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Flea Marketing at the Rose Bowl....

here is most of the group that met up on Sunday for a hunt of flea market treasures.  The hostesses gave out prizes in three categories...one for the cutest decorated carts..and boy their where lots of cute carts...

here is a close up Pam Garrison's pouch she has on her cart...too shabby cutielisious...She made her outside liner out of a paisley pink oilcloth table cloth from Target and the inside was made from Simply shabby shower curtain since it already had holes in it for the ties.

Here is Amy Hanna cute ticking striped cart with s vintage label name tag.

I had big plans to make a liner for my cart....but ran out of time to do it {i have been working a lot these days} so suffice to say I did not win the "cutest cart" award.  This cute li'l trio of rosettes stole the show, look at the detail, it was on a linen liner, I love the use of cheesecloth, would of never thought to do that. 

Now look at the bag that one the prize..

Is this bag right up my alley?  yep...i was going to steal it when the owner wasn't looking.

But as you can see she had a very tight grip on it and never let it out of her sight..darn.

Because no one had a rockin' cute apron the prize went to the one who traveled the farthest which was San Diego almost the Mexico border.  Some die hard flea marketeers...I say. 

Now look at the cute Cornucopias they made.  I didn't get a great shot so I stole this from Heather.

Inside the Prize Cornucopia was those darling Nickel earrings that Amy Hanna made.  Loved that!!  Also inside where Vintage Cards.  I can't remember what else. 

There was all kinds of neat stuff there and here are some shots I got with my Gilbert {Canon G9}

The industrial look is very popular these days...and here is one famous "LA Woman" who was buying a bunch of it...

Another booth had lots of Holiday decor up...

 

This booth had a wonderful surprise for the "group" , when you went to visit her you got a ticket to enter it into a drawing for a pillow of your choice.  Now look at all

the great choices she had?  Lots of burlap and linen, stamped with letters or numbers.  I had my eye on a little shabby chic one but to my disappointment my ticket didn't get pulled and went I went back with my new friend who did win my li'l shabby pillow was gone. 

Can you see it there under the black and white damask print?  Boo hoo.

This booth had lots of french linens, hemp and other great material.  I have a friend who just redid her sons room all in vintage Star Wars..I bet she would love to have one of those pillows for his bunk-bed.  They also had Hemp tunics and nightgowns made of hemp.  The dress in the above photo that Jenny Doh is wearing with her cowboy boots came from this booth.  Love that french Cowboy look she has going on. 

 Look at the detail on these bloomers.  They don't make them like they used to, that's for sure. They had small opening in the back....I'm sure you can guess what for.  I thought that interesting.  I'll share what I got on my next post. 

Hope you enjoyed the trip to the Rose Bowl Flea Market and I plan on attending the next one our Indulgent Hostesses plan...won't you join us?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 

 
 
 

Ring around the Rosies...

I'm off to the......

Flea Market

 to attend this . I have been there twice and I really enjoyed the hunt and wish I had more time for going on a more regular basis..It is sooo big with lots of fun things to see.  I'm so excited...I can't stand it.... mostly because we are meeting up with two of my favorite bloggers in blog land.   She  , the one and only Heather Bullard of PastPresent Blog.  I have loved her design style and how she so efforlessly turns trash into beautiful items for the home and she is a wiz at Photography and styling, not only that she is really, really, really a genuine nice person who is so down to earth.   I met her once at La Maison Rustique {the flea market sale in the Wine country of Riverside County, Calif.}  She has a booth there and I have bought several things from her booth...remember the sweet black and white  li'l gingham apron, that was hers.   This creative blogger ,  I also admire her work but have never had the pleasure of meeting her in the real world.   She is so creative and when I grow up I want to be her....I really do.  I wish I had one ounce of her creative style.    Her wall papered closet had me at "hello cutie closet" . I have a vintage wall papered item on  the way, in a much smaller scale, one that I can handle} Remember this thrift store find.... process of being revamped it's almost done, I need to purchase more vintage wall paper and I can cross that cutie to be off my list.   You must check out her blog she has the most inspirational craft projects and I think Anthropologie should hire her to make stuff for them.  They would be very smart indeed.

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Edited to add....here are our gracious hostessess....

Look at the cutest little Goody Bags they put together for the Flea Marketeers...I love the Circus Theme and inside the boxes to keep hunger at bay was a bag of Cracker Jacks, Animal Cookes, a small gold trophy, striped candies, Circus Stickers {which my daughters quickly confiscated along with the Cracker Jacks} and attached to the box was the cutest Jute crocheted necklace wreath made by Jenny Doh...how cute is that?  She put it on a shipping tag that was hand stamped....very cute...We also got some Vintage Images to use on our Crafty projects.  Look here...

What a treat it was to meet these ladies and loved and appreciated how much thought it went into planning this.  Merci , Merci, Merci.  More pictures to follow this week.  
 
 
 

You are square and DON'T fit in...

 We are the Square Pegs..."We are Square and don't fit in", these are my High School buddies.  We have continued to be friends through the ups and downs of life.  Between us we have 8 children ranging in ages 9 {my baby} through 25.   Recently we went here

 

for Wine and Martini's and Fish.  The conversation is always about our Children and our husbands and sometimes we reminisce about the "good Old Days"  and boy those really were the good old days.  We had a ton of fun together we still do.  We are crazy (well maybe just me) but this commercial reminds me of what it will be like to grow old together.  We will never be round and fit in any round hole.  I bet you have friends like this that have been through thick and thin.  These are The {Original} Square Pegs. 

Oh Yes...I would be the one in the Cheer Leading oufit...or the colorful swim hat.

What I needed....

a night out with the girls..after that very stressful week I had, see below post where I ended up on Prozac.   I'm the photographer, so I'm not in the picture..next time...maybe.  These are my bestest (yes...I is a teacher) friends from High School...hi ladies!(I know your reading but are too chicken shit to leave a comment)   It is so nice to have friends that know you so well.   We have been through thick and thin together.  We all know each others history (good and bad)....we have seen the best of times   (weddings and such) and the worst of times....(for example, getting sick after too many Long Island Ice teas in our youth).  In our twenties we loved getting together to go out "dancing".....and boy where those the "good ole' times".   Such fun, fun memories.....I don't think anyone else had as much fun as we did when we were 19 or 20.  I think we could of wrote a book on our life back then and it would of made the NY bestseller list.   Juicy!!!   Today...it's just so comforting to get together in T's Spa and talk about our Life with our husbands/boyfriends, kids and all their shenanigans...over a glass of wine or two. or three or four.   Oh I lost count how many I had...but who is counting when you are among friends.