Peach Tree 23 - Saturday.

The second day of the Peach Tree 23 Yard Sale Event found me on the road in Chucks' pick up at 5:15am.

Yesterday's theme was rusty and crusty. (read here)

This day was to have a patriotic theme.

No order to the multitude of photos.

A large twig wall basket, a twig folk art table, and a sturdy white bench.

Sold as a set but the largest suitcase, though matching in color, does not match in style.

Two red suitcases in great shape.

I bought many smalls, but will only bore you with a few.

Two ironstone vases, a turquoise cutlery drawer, a signed double butt basket, a spring votive holder, and the cardboard peach basket with great graphics.

The craziest  fact about the peach basket is the Ridge is the second largest peach-producing area outside of California.

 

Yet the only peach-related item I could find was from MISSOURI!

All day the semis roared by loaded with peaches.

Hard to photograph this eight-foot wrought iron porch span from a small cottage.

I love the curve of the arch.

An Italian tole tray holds a tole bookend, Cardui tonic bottles, a Madonna head vase, and a tole tissue box.

An iron window grille and several barrel hoops.

A primitive white cabinet who has lost its door..

BUT ...

... has gained an enamelware top that fits perfectly though slightly askew.

The wooden box is a check sorter from a bank.

I love the two dog shelves.

A racket press and a black mesh candle stand.

The large bottle lamp I am in the process of dismantling to use the giant bottle.





 

One couple had bins of pre-1965 magazines.

i did not have time to sort through them all but picked a few for the cover art and the advertisements inside.

I had to buy the Journal with the war bride on the cover.

The incomplete set of blue and white dishes and the white china bowl with pink roses were bargains.

Blue Ridge - a favorite of mine.






















 

This screams patriotic to me.  The quilt is not in the greatest shape but just the thing for a Fourth of July picnic.

A large Polaron aluminum jug, two Thermos, a carton of 2-liter Pepsi bottles. and a book about What Timothy Knows.

I needed to replenish my prints and paintings at the booth.

A pair of French fashion prints.

A green original oil - very green!

A print of a drum and fife corps.

A couple of those sweet children prints and a framed poem about a friend.

Yesterday I told you I came right home and got busy cleaning and painting.

 

I will admit I dragged most of Saturday's stuff into the house and went swimming for two hours.

I was exhausted.

So exhausted, I did not even dry off before collapsing in bed for a four-hour nap.

I now have most of the items available in my booth.

I have been neglecting my Etsy shop and hope to spend some time in the coming weeks to remedy that situation.


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Friday Finds

Willie is peeking out the window to see what I dragged home this week.

Not all of today's finds were bought  - some I snatched away from Horror Monster's outdoor living section.


Okay, I did buy this group of primitive plant stands from another dealer who had been using them as shelves hanging in her booth.

I think they will be the perfect solution for covering the black hole of the fireplace for the summer.

I will let you know if it works.

Found these two birdcages.

I dumped all the perches and toys to clean them.

Off to the booth where I hope they will grace a garden.

I will admit to a certain softness in my heart for Italian tole metal flowers - these attached to a wrought iron candle holder.

Needs a little work.

Two more heavy duty wrought iron candle pieces.

I suspect they came from the same house as the tole one.

This just screams Americana!

The splatter ware crock, the red/white tin lithograph pedestal bowl, the tiny wire-baled canning jars.

Who could pass up turquoise pom poms?

Two nice storage jars.

I found just under two yards of this printed linen.

Hoping it will be enough for a chair I have.

I usually stick to green, white or black shutters, but wooden shutters are getting too hard to find to be picky about color.

From Horror Monster comes this group of yawning toolboxes and two plastic Coke crates.

After lining them up for a group photo, I was a bit sad to be getting rid of part of my toolbox collection, but I have thirty a few more.

Some of these are really tackle boxes.

All went off to the booth.

Buy them quickly so I will not bring them back home!

The rusty saw blades once hung on my back fence with pots of annuals wired to them.

A little sanding and a bit of washing ...

A torn cotton ribbon just because ...

And they were off to the booth.

The pink plaid is destined for a bench.

Love the large brass rose bowl though it needs extensive cleaning.







I am off to clean more junk, er, treasures from Horror Monster's outdoor living section.

I need to finish a few paint projects.

It is a never-ending list.

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Baskets For The Fourth

 The Fourth of July is this coming week!?!  How did that happened?  This summer is flying by.

Decided to decorate a graduated set of baskets to carry the goodies out to the backyard.

Might as well make them special while I am painting them.

 
Used Folk Art Barn Red in a slap-dash way - didn't want complete coverage.

 Chose three different calico prints in red, white and blue.  

Pinked a cover cloth for each.

Attached a patriotic tag with some torn ribbons from the same cloth.

Read how to make the tags here. 

The large one is holding the sets of tags right now - it would be perfect for buns.

 The medium one is definitely for chips.

The small one can hold the cutlery.










 
Of course they look fine just hanging out together outside. 

Maybe they deserve plants instead of food.

Well, too lazy to decide now.

Molly approves of the baskets sitting outside - as long as they don't disturb her catnip!












 
We don't do much but hang around and swim on the Fourth.  That is fine and dandy - just relaxing!

See y'all!

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