holiday promotional in 1961.  Neither one had lids but that didn't matter to me.

The Holiday casserole has a few scratches on it but that didn't stop me - I have never seen these pieces before for a price I could afford, I'm so happy to find them.  The flea market was worth it, after all.

I found a little pink elephant glass too for 25 cents!!

We were out touring one day on Prince Edward Island, there is one area that has four or five antique shops, most of it way too expensive for me.  But, I managed to get something.

These Made in Japan pixies were marked at $3 each, I got up to the cash and noticed the guy on the left was missing part of his ear - they were mine for $3 total. They're so cute!!

These are just perfect - they look like something from Japan as well - $2.

Another Christmas book for those future grandchildren.

Of course, there were Vera's - at one thrift I found four and that day they were half off - I love that place!!!

I brought a few things back from the PEI house too - I'll share those in another post.

Linking up with Dawn and her History and Home Link Party at We Call it Junkin - check it out!  It's also time for Thriftasaurus.

Christmas in the Kitchen

There's not going to be a whole lot of writing right now- it takes less time to post pictures and if you're anything like me, you don't have time to read long blog posts these days.....  I'm linking up with Rednesday, I want to find time to read every post over there - I know there'll be lots of Christmas....  And, I imagine there'll be a lot of beautiful Christmas at Share Your Cup Thursday too.

Shiny Brites

I bought a couple of these at Home Sense this year - it runs by batteries, the interior colors change - red, blue, green

I was jealous of Carla's Stencil package - Carla blogged about her corner shelf too - and here you can see her stencil package.  I remember having these at home, not that I was ever allowed to spray the snow.....

I've had this tin for years but always used it for cookies, it moved above the cupboards this year.

Mom always kept her light fruitcake in this tin.

Another tin of Mom's - I have to use blocks of wood to raise up my items, you can't see them but you sure can in a picture - just to let you know, we're not looking at blocks of wood all over the place.

I found this tin last year 

I like fruitcake but nobody else here in my family does.

This beautiful piece of holiday Pyrex sits on the kitchen table but the light is so much better for getting a good picture in the livingroom..

Erica sent me this sweet Annalee Christmas mouse - so cute  - thanks!

I found this great old candy tin the other week.  This tree belonged to my grandmother, I remember putting the little ornaments on it, sadly, they're not all here anymore, I've never seen one like this before.

Just some Christmas - the pine cone people were Mom's

I'm making good use of all my little dolls with hair this year!!

I had to include this pic of my Christmas glasses -my new ones on the left which I have found out are called Christmas Valley - the ones on the right I found last year - straight from North Pole, New York