First off, I notice today that not all the most recent blog posts are showing up on Blogspot, only the most recent one - anyone else having that problem? I see one post and then it says to view more, I click on that, nothing else, hope that is only temporary!!
Anyway, I went up the road on a trek last week, it was actually further than I thought, it turned into an all day trip. The little town has four shops, all owned by the same people - one is a true junk shop, some stuff on shelves, on boxes, buried in boxes, stuff you can't even get to, I can only imagine what is in some of those boxes.
This is what I was most excited about -it was a bag of teen magazine covers and pages from those magazines - Tiger Beat, 16, all from the 70's and the era of my fave - David Cassidy - I used to buy all these magazines, I know I had this very one. I never kept a magazine because I was cutting them up as soon as I read them, everything went into a scrapbook, early SMASHing, I guess!!
I haven't had time to go through every page yet, but just take a look at this - so funny and we were believing everything that was written and buying more and more of those magazines... All of these goodies were in a bag, stuffed in a box - what a find for me!!! I was so pleased with myself.
I was lucky to pick up some Christmas things too. These Holt Howard candle holders still have the stickers attached - they're sweet and it doesn't really matter that one has had repairs on the neck - Erica suggested a ribbon to cover it up and that's what I'll do.
I have a couple of these figures already and now I have two more - they are Made in Japan too and still have the Giftcraft sticker on them.
More Christmas odds and ends..
I pulled the gnome tablecloth out of a box. I wonder what that little red box was for? Some more spun heads, which I never find and more ballerina cake toppers, which I have never found until the other week!! Funny how that stuff goes..
I bought this little tree topper, she's not in the best of shape but still, too cute to leave behind..
Another Christmas book for my collection, books for SMASHing and just because!! That ice cream book is full of vintage black and white pictures about ice cream, perfect for cutting up!! I will blame Diane over at Lydia's Post for the fact that now I am looking at vintage playing cards - I had to buy those butterfly ones!!!! Diane has quite a collection of sweet cards!
I grabbed these cards, I remembered them as soon as I saw them, Mom had them.
I bought a couple of flamingos at the Dollarama this year, I've never had a flamingo in my life, now I have another one, found at the junk store - it's an older one and a bit faded, I think it looks ok there.
My little excursion turned out perfectly - I found two more Vera scarves..
I haven't written a blog post in a week - we were in Toronto last weekend and heading to Michigan this weekend, so I better get caught up. I've been on a berry picking frenzy - I went picking blueberries again this week, that is 6 litres I've picked - they are just so plentiful this year - and they're so good! Yesterday I picked raspberries, I have to say, that is my least favourite berry to pick - the lady put me in not a great row - it was hard work - I probably picked more than I needed to because I ended up being able to make two batches of jam. Raspberry jam will be the one I'll be sharing this year..
I was bagging up my blueberries for the freezer and I took a notion to make blueberry muffins - I used a recipe on All Recipes - I've never tried it before but judging by the look and aroma of them - they're going to be good.
We went to Toronto last weekend - Carla was running the 20 k in the Beaches Jazz Tune Up Fun Run - but, that wasn't until Sunday - on Saturday, Carla and I took off for St. Jacobs, we toured the farmers market and then hit the antique markets - sadly, purchases were just about non existent. We had a great day though, because all the men folk were off at the Canadian Open Golf Tournament!
Have you ever seen a spoon bracelet? I didn't have any purchases at this one particular shop - these bracelets were in a bowl at the cash, I bought one for myself and one for Carla, it's her birthday next week. The tag on it read Grosevnor, 1921, I think it's so neat and it has a magnetic clasp which I like, it's a really unique bracelet! Excuse the picture, it's not the best, but I just can't take another one!!
Do you ever feel that you go away and you don't take enough pictures, that happened this weekend, I took my good camera with me but it never moved from the trunk, I just took a few with my phone. I plan to do better this weekend!
How's that for a giant zucchini? I love fresh Ontario peaches! We went to Freelton, that's where I purchased these next times. We also split the sweetest box of vintage children's Christmas cards - but, we forgot to split them, so I'll share those when I get them. She spotted them so I guess she'll be keeping the box.
It's a Holt Howard Santa mug - made in Japan, copyright 1960 - too cute!!
Finally, I found myself a Gurley candle. I bought one online last year after reading so much about them - this is the first one I've ever seen in a shop!!
This Eloise Wilkin book was my only purchase at one of the antique markets at St. Jacobs - as always, the illustrations are just so sweet!
This book is so nice - I picked it up at a Value Village - it appears that it was a library book - it's full of vintage pictures of old Hallmark cards, there's text too, it's going to be interesting to read.
I also found a few Vera's - two on my trip, and two yesterday - the yellow sheer one was only 25 cents - no scarf was more than $1.99.
Sunday was the big run - here's Carla at the half way point - 20 k in 1 hour, 47 minutes - that's nothing to sneeze at!!
I managed to SMASH the race - and that's the only SMASH page I've done this week, I sure wish I had taken more pictures.
