Fever is back

I went out yesterday.

To the US 11 Antique Alley / Yard Sale

And I got all this (except the wash tub).

Yes, I know the map is upside down, but it would hang for the picture better that way.

I collect rulers and this one is an 8 footer, complete with dirt dobber remnants.

A man asked what I would do with the sewing machine.  My favorite line, especially when a man asks, "I'm going to look at it".  He gave me the strangest look.  "Women" he was thinking.

Another seller I had just passed saw me with the sewing machine and asked me to take hers off her hands.  I couldn't refuse the price.

Candy or Sandie or Sandra, would one of them sell in your store???

I'm glad I have a basement to decorate with rusty things.

This cabinet is going in a spare bedroom.

This is my favorite.  Landscape art.

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Knick of Time Tuesday

One red leg

 . . . a little chippy white,

 . . . some nice brass hardware,

 . . . Charlies Garage,

 . . . a bunch of other numbers,

 . . . and a nice wooden table top thingy.

Isn't it great?

What will I do with it?

Look at it.

Thanks to Candy's store in Lawrenceburg, TN!

It might go in the red dining room in the background there.

Any suggestions?

No particular theme

It is rainy here again today and I'm bored.  So I played with the blog thing a little bit.  

Random shots.

This is definitely a "vintage" car.

For some reason I really liked it (my vintage twisted taste).

The month was October and it just seemed to fit the season - 

Halloween, you know!

And more stuff!

No, really, I must get a handle on my things.  But, just not right now.

When it's cold in Alabama, there aren't many yard sales.  And where I live, the estate sales within a 100 mile radius are few and far between in good weather.  So I go to antique stores.

Yep, new this week.

I found all of these things in the same booth in a favorite store in Hartselle, Alabama.
Bella Vintage.

An ongoing theme "I already have one (or seven)"
Yes, another camera, another clock, another scale, another frog, another ironstone piece.

But, I don't already have French carbonated lemonade bottles.

and the tag on this said it is a pharmacist's scale.  I only have kitchen scales.  The patent date here is 1898.

Thinking of Hartselle gives me an idea for a future post - there is a great restaurant called Cahoots and while the food is great, it could probably stand on it's own as a museum of vintage things.  Literally everywhere you look is vintage eye candy.  Here is a teaser photo from a couple of years ago.

Attention please Ladies: This is the Ladies' Room

Thank you so much!

Wow.  I feel very honored to be featured by Brenda at Cozy Little House in Welcome Wagon Friday.  Everyone is so kind.  I truly appreciate all the visits and nice comments.  

I hope to continue posting routinely as I have quite a collection of things and I visit shops often.  I do not have a business of any kind,  I just shop and collect.  One of these days that might change just so I can make some room.

My biggest hobby is photography.  Since the weather is not the best now, I decided photographing antiques, junk and collections is the next best thing -- as they are my second favorite hobby.

You people party a lot and I will figure out that aspect of blogging one day.

Thank you for the wonderful welcome,

Amy

This cabinet needs help

My home looks more and more like a store every day.  When will it stop?  This cabinet is overflowing.  I attempt to keep my things contained, but it is getting harder all the time.  I've been working on a "rotation" where I move things around, store some things, bring them out again.  I think that is the first sign of hoarding.    Oh, dear.

A skull, you asked?  He remained after all the Halloween was put away one year and I liked him there year around.  So he stayed.  (He's not the weirdest thing in there, BTW)

This is a little German coin purse.

Speaking of the unnecessary, I have a Label "vintage" on my vintage blog.  Geez.

Trying An Emailed Post

and it worked!