Sorry for Absence

Blogger has changed and after reading everyone elses complaints I was leery about trying to get in and write again.  But I'm giving it the old college try.  I have been going to lots of estates sales on the weekends, sometimes as many as 3.  I used to buy items at my brothers estate sales on the last day of the sales.  Items are usually 1/2 price and there always seemed to be great items left that didn't get bought.  I hated to see them just to go the landfil or some other sad fate.  So I would buy them and they resell them at the fleamarket.  After getting a few really bad sunburns.  And spending a few really hot days on an asphalt parking lot I had decided to give it up. 

I gave my inventory to my mom for her garage sale to support her hospice work.  And what she had left she gave to the Knights of Columbus for their sale.  But after some sales over the winter, I decided to do it again this next season.  Missed the first sale in April (rainy), but am planning to go the next sale this Sunday 10-3 at the Mega Mall on old 27.  So I have been buying, cleaning, and packing items.  So I will share some pictures if items recently bought.  I try to pick up items that would be of interest to collectors as well as crafters.  Most lately have been antiques.  Some will stay with me to enjoy for a while and others will immediately go to the flea. And some I will always hold onto like a ladies collection of quilt pattern advertisements clipped out of the Lansing State Journal in 1929 and 1930.  There are some duplicates and I may let them go but that's no rush.
These were a few of my latest finds.

Four little pie pans and a donut/biscuit cutter

And this was my set up for the first fleamarket of the season for me.

It's funny that some of my best selling items were the designer fabric samples that I had for $1 each.  My "first up tent" came with no side panels.  Luckily I found some for $19 each on Walmart.com.  They shipped to the store and I picked them up there.  Only used one this first time but it was a big help with the sun.  I was the only person on my row who had a shade and I was probably 20 degrees cooler than anyone else.  Next time I think I need to add bottles of water in an ice cooler and I can clean up.

Following is a photo of the weekly newspaper pattern cuts out that I got a couple of sales ago.  These definitely would have gone to the dump had I not picked them up.

Thanks for visiting.